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Captain Caaaaaaaveman!

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels was another great Hanna-Barbera Cartoon, which began life as part of the Scooby All-Star Laff-a-Lympics! The cartoon was shown from 1977-1980 and probably the only thing you

can remember from it was the voice actor Mel Blanc’s amazing call of Captaaaain Caaaaaveman!!

He also had amazing strength, an ability to eat pretty much anything and a tardis-like coat of fur in which anything and everything seemed to be hidden. But how did Captain Caveman come to be wandering around 70’s America you ask? Well, Brenda Chance, Taffy Dare and Dee Dee Sykes ( aka The Teen Angels ) found him in a block of ice and thawed him out - after which he helped them solve Scooby Doo type adventures. Although to the girls he was known as ‘Cavey’. In the 1980’s Captain Caveman went beyond the Scooby Laff-A-Lympics and forty Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels cartoons were created. Cavey also appeared in other Hanna-Barbera cartoons of the eighties, including the enormously popular Flintstones. In the Flintstones he worked at the Granite Pit as 'Chester' the polite office boy that wore glassesand worked hard, however when needed he would do a superman style change into Captaaaain Caaaaveman!

Captain Caaaaaveman!

Captain Caveman

Captain Caveman, the neanderthal hero of the cartoon. He wears a fashionable leopard skin cape, carries a club and likes to shout Captain Caaaaaaaaveman alot!
Captain Caveman speaks in strange caveman talk (e.g. bad english grammar!) and is several thousand years old, but manages to cope with modern life quite well. The most bizarre things about Captain Caveman are that a) he can fly, b) he likes to eat inanimate objects e.g. tables, chairs etc., he also has huge (presumably pockets??) buried somewhere in his hairy coat as he is able to produce pretty much anything he needs from the depths of his armpits!
Captain Caveman - The Girls

The Teen Angels

The Teen Angels are mystery solving ladies that rescue Cavey (as they like to call him) from the ice. They often use their feminine charms to get Cavey to help them and he basically does all the heavy lifting and dirty work on their behalf to solve the mysteries they find themselves involved in.
In short - Brenda is the brunette one, that is basically always scared of everything!
Dee Dee is the brains of the operation, she is the African-American teen angel above and actually does all the hard-work of putting the clues together and solving stuff!
Finally the one you will probably remember the most is Taffy the blonde one above. Not just because of her random name, but also because she used to go around shouting 'Zowweee!' alot and generally getting over-excited, she would normally be the one to con poor old Cavey into doing some hard-labour for the group!

Captain Caveman: Resources

A funny Captain Caveman Dance compilation from You Tube!

Captain Caveman: Lyrics

Okay, so there aren't lyrics as such, but there is a narrator (Gary Owens) that states the following back-story at the beginning of each episode:
Set free by the Teen Angels from his prehistoric block of glacier ice comes the world's first superhero.
Captain Caveman!
Now the constant companion to the Teen Angels, Brenda, Dee Dee and Taffy, in their hilarious and sometimes scary mystery missions.
Get ready for Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels!