tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post79564378881249783..comments2024-03-27T01:21:03.543-07:00Comments on Yowp: The Hanna-Barbera Story, 1960Yowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-91763226937286989012012-12-30T15:07:43.626-08:002012-12-30T15:07:43.626-08:00KDAL-TV in Duluth, MN (later KDLH) had Wally, Lipp...KDAL-TV in Duluth, MN (later KDLH) had Wally, Lippy, and Touche. They were at the time a B/W-only station, and along with the H-B series; they bought from Screen Gems the Charles Mintz Krazy Kats and Van Beuren Aesop's Fables and Tom and Jerry. All these were thrown into a no-frills late afternoon half-hour; and when it was time for the next show, the last cartoon was simply switched off in progress! I learned years later that when the station moved to its new color studios, the B/W cartoon prints were tossed in the trash bin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-14528190257154297072011-12-04T07:29:30.304-08:002011-12-04T07:29:30.304-08:00WGN-9 here in Chicago had the bulk of the early H-...WGN-9 here in Chicago had the bulk of the early H-B cartoons up till about the late 1980s when they disappeared from local stations and went to cable network USA for their Cartoon Express program. From that point on, a lot of the shorts were shown sans the credits,Bartnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-81737283577028876852011-12-02T18:45:04.579-08:002011-12-02T18:45:04.579-08:00Joe, et al, somewhere in the bowels of the blog ar...Joe, et al, somewhere in the bowels of the blog are notes for a post on the "New Cartoon Show." The cartoons were run individually in the Seattle area. Stations in other cities turned them into a half hour show. Interestingly, TV listings aren't consistent. Some call it the Lippy the Lion show, others name it after Wally, others after Touché.<br />Whether H-B originally wanted the show to be a half-hour Kellogg's-sponsored effort, I don't know, but the format gave stations a lot more flexibility than something like Yogi. But the cartoons are clearly a step down from Yogi or Quick Draw.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-20761424739371907832011-12-01T22:15:49.332-08:002011-12-01T22:15:49.332-08:00I can absolutely confirm this portion of the comme...I can absolutely confirm this portion of the comments by “Anonymous”:<br /><br />“In New York, WPIX-TV originally used the segments for a local series, Cartoon Zoo, featuring Milt Moss as host and "Zookeeper", with life-sized cutouts of the characters in "cages" as a backdrop.”<br /><br />“Cartoon Zoo” is THE title I still remember as the umbrella for the Wally, Touché, and Lippy series. Warner’s “Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Volume Two” DVD set called it “The Wally Gator Show”. As a kid in New York, I never knew of a “Wally Gator Show” – nor can I recall these cartoons being on Saturday Morning! Though, during its first year, the Wednesday evening “Peter Potamus Show” was repeated late Saturday afternoons. <br /><br />“Zookeeper Milt Moss” was the latest of the breed of “Host with Occupations” on WPIX, which included “Captain Jack McCarthy” (Popeye), and “Officer Joe Bolton” (The Three Stooges and UPA’s Dick Tracy). <br /><br />I guess modern American society began its long, slow disintegration when, one day, ‘PIX presented “Beachcomber Bill Berry” – who didn’t exhibit an admirable profession we young ‘uns could grow up to emulate! <br /><br />Funny how, even in my “single digit years”, I had enough awareness to think it odd that a Hanna-Barbera cartoon would ever need a human host. Huck, Quick Draw, and Yogi didn’t need ‘em! <br /><br />I even had a promotional photo of Mr. Moss standing in front of the “caged” cutout of Wally! Long ago lost to the years, alas!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-73130184063414661252011-12-01T07:37:14.694-08:002011-12-01T07:37:14.694-08:00[A la Doggie Daddy a la Jimmy Durante]
Hot cha cha...[A la Doggie Daddy a la Jimmy Durante]<br />Hot cha cha, Umbriago, Greg, Doug Young might have been on there [and I remember Janet Waldo as the Blue Fairy] but it's Daws as Doggie Daddy as well as others. [I had that record, too.]Great article, Yowp.Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-29257086226037343442011-11-30T21:01:11.216-08:002011-11-30T21:01:11.216-08:00Errol:
I remember very well the day that Daws But...Errol:<br /><br />I remember very well the day that Daws Butler passed away. I was working at KFLY/KEJO Radio in Corvallis, OR. The news at the top of the hour on May 16th featured audio clips of Huckleberry Hound and sometimes Yogi Bear. ABC News started the report with "The voice of Huckleberry Hound is silent." No mention of Yogi Bear. I had just seen "The Good, The Bad and Huckleberry Hound" for the first time the weekend before Daws' passing. I remember reading a news story at the time that stated that H-B held a 30th birthday party for Huck and showed his TV movie in April for the party. Daws Butler was there, according to the news item. I was thrilled that the Huck movie was a great way for Daws to leave as a legacy because his voice work in that movie was great.<br /><br />Consequently, I have been listening to some old H-B Records lately. If you get an opportunity to get "Doggie Daddy Tells Augie Doggie the Story of Pinocchio" do it. Janet Waldo and Doug Young are on the record but the rest of the voices are all Daws Butler. It is a great performance by this extraordinary voice talent.Greg Chenowethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-18702310844712789712011-11-30T20:30:19.194-08:002011-11-30T20:30:19.194-08:00Anon --
I know that there was no official title ...Anon -- <br /><br />I know that there was no official title of the show. The point was the series was apparently cobbled together as the three other shows were winding down (the first copyrights are 1961, while the last of the Huck, Yogi and Quick Draw cartoons sport 1962 copyright dates). WPIX in New York aired the cartoons as a 30-minute show at 5:30 p.m. hoping to repeat the success of the earlier series, but there was far less care in putting the thing together, because syndicated ratings weren't as important to the studio as the prime-time shows in 1961.<br /><br />Bill & Joe's focus in '61 was more towards The Flintstones and Top Cat on ABC and preparing The Jetsons to present to the network for green-lighting for the 62-63 season. The new shorts were now the low men on the H-B totem pole. That would change a bit by late 1963, after the studio was down to just one prime-time series and the Saturday morning stuff had yet to arrive. H-B did put more effort into Magilla Gorilla than they had with TNHBCS, and the first 5-10 episodes were pretty decent, before things started trending downhill (and the less said about The Peter Potamous Show, the better).J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-32899965795301560682011-11-30T18:01:26.921-08:002011-11-30T18:01:26.921-08:00I too remember the time when Huck, Yogi and their ...I too remember the time when Huck, Yogi and their ilk made way for the half hour H-B shows, and new characters like Wally Gator, Lippy, etc. In my opinion it was the end of a special period. I have always had a special place in my heart and mind for the early years of Hanna-Barbera. Diamonds in the rough. You know, nothing to lose, everything to lose, just go for it. Yes, some of those shorts were diamonds, others missed the mark. Still, I prefer them. Greg, I bought a copy of " The Good, The Bad, and Huckleberry Hound " for my oldest son back in 1989. Bittersweet, because the year of it's production, 1988, Daws took his final bow. The industry would never be the same. As for " I Married Joan "... Loved Jim Backus and I DID enjoy Hal Smith's occasional appearances. Yowp, I'm glad you have this blog.Errolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-58689203542393481162011-11-30T17:16:59.728-08:002011-11-30T17:16:59.728-08:00"The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Show" was..."The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Show" was never the name of the series. They were three independent cartoons produced for syndication. There was never an opening and closing title segment, because it was never a half-hour show.<br /><br />From Wikipedia:<br /><br />The title The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon series was an off-screen promotional title to distinguish this series from other packages of Hanna-Barbera cartoons (such as Ruff and Reddy, Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear) available at the time. For example, WGN-Chanel 9 in Chicago ran the three segments in a half-hour timeslot under the name Wally Gator. In New York, WPIX-TV originally used the segments for a local series, Cartoon Zoo, featuring Milt Moss as host and "Zookeeper", with life-sized cutouts of the characters in "cages" as a backdrop.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-17875793790561988682011-11-30T16:10:52.267-08:002011-11-30T16:10:52.267-08:00I would alter the title to "Huckleberry Hound...I would alter the title to "Huckleberry Hound, Private Eye", plus have Huck solving mysteries all over the HB universe. He would be helping everyone from Yogi, Quick Draw & Top Cat to Space Ghost and The Herculoids. Maybe even help out the likes of "Bobba" Looey and "Shagglepuss". :P Satirical, maybe, but this absolutely would NOT be an Adult Swim show! Bizarre, yes, but who knows? It might be interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-64368899957992698582011-11-30T10:27:48.687-08:002011-11-30T10:27:48.687-08:00Even as a yute in single-digits, I could tell ther...Even as a yute in single-digits, I could tell there was something cheaper about "The New Hanna-Babera Cartoon Show" with Wally, Touche and Lippy when it showed up in the fall of '62. No bridging animation, no unique music, not even an opening and closing segment. Add to that the fact I figured out a while later they weren't going to be making new cartoons for the Huck, Quick Draw or Yogi shows, and that's when you could tell that the studio's interest had shifted away from the short cartoons and towards the half-hour network stuff.<br /><br />(And, yea, watching "I Married Joan" really makes you appreciate Lucille Ball's talent at balancing 'comedically screwball" with 'cloyingly obnoxious'. If they had changed the name to "I Murdered Joan" and just had Jim Backus starring solo, it would have been far more enjoyable.)J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-58244297871957070752011-11-30T09:39:13.310-08:002011-11-30T09:39:13.310-08:00Yowp, you've got a good point here about how t...Yowp, you've got a good point here about how the beginning of the Flintstones proved to be the end of stardom for Huck and Quick Draw, but not Yogi. I have always wondered why these two H-B stars were never given another show of their own later on. I know that a lot of the H-B material in the 70's and 80's was not that good, but with their business model they should have run these two characters into the ground with ad nauseum different types of shows. For example, "Huck Hound, Private Detective", a show for Saturdays with Huck as a private detective solving a different case each week. Or "Quick Draw's Wild West Show" with Quick Draw and Baba touring the old west meeting up with famous outlaws and heroes.<br /><br />I know some of my premises are cringe-worthy, but they are indicative of what H-B did with Yogi Bear, Scooby-Doo and The Flintstones. Why didn't they do the same with Huck and Quick Draw? Maybe their lack of overkill with these characters is for the best because they can be remembered for their original shows only. However, I still love "The Good, The Bad and Huckleberry Hound." It was a good movie for a great star who deserved it.Greg Chenowethnoreply@blogger.com