Bailey's Comets

Bailey's Comets is an 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.

Bailey's Comets
The protagonists and the team presented as most likely 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) is the handsome, youthful leader of the team. He is the one who generally calls the shots and has to (reluctantly) take the most risks.
 * Candy (voiced by Karen Smith) is a pretty blonde-haired girl. She is presumably Barnaby's girlfriend as she is the one who pushes him to take risks when necessary.
 * Sarge (voiced by Kathy Gori in a Brooklyn accent) is a red-haired girl who was the team motivator.
 * Wheelie (voiced by Jim Begg) is the team mechanic who comes up with strange roller skate-based inventions.
 * Bunny (voiced by Sarah Kennedy) is a sweet-natured, yet very ditzy girl.
 * Pudge (voiced by Frank Welker) is 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. Pudge was especially fond of bananas, prompting Wheelie to refer to him as "Banana Brain" whenever Pudge made a mistake.

Other teams
Bailey's Comets were constantly being hindered by the other skating teams who also interfere with one another. The following are the teams that compete against Bailey's Comets:


 * The Texas Black Hats are a group of outlaw cowboys that rode on roller skate-wearing horses. They are led by an unnamed outlaw (voiced by Daws Butler).
 * The Jekyll-Hydes are 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). Their "Jekyll" forms resembled Roland from the Roland and Ratfink theatrical shorts.
 * The Ramblin' Rivets are 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 advance in the race.
 * The Duster Busters are a motorcycle gang. They skated in half-sitting positions as if they were mounted on motorcycles.
 * The Roller Coasters are 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 the lion, and an Indian Rubber Man.
 * The Stone Rollers are a team consisting of three roller-skating cavemen (all voiced by Bob Holt) and their roller-skating dinosaur (vocal effects provided by Don Messick).
 * The Cosmic Rays are a team consisting of four aliens inside a skating flying saucer.
 * The Gargantuan Giants are literally, a giant football team, so huge that only their skates would be seen 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 are a rock band.
 * The Broomer Girls are 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 are a team of five roller-skating bears which consist of four bears and one bear cub. They were the most hapless of the teams as they are constantly blundering and always laughing like idiots no matter how badly things got.
 * The Mystery Mob are a team of skaters that are constantly immersed in a huge cloud of dust with flailing arms and legs. Despite being a skate team, no one knows what they look like.
 * The Yo Ho-Ho's are 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 named Grog (voiced by Frank Welker) rows, the second pirate serves as the mast by holding a sail, and the third pirate rides in a roller skate-equipped barrel attached to the raft.
 * The Hairy Mountain Red Eyes are a family of hillbillies. Pa (voiced by Don Messick) is the leader and rode in a roller skate-equipped wash bucket. Ma carried a hoe and there were two boys consisting of Cornball and an unnamed boy who carried 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.

Cast

 * Jim Begg as Wheelie
 * Daws Butler as Dooter Roo, Pirate Captain, Professor, Texas Black Hats Leader
 * Carl Esser as Barnaby Bailey
 * Kathy Gori as Sarge
 * Bob Holt as Dude, Stone Rollers
 * Sarah Kennedy as Bunny
 * Don Messick as Henry, Gargantuan Giants' Coach, Ringmaster, Stone Rollers' Dinosaur, Pa Redeye
 * Karen Smith as Candy
 * Frank Welker as Pudge, Gabby, Duster Busters Member, Grog

Production credits

 * Created for Television: David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng
 * In Association with Ken Spears, Joe Ruby
 * Writers: Dalton Sandifer, John W. Dunn, Larz Bourne
 * Animation Directors: Bob McKimson, Sid Marcus
 * Storyboard Directors: Arthur Leonardi, Cullen Houghtaling
 * Layout Supervision and Design: Cullen Houghtaling
 * Layouts: Martin Studler, Owen Fitzgerald, Bob Givens, Glenn Schmitz, Ric Gonzales, Dick Ung
 * Animation: Don Williams, Bill Carney, Ken Muse, Norm McCabe, Bob Richardson, Bill Ackerman, John Gibbs, Ken Walker, Bob Matz, John Freeman, Reuben Timmins, Bob Kirk, Bob Bemiller
 * Background Supervised by Richard H. Thomas, Mary O'Loughlin
 * Ink and Paint Supervisor: Gertrude Timmins
 * Xerography: Paul B. Strickland
 * Film Editing Supervised by Rick Steward
 * Film Editors: Joe Siracusa, Jim Blodgett, Allan R. Potter
 * Voice Talents of: Don Messick, Bob Holt, Sarah Kennedy, Daws Butler, Carl Esser, Kathy Gori, Karen Smith, Jim Begg, Frank Welker
 * Title Design by Arthur Leonardi
 * Music by Doug Goodwin
 * Music Score Conducted by Eric Rogers
 * Title Song Sung by "Every Thing Under the Sun"
 * In Charge of Production: Lee Gunther
 * Camera: Ray Lee, Larry Hogan, John Burton Jr.
 * Production Mixer: Steve Orr
 * Sound by Producers' Sound Service, Inc.
 * Associate Producers: Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
 * Produced by David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng