The Ruff and Reddy Show

5.7
1957

The Ruff and Reddy Show is a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a straight and smart cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dumb and stupid dog voiced by Daws Butler. First broadcast in December 1957 on NBC, it was the first television show produced by Hanna-Barbera and presented by Screen Gems, the television arm of Columbia Pictures.

Production

Logo for Screen Gems
Logo for Hanna-Barbera Cartoons

Trailers & Videos

Thumbnail for video: Ruff and Reddy Intro

Ruff and Reddy Intro

Seasons

52 Episodes • Premiered 1957

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 1: Planet Pirates

1. Planet Pirates

In this, the very first episode of Hanna-Barbera's first TV show, our heroes read reports of spacecrafts from other worlds. One such ship bears a bead on Ruff and Reddy as they nap and take them aboard the craft.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 2: Night Flight Fright

2. Night Flight Fright

Ruff and Reddy awaken from their nap to find they have been taken hostage by the ship from space.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 3: "Whama Bamma Gamma" Gun

3. "Whama Bamma Gamma" Gun

Ruff and Reddy's robotic captors pursue them with a gun that Reddy gets hold of.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 4: The Mastermind of Muni Mula

4. The Mastermind of Muni Mula

On the metal planet Muni-Mula ("aluminum" spelled backwards), Ruff and Reddy face a two-headed metallic chieftain called "The Big Thinker," who takes our heroes to be assimilated as metal clones.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 5: The Mad Monster of Muni Mula

5. The Mad Monster of Muni Mula

The duplicating process of Ruff and Reddy begins. Reddy tries to intervene but becomes a robot himself after he gets zapped by the robot brain implanter.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 6: Hocus Pocus Focus

6. Hocus Pocus Focus

Ruff tries to help Reddy but is followed by a roving mechanical spy.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 7: Muni Mula Mix-Up

7. Muni Mula Mix-Up

Reddy gets accidentally mesmerized by the brain waves and under orders of the Big Thinker takes Ruff captive.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 8: Creepy Creature Feature

8. Creepy Creature Feature

Ruff and Reddy discover a scientist, Professor Gizmo, in the dome of the Big Thinker. Gizmo tells how he blasted off in his homemade rocket and was taken prisoner in Muni-Mula.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 9: The Creepy Creature

9. The Creepy Creature

After Reddy destroys the slumbering inner works of the Big Thinker, he, Ruff and Gizmo are hunted down by a huge robot centurion.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 10: Surprise in the Skies

10. Surprise in the Skies

Reddy, having given the Gizmo 2 ship a boost, is left behind on Muni-Mula. Ruff and Gizmo go back after him but are confronted by a flying attack squad of Muni-Mula robots.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 11: Crowds in the Clouds

11. Crowds in the Clouds

Gizmo confuses the Muni-Mula attack squadron by cloaking the Gizmo 2 craft in a dark cloud. Meanwhile, Reddy takes off in one of the metal squadron's head propellers and is mistaken by Gizmo to be one of the metal men.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 12: Reddy's Rocket Rescue

12. Reddy's Rocket Rescue

Gizmo rescues Reddy from his freefall, but now the Gizmo 2 rocket ship is on a collision course with a meteor.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 13: Rocket Ranger Danger

13. Rocket Ranger Danger

The meteor hits the Gizmo 2, sending it and our heroes on a crash course to Earth, where broadcast media reports its arrival as if it were a UFO invasion.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 14: Pinky the Pint Sized Pachyderm

14. Pinky the Pint Sized Pachyderm

A baby elephant escapes from a circus and requests Ruff and Reddy to take him home in Africa.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 15: Last Trip of a Ghost Ship

15. Last Trip of a Ghost Ship

Ruff, Reddy and Pinky board Voo Doo Queen and get locked on board.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 16: The Irate Pirate

16. The Irate Pirate

Captain Crossbones Jones forces Ruff, Reddy and Pinky to be his crew, but they start to escape.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 17: Dynamite Fright

17. Dynamite Fright

Ruff, Reddy and Pinky get stranded at sea trying to escape and then they start to sink.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 18: Marooned in Typhoon Lagoon

18. Marooned in Typhoon Lagoon

Ruff, Reddy and Pinky cruise to an island. Ruff gets captured whilst exploring.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 19: Scarey Harry Safari

19. Scarey Harry Safari

A hunter named Harry Scary uses Ruff as bait to lure a lion, but the lion and Ruff take off.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 20: Jungle Jitters

20. Jungle Jitters

Ruff rescues the lion and Harry Scary reveals himself as an elephant hunter.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 21: Bungle in the Jungle

21. Bungle in the Jungle

Before Harry Scary can shoot Reddy, the lion comes to his rescue and all three run for it.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 22: Miles of Crocodiles

22. Miles of Crocodiles

Ruff, Reddy and Pinky escape from Harry and try to get across a river. Their escape log turns out to be a crocodile.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 23: A Creep in the Deep

23. A Creep in the Deep

Reddy gets trapped with the crocodiles after saving Ruff and Pinky and Harry Scary comes round.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 24: Hot Shot's Plot

24. Hot Shot's Plot

Ruff and Reddy follow Harry Scary who took Pinky away. Harry Scary makes Pinky lure his mother into a trap.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 25: The Gloom of Doom

25. The Gloom of Doom

Harry Scary gets all Ruff, Reddy, the lion, Pinky and his mother exactly where he wants.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 26: The Trapped Trap the Trapper

26. The Trapped Trap the Trapper

The tables turn because of Harry Scary's empty rifle. Ruff and Reddy stowaway back home.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 27: Westward Ho Ho Ho

27. Westward Ho Ho Ho

Reddy wins a trailer, so he and Ruff take a vacation to the Grand Canyon. An accident, however, sends them to the ghost town of Gruesome Gulch.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 28: Slight Fright on a Moonlight Night

28. Slight Fright on a Moonlight Night

Ruff and Reddy are spooked by Gruesome Gulch's ghosts, which are actually fake ones manipulated by two rustlers.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 29: Asleep While the Creep Steals Sheep

29. Asleep While the Creep Steals Sheep

Ruff and Reddy meet Wooly, a sheepdog whose flock of sheep is being mysteriously stolen. Reddy is coerced into posing as a sheep to catch the thieves.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 30: Copped by a Copter

30. Copped by a Copter

The sheep thieves in a helicopter pluck Reddy from the flock and take him to Gruesome Gulch.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 31: The Two Terrible Twins from Texas

31. The Two Terrible Twins from Texas

The thieves, sibling outlaws Killer and Diller, aim to sheer the sheep of their wool, which threatens Reddy's cover.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 32: Killer and Diller in a Chiller of a Thriller

32. Killer and Diller in a Chiller of a Thriller

Reddy's cover is blown. Killer and Diller tie him up, place him in a mine's ore car and sends him towards an unfinished section of the trestle.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 33: A Friend to the End

33. A Friend to the End

Ruff and Wooly rescue Reddy, and together the three heroes head back to Gruesome Gulch to find Wooly's sheep.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 34: Heels on Wheels

34. Heels on Wheels

As Ruff, Reddy and Woolly pursue the Texan Twins, they get flat tires and take the helicopter for transport.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 35: The Whirly Bird Catches the Worms

35. The Whirly Bird Catches the Worms

Reddy lands on the truck's roof where he holds Killer at gunpoint. But Reddy ends up getting clobbered by a tunnel's low clearance.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 36: The Boss of Double-Cross

36. The Boss of Double-Cross

On Killer and Diller's secret ranch, the Double Cross, the sheep spell out the word "help" for our heroes. Unfortunately, their copter has run out of gas.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 37: Ship-Shape Sheep

37. Ship-Shape Sheep

Thanks to the sheep, our heroes find the copter's safety chute for landing safely. Once landed, Killer and Diller capture them and lock them up.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 38: Tootin' Shootin'

38. Tootin' Shootin'

In accordance with the rules of the west, Wooly demands that he and his friends fight for their lives. So he volunteers Reddy to a duel with Killer and Diller.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 39: Hot Lead for a Hot-Head

39. Hot Lead for a Hot-Head

Reddy nervously faces Killer and Diller in the duel, but he has an ace in the hole: Ruff in his cowboy hat with a second revolver.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 40: The Treasure of Doubloon

40. The Treasure of Doubloon

At an aquarium, a baby seal follows Ruff and Reddy home. A chase ensues when the aquarium announces a reward for the seal's return.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 41: Blunder Down Under

41. Blunder Down Under

The chase for the seal leads to a pier near the ocean, where someone underwater is in trouble.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 42: The Metal Monster Mystery

42. The Metal Monster Mystery

The metal monster Ruff and Reddy hoist to land is a diving bell, and in it is Professor Gizmo, who is mining for gold beneath the sea. Meanwhile, a periscope spies our heroes.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 43: The Late, Late Pieces of Eight

43. The Late, Late Pieces of Eight

The periscope belongs to a mysterious submarine that trails Gizmo's ship, the S.S. Leadbottom, which is on the way to a pirate's treasure.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 44: The Goon of Doubloon Lagoon

44. The Goon of Doubloon Lagoon

The submarine captures Gizmo's diving bell with a giant magnet and takes it to a mysterious grotto.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 45: Two Dubs in a Sub

45. Two Dubs in a Sub

Captain Greedy and Saltwater Daffy imprison Ruff, Reddy and Dr. Gizmo. Then the seal arrives to help them.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 46: Big Deal With A Small Seal

46. Big Deal With A Small Seal

The seal helps Ruff, Reddy and Gizmo escape and leads Greedy and Salt Water Daffy on a merry chase.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 47: A Real Keen Submarine

47. A Real Keen Submarine

The crew attempts to escape on Captain Greedy's sub, but are recaptured. Greedy forces Ruff and Gizmo to mine for treasure while Salt Water Daffy keeps Reddy and the seal at bay.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 48: No Hope for a Dope of a Periscope

48. No Hope for a Dope of a Periscope

The seal saves Reddy from drowning but Saltwater catches him.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 49: Rescue In The Deep Blue

49. Rescue In The Deep Blue

The seal and Reddy manage to get away from Saltwater but are tailed by a shark.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 50: A Whale of a Tail of a Tale of a Whale

50. A Whale of a Tail of a Tale of a Whale

Reddy and the seal escape but are being pursued by a shark. A friendly whale scares off the shark and takes Reddy and the seal to help Ruff and Gizmo.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 51: Welcome Guest in a Treasure Chest

51. Welcome Guest in a Treasure Chest

The seal boards Dr. Gizmo's sub with Ruff inside it and prepares a surprise for Greedy.

Still image for The Ruff and Reddy Show season 1 episode 52: Pot-Shot Puts Hot Shot on Hot Spot

52. Pot-Shot Puts Hot Shot on Hot Spot

Greedy gets all the gold, but when he makes Reddy give back the doubloon he was going to keep as a souvenir, Greedy's ship sinks from the weight.

Cast

Photo of Daws Butler

Daws Butler

Reddy (voice) / Captain Greedy (voice) / Killer (voice)

Photo of Don Messick

Don Messick

Ruff (voice)

More Like This

Reviews

No reviews available yet.