Misterjaw is a 34-episode made-for-television cartoon series, produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in 1976 for The Pink Panther and Friends television series on NBC. Misterjaw (voiced by Arte Johnson) was a blue-colored great white shark (who wore a purple vest with white collar, a black bow tie and tall black top hat) who liked to leap out of the water and shout "HEEGotcha!" or "Gotcha!" at unsuspecting folks (who would, as would be expected, run off in terror screaming "SHARK!!!!!"). He spoke with a German accent and was known to mispronounce words, such as "knucklehead" pronounced as "ka-nucklehead". He also had a sidekick, a green-scaled, brown bowler hatted Brooklyn-accented catfish simply named Catfish (voiced by Arnold Stang) who usually referred to Misterjaw as "boss" or "chief"; Misterjaw usually called Catfish either "pally", "fella" or "sonny" when in a good mood, or names like "dumbkoff", "knucklehead" or "macaroni brain" when irritated. Sometimes, Misterjaw would mistakenly address his sidekick as "Dogfish" only to correct himself a split second later by saying "I mean, Catfish." The two would get into all sorts of mischief ranging from trying to catch Harry Halibut (voiced by Bob Ogle, and usually mispronounced "HAB-ill-up" by Misterjaw) to outwitting Fearless Freddy the Shark Hunter (voiced by Paul Winchell) in Merry Sharkman, Merry Sharkman, amongst other adventures. All the shorts were directed by Robert McKimson with co-direction from Sid Marcus and produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng. The music and score for the series were composed by Doug Goodwin. A brief version of the John Williams Jaws theme was used with the variation of the two note theme. None of the shorts contained any credit information; only the series title, episode title and 1976 copyright, and end titles were shown. All episodes include a laugh track.
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- Flying Fool
- Shopping Spree
- To Catch a Halibut
- Beach Resort
- Monster of the Deep
- Showbiz Shark
- Aladdin's Lump
- Little Red Riding Halibut
- The Codfather
- Davey Jones' Locker
- Flying Saucer
- The Shape of Things
- Caught In The Act
- Merry Sharkman, Merry Sharkman
- Sea Chase
- Aloha, Hah, Hah!
- Never Shake Hands With a Piranha
- Stand-In Room Only
- The Fishy Time Machine
- Transistorized Shark
- The $6.95 Bionic Shark
- Moulin Rogues
- Holiday in Venice
- Shark and the Beanstalk
- The Aquanuts
- Cannery Caper
- Fish Anonymous
- Maguiness Book of Records
- Cool Shark
- Deep Sea Rodeo
- Mama
- Easy Come Easy Go
- No Man's Halibut
- Sweat Hog Shark