Bailey's Comets facts for kids

Bailey's Comets is a 1973-1975 animated cartoon series that aired on CBS. The second season consisted entirely of reruns. The series was produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and was created by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng in association with Joe Ruby and Ken Spears.

Plot

Different roller skating teams compete in a worldwide race to different locations searching for clues that will lead them to a million-dollar prize at the end of the race. Besides the teams interfering with each other, there were also outside forces and subplots that would step in to hinder the teams' progress.

Characters

Bailey's Comets

The team most favored to win the million-dollar prize were a group of teenagers called Bailey's Comets. This team consisted of:

• Barnaby Bailey (voiced by Carl Esser) - The handsome, youthful leader of the team. He is the one who called the most shots and having (reluctantly) to take the most risks.
• Candy (voiced by Karen Smith) - A pretty blonde-haired girl. She is presumably Barnaby's girlfriend, as she is the one who entices him to take the risks when necessary.
• Sarge (voiced by Kathy Gori in a Brooklyn accent) - A red-haired girl who was the team motivator.
• Wheelie (voiced by Jim Begg) - The team mechanic who comes up with strange roller skate-based inventions.
• Bunny (voiced by Sarah Kennedy) - A sweet-natured, yet very ditzy girl.
• Pudge (voiced by Frank Welker) - Good-natured but prone to trouble; he was on the hefty side, yet had almost no difficulty keeping up with the rest of the team. Was especially fond of bananas, which would prompt Wheelie to refer to him as "Banana Brain" whenever he made a mistake.

Other teams

Bailey's Comets were constantly being hindered by the other skating teams who also interfere with one another. The other skating teams consist of:

• The Texas Black Hats - A group of outlaw cowboys that rode on roller skate-wearing horses.
• The Jekyll-Hydes - A group of top hat-wearing English doctors that would turn into hideous green-skinned creatures at the most inopportune times that are led by Henry (voiced by Don Messick).
• The Ramblin' Rivets - A team consisting of a professor (voiced by Daws Butler) and his robots named Scrappy, Boltsbucket, and Fenderbender. The robots each contained all sorts of mechanical contraptions to help their team in advancing in the races.
• The Duster Busters - A motorcycle gang. They skated in half-sitting positions as if they were mounted on motorcycles.
• The Roller Coasters - A circus-based team consisting of a ringmaster (voiced by Don Messick), Hercules the Strongman, Big Bertha the Fat Lady, a lion on roller-skates, a clown that rides on a lion, and an Indian Rubber Man.
• The Stone Rollers - A team consisting of three roller-skating cavemen and their roller-skating dinosaur (vocal effects provided by Don Messick).
• The Cosmic Rays - A team consisting of four aliens inside a skating flying saucer.
• The Gargantuan Giants - Literally, a giant football team that is so huge you would only see their skates onscreen. They were led by a normal-sized coach (voiced by Don Messick) who rode on the skates of one of the other members of his team.
• The Rockin' Rollers - A rock band.
• The Broomer Girls - A team of witches on roller skate-equipped brooms that are led by Auntie Hag. They also had a snickering roller-skating cat on their team.
• The Roller Bears - A team of five roller-skating bears which consist of four bears and one bear cub.
• The Mystery Mob - A team of skaters that are constantly immersed in a huge cloud of dust with flailing arms and legs. No one knows what they look like.
• The Yo Ho-Ho's - A team of pirates led by a William Bligh-type pirate captain (voiced by Daws Butler). They use a roller skate-equipped raft. One pirate rows, another pirate serves as the mast where they hold a sail, and the other one rides in a roller skate-equipped barrel that is attached to the raft.
• The Hairy Mountain Red Eyes - A team of hillbillies. One hillbilly rides in a roller skate-equipped wash bucket while a buck-toothed hillbilly carries a pig.

Commentators

There were also two commentators named Gabby (voiced by Frank Welker impersonating Howard Cosell) and Dooter Roo (voiced by Daws Butler) keeping constant track of the proceedings from a helicopter. Very rarely, however, did they ever get involved in the actual goings-on of the race.

Episodes

Voices

• Jim Begg - Wheelie
• Daws Butler - Dooter Roo, Pirate Captain, Professor
• Carl Esser - Barnaby Bailey
• Kathy Gori - Sarge
• Bob Holt - Dude
• Sarah Kennedy - Bunny
• Don Messick - Henry, Gargantuan Giants' Coach, Ringmaster, Stone Rollers' Dinosaur
• Karen Smith - Candy
• Frank Welker - Pudge, Gabby