Fangface


Fangface is an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Ruby-Spears Productions for ABC. It premiered on September 9, 1978 and ended on November 10, 1979, with a total of 24 episodes over the course of 2 seasons. The executive producers were Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.
Fangface appears in the third season of Jellystone! as the werewolf form of El Kabong.

Overview

Highly derivative of Scooby-Doo with elements from the Tasmanian Devil and I Was a Teenage Werewolf as well, Fangface features four teenagers — buff and handsome leader Biff, his brainy and beautiful dusky-skinned girlfriend Kim, short, stocky and pugnacious Puggsy and tall, skinny simpleton Sherman "Fangs" Fangsworth, who transforms into the werewolf Fangface when he sees the moon or even a picture of the moon. Puggsy and Fangs are based on Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall of the Bowery Boys films.

Opening narration

The opening title narration, provided by John Stephenson, consists of the following:

''Fangface and Fangpuss''

In 1979, the second season, titled Fangface and Fangpuss, aired as a segment on The [Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show] and introduced a new character: Baby Fangs, Fangs' infant cousin who turns into a baby werewolf called Fangpuss. This updated the show's canon that only one werewolf is born into the family every 400 years by adding that a werewolf could be born through another family which may be married to the Fangsworth family.
The show remained in the same mystery-adventure style as the first season, but episodes were now shortened to two 15-minute segments in one 30-minute episode. Eight episodes of Fangface and Fangpuss were produced for the 1979 season.
The episodes The Creepy Goon from the Spooky Lagoon and Dr. Lupiter and the Thing from Jupiter are the only season two episodes in which Baby Fangs/Fangpuss did not make an appearance.
Just as Fangs is unaware that he is Fangface, Fangs is also unaware that his cousin, Baby Fangs, is Fangpuss. When Fangs sees Fangpuss, in the episode There Is Nothing Worse Than A Stony Curse, he becomes scared and runs off.
During Season 2, the characters Fangface and Fangpuss never transform back to normal before the episode's mystery is solved.
Fangface and Fangpuss originally aired from September 22, 1979, to November 10, 1979; it then became a separate series in 1981 and, like the original Fangface, ran for just one season.
Later, in 1983, Puggsy and Fangface had cameos in The Puppy's Further Adventures episode "Puppy And The Spies," when the dogs are watching an episode of Fangface on TV.

Cast

Season 1 (1978)

Season 2 (1979)

Merchandising

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