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Yogi Bear — Cub Scout Boo Boo
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Bob Carr; Layout – Tony Rivera; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Written by Warren Foster; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, August 1963
Gene Hazelton and his crew handling the Flintstones newspaper comics decided to go off in a different direction from the TV show. Such isn’t usual in Comic Land. The Bugs Bunny comic books, for...
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Augie Doggie — Treasure Jest
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. Credits: none; Layout – Dick Bickenbach, Backgrounds – Bob Gentle, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Direction – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble, Production...
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Almost New This Fall
Who would you rather watch—the Jetsons or Coo Coo Cat? We know ABC TV’s answer to that question. The Jetsons debuted on the network in fall 1962. Coo Coo remained in a filing cabinet at Hanna-Barbera,...
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Quick Draw McGraw — Two Too Much
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: none. Animation – Ed Love, Layout – Walt Clinton, Story – Mike Maltese, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art Goble, Production...
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Chicken Coop of Crushing Pain
Shake-takes fell out of favour at Hanna-Barbera fairly quickly, and I don’t know why. You find them sprinkled throughout the first season of The Huckleberry Hound Show and only rarely after that. Maybe...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, August 1963
The old “tie-a-tooth-to-the-door” routine must date to silent films. It gets trotted out by the author of a Yogi Bear comic strip that appeared in weekend newspapers 50 years ago this month. We also...
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Pixie and Dixie — Missile Bound Cat
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Lew Marshall, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Story – Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Hunter Huck Storyboard
Here’s a post where we get to combine two fun things—storyboards and the little cartoons between the cartoons on the old half-hour syndicated shows. Here are storyboard drawings I snagged a long time...
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Huckleberry Hound — Knight School
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Lew Marshall; Layout – Paul Sommer; Backgrounds – Dick Thomas; Story – Warren Foster; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art...
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Yogi Bear Weekend Comics, September 1963
Kids, kids and more kids. Ordinary kids, puffy-cheeked kids, First kids. Readers got them all if they opened the weekend comic section of the paper and read Yogi Bear in September 50 years ago. Click...
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High Fly Lah
In some of the earliest cartoons on the Huckleberry Hound Show, Mike Lah was called on to animate one or two sequences. Lah tended to give his characters google eyes (or teeny pupils in shock takes)...
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Snooper and Blabber — Observant Servants
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ed Love; Layout – Paul Sommer; Backgrounds – Bob Gentle; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Art Goble;...
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Helpful Huck and Yogi
A lead character that’s a thief is a good example for kids? Today, someone would likely object, resulting in networks, producers and potential sponsors running around in fright, issuing panicked...
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Yogi Bear — Biggest Show-Off on Earth
Produced and Directed by Joe Barbera and Bill Hanna.Credits: Animation – Ed de Mattia, Layout – Tony Rivera, Backgrounds – Dick Thomas, Story – Warren Foster, Story Director – Alex Lovy, Titles – Art...
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Flintstones Weekend Comics, September 1963
Maybe Gene Hazleton and his freelance writing staff got tired of tossing Pebbles into the plots of the Flintstones Sunday comics. 50 years ago this month, she really only plays a role in one of the...
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Mike Road
He played good guys and bad guys on a host of TV shows in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, but you never saw him in his biggest role. That’s because Mike Road played the voice of Race Bannon on the great...
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Augie Doggie — It’s a Mice Day
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Carlo Vinci; Layout – Paul Sommer; Backgrounds – Fernando Montealegre; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles...
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You Can Meet Huckleberry Hound
Everyone wants to meet celebrities. It’s a little difficult when the celebrities are cartoon characters but someone figured out a way around that, probably in the silent days of Felix the cat—get...
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Quick Draw McGraw — Ali-Baba Looey
Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Credits: Animation – Dick Lundy; Layout – Walt Clinton; Backgrounds – Art Lozzi; Story – Mike Maltese; Story Director – Alex Lovy; Titles – Lawrence...
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