Plugging Huck

Hanna-Barbera may have ended production of new Huckleberry Hound cartoons in 1962, but he was still deemed a big enough star that box ads were taken out in newspapers that year for his half-hour show.

Here are a few. These chatty ones are for a TV station in Indianapolis.



This is one for a station in Amarillo. I think. The ad doesn't mention a station or channel.


Flint, Michigan to the left; Roanoke, Virginia to the right.



Cincinnati.

It is only appropriate that Huck is seen and heard in North Carolina, where his accent should be familiar to viewers.


Portland, left; Tulsa, right.



Sioux Falls, above; Atlanta, below. They had trouble spelling Huck's name in South Dakota.


This is for Miami, Nov. 29, 1962. Whose brilliant programming idea was it to run Huck opposite The Jetsons? Maybe it was "Bobb."

There are other ads, but this is good enough for now.

If Huck wasn’t on your TV set, you could get your blue hound fix at home by watching him on a Give-a-Show projector by Kenner. It wasn’t a home movie like, say, a Super-8 of Woody Woodpecker. It was a strip of slides. That had to suffice for us kids in the ‘60s. There was no sound so we could practice our impressions of Daws Butler doing Yogi. Look at the price!


Jon B. Knutson in Olympia had a wonderful blog with links to Give-a-Shows he had put together with Capitol Hi-Q music in the background. We had linked to it here in 2010, but it seems to have died the following year. Too bad. There’s so much on the internet that has disappeared. We are still here, however.

The Yowp blog is supposedly on hiatus, but we do have some new posts that will appear periodically (closer to monthly instead of weekly), we hope, through to Christmas, which has been our traditional H-B music post.