Hong Kong Phooey
Hanna-Barbera spoof on the martial arts craze which swept the
Western world in the 70s (thanks to Bruce Lee's Enter the
Dragon movie and David Carradine's Kung Fu TV series).
This brilliant cartoon featured a mild-mannered police station
janitor named Penrod Pooch. When trouble was brewing, Penrod would
leap into a filing cabinet and emerge in a dressing gown as Hong
Kong Phooey, Mutt of Steel.
The inept Phooey was accompanied in the animated underworld by
pet cat Spot, a snickering, striped feline who usually solved the
case.
Also seen were grouchy Sergeant Flint (voiced by Joe E. Ross
from The Phil Silvers Show), and sex-bomb receptionist
Rosemary - "The cutie beauty who's always on duty".
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