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
Charlie Chan was rewritten with additional footage as "Mr. Moto's Gamble", an entry in the Mr. Moto series, another contemporary series featuring an East Asian protagonist; Luke appeared as Lee Chan, not only in already shot footage but also in scenes with Moto actor Peter Lorre. Fox hired another white actor, Sidney Toler, to play Charlie Chan, and produced eleven Chan films through 1942. Toler's Chan was less mild-mannered than Oland's, a "switch in attitude that added some of the vigor of the original books to the films." He is frequently accompanied, and irritated, by his Number Two Son, Jimmy Chan, played