The Oddball Couple facts for kids

Quick facts for kids The Oddball Couple
Title card for DePatie-Freleng’s The Oddball Couple, featuring Fleabag (left) and Spiffy (right).
Genre	Children's television series Animation Comedy Cartoon series
Directed by	Gerry Chiniquy Robert McKimson
Voices of	Frank Nelson (Spiffy) Paul Winchell (Fleabag) Joan Gerber (Goldie) Joe Besser Robert Holt Sarah Kennedy Don Messick Ginny Tyler Frank Welker
Theme music composer	Doug Goodwin, arranged by Joe Siracusa
Composer(s)	Doug Goodwin
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16 (32 segments)
Production
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie Friz Freleng
Editor(s)	Bob Gillis (editing supervisor) Allan Potter Joe Siracusa Rick Steward
Running time	20 minutes (2 10-minute segments)
Production company(s)	DePatie-Freleng Enterprises Paramount Network Television
Distributor	CBS Television Distribution
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	September 6 (1975-09-06) – December 20, 1975 (1975-12-20)

The Oddball Couple is an animated half-hour Saturday morning show that ran on the ABC TV network from September 6 to December 20, 1975. The show was a production of DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in association with Paramount Television, and was distributed by CBS Television Distribution. It is an adaptation of the TV series The Odd Couple, which had ended its run that year, after five seasons on ABC.

Overview of series

The Oddball Couple features the misadventures of a dog named Fleabag and cat named Spiffy, who live together under the same roof. Spiffy is an orderly and polite cat who is a stickler for cleanliness and organization, and Fleabag is rude, obnoxious, lazy, untidy and very disorganized. Their disparate personalities are reflected in their house – which is one-half mansion and one-half dilapidated shack – and even in their car, which is half-pristine and half-junker. They have a secretary named Goldie Hound (a play on the name Goldie Hawn) who works in the office they share. The show consists of two segments lasting 10 minutes each.

In the original Odd Couple series, Felix the neat freak was a photographer and slovenly Oscar was a sportswriter. In this series, Spiffy the neatnik is a writer and Fleabag the slob is a photographer.

Episodes

Voices

• Joe Besser –
• Joan Gerber – Goldie
• Bob Holt –
• Sarah Kennedy –
• Don Messick –
• Frank Nelson – Spiffy
• Ginny Tyler –
• Frank Welker –
• Paul Winchell – Fleabag