Captain Caveman

Real Name: Chester

Identity/Class: Superpowered Neanderthal - source of powers unknown

Occupation: (prehistoric times) Newspaper copyboy; (modern times) Crimefighter

Affiliations:  (prehistoric times) Betty Rubble, Wilma Flintstone (work colleagues), Lou Granite (boss); Cavey Jr (sidekick); (modern times) the Teen Angels - Dee Dee, Brenda and Taffy; Cave Bird.

Enemies: Vulcan

Known Relatives: Cavey, Jr

Aliases: Cavey (nickname given by the Teen Angels); "Cavey Wavey" (used by the Teen Angels when they needed to cajole him into doing something and were using their sex appeal to control him. Taffy in particular called him this).

Base of Operations: (originally) Bedrock; (later) mobile across USA in the Teenmobile

First Appearance: Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics (Hanna-Barbera, September 10th, 1977)

Other Appearances: Scooby's All Stars (1978)

Captain Caveman and The Teen Angels (ABC, March 8, 1980 - June 21st, 1980);

The Flintstones Comedy Hour (NBC, November 22nd 1980);

The Flintstones Kids (1986)

Powers/Abilities: Superhuman strength, able to fly - pulled through the air by his club. The end of his club could also open to produce virtually any gadget he needed. Cave Bird lived in the club, and appeared to maintain these devices. At least in modern times his powers have an unfortunate tendency to give out at the worst possible moments - this may be a side-effect of his lengthy frozen hibernation. Shouting his name out seemed to help him renew his abilities. Caveman's fur also seemed to serve as a storage space for an incredible number of things, including living dinosaurs far larger than he was -by reaching into his chest hair he could produce almost anything.

History: (Captain Caveman - part of the Flintstones Comedy Hour) Captain Caveman was one of pre-historic Earth's first superheroes. No one suspected that Chester, mild mannered copyboy at The Daily Granite, a major Bedrock newspaper, was actually the heroic Neanderthal, not even reporters Betty Rubble and Wilma Flintstone.

(Captain Caveman and Son - part of the Flintstones Kids) Captain Caveman eventually left his secret identity behind and continued to battle villainy, this time accompanied by his young, also-superpowered, son, Cavey Jr.

(bts) Somehow Captain Caveman was frozen inside a glacier. He would remain in suspended animation for thousands of years.

(Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels - originally part of Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics) In modern times Captain Caveman's frozen form was discovered by three amateur detectives known as the Teen Angels. They freed him from his icy prison, and he made a home atop their van The Teenmobile, travelling around the country with them and lending assistance when they worked on solving mysteries. Once again villains would learn to fear the cry "Captain Caaaaaaaaaaaveeeee-maaaaan!"

Comments: Captain Caveman was voiced by Mel Blanc. The character is copyright to Hanna-Barbera.

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels originated as a segment of Scooby's All-Star Laugh-a-Lympics (abbreviated a season later to Scooby's All Stars). When he was given his own slot, his first two seasons were actually repeats of this show, and it wasn't until his third season that the gang got brand new episodes. In total, including the episodes from the Laugh-a-Lympics, there were a total of forty episodes.

The titles of those episodes were:

Season 1. Part of Scooby's All-Star Laugh-a-Lympics Episodes #1-16

The Kooky Case of the Cryptic Keys;  The Mixed Up Mystery of Deadman's Reef; What a Flight for a Fight; The Creepy Case of the Creaky Charter Boat; Big Scare in the Big Top; Double Dribble Riddle; The Crazy Case of the Tell-Tale Tape; The Creepy Claw Caper; Cavey and the Kabuta Clue; Cavey and the Weirdo Wolfman; The Disappearing Elephant Mystery; The Fur Freight Fright; Ride 'Em Caveman; The Strange Case of the Creature from Space; The Mystery Mansion Mix-Up; Playing Footsie with Bigfoot

Season 2. Part of Scooby's All-Stars. Episodes #17-24

Disco Cavey; Muscle-Bound Cavey; Cavey's Crazy Car Caper; Cavey's Mexicali 500; Wild West Cavey; Cavey's WInter Carnival Caper; Cavey's Fashion Fiasco; Cavey's Missing Missile Miss-tery

Season 3. Episodes #25-40

The Scarifying Seaweed Secret; The Dummy; Cavey and the Volcanic Villain; Prehistoric Panic; Cavey and the Baffling Buffalo Man; Dragonhead; Cavey and the Murky Mississippi Mystery; Old Cavey in New York; The Albino Rhino; Kentucky Cavey; Cavey Goes to College; The Haunting of Hog's Hollow; The Legend of Devil's Run; The Mystery of the Meandering Mummy; The Old Caveman and the Sea; Lights, Camera... Cavey!

Less than a year after his cartoon cancelled, Cavey was back, this time as part of the Flintstone Comedy Hour, where we found out that in the past, prior to his freezing accident, he had worked alongside the wives of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, in his previously unmentioned secret identity of Chester the copyboy. There were a total of eighteen episodes over two seasons (11 and 7respectively):

Season 1

Clownfoot; The Masquerader; The Animal Master; The Mole; Rollerman; Vulcan; Punk Rock; Braino; The Incredible Hunk; The Ice Man; The Mummy Worse

Season 2

Pinkbeard; The Blimp; Futuro; Mister Big; Stormfront and Weathergirl; Crypto; Presto

Having made his mark in this short lived incarnation, Cavey took a break for a few years, before returning one final time, this time as part of the Flintstone Kids Hour. This time his co-star was his own son, Cavey Jr. It ran for one season, a total of 17 episodes:

Freezy Does It; Invasion Of The Mommy Snatchers; The Ditto Master; I Was A Teenage Grown-Up; Grime And Punishment; A Tale Of Too Silly; To Baby Or Not To Baby; Day Of The Reverse; Captain Caveman's First Adventure; Leave It To Mother; Greed It And Weep; Captain Knaveman; Attack Of The Fifty Foot Teenage Lizard; The Cream-Pier Strikes Back; Captain Caveman's Super Cold; The Big Bedrock Bully Bash; Captain Cavedog

• the Mighty Mightor, another prehistoric Hanna-Barbera superhero.

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