Beagles, The
- Parody of the British rock and roll group "The Beatles" done up in
canine characters on the half-hour Saturday morning cartoon THE
BEAGLES/CBS/1966-67.
The Beagles band members included the doggie duo of
String and Tubby (he's always getting into trouble) who appeared in
five-minute serialized adventures.
To make sure the dog duo really
understood the back story of each song they wrote, their manager, Scotty,
a Terrier, arranged to place them into environments that supported the
tune's lyrics.
For example, when they wrote a song about ghosts, they
visited a haunted house; and if they were scribbling the song lyrics about
the desert, they traveled to a French Foreign Legion fortress for
inspiration
Some of their song titles included "Indian Love Dance," "I'd
Join the Foreign Legion" and "Thanks to the Man in the Moon."
Produced by
Total Television Productions (TTV), the program later aired on the ABC
network for the 1967-68 season.
THEME SONG
("Lookin' for the Beagles")
Lookin' for the Beagles,
Lookin' high and low;
High is for the eagles,
Low is where the Beagles go.
Right now to bust a bubble,
To wherever there's some trouble;
That's where the Beagles go.
Trouble's not a sometime thing,
It dims but won't die out;
Pleasure makes the Beagles sing,
Trouble makes them shout.
Lookin' for the Beagles,
Not where rich men go;
Rich is for the regals;
Woe is all the Beagles know.
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