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Hanna-Barbera Action Adventure
Until the networks started bowing to pressure groups that wanted to dictate what every kid should watch on TV, cartoons on Saturday morning meant action-adventure as well as comedy. Hanna-Barbera was...
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Daws at 100
There’s no doubt about it. Daws Butler was the backbone of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio. The Huckleberry Hound Show was an instant success in 1958, and from it the studio grew and prospered. Daws...
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Snagglepuss in Diaper Desperado
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Layout – Jack Huber, Backgrounds – Neenah Maxwell, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles –...
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Follow-ups to Earlier Posts
We talked about the very nice Hanna-Barbera exhibition on now at the Norman Rockwell Museum. Writer Tony Benedict (right), who was hired at the studio in 1960, was present for the opening of the...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, November 1966
The concept behind The Flintstones was to create a modern Stone Age family; in other words, to adapt the world of today to Prehistoric Times. The series got pretty clever at times doing it. And so does...
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Rough Drawings and Other Stuff
You want to see drawings of Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss and Top Cat, right? Well, I’ll cut the yowping and get right to it. These are from one of the internet auction sites (click to...
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Goofy For the Sake of Being Goofy
I watch an awful lot of old cartoons. It isn’t a case of pining for a childhood that is drifting further and further into the past. I don’t have nostalgia for it and really don’t think about it very...
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Yakky Doodle in Dog Pounded
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Hicks Lokey; Layout – Jack Huber, Backgrounds – Neenah Maxwell, Written by Tony Benedict, Story Director – Lew Marshall, Titles...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, December 1966
What? Someone other than Yogi Bear emptying a house of food in a Yogi Bear cartoon? It happened 50 years ago this month when the Yogi weekend newspaper comics were graced with a guest appearance by...
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A Date With Jet Screamer, Part 1
There’s a wonderful naïveté about rock and roll of the future in what’s arguably the best-known of all the Jetsons cartoons. Rock star Jet Screamer is a clean-cut young guy. Remember, the cartoon was...
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Hey There, It's a Five-Year-Old Movie Reviewer
Hanna-Barbera’s first full-length movie was a family film. “Family” meaning “parents with kids.” I can’t picture adults going to see Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear when it first appeared on the screen in...
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Snagglepuss in Tail Wag Snag
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Allen Wilzbach, Dick Lundy (uncredited); Layout – Noel Tucker; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Written by Mike Maltese; Story Director...
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Mr. H. and Mr. B.
When the Hanna-Barbera studio first opened in 1957, Joe Barbera oversaw all the voice sessions. He was still doing it when the Jetsons were in production in 1962 but, by then, had hired Alan Dinehart...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, December 1966
Two Christmas-time comics highlight the Flintstones’ Sunday strips that appeared in newspapers 50 years ago this month. Thank Richard Holliss for the coloured versions. No Dino? Well, everyone else...
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Dino and Christmas
Almost all the animated Christmas TV shows in the mid-1960s were specials. There was one exception—“A Christmas Flintstone,” just another episode in the 1964-65 TV season. Well, it was a little more...
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Ruff and Reddy Go to a Party
Ruff and Reddy made their TV debut 59 years ago this month but even though their show was named after them, they weren’t altogether the stars. There was a live-action host, Jimmy Blaine, introducing...
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The Flintstones were seen around the world (as Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera liked to point out in interviews) but the series seems to have made a distinct impression on one person in Australia. Frankie...
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Huckleberry Hound Strikes a Pose
Huckleberry Hound trivia? Here’s a piece from Frank Rizzo, who interviewed various rock stars in 1985 about their first musical memory. The answer he got from Michael Stipe of REM:“It was ‘Moon River.’...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, January 1967
Holy Ursine Secret Identity! Could the smarter-than-the-average Yogi Bear be a clever disguise for a super hero? Well, not quite. But Yogi does reveal his persona as Bat Bear in the weekend newspaper...
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Solve This Flintstones Mystery
Snooper and Blabber aren’t around to investigate this case, so leave us to ask you knowledgeable Yowp visitors about this. Reader Kamden Spies asked me which Flintstones episode this cel of Fred and...
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