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Droopy, Master Detective
Genre
Based onDroopy
by Tex Avery
Voices of
Narrated by
Theme music composerGary Lionelli
ComposerGary Lionelli
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes13 (39 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerJoseph Barbera
Producers
Running time22 minutes (7 minutes per segment)
Production companiesHanna-Barbera Cartoons[a]
Turner Entertainment
Original release
NetworkFox Kids
ReleaseSeptember 11 –
December 4, 1993
Related
Tom & Jerry Kids

Droopy, Master Detective is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in association with Turner Entertainment, and a spin-off of Tom & Jerry Kids.[1] It debuted on Fox's Saturday morning block Fox Kids and ran for 13 episodes from September 11 to December 3, 1993;[2] in 1994, it was dropped from Fox's Saturday morning schedule on January 1,[2] and returned on weekday afternoons in August and September.[3]

Droopy, Master Detective is a spoof of detective films and cop shows, featuring Droopy and his son, Dripple, as detectives on the mean streets of a big city.[4] Newly made seven-minute episodes were mixed in with new seven-minute cartoons featuring the Tom and Jerry Kids characters. The rest of the half-hour program mostly was taken up by Screwy Squirrel, another Tex Avery creation from the 1940s.

In these new cartoons, Screwy made his home in a public park, making life miserable for hot-headed park attendant Dweeble and his dog Rumpley — both, rather typical Hanna-Barbera comedy foes rather than Tex Avery-inspired characters. It also included two more characters from the previous show: Wild Mouse and Lightning Bolt the Super Squirrel.

As of October 15, 2023 it is currently available on iTunes Store in SD.

  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 168–169. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  2. ^ a b "Fox Kids Saturday Morning Lineups (1993-1994)". The Kids Block Blog. 26 June 2011. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  3. ^ "Fox Kids Weekday Lineups (1993-1995)". The Kids Block Blog. 25 October 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  4. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television cartoon shows: an illustrated encyclopedia, 1949 through 2003. McFarland & Co. pp. 174–176. ISBN 07864-2255-6.
  1. ^ Animation outsourced to Fil-Cartoons and Mr. Big Cartoons.