Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969)

Season 1

Dick Dastardly and his snickering canine co-pilot Muttley plot to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon aboard their World War I flying machines.

Released Sept. 13, 1969 Episode 22 min 7+

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy, Kids

Keywords: tmdb.world-war-i, tmdb.rivalry, tmdb.cartoon-dog, tmdb.plane, imdb.world-war-one, imdb.aircraft, imdb.military-pilot + 21 more, imdb.homing-pigeon, imdb.reference-to-yankee-doodle-dandy, imdb.medal, imdb.squadron, imdb.aviation-squadron, imdb.sympathetic-villain, imdb.anthropomorphic-animal, imdb.cartoon-pigeon, imdb.dick-dastardly-character, imdb.muttley-character, imdb.carrier-pigeon, imdb.fighter-plane, tmdb.cartoon-bird, imdb.1910s, imdb.pilot, imdb.aviator, imdb.villain-as-protagonist, imdb.cartoon-dog, imdb.pigeon, imdb.aviation, imdb.hand-drawn-animation

Production Companies: Hanna-Barbera Productions

Network: CBS

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb

7.1

/4185/

Trakt

/97/

TMDb

/84/

Tomatoes

Joseph Barbera
Director

Paul Winchell
Dick Dastardly / The General (voice)

Don Messick
Muttley / Klunk / Zilly (voice)

Lars Thiesgaard
Dick Dastardly (voice)

Timm Mehrens
Klunk (voice)

Niels Weyde
Muttley (voice)

Ole Hinsch
Villy (voice)

S1E1 - Fur Out Furlough

The General will reward the one who stops Yankee Doodle Pigeon with a 30-day furlough with all expenses paid.

Sept. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E3 - Barn Dance

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Sept. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E2 - Hot Soup

None

Sept. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E4 - Muttley on the Bounty

While mopping the floor, Muttley daydreams he's Fletcher Christian on the H.M.S. Bounty and Dastardly is Captain Bligh.

Sept. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E5 - Sappy Birthday

Muttley wants a day off because it's his birthday. Dastardly reminds him the birthday party cannot be held until after they stop the pigeon

Sept. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E6 - Follow That Feather

Fully aware of the gravity of the situation, Dick Dastardly and his proud men try to eliminate the pigeon with a feather seeking homing missile.

Sept. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E7 - Barber

None

Sept. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E8 - Empty Hangar

None

Sept. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E9 - What's New Old Bean?

Our medal-mooching mutt is tending garden and imagines himself in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Sept. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E10 - Operation Anvil

Klunk is sure his new invention, a flying anvil, will work. Dick Dastardly is flattered - or should I say flattened - by the idea of finally getting Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

Sept. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E11 - Sky Hi-IQ

The General sends an efficiency expert in order to shape up the Vulture Squadron. Having analysed the results of an attitude test, he recommends Muttley to take command of the squadron.

Sept. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E12 - Prop Wash

None

Sept. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E13 - Carpet

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Sept. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E14 - The Marvelous Muttdini

Locked in the guard house, Muttley daydreams he's an escape artist.

Sept. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E15 - A Plain Shortage of Planes

The Vulture Squadron has run out of planes. The General calls to tell them there's no more money to by new ones. Dick Dastardly decides to buy a wreck so he'll still be able to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

Sept. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E16 - Barnstormers

Having messed up another mission a safe landing in a barn would be all they'd need. The country woman Hilda thinks her Prince Charming Zilly has fallen out of the sky. She won't let him go.

Oct. 4, 1969, midnight

S1E17 - Arnold

None

Oct. 4, 1969, midnight

S1E18 - Pineapple Sundae

None

Oct. 4, 1969, midnight

S1E19 - The New Mascot

None

Oct. 4, 1969, midnight

S1E20 - The Bad Actor

Muttley daydreams he's a stage actor being upstaged by Dastardly (in a typecast role).

Oct. 4, 1969, midnight

S1E21 - Shape Up Or Ship Out

Yankee Doodle Pigeon now flies bravely across open water carrying top secret messages to ships at sea. The General transfers the Vulture Squadron to sea duty on board a flat deck ferry boat.

Oct. 4, 1969, midnight

S1E22 - Stop That Pigeon

Yankee Doodle Pigeon and the members of the Vulture Squadron, Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Klunk and Zilly, are introduced shortly. We witness their first attempts to stop that pigeon.

Oct. 11, 1969, midnight

S1E23 - Grease Job

None

Oct. 11, 1969, midnight

S1E24 - Robot

None

Oct. 11, 1969, midnight

S1E25 - The Big Topper

Muttley dreams he's a circus star, with rival Dastardly plotting to sabotage the show.

Oct. 11, 1969, midnight

S1E26 - Zilly's a Dilly

Dick Dastardly is fed up with Zilly being a scary cat. So, he calls for a doctor who hypnotizes Zilly. Now Zilly changes into the bravest Vulture Squadron warrior.

Oct. 11, 1969, midnight

S1E27 - The Cuckoo Patrol

Cleverly disguised as pigeons our militant men once again try to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon. Not knowing they'd be better off as a cuckoo.

Oct. 18, 1969, midnight

S1E28 - Automatic Door

None

Oct. 18, 1969, midnight

S1E29 - Airmail

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Oct. 18, 1969, midnight

S1E30 - Runway Stripe

None

Oct. 18, 1969, midnight

S1E31 - The Masked Muttley

Muttley dreams he's a western hero thwarting outlaw Dastardly's bank robbery.

Oct. 18, 1969, midnight

S1E32 - Pest Pilots

The inimitable entrepreneurs of the Vulture Squadron drop in on a mad professor's laboratory. He gives them a chance to try his flying inventions on the pigeon instead of Klunk's.

Oct. 18, 1969, midnight

S1E33 - The Swiss Yelps

High in the sky our gallant courier Yankee Doodle Pigeon now sweeps swiftly trough the canons of the Swiss Alps. Of course, followed by Dastardly and his men who are having their planes rocked.

Oct. 25, 1969, midnight

S1E34 - Eagle-Beagle

Having made a mess of several operations, Dick Dastardly comes to the conclusion an eagle is much easier to fetch than a pigeon.

Oct. 25, 1969, midnight

S1E35 - Deep Reading

None

Oct. 25, 1969, midnight

S1E36 - Shell Game

None

Oct. 25, 1969, midnight

S1E37 - Slightly Loaded

None

Oct. 25, 1969, midnight

S1E38 - Movie Stuntman

While painting a flagpole, Muttley dreams he's a movie stuntman, with director Darryl O. Dastardly trying to do him in.

Oct. 25, 1969, midnight

S1E39 - Fly By Knights

This time around the group try to get Yankee Doodle by shooting arrows at him. They all miss Yankee Doodle and Dastardly suggest they they need glasses. So off they go to take an eye test. They all fail and get glasses. However the glasses make their sight worse. Everything Muttley sees is farther than it really is. Klunk's vision is multiplied and he sees more than what is really there. Zilly sees everything upside down. Then The General gives Dastardly glasses and all he sees is magnified.

Nov. 1, 1969, midnight

S1E40 - There's No Fool Like a Re-Fuel

The episodes opens with the gang doing their normal thing. One by one they run out of fuel. One of the gang suggest they can never catch Yankee Doodle because they run out of fuel. Klunk gets the idea to fuel while in the air. They try many different ways of in-air fueling.

Nov. 1, 1969, midnight

S1E41 - Springtime

None

Nov. 1, 1969, midnight

S1E42 - Dog's Life

None

Nov. 1, 1969, midnight

S1E43 - Strange Equipment

None

Nov. 1, 1969, midnight

S1E44 - Coonskin Caper

While playing in the woods, Muttley dreams he's Daniel Boone and Dastardly is a renegade Indian making off with his girl.

Nov. 1, 1969, midnight

S1E45 - Movies Are Badder Than Ever

The General sends over a movie director to film the crew and see what they are doing wrong. The crew goes about their normal business and the director loves the footage he is getting. The crew destroys the film and the director is very upset.

Nov. 8, 1969, midnight

S1E46 - Home Sweet Homing Pigeon

Zilly,Muttley and Klunk refuse to obey Dastardly's command because their enlistments are up. Dastardly cries and makes them feel bad so they decide to go along for one last time. The crew tries to try and feather Yankee Doodle but it doesn't work. They try a wreaking ball. It fails. The crew decides to leave for good this time. Yankee Doodle flies by and scares everyone so they decide to go get him. Dastardly tricks the crew in to reenlisting for four more years.

Nov. 8, 1969, midnight

S1E47 - The Elevator

None

Nov. 8, 1969, midnight

S1E48 - Obedience School

None

Nov. 8, 1969, midnight

S1E49 - Aquanuts

Muttley dreams he's a deep sea treasure hunter, with Dastardly out to steal the treasure he eventually finds.

Nov. 8, 1969, midnight

S1E50 - Lens a Hand

Dastardly offers to give The General Proof that the squadron is doing its job and not just collecting flight pay. Muttley is put in charge of taking pictures.

Nov. 15, 1969, midnight

S1E51 - Vacation Trip Trap

The General calls Dick Dastardly to tell him he is allowed to take a two weeks furlough. Zilly, Klunk and Muttley now have to try to stop the pigeon without their leader. But they can't do without him.

Nov. 15, 1969, midnight

S1E52 - Parachute

None

Nov. 15, 1969, midnight

S1E53 - Real Snapper

None

Nov. 15, 1969, midnight

S1E54 - Leonardo de Muttley

Muttley dreams he's Leonardo DaVinci, trying to invent the first flying machine.

Nov. 15, 1969, midnight

S1E55 - Stop Which Pigeon?

The General is coming to the Vulture Squadron's hangar to inspect Yankee Doodle Pigeon having been caught. Since our inventive idiots appear to be still unable to stop that pigeon before the General arrives, they hire an actor pigeon to make the General believe it's the real Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

Nov. 22, 1969, midnight

S1E56 - Ceiling Zero Zero

Equipped with Klunk's latest invention - a weather machine - the Vulture Squadron tries to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon for the umpteenth time.

Nov. 22, 1969, midnight

S1E57 - Fast Freight

None

Nov. 22, 1969, midnight

S1E58 - Home Run

None

Nov. 22, 1969, midnight

S1E59 - Start Your Engines

Muttley dreams he's racer Barney Olfield.

Nov. 22, 1969, midnight

S1E60 - Who's Who?

During 'Operation Catapault,' Dastardly falls out of the plane and lands on his head. As a result of this, he loses his memory. Klunk takes command of the squadron, but their operations are no more successful than before. Eventually, Dastardly, Zilly and Klunk all fall on their heads from a plane. Dastardly's memory is restored by this, but now Klunk and Zilly don't seem to know who he is or who they are...

Nov. 29, 1969, midnight

S1E61 - Operation Birdbrain

According to Dastardly the Vulture Squadron will certainly be able to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon if they learn to think like a pigeon. In order to achieve this, they should also sleep and eat like a pigeon.

Nov. 29, 1969, midnight

S1E62 - Bowling Pin

None

Nov. 29, 1969, midnight

S1E63 - Shrink Job

None

Nov. 29, 1969, midnight

S1E64 - Ship Ahooey

Muttley dreams he's trying to be the first swimmer across the English Channel.

Nov. 29, 1969, midnight

S1E65 - Medal Muddle

The complete collection of Muttley's medals appear to be stolen. Muttley insists on Dick Dastardly helping him to get back the medals. Until then, he refuses to do his duty.

Dec. 6, 1969, midnight

S1E66 - Go South Young Pigeon

Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Klunk and Zilly experience great difficulties finding the pigeon among many other birds going south to hibernate.

Dec. 6, 1969, midnight

S1E67 - The Window Washer

None

Dec. 6, 1969, midnight

S1E68 - Beach Blast

None

Dec. 6, 1969, midnight

S1E69 - Admiral Bird Dog

Muttley dreams he's trying to reach the North Pole. Dastardly tries to beat him to it.

Dec. 6, 1969, midnight

S1E70 - Too Many Kooks

Dick Dastardly lets successively Klunk, Zilly and Muttley come up with an idea to get Yankee Doodle Pigeon. Muttley develops a bird dog sensing device that's certain stop the pigeon.

Dec. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E71 - Ice See You

Continuing his dangerous task of delivering secret messages, Yankee Doodle Pigeon now flies above the frozen area of the northern front. Of course, hotly pursued by Dick Dastardly and his Vulture Squadron

Dec. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E72 - Echo

None

Dec. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E73 - Rainmaker

None

Dec. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E74 - Professor Muttley

Muttley dreams he's an inventor, with Dastardly stealing all his ideas.

Dec. 13, 1969, midnight

S1E75 - Balmy Swami

Having crocked another plane, the Vulture Squadron drops into Sam Swami's tent. He who can look into the future, predicts a better future for our fearless flyers, but a worse one for Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

Dec. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E76 - Camouflage Hop-Aroo

The General sends a camouflage expert to help the Vulture Squadron out. These vicious men will certainly stop that pigeon while in disguise.

Dec. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E77 - Mop Up

None

Dec. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E78 - Big Turnover

None

Dec. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E79 - Wild Mutt Muttley

Muttley dreams he's a jungle lord.

Dec. 20, 1969, midnight

S1E80 - Have Plane Will Travel

The Vulture Squadron is transferred to a place where there's positively no pigeon except Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

Dec. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E81 - Windy Windmill

Yankee Doodle Pigeon now flies above The Netherlands, of course pursued by the preposterous Vulture Squadron, trying to catch the brave messenger with a windmill plane.

Dec. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E82 - Tough Break

None

Dec. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E83 - The Ice Cream Tree

None

Dec. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E84 - Astromutt

Muttley dreams he's a space hero, with Dastardly as a being on a planet plotting Muttley's demise.

Dec. 27, 1969, midnight

S1E85 - Plane Talk

Klunk develops a plane with a spare plane that will save our fearless flyers in case of disaster.

Jan. 3, 1970, midnight

S1E86 - Happy Bird Day

The General calls to tell Dick Dastardly there'll be no birthday celebrations until they stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon. Dastardly wonders who's birthday it is, and comes to the conclusion it's the General's. He decides to bake him a cake and deliver it to him right after catching the pigeon.

Jan. 3, 1970, midnight