This prototype Muttley (" Mugger ") is a mean-spirited dog with a travelling circus who has a penchant for biting his owners on the leg.

Dastardly was aided in his schemes by his sidekick, a scruffy anthropomorphic dog named Muttley who had a distinctive wheezy laugh, heard most often when Dastardly's schemes failed.

Dastardly and Muttley with two other pilots ; Zilly, a coward who used to hide in his clothes when he was ordered to deploy, and Klunk, the mechanic / inventor, who speaks a language largely composed of strange sounds that only Zilly can understand, comprised the " Vulture Squadron ".

It is not certain why Dread Baron and especially Mumbly ( who was a good guy in his original series ) were used in roles that were identical to Dastardly and Muttley, especially for the Yogi Bear movie.

Messick is also known for providing the voice of the dogs Astro on The Jetsons and Muttley ( who snickered ).

The show focuses on the efforts of Dick Dastardly and his canine sidekick Muttley to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon, a carrier pigeon who carries secret messages ( hence the name of the show ’ s theme song " Stop the Pigeon ").

Michael Maltese, who wrote many of the original Road Runner shorts, is also credited as a writer on Wacky Races, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop and Dastardly and Muttley.

" After being hit by a car, he was replaced by Hancox's new dog, Muttley, who would be featured on four Guana Batz album covers.

In 1973 ' Dick Dastardly's ' Car ( 809 ) was issued featuring models of the characters ' Dick Dastardly ' and his sidekick ' Muttley ' from the children's television programme Wacky Races.

While Dick was created as the equivalent of Professor Fate from the 1960s movie The Great Race, Muttley mirrored the film's character of Max Meen.

Muttley is sometimes confused with the crime-fighting dog Mumbly from The Mumbly Cartoon Show .. Mumbly looked similar to Muttley.

It is not certain why Mumbly was retconned as a villain, neither is it certain why he and Dread Baron were apparently used as substitutes for Dastardly and Muttley, especially in the Yogi Bear movie where Paul Winchell voiced the Baron instead of Dastardly ( and in the scene where the Baron's crashed plane is shown, it's Dick's plane from Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, complete with the " D " on the side ).

In that series, he rides a bicycle that resembles the Mean Machine and his clothes resemble his ones from Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines.

The two later appeared in the made-for-TV movie Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose, where the Dread Baron and Mumbly are first seen in Dick Dastardly's plane from Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.

In the unaired pilot of the new Wacky Races series, Wacky Races Forever, Dastardly and Muttley would have been the main villains, working for the vice-president of Perfect Industries, in an attempt to stop the other racers from crossing the finish line.

Gemon Bajack, his partner-in-crime from Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, was Muttley, complete with dog costume and wheezing laugh.

Dick Dastardly and Muttley, the comic villains from Wacky Races, are flying aces and members of the Vulture Squadron, a crew of aviators on a mission to stop a homing pigeon named Yankee Doodle Pigeon from delivering messages to the other side.

She is usually the damsel in distress whom Muttley has to rescue from Dastardly's clutches.

Mumbly bears a strong resemblance to Muttley from the animated series Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines.

He is characterized by a sneaky, wheezy laugh, making him a possible precursor to Muttley from 1968's Wacky Races and one of its spinoff.

The Dread Baron accompanied Mumbly, a dog that was very similar to Muttley, only with grey fur, and an orange trenchcoat.

* Muttley's girlfriend ( voiced by Don Messick ) is only seen in some of the Magnificent Muttley shorts.

The most commonly suggested reason is that the Wacky Races Characters ( including Dastardly and Muttley ) were created as a co-production with Merrill Heatter and Bob Quigley Productions, meaning that they were not fully owned by Hanna-Barbera, and thus could only be used with permission.

The fictional cartoon character Dick Dastardly in the Hanna-Barbera 1960s series Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines was inspired by both Terry-Thomas ( as Dick Dastardly ) and Jack Lemmon ( as Muttley the dog ).

For the latter, he played the character Dick Dastardly in multiple series ( notably Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines ); Clyde and Softy on The Perils of Penelope Pitstop ; and Fleegle on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, and Gargamel on The Smurfs.

* A parody of Wacky Races with Jeremy Clarkson as Dick Dastardly and Ken Livingstone as Muttley, spoiling Penelope Pitstop's chances of winning the race by imposing the congestion charge and then stealing her car.

The series was patterned on the silent movie era melodrama cliffhanger movie serial The Perils of Pauline using the most successful characters of Wacky Races, namely Penelope Pitstop, the members of Ant Hill Mob and originally Dick Dastardly and Muttley though Dastardly and Muttley were later dropped in pre-production according to this series DVD release information.

Just like in other spin-off series, like Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines, the Wacky Races series is rarely mentioned, not by Penelope, nor by the Ant Hill Mob.

His best remembered vocal creations include Scooby-Doo, Muttley the dog in Wacky Races and Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines, Gears, Ratchet and Scavenger in The Transformers, Papa Smurf, and Dr. Benton Quest.

Muttley first appeared in Wacky Races in 1968, as the sidekick of the accident-prone villain Dick Dastardly.

The reason most suggested is that the Wacky Races characters ( including Dastardly and Muttley ) were not fully owned by Hanna-Barbera as the show was a co-production with Heatter-Quigley Productions.

Muttley and his master returned in the Wacky Races video game with Billy West voicing the dog.

Dastardly's most famous appearances are as a main character in the series Wacky Races ( his initial appearance ) and its spin-off, Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.

" Excluding Dastardly and Muttley, each of the other racers won three or four of the Wacky Races.

Dick Dastardly continued his villainous career in the Wacky Races spin-off ; Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines.

* Dick Dastardly, Muttley, and the Mean Machine returned as a boss car in the Wacky Races video game voiced by Jim Cummings and Billy West.

* An episode of the anime Digimon Frontier, entitled " The Great Trailmon Race " ( a homage to Wacky Races ), a ShadowWereGarurumon and his Dogmon sidekick attempted to undermine the other racers, as a reference to Dastardly and Muttley, and, at one point in the original Japanese version, ShadowWereGarurumon gives Doggymon a Dick Dastardly-style knock to the head after Doggymon laughs.

He is most known for the roles of Captain Hook ( Peter Pan no Bōken ), Dick Dastardly ( Wacky Races & Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines ), Goemon Ishikawa XIII ( Lupin III ), Nezumi Otoko ( GeGeGe no Kitaro ), Denzō Yamada ( Nintama Rantarō ), Professor Moriarty ( Sherlock Hound ), Gol D. Roger ( One Piece ), Master Xehanort ( Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep & Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance ), Doctor Weil ( Mega Man Zero ), Tao Pai Pai ( Dragon Ball ), Doctor Eggman ( Sonic the Hedgehog ( series )) and Wario in the Wario commercials.

The cartoon was a combination of Red Baron-era Snoopy, Wacky Races ( which featured Dastardly and Muttley in a series of car races ), and the film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines.

* Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines ( 1969 – 1971, CBS )

* The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera ( ride ) Elroy Jetson is kidnapped by Dick Dastardly and Muttley and it is up to ride guests to save him.

Dastardly ( voiced by late Paul Winchell, in a manner that Winchell would use several years later to portray the Smurfs ' nemesis Gargamel ) is an archetypal mustache-twirling villain ; Muttley ( voiced by late Don Messick ) is his trademark wheezily snickering, anthropomorphic dog henchman.

Dick Dastardly and Muttley would also appear in Fender Bender 500, racing against characters like Yogi Bear and Quick Draw McGraw.

In it, Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna state that Elroy Jetson will star in their next project ( presuming the film ), which angers Dick Dastardly and Muttley and causes them to kidnap Elroy, and Yogi Bear must save him.

In those same sketches, Dick Dastardly and Muttley were supposed to be Johnny Pitstop's personal bodyguards, using once again their car, The Mean Machine.

* Yankee Doodle Pigeon was an American homing pigeon in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines.