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'''''Fangface''''' is an American [[Saturday- morning cartoon|Saturday morning]] animated television series produced by [[Ruby-Spears|Ruby-Spears Productions]] for [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]. It premiered on September 9, 1978 and ended on November 10, 1979, with a total of 24 episodes over the course of 2 seasons. The executive producers were [[Joe Ruby]] and [[Ken Spears]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |page=193}}</ref>
 
==Overview==
Highly derivative of ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' with a bitelements offrom the [[Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes)|Tasmanian Devil]] and ''[[I Was a Teenage Werewolf]]'' thrownas inwell, ''Fangface'' features four teenagers — buff and handsome leader Biff, his brainy and beautiful dusky-skinned girlfriend Kim, short, stocky and pugnacious Puggsy and tall, skinny simpleton Sherman "Fangs" Fangsworth. Puggsy and Fangs are based on [[Leo Gorcey]] and [[Huntz Hall]] of the ''[[The Bowery Boys|Bowery Boys]]'' films.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |page=317}}</ref>
 
==Opening narration==
The opening title narration is, provided by [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=1532 |title=John Stephenson – Voice Actor Profile at Voice Chasers |access-date=2020-12-12 |archive-date=2020-10-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010093629/https://www.voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=1532 |url-status=dead }}</ref> for each episode consists of the following:
 
: ''Every 400 years, a baby werewolf is born into the Fangsworth family, and so when the moon shined on little Sherman Fangsworth, he changed into Fangface, a werewolf! Only the sun can change him back to normal, and so little Fangs grew up and teamed up with three daring teenagers—Kim, Biff and Puggsy—and together they find danger, excitement and adventure. Who can save the day, who can wrong the rights and right the wrongs .... none other than Fangface!''
 
==''Fangface and Fangpuss''==
In 1979, the second season, titled ''Fangface and Fangpuss'', aired as a segment on ''[[The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show]]'' and introduced a new character: Baby Fangs, Fangs' infant cousin who turns into a baby werewolf called Fangpuss. (whichThis contradictsupdated the openingshow's narration statingcanon that only one werewolf is born into the family every 400 years, but,by ofadding course,that thata werewolf could be born through another family which may be married to the Fangsworth family).

The show remained in the same mystery-adventure style as the first season, but episodes were now shortened to two 15-minute segments in one 30-minute episode. Eight episodes of ''Fangface and Fangpuss'' were produced for the 1979 season.<ref name="Woolery">{{cite book |last1=Woolery |first1=George W. |title=Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981 |date=1983 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0-8108-1557-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/childrenstelevis0000wool/page/94/mode/2up |access-date=14 March 2020 |pages=95–96}}</ref>
 
The episodes ''The Creepy Goon from the Spooky Lagoon'' and ''Dr. Lupiter and the Thing from Jupiter'' are the only season two episodes in which Baby Fangs/Fangpuss did not make an appearance.
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Just as Fangs is unaware that he is Fangface, Fangs is also unaware that his cousin, Baby Fangs, is Fangpuss. When Fangs sees Fangpuss, in the episode ''There Is Nothing Worse Than A Stony Curse'', he becomes scared and runs off.
 
During Season 2, the characters Fangface and Fangpuss would never see the sun, or a representation, as shown in the episode ''There Is Nothing Worse Than A Stony Curse'', and transform back to normal before the gangsepisode's case wouldmystery beis oversolved.
 
''Fangface and Fangpuss'' originally aired from September 22, 1979, to November 10, 1979; it then became a separate series in 1981 and, like the original ''Fangface'', ran for just one season.
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===''Fangface''Season 1 (1978)===
{{Episode table |background=#A42903 |overall=6 |season=6 |title=30 |airdate=20 |episodes=
 
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===Season 2: ''Fangface and Fangpuss'' (1979–801979)===
{{Episode table |background=#e9c672 |overall=6 |season=6 |title=30 |airdate=20 |episodes=
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