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Yogi Bear is On the Air. Hey, Hey, Hee!
“MeTV is running old Hanna-Barbera cartoons. What do you think, Yowp?” I have been asked by blog readers. I’m not really sure why anyone is all that interested; like anything else I’ve written about...
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Not So Magical Bear
Yogi Bear tries a magic trick in one of those cartoons-between-the-cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show. Alakazam, Alagazoom Come out, little bear, wherever you ere, are.“Hiya, Yogi,” says Boo Boo,...
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Iwao, a Happy 100
Iwao Takamoto would have turned 100 today. While this blog isn’t much on birthdays, Iwao’s career at Hanna-Barbera began at the tail-end of The Yogi Bear Show (he laid out Bear Foot Soldiers) and, as...
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Huckleberry Hound Goes Home
Daws Butler was the backbone of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio in the Kellogg’s era. He voiced almost all the main characters and was, indirectly, responsible for most of the others. Butler’s cartoon...
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The Unfinished Snagglepuss
Why would Hanna-Barbera leave some cartoons unseen? I’m afraid I don’t have the answer to that one. All I know is it happened. The last production number for a cartoon in the Yogi Bear Show was R-83....
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Music For Cat and Dog in Space
This blog was begun for the purpose of identifying the background music in the original Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The first music employed by the studio came from the Capitol Hi-Q library, started in...
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Plugging Huck
Hanna-Barbera may have ended production of new Huckleberry Hound cartoons in 1962, but he was still deemed a big enough star that box ads were taken out in newspapers that year for his half-hour show....
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The Huckleberry Hound Show on BluRay
This is news that fans have been waiting for. Many of you know that about 20 years ago, the first season of The Huckleberry Hound Show came out on DVD. Sales weren’t as good as expected, and that...
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The Mastermind of Muni-Mula
When you only have $2,700 to make a cartoon, you have to find ways to avoid spending cash without looking like you’re avoiding spending cash. Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera found clever ways to do that in...
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The Man They Called Gunnite
The writers on The Flintstones developed side characters over the six seasons the cartoon series was on the air. Some were recurring, some died a natural death. But there was a one-shot character that...
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Touche Thompson
Perhaps the role of Touche Turtle was a consolation prize. As far as I can tell, Bill Thompson never publicly spoke about it, but fellow voice actor Hal Smith related how, in 1960, Thompson had been...
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Mr. Jinks' Weighty Problem
Mr. Jinks may have been better in the little cartoons between the cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show than he was in the actual Pixie and Dixie cartoons. After the show opening, and before the show...
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Stony Curtis
Like a rotting brontosaurus carcass on a desert, The Flintstones stunk in the final season. Sorry, fans of the Great Gazoo. The character was a gimmick (though Harvey Korman was great, as always)....
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High-Seas Huck
The last Huckleberry Hound cartoon to appear on TV (not including reruns) was E-195 Two For Tee-Vee. But a later one that went into production has been discovered by faithful reader Ted Watts. We’ve...
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The Mad Monster of Muni-Mula
This episode of the Muni-Mula story simply moves the plot a little bit. Narrator Don Messick tells us the Big Thinker is using Ruff and Reddy to make an army of robots to invade Earth. (Well, actually,...
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Blu-Ray? Oh, Dear! Oh, My!
“Gee, Yowp,” says my in-box, “why aren’t you writing about these?” Um. How can I put this delicately? These are not great cartoons. They are wallpaper. They’re pleasant enough and killed air time in...
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Tony Benedict R.I.P.
When the Hanna-Barbera studio opened in 1957, Charlie Shows was hired as the staff writer, though Joe Barbera had a lot of say about what went into the studio's cartoons. Shows left in late 1958 and...
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The Box That Socks
No, Huckleberry Hound, it’s not a present for you, we hear in this Pixie and Dixie cartoon-between-the-cartoons. “It’s a jack-in-the-box SURprise for Jinks,” Dixie tells Huck. Jinksie grabs the box....
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Hocus Pocus Focus/Muni-Mula Mix-Up
Don Messick had an odd voice that I first heard on The Herculoids. I don’t know exactly how he did it; probably by wiggling his tongue inside his mouth. Gloop and Gleep weren’t the first Hanna-Barbera...
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Yuletide Yogi, Holly Jolly Jetsons and Twisting Tom Cat
Yogi Bear got into the spirit of Christmas (the secular, not religious version), though not on his TV show. A couple of storybooks with Yuletide Yogi were published in the early ‘60s. One was a Little...
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Adults and Quick Draw McGraw
TV critics managed to find ways to watch The Quick Draw McGraw Show even when they didn’t have to. Larry Thompson of the Miami Herald outlined his subterfuge in his column of December 6, 1960. At least...
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Creepy Creature Feature
Ruff and Reddy may have had a low budget but there were attempts at making them visually interesting. Unlike later series where every cartoon was laid out like it was taking place on a stage, Ruff and...
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On the Road With Huck and Yogi
Thanks to the folks at the Leo Burnett ad agency, fans of Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear got to see them in the... Well, we can’t say “in the flesh” because the flesh was buried under furry suits...
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Quick Draw on TV?
It would appear fans of Quick Draw McGraw will be able to see the series on TV once again. Eventually. An announcement on this web site says: Tubi has confirmed a list of 100 different series from...
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The Creepy Creature
There’s a lot of running in this episode of Ruff and Reddy’s Muni-Mula adventure, and you know what that means—less footage for Ken Muse and more money saved by Bill Hanna. From a story standpoint,...
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