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American TV series or program
Baggy Pants and the Nitwits
is a 1977 American
animated series
produced by
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
and broadcast on
NBC
.
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Overview
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Though the characters appeared together in the show's introduction, they each appeared separately in their own episodes. Each 30-minute episode of
Baggy Pants and the Nitwits
contained two segments: one for Baggy Pants and the other for the Nitwits.
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Baggy Pants
is an anthropomorphic
cat
mimicking
Charlie Chaplin
's "
Little Tramp
" character, right down to Chaplin's signature
toothbrush mustache
and walking cane. Similar to Chaplin and the
Pink Panther
, Baggy Pants performed all of his misadventures in pantomime, without a spoken dialogue by any of the characters in his segments.
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The Nitwits
is about an elderly
superhero
named Tyrone (voiced by
Arte Johnson
) who, by public demand, re-emerged from retirement to again fight crime, taking cases at his own discretion with help from his wife Gladys (
Ruth Buzzi
) and his hopping cane which he called "Elmo" which, among other things, helped Tyrone and Gladys to fly.
Johnson and Buzzi adapted and reprised the roles they had originated in
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
, with much of the adult innuendo (including Tyrone's original last name Horneigh) being removed to keep the cartoon
family-friendly
. In the opening titles of
The Nitwits
segment, Johnson himself was credited with having "created
The Nitwits
for television".
The series ran for 13 episodes; as of 2019, it has yet to be released on
home video
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Episodes
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Cast
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References
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External links
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Founders
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Theatrical shorts (original)
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Commissioned by
Warner Bros.
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Television shorts
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Television shows
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- The Super 6
(NBC, 1966?1969)
- Super President
(NBC, 1967?1968)
- Here Comes The Grump
(NBC, 1969?1970)
- The Pink Panther Show
(NBC, 1969?1971)
- Doctor Dolittle
(NBC, 1970?1971)
- The New Pink Panther Show
(NBC, 1971?1976)
- The Barkleys
(NBC, 1972?1973)
- The Houndcats
(NBC, 1972?1973)
- Bailey's Comets
(CBS, 1973?1975)
- The Oddball Couple
(ABC, 1975?1977)
- Return to the Planet of the Apes
(NBC, 1975?1976)
- The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half-Hour and a Half Show
(NBC, 1976?1977)
- Baggy Pants and the Nitwits
(NBC, 1977?1978)
- What's New, Mr. Magoo?
(CBS, 1977?1979)
- Think! Pink Panther
(NBC, 1978)
- The All New Pink Panther Show
(ABC, 1978?1979)
- The Fantastic Four
(NBC, 1978?1979)
- Spider-Woman
(ABC, 1979?1980)
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Television specials
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Dr. Seuss
Television specials
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See also
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First-run
animated series
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First-run
live-action series
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Rebroadcasts
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Related
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