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Aloha Huck
Here’s today’s early Hanna-Barbera quiz—in which state was Huckleberry Hound the most popular? Perhaps it’s impossible to answer that question, but you probably couldn’t go wrong if you guessed Hawaii....
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, October 1970
Huckleberry Hound and the rest of his gang made references on screen that they were in a cartoon show, at least during the portions between the main cartoons. It would appear at least one character in...
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Huck and the Critics
Critics not only liked Huck because of what was on it, but what was not on it. Nanny groups hated westerns and all those guns (they even complained about white-hatted Roy Rogers), and Popeye cartoons...
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The City of Snooper
Anyone who has ever seen a Hanna-Barbera cartoon should have noticed that characters walk, run or drive past the same things (a house, a grove of trees, an electrical socket, etc.) in the background...
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Solar Swivelling Into Prime Time
Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera had a problem in 1962. The problem was 1961. Their studio had a prime-time success with The Flintstones. Animation suddenly became the latest TV copycat fad. Networks bought...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, October 1970
Mice and multiple heads. That’s what we get in the Flintstones Sunday comics 48 years ago this month. Better still, we finally get a comic that focuses on Baby Puss. You remember her being that cat...
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An Interview With Huck, Quick Draw, Yogi and Baba Looey
Today is the 60th birthday of one of Hanna-Barbera’s most underrated cartoon characters. Me. Yes, it was on this date 60 years ago that the first Yowp cartoon, “Foxy Hound Dog,” appeared on TV screens....
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Hanna-Ween
When I was kid, you could dress up as Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear or Quick Draw McGraw and go out on Hallowe’en in hopes of getting free candy in a door-to-door windfall. Actually, mooching food would...
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Daws Talks About Talking
What about the Yogi Bear-Art Carney connection? Who better to tell you than Daws Butler, the man who voiced Yogi? Cartoon voice actors who weren’t named Mel Blanc didn’t get a lot of press ink for...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, November 1970
A native American, a Chinese guy, a kid, Ranger Smith, a wise talking owl and the return of Boo Boo are amongst the highlights of the Yogi Bear newspaper comics from 48 years ago this month. Gene...
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The Collegiate Hound
“I never went to no school,” admits Huckleberry Hound in “Hookey Daze” (1958) before the teacher grabs him and shoves him in a classroom seat. Well, that was in the cartoon series. The fact is Huck was...
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Count the Light Sockets
Yes, it’s true. Pixie and Dixie did run in front of the same light socket over and over again to some chase music. They certainly did in the first season of The Huckleberry Hound Show, anyway. All that...
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Tiffany Tiff
There was a time at Hanna-Barbera, writer Tony Benedict says, when all you had to do was please Joe Barbera—and then the company was sold and became corporate. And corporations make decisions based on,...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, November 1970
Rubbles? What Rubbles? For a second month in a row, the Flintstones newspaper comics found in weekend newspapers were centered around Fred, Wilma, Pebbles and Dino. Fred’s “bosom buddy” Barney is...
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The Quest For Publicity
Jonny Quest was an amazing series for its time in so many ways, from Hoyt Curtin’s score (and the work of the sound cutters to pick the cues to fit the action), to the background art, to the...
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High Wire Huck Part 2
The high wire breaks that Yogi Bear, Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks are on high above the circus crowd. Huckleberry Hound’s top hat twirls before he jumps to the rescue. I like the Huck head multiples....
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What's in a Name-Rock?
The writers of the The Flintstones could come up with clever puns on names. Eventually, they got lame, just arbitrarily adding “stone” or “rock” to a name. I mean, “Jimmy O’Neillstone?” “Shinrock”? I...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, December 1970
No Christmas comic for Yogi Bear in December 1970. Gene Hazelton and his crew could probably have tossed in a whole pile of cutesy animals into it if they had wanted to draw one. We find them in other...
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Bankrolling an Emmy
Syndicated television in the 1950s had some fairly popular shows. Highway Patrol and Sea Hunt come to mind. But the first syndicated show to win an Emmy was the Huckleberry Hound Show in 1960. It was...
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Scary Prairie Town
How’s this for work? There were 78 cartoons in the first season of the Quick Draw McGraw Show in 1959-60. That’s in addition to the (I think) 39 cartoons that had to be made the same year for the...
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