The Ruff and Reddy Show
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| Release Date | 1960-04-02 |
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| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Genres | Family, Animation, Comedy |
| Stars | Daws Butler, Don Messick |
| Directors | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera |
| Release Date | 1960-04-02 |
|---|---|
| Runtime | 60 minutes |
| Genres | Family, Animation, Comedy |
| Stars | Daws Butler, Don Messick |
| Directors | Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera |
The Ruff and Reddy Show is a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a straight and smart cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dumb and stupid dog voiced by Daws Butler. First broadcast in December 1957 on NBC, it was the first television show produced by Hanna-Barbera and presented by Screen Gems, the television arm of Columbia Pictures.
A swamp pirate, Jean La Fitt, runs amok and spoils Ruff and Reddy's fishing trip.
Deputized by Sheriff Cotton E. Pickens, the boys and Pickens are pursued by an alligator.
The alligator, knocked out by La Fitt, makes friends with Ruff after he revives him.
Ruff names the alligator Chopper, and adds him to the pirate posse.
La Fitt is cornered but makes an escape.
Ruff, Reddy and Sheriff Pickens try to find La Fitt's hideout.
La Fitt turns his cannons on our heroes.
LaFitt creates a whirlpool to stop Pickens, Ruff and Reddy.
Our heroes look for LaFitt's hideout.
Cotton Pickens nearly meets his doom.
Chopper nearly destroys the raft our heroes are using.
Ruff turns Chopper into a makeshift whooshmobile.
Chopper helps with the final corralling of LaFitt.
Ruff and Reddy are trainbound for Spooky Rock where a rendezvous with Professor Gizmo is to take place
Gizmo presents his invention, a mobile borer with which he plans to gather substrata data in the mountains. The outlaws Killer and Diller follow our heroes.
Killer and Diller watch in amazement as Gizmo tests out his borer.
Satisfied with the borer's success, Killer and Diller plan to hijack it with the plan of finding the Lost Dutchman mine.
Killer and Diller show up and force Gizmo to drive the borer to the Lost Dutchman mine.
After a lights-out fight, Ruff gets the drop on Killer and Diller. Reddy ties them up and transports them away to the nearest jail.
A bump in the road causes Killer and Diller to bump off Reddy's car. The outlaws make a getaway with Reddy in pursuit.
Jumping off a railroad bridge, Killer and Diller land in a river. Reddy returns to the borer.
Gizmo, Ruff and Reddy discover an illuminated mine. Killer and Diller discover a secret entrance back to the mine.
Our heroes meet Schultz, the ghost of the Lost Dutchman. Killer and Diller pursue him in a merry chase.
Killer and Diller force Ruff, Reddy and Gizmo into piling the borer with bags of gold.
Schultz secretly leads our heroes to a safe place while having fun at Killer and Diller's expense.
Schultz lets Killer and Diller leave with all the gold they can carry. But there's a catch -- the gold disappears once the two are outside, and their entrance is sealed off.
After running afoul of a carnival policeman, Ruff and Reddy hide out in a hot-air balloon which slips its moorings.
Ruff and Reddy find themselves in midair.
Ruff and Reddy try to ward off a giant vulture which is attacking their balloon.
Ruff and Reddy land near an island and hear a voice repeatedly calling, "Help! Murder! Police!"
Our heroes find a Swedish sailor, Skipper Kipper, and his parrot Squawky Talky, held prisoner by Captain Greedy and Saltwater Daffy. The two yeggs want a map to a treasure from Kipper.
Guarding the shack where Kipper and Squawky Talky are imprisoned, Daffy hears Ruff and Reddy's voices.
Ruff and Reddy help Kipper and Squawky escape, much to Captain Greedy's irritation.
Our heroes and Skipper and Kipper commandeer Captain Greedy's sub.
Having returned to power of their ship, Greedy threatens bodily harm to Squawky Talky if Kipper doesn't reveal the map.
Squawky Talky turns the tables on Saltwater Daffy.
Captain Greedy and Saltwater Daffy leave the island under the pretense of giving up the search. Skipper Kipper reveals the map to Ruff and Reddy.
Once the treasure's location is exposed, Greedy and Daffy return.
Greedy and Daffy obtain the treasure, which winds up getting swallowed by a whale.
Ruff and Reddy answer an ad for the promise of travel and adventure. A wily professor tricks them into taking off in a rocket ship.
The professor instructs Ruff and Reddy to gather information on the moon as they orbit around it.
An errant button press sends the rocket off course.
The rocket heads for a mysterious planet.
The boys are held captive by a race of tiny aliens, the Lilipunis.
Bound by the Lilipunies, Ruff and Reddy plead their case.
Ruff and Reddy, along with the Lilipunies, are menaced by a creature called the Blop.
Reddy's dander is raised when he sees the Blop picking on the Lilipunies.
Reddy fights back against the Blop, who takes Ruff captive.
Reddy searches the Blop's cave for Ruff.
The Lilipunies help Reddy construct a spider web with which the catch the Blop.
The boys beat a hasty retreat to their rocket.
After the Blop gets away in the boys' rocket, the Lilipunies come up with a mode of transportation for Ruff and Reddy to return to Earth.
