The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan rerun for a second season) in 1972 on CBS, and is today often rerun on Cartoon Network's sister network, Boomerang. In the original novels by Earl Derr Biggers, Charlie Chan was a widower who worked for the Honolulu police department and had 10 children. Their late mother was never mentioned in the Chan Clan series. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio. The track is muted on Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Don Kirshner produced the songs for the show as he did for "The Monkees" and "The
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan almost immediately, as it was deemed that the Asian cast's thick accents would be too confusing for young viewers to understand. With the new cast in place, old episodes were re-dubbed using the new voices. Prolific voice actor Keye Luke – who played Charlie's Number One Son in many of the Charlie Chan movie serials of the 1930s and 1940s – provided the voice for Mr. (Charlie) Chan, thus making him the first actor of Chinese ancestry to take the role; also thanks to Luke, Charlie now spoke whole sentences (as opposed to the original film series, in which he