The Oddball Couple

The Oddball Couple
Title card for DePatie-Freleng’s The Oddball Couple, featuring Fleabag (left) and Spiffy (right).
Genre	Children's television series Animation Comedy Cartoon series
Based on	The Odd Couple by Neil Simon
Directed by	Gerry Chiniquy Robert McKimson
Voices of	Frank Nelson (Spiffy) Paul Winchell (Fleabag) Joan Gerber (Goldie) Joe Besser Robert Holt Sarah Kennedy Don Messick Ginny Tyler Frank Welker
Theme music composer	Doug Goodwin, arranged by Joe Siracusa
Composer(s)	Doug Goodwin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	DePatie-Freleng Enterprises Paramount Network Television
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 6 – December 20, 1975

The Oddball Couple is an animated half-hour Saturday morning show that ran on the ABC TV network from September 6, 1975, to December 20, 1975. The show was a production of DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with Paramount Television, and was distributed by CBS Television Distribution It is an adaptation of the TV series The Odd Couple, which had ended its run on March 7 of that year, after five seasons on ABC. The show first aired at 11:30 am Eastern Time (ET) and was switched to 12 noon ET.

Overview of series

The Oddball Couple features the misadventures of a dog named Fleabag and cat named Spiffy, who live together under the same roof. Spiffy is a orderly and polite cat who is a stickler for cleanliness and organization, and Fleabag is rude, obnoxious, lazy, untidy and very disorganized. Their disparate personalities are reflected in their house – which is one-half mansion and one-half dilapidated shack – and even in their car, which is half-pristine and half-junker. They have a secretary named Goldie Hound (a play on the name Goldie Hawn) who works in the office they share. The show consists of two segments lasting ten minutes each.

In the original Odd Couple series, Felix the neat freak was a photographer and slovenly Oscar was a sportswriter. In this series, Spiffy the neatnik is a writer and Fleabag the slob is a photographer.

Episodes

Voices

• Joe Besser –
• Joan Gerber – Goldie
• Bob Holt –
• Sarah Kennedy –
• Don Messick –
• Frank Nelson – Spiffy
• Ginny Tyler –
• Frank Welker –
• Paul Winchell – Fleabag

Production credits

• Story Editor: Bob Ogle
• Writers: Bob Ogle, Joel Kane, David Detiege, Earl Kress, John W. Dunn
• Supervising Director: Lew Marshall
• Animation Directors: Gerry Chiniquy, Robert McKimson
• Storyboard Directors: Bill Perez, Art Leonardi, Jan Green, Gary Hoffman
• Graphic Design: Ric Gonzales, Gary Hoffman, Dick Ung, Al Wilson, Ken Landau, Coral Kerr, Adam Szwejkowski, Susan Scholefield
• Animation: Norm McCabe, Bob Matz, Virgil Ross, Bob Bemiller, Bob Richardson, Jim Davis, Nelson Shin, Bill Nunes, Don Williams, Joel Seibel, Bob Bransford, John Freeman, Bill Carney, Warren Batchelder, George Jorgensen, John Gibbs, Bob Goe
• Background Supervised by: Richard H. Thomas
• Backgrounds: Mary O'Loughlin, Don Watson
• Ink and Paint Supervisor: Gertrude Timmins
• Xerography: Greg Marshall
• Film Editors Supervised by: Bob Gillis
• Film Editors: Joe Siracusa, Rick Steward, Allan Potter
• Voices: Paul Winchell, Frank Nelson, Joan Gerber, Frank Welker, Sarah Kennedy, Don Messick, Joe Besser, Ginny Tyler, Bob Holt
• Music by: Doug Goodwin
• Main Title Music Arranged by: Joe Siracusa
• Conducted by: Eric Rodgers
• In Charge of Production: Lee Gunther
• Camera: Ray Lee, Larry Hogan, John Burton Jr.
• Production Mixer: Steve Orr
• Sound by: Producer's Sound Service, Inc.
• This picture has made the jurdisction of I.A.T.S.E., affiliated with A.F.L.-C.L.O.
• © MCMLXXV DePatie-Freleng Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
• Based Upon the Play "The Odd Couple" by Neil Simon
• Produced by: David H. DePatie & Friz Freleng
• DFE Films · A DePatie-Freleng Production

DVD Release

This series was released for the first time on DVD from CBS via Amazon's CreateSpace on December 30, 2017. ^[1][2]

References

External links

• The Oddball Couple on IMDb
• The Oddball Couple at TV.com
• The Oddball Couple at the Big Cartoon DataBase