amazing chan

[SuperCartiel]

I hate to burst bubbles and create hate mail, but Charlie Chan was created by a  E. R. Cruz (a Hispanic or a Native American).

[digital2500]

Tremendous Hoyt Curtin theme song!!

[QBCNetwork]

Some of the episodes used the theme song first used in The New Scooby Doo Movies.

Scooby dooby doo, waiting for you. Scooby dooby Doo, where are you?

All the stars are here, waitin for you.

Couldn't have a show without you.

[chaneloisa]

i loved watching this program

[dubs19842009]

Too bad Jackie Chan isn't with the rest of them. ;)

[nthenameof]

Jodie Foster = Jane Chan, hahahhahaha

[DSisterson]

Popularity of oriental culture in the early 70s was pretty much all down to Bruce Lee, I think.

[32lovely032]

i used to love this show sooooooooooooo much!!!

[theseniorconsultant]

Awesome !!! I used to love this cartoon back in the 80's.

I was 6 years old by then and during vacation I would wake up early every Tuesday and Thursday to watch the show. Now that I see the opening, I get those memories back. Just loved it!

[sandro322]

me gusta ese dibujo !!!!!!!!!!!!

[JBofBrisbane]

Any Aussie fans of Young Talent Time agree with me that Suzie Chan appears to be based on Vicki Broughton (YTT, early seventies)?

[nintoolapcfloyd]

every 70s cartoon cliche in the book, crazy car, mysteries, plying in a band, intelligent pet. its all there lol

[AsianChiq23]

If you watch Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated, you'll see Susie Chan and an older Scooter Chan in some of the episodes

[AsianChiq23]

If you watch one of the episodes from Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated, you'll notice they placed an older version of Scooter Chan and you'll see Susie Chan in a few episodes as well.

[hehe041589]

If you look carefully on 0:04, the first two kids look awfully similar to Fred and Daphne from Scooby Doo.

[captainzelda17]

this show is awesome...........go stanley chan

[3dartistguy]

Poor Mrs Chan for having all those children!

[SynesterBlack]

I loved this show. I still watch it on Boomerang.

[143AC]

 Reportedly..Lisa Gerritsen and Jodie Foster did the voices of two of "Charlie Chan's"Keye Luke's daughters on this show.

[6207865]

Very politically correct. I'm sure this did wonders for the Asian Americans .

[Mavericker7]

@6207865 Yes, it's good they had a show about Asian Americans that wasm't stereotypical back then. I thought that tomboy, Ann, was cute.

[6207865]

@Mavericker7  Uh........I was being sarcastic dude.

[Mavericker7]

@6207865 I wasn't.

[3dartistguy]

the deceased mother was probably the Amazing Chan of the whole family for having all those kids!

[rook1966]

@3dartistguy yeah but birthin' that passel of kids probably killed her :-)

[3dartistguy]

it still made her AMAZING.....I wonder why oriential culture was so popular in the early 1970s?

[rook1966]

@3dartistguy my first guess about the popularity would be the aftershock from the flower power of the late 60's and Nixon opening up China. It sort of reminds me how the US went a bit Hawaii crazy in the late 50's and early 60's.

[3dartistguy]

Well I think China opened themsevles up, not Nixon specifically...but didn't this cartoon come BEFORE Nixon's historic trip?

[rook1966]

@3dartistguy I may not be remembering quite right, but I could have sworn we discussed Nixon's trip late spring in one grade and "The Chan Clan" debuted in the fall of the next grade.

[jaemac92]

@3dartistguy i know right. lol

[XxPURPLEREPTARxX]

OMFG!!! tis use to be my show

[AnimePlanet7]

I wonder if today's Jackie Chan is one of the kids of this guy? LOL! Or maybe jackie chan chose 'Chan' because he thought that the name was 'branded' already by this cartoon? HHhhhhhhhhhmmmmmm?????

[3dartistguy]

Charlie Chan certainly was busy through the years to have such a large family.

[ccie12933]

Imagine how Mrs. Chan felt about the entire thing.

Assuming there was only one mother invovled. That Mr. Chan seems to be quite the ladies' man.

[LadyDeirdre]

And this family is actually smaller than the original. In the original novels, the Chans had 13 children. Busy parents!

[S1587915G]

Charlie Chan much better detective than Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot! We Chinks always much better! Yeah, yeah! :P

[SuperCartiel]

@S1587915G You not talkin 'bout SHAFT??

[MrOhara77]

Believe it or not, this is the only time Charlie Chan was played by an asian actor, Keye Luke. Ironically he originally played Number 1 son during the Warner Oland years.

Does anyone find it odd that the one time Charlie Chan is portrayed by an Asian actor, is the one time no one would notice?

[bull705]

Ironically,most of the original voice cast was originally asian.After the first session/episode H-B replaced everyone but Luke,Robert Ito(Henry Chan),and Brian Tochi(Alan Chan).I don't know if the actual episode still exists since I think they re-dubbed it.The most famous of the replacement voices was a young Jodie Foster as tomboy Anne Chan.

[memyself2k]

@MrOhara77 I believe Russell Wong portrayed Charlie Chan in a movie sometime in the 90s. I'll look it up.

[ssjup81]

I remember when CN used to show the reruns of for that 70s block it used to do every Wednesday night. I really did like this show too. i liked the Chan kid with the rose-colored glasses because he just looked the coolest. lol And the next to the oldest boy, sounded like he was voiced by Casey Kasem (sp?).

[SuperAdventures]

@ssjup81 "70's Super Explosion". Believe it or not, the premise of the block was tongue-in-cheek: showing Hanna-Barbera's crappiest '70's cartoons and presenting it as "cool" and "retro". "Chan" also aired on CN's Sunday afternoon block "Mysteries Inc", a.k.a. "the block for all of H-B's '70's Scooby Doo clones". It's airing on Boomerang as I speak......still puts me sleep as it used to do 15 years ago.

[dubs19842008]

Then there's the amazing Chan of the 90's/2000's. I'm talking about Jackie of course.

[ssjup81]

I'd include 70s/80s with that.  Jackie's been making films for years.

[dubs19842008]

You're right. He's been famous almost as long as this cartoon.

[7DARKHELLS]

How the hell did I miss this show?

And I saw every other HB from the 70s when I was a kid.

[mistamista2000]

For some reason unknown to me this song goes through my mind every few years.