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Daws Speaks
It’s been pretty close to 29 years that Daws Butler has been gone. In a way, he’s not gone, because there are plenty of old cartoons to view where you can hear his wonderful work. And though he’s...
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Snagglepuss in Twice Shy
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation - Phil Duncan, Layout - Jack Huber, Backgrounds - Bob Gentle, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director - Paul Sommer, Titles - Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, March 1967
Attention people who obsess over the Flintstones celebrating Christmas: they celebrate Easter, too! You know, death of Jesus, long after the Stone Age, that sort of thing? Hurry! Complain all over the...
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G.I. Jetson
Attention! Look at the picture on the right. It’s Fred Flintstone! Actually, it’s not. It’s an incidental character in The Jetsons episode “G.I. Jetson.” But Hanna-Barbera was borrowing an awful lot...
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Why We Love Huckleberry Hound
Today’s letter comes from Mrs. S.K., who writes: I felt rather guilty about enjoying Huckleberry Hound so much until I read your article in TeleVue. My husband and I liked the explanation given by the...
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Huckleberry Hound in To the Moon!
Huckleberry Hound is going to be the first hound to blast off to the moon, he tells us, in this little cartoon-between-the-cartoons on The Huckleberry Hound Show. You can see some of Huck’s mouth...
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A Cry For Something New
Was Jonny Quest a success? I’d say so, even though it didn’t become the prime-time juggernaut that Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera hoped it would. In fact, when it looked certain that the show wouldn’ t...
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Yakky Doodle in Shrunken Headache
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Carlo Vinci, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Written by Tony Benedict, Story Director – Art Davis, Titles – Art...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, April 1967
Dear Cartoon Fans, No, The Simpsons did not invent the “writing sentences over and over on the blackboard” gag. For those of you who need proof, we direct your attention to the Yogi Bear comics that...
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Snagglepuss in Express Trained Lion
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – La Verne Harding, Layout – Jack Huber, Backgrounds – Neenah Maxwell, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Paul Sommer,...
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The Flintstones Risk
There’s nothing like corporate hyperbole. Witness this line from the head of ABC-TV in 1960: “It’s...the biggest thing in TV programming the free world has ever seen.” I don’t even think fans of The...
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The Jetsons – Rosey’s Boyfriend
“Gosh, mom, robots can like other robots. Can’t they?” Oh, such an innocent question, young Elroy, in those sunny days of 1960s Futurism, when the world looked forward to a happy, carefree time of...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, April 1967
The Flintstones started out in life as a sitcom dealing with the suburban lives of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and Barney and Betty Rubble next door. Well, the show evolved and so did the newspaper...
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Huckleberry Hound in Play Ball!
Huckleberry Hound tosses a Huckleberry Hopper to Dixie in one of the little cartoons-between-the-cartoons on their show. Huck rubs the ball with his hand and in his glove in some cycle animation. Dixie...
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Now, Safety Tips From Magilla and Wally Gator
How many kids took advice from cartoon characters? It’s hard to say, but grown-ups definitely thought they did. Hence Fred Flintstone stopped selling Winstons and Yogi Bear told kids to stop smoking....
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More Safety Tips From Your Hanna-Barbera Friends
Here are the remaining safety posters from Hanna-Barbera from 1965 that we didn’t post yesterday. Parents should be teaching this kind of stuff today. I see adults disobeying some of these traffic ones...
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Gerry Johnson
Dumping the wonderful Janet Waldo in favour of singer Tiffany in The Jetsons Movie has to rank at the top of the boneheaded voice casting decisions at Hanna-Barbera. But there’s another that isn’t far...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, May 1967
Either Ranger Smith is a bigamist, or his wife likes changing her hair colour, or Gene Hazelton and his comic strip artists really didn’t care too much about incidental character design. Whatever the...
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Yakky Doodle in Count To Tenant
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Bob Bentley, Layout – Dan Noonan, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Written by Mike Maltese, Story Director – Art Davis, Titles – Art...
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Love Huckleberry Hound? You'll Love This!
If you want a good time capsule of attitudes about the Hanna-Barbera studio and its cartoons just as The Flintstones was about to air, you can find it in this story by Cecil Smith in the Los Angeles...
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