Muzzy Comes Back
{{Infobox television|music=Peter Shade
| Muzzy Comes Back | |
|---|---|
| File:Muzzy.png Muzzy | |
| Written by | Wendy Harris Richard Taylor Joe Hambrook |
| Directed by | Richard Taylor |
| Theme music composer | Peter Shade |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Release | |
| Original release | November 28, 1978 – present |
| External links | |
| [{{#property:P856}} Website] | |
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Muzzy Comes Back (also known as Muzzy 2) is a American sequel to the animated TV film Muzzy in Gondoland, created by the NBC in 1978, as a way of teaching English as a second language.
Plot[edit]
Muzzy, the friendly metal and machine-eating extraterrestrial, returns for more adventures with his friends in the kingdom of Gondoland. Everyone expects him, and King Nigel and Queen Elza decide to arrange a ball for the christening of Bob and Sylvia's new baby daughter, Amanda.[clarification needed] Meanwhile, Corvax, Nigel's former vizier and the villain of the previous film in 1973, who was demoted to a cook for failure to stop his computer from producing Sylvia clones, invents an invisibility device. With his assistant Thimbo "the Terrible", a thief on parole, he schemes to kidnap Amanda so he can get revenge on Bob for tricking him and taking Sylvia away from him.
Corvax and Thimbo succeed in kidnapping Amanda, and they get away on Nigel's yacht. However, Amanda sinks the boat by pulling the plug out of the hull. The three survive and enter Corvax's hideout: a small hut, which turns out to be Corvax's operations centre. Meanwhile, Muzzy, Nigel, Elza, Bob, and Sylvia follow Corvax's trail, recover Nigel's yacht, and track Corvax to his hideout.
In the hideout, Amanda gets hungry and wants to eat; while preparing the food, Thimbo lets the invisibility device loose; it is picked up by Amanda, who activates it. Corvax and Thimbo struggle to find Amanda. Muzzy, Nigel, Bob, Elza, and Sylvia enter the hideout and confront Corvax. Thimbo confesses to Nigel that the hut is an operations centre. Meanwhile, Amanda is found, but cannot be seen. Muzzy constructs another invisibility device and uses it to make Amanda visible. Everyone then goes back to the palace. In the end, Corvax and Thimbo ride with sheep to receive the unknown ultimate punishment offscreen (although it is accordingly known that, in Britain, this means 250 years in prison).
As in the first film, a bicycle-riding human named Norman is the star of a series of skits that periodically interrupt the main story to teach the viewers how to say certain things in different languages as they relate to the scenes they follow. These skits have more continuity than they do in the first film as Norman struggles to build a new home throughout them after his old home falls apart.
Cast[edit]
USA Version[edit]
- Jimmy Singleton as as Muzzy, a furry, greenish-blue extraterrestrial) who eats metallic and mechanical objects; and Norman's friend and fellow human
- Greg Vaughn as King Nigel, the lion ruler of Gondoland and Sylvia's father; and additional voices
- Amber Nash as Queen Elza, Nigel's rat wife and Sylvia's mother; Norman's unnamed human wife; and the bulldog Servant Maid
- Edith Newton as Princess Sylvia, Nigel and Elza's rat daughter and Amanda's mother; Amanda, Sylvia and Bob's daughter; and additional voices
- Tyrone Scott as as Bob, Sylvia's mouse husband and Amanda's father
- Thomas James Crowley Corvax, a green goblin mad scientist and Nigel's former vizier; and additional voices
- Greg Scott as Thimbo the Terrible, Corvax's bulldog assistant; Guest #1, a mouse; and the Shepherd, a pink goblin
- Michael Melamed as Norman, a human bicyclist
UK Version[edit]
- Jack May as Muzzy, a furry, greenish-blue extraterrestrial) who eats metallic and mechanical objects; and Norman's friend and fellow human
- Willie Rushton as King Nigel, the lion ruler of Gondoland and Sylvia's father; and additional voices
- Miriam Margolyes as Queen Elza, Nigel's rat wife and Sylvia's mother; Norman's unnamed human wife; and the bulldog Servant Maid
- Susan Sheridan as Princess Sylvia, Nigel and Elza's rat daughter and Amanda's mother; Amanda, Sylvia and Bob's daughter; and additional voices
- Derek Griffiths as Bob, Sylvia's mouse husband and Amanda's father; Corvax, a green goblin mad scientist and Nigel's former vizier; and additional voices
- Peter Jones as Thimbo the Terrible, Corvax's bulldog assistant; Guest #1, a mouse; and the Shepherd, a pink goblin
- Benjamin Whitrow as Norman, a human bicyclist
