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Huck Shines in the Sunshine State
Not too long after The Huckleberry Hound Show debuted on the week of September 29, 1958, newspaper columnists began praising the series. An early thumbs-up for Huck and his gang came from the...
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Daws Butler: Living the Characters
Daws Butler once told interviewer Larry King that he did not do “voices.” He did “characters.” If anyone was the glue that held the Hanna-Barbera cartoons together in the early years, it was Daws...
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Not a Groupie For Loopy
Hanna-Barbera debuted two cartoon series in 1959. One is my favourite—the Quick Draw McGraw Show. The other is Loopy de Loop. I’m afraid I’m not a fan of Loopy. He’s a French-Canadian wolf who’s not...
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He Was Hadji
Whenever Hanna-Barbera had kid characters in the 1950s, adults who had come from radio did the voices. Things changed when Jonny Quest came along in 1964. Someone made the decision to go with boy...
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Jonny Quest is 60
Kids like to laugh. Kids like a bit of adventure, too. That’s why Jonny Quest turned out to be such a success. You’d think that a TV show that lasted one season was a failure. Maybe in live action it...
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Quick Draw McGraw at 65
My favourite Hanna-Barbera series first appeared on television screens 65 years ago today. The Quick Draw McGraw Show was Hanna-Barbera’s attempt to gently lampoon the types of shows popular on...
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Farewell to Elliot Field
The last of Hanna-Barbera’s voice actors from the 1950s has passed away. Elliot Field was 97. He died last Monday, the 23rd. Elliot was the afternoon drive jock at KFWB in Los Angeles when Joe Barbera...
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The Many Bears of Yogi
If I say “Yogi Bear” to you, you’ll likely think of pic-a-nic baskets and “The ranger won’t like it, Yogi.” But that isn’t how Yogi started out. Warren Foster came to Hanna-Barbera in 1959 to take over...
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President Huck
How long have animated cartoon characters been “running” for the U.S. presidency? Well, Popeye and Bluto did. So did Betty Boop (as the crowd chanted her name to the “We Want Cantor” musical vamp)....
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Bear For Punishment Backgrounds
One way of getting into a Yogi Bear cartoon was a pan over a long background while Don Messick, as narrator, sets up the plot. One of those cartoons was Bear For Punishment, which first aired on the...
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Jerry Eisenberg
The saddening news has come in that Jerry Eisenberg has died. He was 87. Jerry was one of the crew at MGM under Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. He was a second-generation animation artist as his dad Harvey...
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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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