Hong Kong Phooey coming to DVD (and Magilla Gorilla, too)
There are two cartoons I remember very fondly and
distinctly from my days as a youngster. Both of them ceased production before I was born, but I gobbled them up in
reruns. The first was Underdog, and the second was Hong Kong Phooey. So, naturally, I was ecstatic
when I found out that all thirty-one episodes of Hong Kong Phooey, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon which featured
Scatman Crothers as the voice of an inept crime-fighting dog who knows kung fu, would be coming out on DVD on August
15. Of course, when Phooey wasn't fighting crime he worked as mild-mannered (all super hero alter egos are
mild-mannered) janitor Penrod "Penry" Pooch. The DVD set will also feature a documentary on the making
of the series.
Oh yeah, and the complete series of Magilla Gorilla comes out on the same day, but I never watched that.
[via ToonZone]
