![]() Although the jaunty theme song makes it easy to gloss over its gruesomeness, it’s revealed in the lyrics that Mudsy and Boo met their end during the Revolutionary War-not in combat, but by attempting to hide from the Redcoats by climbing inside a clock, only to find themselves trapped inside its walls, where they ultimately died. Having pointedly kept the antagonists in Josie And The Pussycats away from the realm of the supernatural, Hanna-Barbera went in the opposite direction for their next Scooby clone, this time taking a trio of teenagers-April, Augie, and Skip, the latter voiced by once and future Monkee Micky Dolenz-and their dog, Elmo, plopping them into the Looney Dooney (as opposed to the Mystery Machine), and teaming them up with a couple of actual ghosts: Jonathan Wellington Muddlemore, known to his close friends as Mudsy, and his cat, Boo. ![]() The series also added Alan M., who played a dual role as the Pussycats’ roadie and Josie’s crush, and adapted three other characters from the comic: Alexander Cabot III (voiced by Casey Kasem, which only served to further the Scooby comparisons), serving as the Pussycats’ manager his sister Alexandra, who played the part of the band’s recurring nemesis and, just to make sure there was an animal in the mix, Alexandra’s cat, Sebastian. Josie was handed a guitar and teamed with her ditzy blonde friend Melody, who could suddenly play drums, along with Valerie, a new character who, in addition to her unparalleled skills on tambourine, was the first female African-American to be a regular character on a Saturday morning cartoon. ![]() The first such attempt came in the form of an adaption of the Archie Comics series Josie, which-as a result of the success of The Archies both as an animated series and as a band (“Sugar, Sugar” topped the Billboard charts in September 1969)-was re-conceptualized to feature its heroine as a singer in an all-girl rock ’n’ roll band.
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