Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor is an American Saturday-morning animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that ran on CBS from September 9, 1967 to January 6, 1968, airing in reruns until September 6, 1969. Despite Moby's name coming first, he had only one short per half-hour episode, sandwiched between two with Mightor. The same structure was used the previous season for Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles.

Characters and plot

Mightor

One day, while on a hunting trip, a teenage caveman named Tor (voiced by Bobby Diamond), along with his winged pet dinosaur Tog (vocal effects provided by John Stephenson

Mightor protects his village from evil-doers. Amongst the villagers are the chief Pondo (voiced by John Stephenson Silverman stated that the series faced an uphill battle due to being what he called "second generation" shows, repeats of the same idea (in this case, the formula established by Space Ghost) and being seen as derivatives that couldn't match the original. Cartoon Network rebroadcast the series beginning in February 7, 1993 and continued to air the series until February 18, 1995 on Cartoon Network's Boomerang programming block dedicated to showcases of older cartoons.

Other appearances

Along with other Hanna-Barbera heroes, Mightor and Moby Dick appear in a crossover with a time-traveling Space Ghost during the final six episodes ("The Council of Doom") of the latter's original series.

Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor and his friends appear in the comic book Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes #1–7 (April 1968 – Oct. 1969).

In 1972, Moby Dick appeared briefly in Yogi's Ark Lark when Captain Noah and Yogi Bear accidentally landed their flying ark on Moby's back.

Moby Dick, Tom, and Tubb appear as animated figures in the Kings Island attraction The Enchanted Voyage which operated from 1972-1983. Little Rok and Scooby also appeared alongside them as cutouts on the ride’s exterior.

Characters from Moby Dick later appear in Sealab 2021: Tubb as child actor star "Chubby Cox", and Scooby the seal as "Stinky Pete", whose appearances culminate in his eyes becoming near-demonic, uttering his catchphrase "I'm cha-cha-cha-cha-delicious".

Mightor makes some appearances in the Adult Swim show Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, as Judge Hiram Mightor and voiced by Gary Cole. Moby Dick appears in the episode "SPF", voiced by Wally Wingert.

Tom, Tubb, and Scooby the seal appear in the Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated episode "The Midnight Zone", with Tom and Tubb voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. Moby Dick is depicted as a submarine piloted by Tom and Tubb. They helped Mystery Incorporated and Cassidy Williams to reach the Midnight Zone (the deepest part of the ocean near Crystal Cove) when World War II robots have been attacking Cassidy Williams.

Mightor and Moby Dick have cameos in the film Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon.

Mightor appears in Space Jam: A New Legacy. He is among the Warner Bros. 3000 Server-Verse inhabitants that watch the basketball game between the Tune Squad and the Goon Squad.

Mightor, Little Rok, Ork, Moby Dick and Tubb appear in Jellystone!, with Mightor voiced by Jim Conroy, Little Rok voiced by SungWon Cho, Moby Dick voiced by Paul F. Tompkins in the first appearance and by Dana Snyder in the second appearance, and Tubb voiced by Dana Snyder. Mightor was shown as a wrestler who went up against The Funky Phantom in his infamous wrestling match. The Funky Phantom misused his ghostly powers on him causing the referee Gravity Girl to remove The Funky Phantom from the ring. Moby Dick appears in the episode "The Sea Monster of Jellystone Cove". He is mentioned to have a birthday and reside in Jellystone Cove. Moby Dick appears at the end of the episode where he rolls on everybody for being at his cove during his birthday. Tubb is a recurring character in the third season and has a German accent. Little Rok and Ork appear in the season three episode "Collection Protection" where Little Rok is an anime fan, a rival of Peter Potamus, and the proprietor of Little Rok's Big Museum of Anime and Manga Memorabilia. In "Chair Me Matey", Moby Dick is shown to be friends with Captain Swipe of Jellystone's local air pirates where he once bailed Moby out of jail for swallowing a child. He had fallen onto hard times where his girlfriend Brenda broke up with him and took everything and once dated a mermaid that was actually a whale in disguise. When Yogi Bear and Captain Swipe come looking for the chair that Captain Swipe sold to Moby Dick, he told them that he sold it to Dad Gift Island. When Moby Dick caught up with Yogi, Boo Boo, and the Air Pirates, he helped pay Nugget Nose for the chair after he successfully sued the whale that posed as a mermaid.

A new incarnation of Mightor appears in the 2016 DC comic book series Future Quest, along with several other characters from Hanna-Barbera's action cartoons. This version is a young black boy of modern times who discovers the original's club and is transformed into a new Mightor, with the boy's pet cat becoming a powerful saber-toothed cat. This Mightor is mentored in his new heroic role by Birdman.

See also

  • Moby-Dick, 1851 novel by Herman Melville
  • List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
  • List of Hanna-Barbera characters

References

  • "The Mighty Mightor" at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on February 23, 2016.
  • Moby Dick at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on Mar h 8, 2016.
  • Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor at The Big Cartoon DataBase