FANGFACE
This show was one of my favorites as a kid. It aired on ABC/1978-79. Sherman "Fangs" Fangsworth who's a cowardly teenager turns into a werewolf ("Fangface") when the moon is full. Along with his three teenage friends (Biff, Kim & Puggsy), he investigates mysteries and handles the day-to-day troubles that confront him in high school. The funny thing is, that if he sees even a picture of the sun as a werewolf, he would change back to Sherman. The show later added a baby cousin who was dubbed "Baby Fangs" aka FANGPUSS. The opening narrative went like this....
Narrator: Fangface! Every 400 years, a baby werewolf is born into the Fangsworth family. And so when the moon shined on little Sherman Fangsworth, he changed into Fangface, a werewolf. Only the sun can change him back to normal. And so little Fangs grew up and teamed up with three daring teenagers: Kim, Biff, and Pugsy. And together they find danger, excitement, and adventure. Who can save the day? Who can wrong the rights, and right the wrongs? None other than Fangface!
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SHOW INTRO CLIP
4 comments:
It's almost as if FangFace is the mystery team's own Shaggy AND Scooby-doo all rolled into one. Brilliant.
Sax,
you stir up memories in my brain that have been lying dormant for eons sir.
-JX!
Oh Crap...
What a Great FangFace...
I used to LOVE this cartoon... I've got a couple of Old FangFace sketches around my studio... I should find'em...
Thanks for Stirrin'-Up the same Memories...
Tony
Nice one dude, Fangface is a weird cartoon but I certainly loved that shit when I was a kid!!!
voices of
Frank Welker as Fangface/Sherman Fangsworth (using his goofy Dynomutt-type voice...a parody of The Bowery Boys' Huntz Hall)
Bart Braverman (Binzer on "Vega$") as Puggsy (a parody of The Bowery Boys' Leo Gorcey)
Jerry Dexter (Alan M. on "Josie and the Pussycats") as Biff
Susan Blu as Kim
Ruby-Spears' first Saturday AM show after breaking away from Hanna-Barbera's studios. One of the meddling kids is a hyperactive werewolf. Classic stuff!
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