High-Seas Huck

The last Huckleberry Hound cartoon to appear on TV (not including reruns) was E-195 Two For Tee-Vee. But a later one that went into production has been discovered by faithful reader Ted Watts.

We’ve posted story panels from an unfinished Yogi Bear cartoon. Ted has found layout drawings for production E-196. There’s no title on this but Huck somehow meets up with pirates and hula babes.

My wild guess is these are by Jerry Eisenberg, who provided layouts for a few Huck show cartoons in the final, 1961-62, season. You’ll notice the rotund pirate. Jerry said that Joe Barbera used to grouse that Jerry made his characters fat like him (Jerry, not Joe). And the dark-haired short pirate sure looks like a caricature of Jerry’s long-time buddy, Hanna-Barbera writer Tony Benedict.



How far along this got into production and why it never appeared on TV is anyone’s guess. Jerry’s gone now, so we can’t ask him.

There was an unmade Pixie and Dixie cartoon, too. You can see story drawings in this old post.