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71-547: He was best known, aside from being the announcer on Laugh-In , for providing the voices of the titular superhero on Space Ghost and of Blue Falcon in Dynomutt, Dog Wonder . He also played himself in a cameo appearance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1998. Owens' first cartoon-voice acting was performing the voice of Roger Ramjet on the Roger Ramjet cartoons. He later served as announcer of Antenna TV . Owens

142-708: A Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in 1980, between those of Walt Disney and Betty White . On August 30, 1983, Owens emceed the unveiling ceremony for the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star for The Three Stooges . Owens, a long-time friend of the Stooges, had been a major driving force in helping the Stooges get the Star. The ceremony was featured on Entertainment Tonight . In the 1980s, he announced on jazz radio station KKJZ (then KKGO-FM) in Long Beach, California . On

213-760: A disc jockey job at KOIL , Omaha, Nebraska . He also worked in Dallas , New Orleans , St. Louis , and at KIMN in Denver before relocating to California in 1959, working at KROY in Sacramento and KEWB in Oakland before finally settling in Los Angeles . Owens moved to KEWB's sister station 980 KFWB in Los Angeles in 1961. From there, he joined the staff of 710 KMPC in 1962, where he remained for

284-513: A 260-episode package of syndicated radio comedy shows. Owens appeared in the Sesame Street pilots in a sketch called "The Man from Alphabet" as the title character, a bumbling spy in a trench coat who, with the help of a young paperboy called H.B., tried to catch the villainous Digby Dropout and his henchman Dunce using clues from H.B.'s "Alphabet Book". Initially, the Man was also to have had

355-635: A book titled How to Make a Million Dollars With Your Voice (Or Lose Your Tonsils Trying) . In his last years, Owens was the promotional announcing voice for Antenna TV , an over-the-air digital network dedicated to classic shows of the past, like Three's Company , The Monkees , Adam-12 and Gidget . Owens married Arleta Markell on June 26, 1956; they remained married for nearly sixty years until his death in February 2015. Together they had two sons, Scott and Chris. Owens died on February 12, 2015, at age 80, from complications due to Type 1 diabetes ,

426-422: A chief, "Teacher". The segments were created by Sesame Street executive producer David Connell and referenced such tongue-in-cheek spy series as Get Smart and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. . Despite the advance publicity, and Connell's investment in the series, "The Man from Alphabet" proved to be a failure with test audiences. The Man from Alphabet's constant bungling and problem-solving attempts confused kids and

497-486: A condition with which he was first diagnosed at the age of eight. Owens provided the voices for: He also narrated or announced dozens of other cartoons, as well as the fourth and sixth installments of the Space Quest PC game series. When appearing "in character" on camera as "Gary Owens, the announcer", Owens held his right hand up to his right ear while speaking into a gimbaled boom microphone . This

568-484: A fire cult. She also appeared on camera in an episode of Green Acres as a Mexican telephone operator. In 1991, she provided her voice as the sock-puppet talk-show host Scary Mary on an episode of Married... with Children . She had a cameo role in Boris & Natasha (1992), but once again played Rocky and Natasha throughout the feature film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000). Another on-camera appearance

639-555: A goatee-beard, Hawaiian shirts, baggy Bermuda shorts, and his "1941 wide necktie with a hula girl on it". Often during these comedy sketches on the air, he would have the assistance of other radio comics, most notably Bob Arbogast (known as "Arbo" to his fans), Stan Ross (of "Drowning in the Surf" fame in 1963), and Jim "Weather Eyes" Hawthorne. Owens appeared on eight episodes of the 1966-67 television series The Green Hornet . Owens also did his famous "Good Evening Kiss" on KMPC when he

710-536: A light plastic yellow cape. A transparent variant "invisible" figure and a variant with electric "light up" powerband were also released. A repaint of this figure was used to create a Space Spectre figure. In 2012, a new Space Ghost figure was released in the Jazwares Hanna-Barbera series and came with a pack-in of Blip. In 2016, Funko released 4 Pop! Vinyl Figures: Space Ghost, Brak, Space Ghost Invisible and Zorak. The last two were exclusive to

781-912: A little boy in The Comic . In 1996 and 1997, Foray won the Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Female Performer in an Animated Television Production for her work in Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries . In 2000, Foray returned to play Rocky the Flying Squirrel in Universal Pictures ' live-action/CGI animated film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle , co-starring and produced by Robert De Niro . On Season Three, Episode One (" The Thin White Line ") of Family Guy , Foray again played Rocky in

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852-1030: A number of children's albums for Capitol Records . For Walt Disney , Foray voiced Lucifer the Cat in the feature film Cinderella , Lambert's mother in Lambert the Sheepish Lion , a mermaid in Peter Pan and Witch Hazel in the Donald Duck short Trick or Treat . Decades later, Foray was the voice of Grandmother Fa in the 1998 animated Disney film Mulan . She also did a variety of voices in Walter Lantz Productions ' Woody Woodpecker cartoons, including Woody's nephew and niece, Knothead and Splinter. Impressed by her performance as Witch Hazel, in 1954 Chuck Jones invited her over to Warner Brothers Cartoons . For Warner Brothers , she

923-489: A postcard from him at the radio station which simply said "Yours" on it; autographed pictures of the Harbor Freeway in Los Angeles; and his famous "Moo Cow Report", in which Gary and his character Earl C. Festoon would describe where cows were moving inbound on the crowded freeways of Los Angeles. During this time Owens was also known as "Superbeard", because like his contemporary radio icon Wolfman Jack , he sported

994-704: A premium pay channel on cable to a standard channel. Owens guest starred on one episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! From 1987 to 1992, Owens was the voice of Lt. Dirk Niblick of the Math Brigade, the protagonist of an animated series which was part of PBS's Square One TV . Owens was the voice narrator on the ABC Saturday morning animated series Mighty Orbots in 1984. In 1989 Owens appeared in Night Court , season 7 episode 7, entitled "Auntie Maim". Owens played DJ Bobby Bumgartner. In

1065-462: A shorter version. In 2001, TV Land released two computer games titled Blast from the Past , hosted by Owens and featuring other TV celebrities including Florence Henderson , Ed Asner , Davy Jones , Bob Denver , Don Adams , Barbara Eden , Todd Bridges , Alan Young , and Marion Ross , among others. The games spoofed a game show and the prize for winners was an interview with the chosen celebrity

1136-907: A visual gag with a single line ("And now, here's something we hope you'll really like!"). Foray voiced the wife of the man getting dunked ("Don't tell him, Carlos!") in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. In 2003, she guest starred as the villain Madame Argentina in the Powerpuff Girls episode, "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future". During this time, Foray also had a regular role, reprising Granny on Baby Looney Tunes and also Witch Hazel in an episode of another Warner Bros. Animation series Duck Dodgers . In October 2006, she portrayed Susan B. Anthony on three episodes of

1207-538: Is an accepted version of this page June Foray (born June Lucille Forer ; September 18, 1917 – July 26, 2017) was an American voice actress and radio personality , best known as the voice of such animated characters as Rocky the Flying Squirrel , Natasha Fatale , Nell Fenwick , Lucifer from Disney's Cinderella , Cindy Lou Who , Jokey Smurf , Granny from the Warner Bros. cartoons directed by Friz Freleng , Grammi Gummi from Disney's Adventures of

1278-618: Is credited with coming up with the idea of the Annie Awards in 1972, awarded by ASIFA-Hollywood, having noted that there had been no awards to celebrate the field of animation. In 1988, she was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award . In 1995, ASIFA-Hollywood established the June Foray Award, which is awarded to "individuals who have made a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on

1349-525: Is voiced by George Lowe and his real name is Tad Ghostal. The show reused animation cels from the Hanna-Barbera archives. The show ran from 1994 to 1999, and returned with two new episodes in 2001, moving to the Adult Swim programming block later that year; the series ended its Adult Swim run in 2004. The characters of Jan, Jace, and Blip (Space Ghost's old sidekicks) appeared a few times on

1420-418: The " Music of Your Life " adult standards station. Owens in the morning and Dick Whittinghill in afternoon drive was an inversion of Owens' KMPC years. When Roger Barkley surprisingly walked out of the long-running Lohman and Barkley Show on KFI in Los Angeles, Owens briefly teamed with Al Lohman for the successful morning commute show. Jeff Gehringer was brought on as producer. The program ended after

1491-653: The 1940s, Foray also began film work, including a few roles in live action movies, but mostly did voice over work for animated cartoons and radio programs and occasionally dubbing films and television. On radio, Foray did the voices of Midnight the Cat and Old Grandie the Piano on The Buster Brown Program , which starred Smilin' Ed McConnell , from 1944 to 1952. She later did voices on the Mutual Broadcasting System program Smile Time for Steve Allen . Her work in radio ultimately led her to recording for

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1562-502: The 1990s, Space Ghost was brought back as a host for his own fictional late-night talk show , Space Ghost Coast to Coast , on Cartoon Network , Adult Swim and GameTap . In the 2000s, he was revamped as a serious superhero once again in a mini-series by DC Comics . The original series debuted in September 1966. Space Ghost was voiced by Gary Owens , who is best known as the announcer for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In . In

1633-510: The Gummi Bears series, and Magica De Spell , among many others. Her career encompassed radio, theatrical shorts, feature films, television, records (particularly with Stan Freberg ), video games, talking toys, and other media. Foray was also one of the early members of ASIFA-Hollywood , the society devoted to promoting and encouraging animation. She is credited with the establishment of the Annie Awards , as well as being instrumental in

1704-701: The Jungle ; and also starred on Fractured Flickers . In the mid-1960s, she became devoted to the preservation and promotion of animation and wrote numerous magazine articles about animation. She and a number of other animation artists had informal meetings around Hollywood in the 1960s, and later decided to formalize this as ASIFA-Hollywood , a chapter of the Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (the International Animated Film Association ). She

1775-544: The Lost Valley . During its original run, there were a total of 42 Space Ghost episodes and 18 Dino Boy episodes. The series ended in 1968, but remained in syndication during the 1970s. The final episodes had Metallus, Creature King, Zorak, Moltar, Brak, and Black Widow coming together as the Council of Doom to destroy Space Ghost. They were defeated by Space Ghost and were assumed to have escaped when their headquarters

1846-727: The New York-based Toy Tokyo store. The same year, a new release of Space Ghost was presented by the toy company Mezco Toyz. This figure is a high quality toy and was pending confirmation of an official release date. Now recently released in June 2017 with one being the regular release while the second being a variant glow-in-the-dark figure sold exclusively from Entertainment Earth but is still being sold through other online retailers. In 2017, Figures Toy Company released two 8 inch Mego-like sets: Space Ghost in one set and Jan, Jace, and Blip in another set. June Foray This

1917-1041: The academy to establish an Academy Award for animation; the academy created the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001 from her petitioning. In 2007, Britt Irvin became the first person to voice a character in a cartoon remake that had been previously played by Foray in the original series when she voiced Ursula in the new George of the Jungle series on Cartoon Network . In 2011, Roz Ryan voiced Witch Lezah (Hazel spelled backwards) in The Looney Tunes Show , opposite June Foray as Granny. Foray also voiced May Parker in Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981–83), as well as Raggedy Ann on several TV movies, Grandma Howard on Teen Wolf , Jokey Smurf and Mother Nature on The Smurfs , and Magica De Spell and Ma Beagle in DuckTales . At

1988-648: The art and industry of animation". Foray was the first recipient of the award. She was an enthusiastic member of the Los Angeles Student Film Institute advisory board and frequent host and/or presenter at its annual festivals. In 2007, Foray became a contributor to ASIFA-Hollywood's Animation Archive Project . She also had sat on the Governors' board for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and lobbied for two decades for

2059-454: The character June Bellamy (voiced by Tress MacNeille ) is introduced as the voice behind both Itchy and Scratchy . According to The Simpsons writer and producer Mike Reiss , Foray voiced a few parts at the first table read for The Simpsons in early 1989 "but she sounded too cartoony for our show". Foray appeared on camera in a major role only once, in Sabaka , as the high priestess of

2130-428: The contestant selected at the start of the game. (Players can choose Owens as a celebrity if they wish). Space Ghost Space Ghost is a superhero created by Hanna-Barbera Productions in the 1960s for TV network CBS . He was designed by Alex Toth . In his original incarnation, he was a superhero who, with his teen sidekicks, Jan and Jace, and Blip the monkey, fought supervillains in outer space. In

2201-553: The creation of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2001. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame honoring her voice work in television. Chuck Jones was quoted as saying: "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc . Mel Blanc was the male June Foray." June Lucille Forer was born on September 18, 1917, in Springfield, Massachusetts , one of three children of Ida (Robinson) and Morris Forer. Her mother

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2272-504: The early 1960s, like punster-TV star comic colleagues Ernie Kovacs , Steve Allen , and Jonathan Winters , Owens created a few comic characters of his own, such as the gruff old man Earl C. Festoon and his wife Phoebe Festoon, the stuffy old businessman Endocrine J. Sternwallow, and the goofy good ol' boy, Merle Clyde Gumpf. Another character was crotchety old cantankerous Mergenthaler Waisleywillow. Owens also did amusing radio promotions, such as sending in for "Yours", which turned out to be

2343-557: The episode "The Bedrock Hillbillies". She did extensive voice acting for Stan Freberg 's commercials, albums, and 1957 radio series , memorably as secretary to the werewolf advertising executive. She also appeared in several Rankin/Bass TV specials in the 1960s and 1970s, voicing the young Karen and the teacher in the TV special Frosty the Snowman (although only her Karen singing parts remained in later airings, after Rankin-Bass re-edited

2414-560: The films. Owens appeared as the racing correspondent in Disney's The Love Bug (1968). In 1972, he released the comedy LP Put Your Head On My Finger for the MGM-Pride label. In 1973, Owens wrote The (What to Do While You're Holding the) Phone Book ( ISBN   0-87477-015-7 ), a comedic look at the history of the telephone, and appeared in the first season of Barnaby Jones , in the episode titled "Twenty Million Alibis", playing

2485-505: The first season of the nighttime version of The Gong Show ; he was replaced by the show's creator, Chuck Barris . In that same year, Owens became the voice of a new cartoon character, the Blue Falcon, a character who fought crime in fictional Big City with the "help" of his clumsy sidekick, Dynomutt, also known as Dynomutt, Dog Wonder . The series was a parody of Batman , specifically the live-action version starring Adam West . It

2556-541: The late 1990s, Owens hosted the morning show on the Music of Your Life radio network, where he later had the evening shift and hosted a weekend afternoon show until 2006. He also announced pre-recorded station IDs for Parksville, British Columbia radio station CHPQ-FM (The Lounge), and for humorist Gary Burbank 's long-running afternoon show on WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio (Burbank took his stage name from Owens). Owens

2627-479: The lessons never came across. H.B.'s role as the true problem-solver was not clearly understood, a fact exacerbated by the child actor's stilted delivery and poor diction. As assessed by Edward L. Palmer, "The amount of truly effective educational content, relative to our goals, is virtual nil." After reviewing the test results, producer Connell advised that the segments be shelved, referring to them as "Connell's Folly". The segments never aired on Sesame Street . Owens

2698-522: The narrator for the 1992 voiced CD-ROM version of Sierra On-Line 's Space Quest IV . He again assumed the role in the series' final installment, 1995's Space Quest 6 . From 1994 to 1995, Owens narrated the opening and interstitial bumpers of Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad . In 1998, he appeared on Sabrina the Teenage Witch (episode: "Good Will Haunting"; Season 3, Episode 6) as "Guy Who Thinks He's Gary Owens". In 2004, Owens co-wrote

2769-513: The next two decades, replacing previous afternoon host Johnny Grant , working the 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. shift Monday through Friday. A gifted punster, Owens became known for his surrealistic humor. Among his trademarks were daily appearances by "The Story Lady" (played by Joan Gerber ); the Rumor of the Day; myriad varieties of "The Nurney Song"; and the introduction of the nonsense word "insegrevious", which

2840-616: The oldest entertainer to be nominated for, and to win, an Emmy Award . She reprised her role of Rocky in a Rocky & Bullwinkle short film, which was released in 2014. In September 2013, she was honored with the Governors Award at the 65th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards . That same year, she reprised her role as Magica De Spell in the video game DuckTales: Remastered . Foray married Bernard Barondess in 1941. The marriage ended in divorce. She met Hobart Donovan while appearing on The Buster Brown Program on radio. He

2911-729: The original series, Space Ghost often came to the aid of The Herculoids and vice versa. The Phantom Cruiser was given a more modern redesign as well. They also frequently crossed paths with the Teen Force and it appeared that Jan and Teen Force member Kid Comet were dating as well. The character Space Ghost hosted a talk show , Space Ghost Coast to Coast , which began broadcasting in 1994 on Cartoon Network. The show spoofed late-night talk shows, with villains Zorak and Moltar serving as Space Ghost's sidekicks with occasional guest appearances from other Space Ghost villains Metallus, Lokar, Tansut, Brak, and Black Widow. In this version, Space Ghost

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2982-707: The original series, Space Ghost was an intergalactic crime fighter from the Ghost Planet. He had the ability to become invisible (referred to as "Inviso Power") via his belt, fly, and survive in space. His principal weapons were his power bands which displayed beam-based attacks including heat, cold, magnetism, energy, and force among others. Space Ghost's sidekicks are Jan (voiced by Ginny Tyler ), Jace (voiced by Tim Matheson ), and their pet monkey Blip (vocal effects provided by Don Messick ). Space Ghost would fight such recurring supervillains as: The original series shared time with an unrelated segment called Dino Boy in

3053-402: The part of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones and voiced the character in the original pilot episode, opposite Mel Blanc who voiced Betty's husband, Barney Rubble , but Bea Benaderet was eventually cast in the role; Foray described herself as "terribly disappointed" at not getting to play Betty. Foray eventually made a guest appearance on The Flintstones as the voice of Granny Hatrock in

3124-552: The podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd . In November 2009, Foray appeared twice on The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack : in one episode as Ruth, a pie-maker trapped in Bubbie's stomach, and in another episode as Kelly, a young boy having a birthday party and as Kelly's Mom and Captain K'Nuckles' kindergarten teacher. In 2011, she reprised her role as Granny in Cartoon Network 's The Looney Tunes Show , which

3195-514: The receptionist for the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper Babysitting Service. This was a play on a Rocky & Bullwinkle gag years earlier in which none of the cartoon's characters, including narrator William Conrad , were able to pronounce "rubber baby buggy bumpers" unerringly. Foray was later homaged by The Simpsons , in the season eight episode " The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show ", in which

3266-572: The role of Gary Michaels. On the live album Uptown Rulers by the funk band The Meters , Owens can be heard on the first track introducing the band. The live recording took place on March 24, 1975, at Paul and Linda McCartney 's release party for the Venus and Mars album held aboard the RMS ; Queen Mary . Owens did the humorous news blurbs that are interspersed throughout the 1975 film The Prisoner of Second Avenue . In 1976–77, he hosted

3337-427: The same time, she had a leading role voicing Grammi Gummi on Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears , an animated series credited with kickstarting an era of dramatically increased artistic standards for television animation, working with her Rocky and Bullwinkle co-star Bill Scott until his death in 1985. Foray guest starred only once on The Simpsons , in the season one episode " Some Enchanted Evening ", as

3408-487: The show. After eight seasons on television, the show went into hiatus. New episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast appeared on the "Animation" channel of the GameTap service, beginning on May 30, 2006. On May 31, 2008, the show ended when the TV section of GameTap shut down. Following the popularity of Coast to Coast , the show provided a spin-off series, Cartoon Planet ; the show ran from 1995 to 1998. Cartoon Planet

3479-537: The special a few years after it debuted, with Foray's dialogue re-dubbed by an uncredited child actress, Suzanne Davidson). She voiced all the female roles in Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975), including the villainous cobra Nagaina. She played multiple characters on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show , including Natasha Fatale and Nell Fenwick , as well as male lead character Rocket J. Squirrel (a.k.a. Rocky Squirrel) for Jay Ward , and played Ursula on George of

3550-591: The station changed its format to all-talk. Owens had a bit part as an emcee for "Pimp of the Year", a dream scene in the 1988 comedy I'm Gonna Git You Sucka . Owens also co-starred in a number of documentaries about dinosaurs in the 1980s alongside Chicago's Eric Boardman. These documentaries were distributed by the Midwich Entertainment group for the Disney Channel before it went from being

3621-431: The three "main" Space Ghost series: Space Ghost has appeared in the following comic books: Space Ghost's Coast to Coast version was released as an action figure by Toycom, complete with a desk and chair, a series of cue cards and a mug. Also included were several different sets of hands, allowing the figure to be used either as the talk show host or the super hero or both. The shoulders and neck were ball-jointed, with

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3692-665: The voice of the eponymous television cartoon characters in Roger Ramjet and Space Ghost ; the excitable narrator/announcer from The Perils of Penelope Pitstop ; and perhaps most well-known, as the hand-on-the-ear announcer in the booth on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In , all the while continuing his show on KMPC. He also hosted its daily game show spin-off, Letters to Laugh-In , during its brief run in 1969. Capitalizing on Owens' Laugh-In fame, Mel Blanc Audiomedia , an audio production company based in Beverly Hills , developed and marketed The Gary Owens Special Report ,

3763-496: The weekend of September 12–13, 1981, Owens substituted for his old KEWB station partner Casey Kasem on American Top 40 . This was his only appearance on radio's first nationally syndicated countdown show. In that same year, Watermark Inc. chose Owens to replace Murray "The K" Kaufman as permanent host of Soundtrack Of The Sixties , an oldies retrospective show that ran in syndication through 1984. Immediately afterward, he hosted Creative Radio's Gary Owens' Supertracks , which

3834-478: Was Granny (whom she had played on vinyl records starting in 1950, before officially voicing her in Red Riding Hoodwinked , released in 1955, taking over for Bea Benaderet ), owner of Tweety and Sylvester , and a series of witches, including Looney Tunes ' own Witch Hazel , with Jones as director. Like most of Warner Brothers' voice actors at the time (with the exception of Mel Blanc ), Foray

3905-487: Was a scriptwriter for Jay Ward Productions , appeared in many series for Walt Disney , and did over 30,000 commercials. He was also a guest star on The Munsters , I Dream of Jeannie , and McHale's Navy . During the late 1960s, when the films of 1930s comedians such as the Marx Brothers , W. C. Fields , and Mae West were finding a new audience, Owens narrated phonograph records containing sound clips from

3976-454: Was also the announcer for America's Funniest Home Videos from 1995 to 1997, the last three years of Bob Saget 's hosting tenure, replacing Ernie Anderson . The cartoon SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron featured Owens as the voice of Commander Ulysses Feral, a police chief constantly butting heads with the two main protagonists. Owens guest starred on The Ren & Stimpy Show as the voice of Powdered Toast Man. He lent his voice as

4047-430: Was an hour-long cartoon block hosted by Space Ghost with his imprisoned sidekicks Zorak and Brak. The segments in-between the cartoons usually consisted of skits and original songs. Due to the popularity of the series' songs, two albums were released: Space Ghost's Surf & Turf and Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que . Lowe provided the voice for Space Ghost on both records. Three voice actors played Space Ghost in

4118-456: Was an oldies retrospective show similar to Soundtrack Of The Sixties , except it presented the fifties, sixties, and seventies. He was the narrator of Walt Disney World 's EPCOT Center pavilion, World of Motion , which operated between 1982 and 1996. His television special was "The Roots of Goofy", which aired from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Owens moved from KMPC to another Los Angeles station, 1150 KPRZ , in 1982, hosting mornings at

4189-627: Was as herself on an episode of the 1984 TV sitcom The Duck Factory . She was also often called in for ADR voice work for television and feature films. This work included dubbing the voice of Mary Badham in Twilight Zone episode "The Bewitchin' Pool" and the voices for Sean and Michael Brody in some scenes of the film Jaws . She dubbed several people in Bells Are Ringing , Diana Rigg in some scenes of The Hospital , Robert Blake in drag in an episode of Baretta and

4260-513: Was born in Mitchell, South Dakota , the son of Venetta Clark Altman, an educator and county auditor, and Bernard Joseph Altman, a county treasurer and sheriff. Owens started his radio career in 1952 as a news reporter at KORN in Mitchell, South Dakota, and two years later was promoted to news director. In 1956, he left KORN for a newscaster job at KMA , Shenandoah, Iowa , before moving on to

4331-486: Was briefly included in the Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary. His regular on-air radio terms included "krenellemuffin", as in "We'll be back in just a krenellemuffin." Gary always credited his radio engineer at the end of his broadcast: "I'd like to thank my engineer, Wayne Doo, for creebling at the turntables" (referring to KMPC engineer Wayne DuBois). He also created the previously non-existent colors "veister" and "krelb". In

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4402-544: Was destroyed. Twenty-two new Space Ghost segments appeared on Space Stars on NBC in 1981. Gary Owens reprised his role as Space Ghost, while Steve J. Spears voiced Jace, Alexandra Stoddart voiced Jan, and Frank Welker provided the vocal effects of Blip. The episodes introduced a new assortment of villains including an evil version of Space Ghost named Space Spectre (voiced by John Stephenson ) who came from an alternate universe. The villains Toymaker and Wizard (voiced by Frank Welker) made more than one appearance. As in

4473-609: Was doing regular radio voice work. Two years later, after graduating from Classical High School , she moved with her parents and siblings to live in Los Angeles , near Ida's brother, after Morris Forer, an engineer, fell on hard financial times. After entering radio through the WBZA Players, Foray starred in her own radio series Lady Make Believe in the late 1930s. She soon became a popular voice actress, with regular appearances on coast-to-coast network shows including Lux Radio Theatre and The Jimmy Durante Show . In

4544-490: Was done in imitation of the announcers in the early days of radio, who had to rely upon the acoustic feedback of their cupped hand to hear how they sounded to the audience. Owens used this as a running gag and gave various outlandish reasons for this pose: On his KMPC radio show in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he claimed that this was because a piece of shrapnel took off his ear during the war; sometimes it would come loose and he had to hold it on; at other times he said that he

4615-507: Was given a wooden ear, and was keeping the termites warm. This gag was later parodied by Les Lye on the Canadian children's sketch-comedy show You Can't Do That on Television . Owens coined the phrase "Beautiful downtown Burbank ", which was later used on Laugh-In and The Tonight Show . His trademark self-introduction was "This is Gary Owens, friend of those who want no friends, going places and losing things", or occasionally, "Hello, and also hi; but not necessarily in that order", as

4686-479: Was her last regular gig. That year, she received the Comic-Con Icon Award at the 2011 Scream Awards . She also appeared as Granny in the theatrically released Looney Tunes short, I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat , which was shortlisted for Academy Award consideration. In 2012, Foray received her first Emmy nomination and won in the category of Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program for her role as Mrs. Cauldron on The Garfield Show . She thus became, at age 94,

4757-598: Was not credited for her roles in these cartoons. She played Bubbles on The Super 6 and Cindy Lou Who , asking "Santa" why he's taking their tree, in How the Grinch Stole Christmas . In 1960, she provided the speech for Mattel 's original " Chatty Cathy " doll; capitalizing on this, Foray also voiced the malevolent "Talky Tina" doll in the Twilight Zone episode " Living Doll ", first aired on November 1, 1963. Foray worked for Hanna-Barbera , including on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! , The Jetsons , The Flintstones and many other shows. In 1959, she auditioned for

4828-586: Was not uncommon to see the Blue Falcon use various "falcon gadgets", much like Batman used various "Bat-Equipment" items. The falcon belt was used in a similar fashion to Batman's utility belt with an endless supply of weapons and other devices. Owens would provide the voice of the Blue Falcon from 1976 through 1977 in 20 half-hour episodes. The 1977 episodes were broken into two parts that ran 11 minutes each — 16 episodes in 1976 and four in 1977. Also, he narrated Yogi's Space Race in 1978 and announced for Disney's Wonderful World, starting in 1979. Owens received

4899-430: Was of Lithuanian Jewish and French Canadian ancestry, and her father was a Jewish emigrant from Odessa , Russian Empire . The family resided at 75 Orange Street, Forest Park . As a small child, Foray first wanted to be a dancer, so her mother sent her to local classes, but she had to drop out due to a case of pneumonia . Her voice was first broadcast in a local radio drama when she was 12 years old; by age 15, she

4970-480: Was on from 9 p.m. to midnight, by saying, "Now I'll just snuggle up to a nice warm microphone, and embracemoi ", making a big wet kiss sound effect followed by the sound effect of a gong striking. In 1966, Owens collaborated with Bob Arbogast, June Foray , Daws Butler , Paul Frees , and others on a comedy spoof record album titled Sunday Morning With the Funnies with the Jimmy Haskell Orchestra on Reprise Records. During this period, Owens became more widely known as

5041-470: Was the show's main writer and had also written The Buster Brown comic book. Foray and Donovan were married from 1955 until Donovan's death in 1976. She had no children by either marriage. In 1973, Foray was an organizer of a meat boycott in response to President Nixon's freezing of meat (and other) prices . As a result of this, Foray was included in the Master list of Nixon's political opponents , commonly known as Nixon's Enemies List . Foray died at

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