Genre: | Comedy |
Director: | Gerry Chiniquy Robert McKimson |
Voices: | Frank Nelson (Spiffy) Paul Winchell (Fleabag) Joan Gerber (Goldie) Joe Besser Bob Holt Sarah Kennedy Don Messick Ginny Tyler Frank Welker |
Theme Music Composer: | Doug Goodwin, arranged by Joe Siracusa |
Composer: | Doug Goodwin |
Country: | United States |
Num Seasons: | 1 |
Num Episodes: | 16 (32 segments) |
Producer: | David H. DePatie Friz Freleng |
Editor: | Bob Gillis (editing supervisor) Allan Potter Joe Siracusa Rick Steward |
Runtime: | 20 minutes (2 10-minute segments) |
Company: | DePatie-Freleng Enterprises |
Network: | ABC |
The Oddball Couple is an American animated television series that aired on ABC on Saturday mornings for 16 episodes from September 6 to December 20, 1975. The show was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, and was distributed by Viacom Enterprises.[1] It is an adaptation of the television sitcom The Odd Couple, which had ended its run that year, after five seasons on ABC.[2]
The Oddball Couple features the misadventures of a dog named Fleabag and cat named Spiffy, who live together under the same roof.[3] Spiffy is an orderly and polite cat who is a stickler for cleanliness and organization, and Fleabag is rude, obnoxious, lazy, untidy and very disorganized. Their disparate personalities are reflected in their housewhich is one-half mansion and one-half dilapidated shackand even in their car, which is half-pristine and half-junker. They have a secretary named Goldie Hound (a play on the name Goldie Hawn) who works in the office they share. The show consists of two segments lasting 10 minutes each.
In the original Odd Couple series, Felix the neat freak was a photographer and slovenly Oscar was a sportswriter. In this series, Spiffy the neatnik is a writer and Fleabag the slob is a photographer.
This series was released on DVD from CBS via Amazon's CreateSpace on December 30, 2017.[4] [5]