The Puppy's Further Adventures
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The Puppy’s Further Adventures was an animated television show based on The Puppy Who Wanted a Boy, a children's book by Catherine Woolley about Petey, a young dog who attached himself to a lonely orphan boy named Tommy.
aired an adaptation of the book, and over the next four years, The Puppy and its three sequels, which used various actors’ voices for Petey the puppy, were repeatedly shown on the Weekend Special.
In 1982, Petey could at last be seen weekly as the second half of The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
, with Billy Jacoby voicing Petey and Nancy McKeon
as his female puppy friend Dolly. The following year, the show played solo as The Puppy’s Further Adventures. Reruns of the show were shown on ABC and later CBS
as The Puppy's Great Adventures.
, Hong Kong
, and Hawaii
, and usually helping out a local group of people or animals.
Season 1 (Episode guide)
. Glyder reappeared in two other episodes.
Episode guide (season 2)
Production background
On May 6, 1978, the ABC Weekend SpecialABC Weekend Special
The ABC Weekend Special is a weekly 30-minute anthology TV series for children that aired Saturday mornings on ABC from 1977 to 1997. It featured a wide variety of stories that were both live-action and animated....
aired an adaptation of the book, and over the next four years, The Puppy and its three sequels, which used various actors’ voices for Petey the puppy, were repeatedly shown on the Weekend Special.
In 1982, Petey could at last be seen weekly as the second half of The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour
The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour was a 60-minute package show, a Hanna-Barbera/Ruby-Spears co-production in 1982 for ABC Saturday mornings...
, with Billy Jacoby voicing Petey and Nancy McKeon
Nancy McKeon
Nancy Justine McKeon is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jo Polniaczek on the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life.-Early life & career:...
as his female puppy friend Dolly. The following year, the show played solo as The Puppy’s Further Adventures. Reruns of the show were shown on ABC and later CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
as The Puppy's Great Adventures.
Season 1
In the first season, Petey and Dolly's family were moving overseas by ship. Strays Dash, Duke and Lucky stowed away on the same ship. All five dogs were stranded together when a lightning bolt knocked them overboard. Every episode of the first season consisted of the dogs looking for Tommy and his family, winding up in places as diverse as East BerlinEast Berlin
East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin that was established in 1945. The American, British and French sectors became West Berlin, a part strongly associated with West Germany but a free city...
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, and Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
, and usually helping out a local group of people or animals.
Season 1 (Episode guide)
- The puppy's dangerous mission
- The puppy and the ancient ruins
- The puppy and the pirates
- The puppy goes to africa
- The puppy goes to Paris
- The puppy goes Hawaii
- The puppy in Hong kong
- The puppy's Australian adventure
- The puppy and the reluctant Bull
- The puppy and the wailing cat
- The puppy and the 101 seals
Season 2
The second season opened with a two part episode in which the dogs finally reunited with Tommy's family. The rest of the season featured the adventures the dogs have with the family while travelling all around the United States. The season opener introduced Glyder, a puppy with ears so large he could fly with them like DumboDumbo
Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.The fourth film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, Dumbo is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Pearl for the prototype of a...
. Glyder reappeared in two other episodes.
Episode guide (season 2)
- The puppy meet Glyder
- The puppy goes home
- The puppy and the bad outlands
- Puppy goes to Omega world
- The puppy goes to collage
- The puppy and the spies
- The puppy meets the brown eyed girl