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The Voice Cast Discussion

posted 13 years ago by Oddark123
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Even though the board seems dead, I'll leave this discussion starter here in hopes to stir up.

In line with the Rights messing up the roster, how much did they mess up the potential voice over cast.

IMO if the rights weren't an issue the Laff-a-lympics would of had the greatest assembly of voice actors ever possible.

The cast already had the great Mel Blanc and the H&B heroes of Daws Butler and Don Messick.

Plus they had Frank Welker (a future mainstay) plus Scatman Crothers, Gary Owens, Casey Kasem, John Stephenson and a few bits from Alan Reed.

If Dick Dastardly had been able to be used, they would of had Paul Winchell
If Josie was able to be used they would of had Janet Waldo

Plus they included Mildew Wolf who would have been voiced by Paul Lynde but he declined. Which to be honest while Mildew was awesome I'm sure Lynde considered him a flop. If they had of asked him to come back and do the Hooded Claw he would have probably done it.

But while the Claw would have been great on the Rottens. He'd need Penelope to play off and it just seems like Penelope wouldn't have fit on the Scooby Doobies.

[–] richard.fuller1 12 years ago

I've been reading over many of the voice issues. I knew Jeannie was intended to be on the show, but ownership rights had her pulled, but Babu was still usable.

As Josie was unavailable, they created Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels.

The vocalist for Taffy would go on to do the voice of one of Casper's Space Angels, heck, Janet Waldo herself leapt from Judy Jetson to Josie (as well as Penelope), so I really don't see why Waldo couldn't have done one of the Teen Angels as well.

Don't know why Paul Winchell didn't just do Dred Baron, unless it was considered too much of a conflict for him to be heard with a dog again like that.

Again, Messick did Astro's voice, then carried it right over to Scooby Doo. LIkewise, Precious pupp's voice just transferred over to Muttley.

While everyone thinks its the same dog from Wacky Races, there didn't seem to be any problem with Muttley 'being altered' into his own relation (they met in the #13 issue of Laff-A-Lympics comic book).

Taffy with Janet Waldo's voice shouldn't have been any stranger than going from Judy Jetson to Josie (five years between Judy to Josie, would have been about the same going from Josie to Taffy).

Surprised Sherry Alberoni wasn't managed in. Did she do Daisy Mayhem's voice?

[–] Oddark123 12 years ago

Daisey and Brenda were done by Marilyn Schreffler, who was a low carder as far as the HB voice stable but she did several movie characters that to HB fans i'm sure quite happily remember, but she just didn't ever have any really popular characters in general.

But after looking on wikipedia it seems the art from earlier showed it was Alexander, Melody, Alexandra and Sebastion who were drawn in to be on the Scoobies. To me i always imagined Josie, Valerie and Melody would have been on the Scoobies and Alexandra and Sebastion would have been like in the role of Daisey and Sooey on the Rottens

Winchell did voice Dread but not in this show, but maybe he was busy when they were doing these, as they had a pretty awesome assembly already there maybe some just weren't available.

I refuse to argue on IMDB until the general populous actually uses their brains

[–] richard.fuller1 8 years ago

I've been watching Jabberjaw for the past week or so and am now watching some Dynomutt episodes.

In the '70s, ABC aired their Saturday morning lineup on Thanksgiving, doing this about twice, if I recall correctly.

They aired an episode of Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, as well as Kaptain Kool and the Kongs. Don't recall what else they may have aired.

I'm looking for the Dynomutt episode where a woman is singing the Jabberjaw song in a 'swank' restaurant. She practically sang the entire song. Laughable to think about, yes.

My episodes of Dynomutt are recorded with Laff-A-Lympics episodes and once again, that's about all the show had going for it was voicework, but amazingly, I always thought Don Messick's Ranger Smith narrator totally ruined the show.

At the time I watched Laff-A-Lympics, I didn't recall It's The Wolf, so not only is it puzzling they wanted to use Mildew Wolf, established by Paul Lynde, unless they were just hoping he would leap on at the last minute, it watches odd now to think they just had to recast, tho again, they probably drew the entire cartoon with Mildew and now had no choice but to recast.

I find Penelope Pitstop a better example of voicework. Waldo, Owens, Blanc, Lynde are all massively balanced, which Laff-A-Lympics never was.

[–] Oddark123 8 years ago

I think that episode may be the Queen Hornet one.

Mildew on his own is still a mystery, which being why before the HQ thing, Hooded Claw may have been in one build.

Since otherwise they would have had plenty of characters to pick from with all the voice actors they had for the show that could have hosted alongside Snagglepuss. Unless Mildew Wolf was that much of a favorite back then that hasn't been kept public as much...

But then again, some things have recently been shook up. I guess we'll know when one of the pages posts a Mildew Wolf pic and see how many likes and shares it gets on social media.

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[–] richard.fuller1 8 years ago

Clearly Mildew was added to entice Lynde, having to think back to what all there was of HB cartoons up til then.

The odd thing is then why was Mildew a series regular, as opposed to simply being on the team and having a minimum set of lines such as Gary Owens, Joe Besser and Scatman Crothers did. Did Lynde want to be more of a major character and not satisfied with being in the background, whereas on neither It's The Wolf, Where's Huddles or Penelope Pitstop, none of his characters were background, they all drove the show. But then something else occurred (probably health issues by then) that prevented him from following thru?

Butler's Snaggle Puss seemed to be emerging as practically the only voice he could still do (from Roman Holidays to Funky Phantom), or the character was becoming so beloved, again at that time in the late seventies.

Yes, and it was the Queen Hornet episode of Dynomutt with the woman singing the Jabberjaw song. A part of me thought it was neat at that age, and while I still think it would be fun to hear like that, not happening!

[–] Oddark123 8 years ago

I think we are probably beating around wherever the truth is. I think it's certainly possible they may have pegged Lynde in for characters, but he didn't/couldn't actually come through and in the end we got stuck with Mildew as an announcer.

As when you mention it, he himself could easily have been a rotten.

Who knows maybe we'll get lucky and one day someone will reveal long documents detailing all the changes in order this show's roster went through. But until they we get to keep guessing as best we can.

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[–] richard.fuller1 8 years ago

Such as was the case with Downton Abbey, and for that matter, Colin Baker's departure from Doctor Who, when the actor who portrayed Matthew opted not to return, his 'death' had to be so quick to remove him from the show. They were hoping he'd reconsider in the end and stay.

And of course, Colin Baker was replaced so very quickly on Doctor Who, it was mind-boggling.

The entire cartoon episodes of Laff-A-Lympics could have been produced first, then later on voices added (tho normally, the voices are recorded first, then the show is animated around them, I did become aware of troubling situations around the seventies in which it seems the opposite was done).

Even still, whoever this sub voice was, he could have been filling in, again with the hopes Lynde would do the voice in the end.

I've come across episodes of Spiderman and His Amazing Friends with Iceman and Firestar rather edited out, making for simply a Spiderman cartoon.

The animation was so simplified and dialogue so clichéd (Quickdraw, Blue Falcon, Babu, Scooby Dum, etc.) it would be no problem to have all of these so easily done without benefit of the other.

I think the only thing that would truly be telling would be animated Mildew Wolf in Laff-A-Lympics doing the Lynde laugh, which Mildew never did on Laff-A-Lympics with the other voice.

That voice sure did sound a lot like Mr. Peevley off Hair Bear Bunch. Mildew did some yelling a couple of times, such as when he called the Rottens savages.

[–] richard.fuller1 8 years ago

I don't think Len WEinrib ever did voices on Laff-A-Lympics, but I recognize Timer in this Dynomutt cartoon.

It's astonishing the same guys, Messick, Weinrib, Lou Schiemer on the Filmation cartoons, would do EVERY single voice around, mainly those background voices.

Schiemer may have been saving on paying an actor, and he did wonderfully as Orko and Batmite, but did he have to narrate every single Filmation show? Let his wife do some for crying out loud.

Same for Weinrib doing all these Timer voices, over and over again.

I guess another one would be Casey Kasem doing all the sheriff voices on Scooby Doo.

[–] Oddark123 8 years ago

IIRC Weinrib had a few characters to his credit at Hanna Barbera by the time the Laff-a-lympics were made, but not really what would be considered the big leaguers.

I'm not that surprised some of them weren't in the show. But then again we don't know how many different builds there were along the way. We have images to compare from different times, but even then there probably were several rough drafts before they ever drew a first promotional pic.

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