Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!
| Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! | |
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| Genre |
Children's television series Animation Comedy Cartoon series |
| Written by | Joel Kane Heywood Kling Howard Morgenstern Joe Ruby Ken Spears |
| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices of |
Daws Butler William Callaway Joe E. Ross John Stephenson Paul Winchell |
| Composer(s) | Ted Nichols |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 16 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Alex Lovy |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
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| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format | Color |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 11, 1971 – January 8, 1972 |
Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! is an American Saturday morning cartoon show, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1971 for CBS.
The show was developed under the name The Yo Yo Bears, a title which many sources inaccurately list as its name in syndication. The show was never syndicated and was rarely seen after CBS cancelled it. It reappeared briefly in 1984 on the cable channel USA Cartoon Express. The Hair Bear Bunch also aired on Cartoon Network's sibling network Boomerang.
Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained an inferior laugh track created by the studio, one of the first shows to do so. In the UK, the series regularly aired on BBC1 in various slots from the mid-1970s into the 1990s, Boomerang until 2003 and Cartoon Network Too until 2007.
The series depicted three fun-loving bears - the fast-talking Hair Bear (voiced by Daws Butler), bafflegab-talking Bubi Bear (voiced by Paul Winchell), and laid-back Square Bear (voiced by William Callaway) — who are always trying to find a way to escape from the Wonderland Zoo on some sort of get-rich-quick scheme, or a wild night of fun.
Trying to stop them are the constantly aggravated head zoo director, Mr. Eustace P. Peevly (voiced by John Stephenson), and his hopelessly inadequate assistant Lionel J. Botch (voiced by Joe E. Ross). Mr. Peevly and Botch work for the Zoo Superintendent (also voiced by John Stephenson), and both of them try to stay on his good side. Many episodes end with Hair Bear covering for Peevly, couching the shenanigans and disarray as a project initiated by Peevly for the zoo's welfare, which the Superintendent always accepts (and he spares Peevly's job).
The bears have a modern "bachelor pad"-styled den at the zoo containing actual beds, Bubi's laboratory, a moving chair, a television, refrigerators, and a pizza maker. Yet they disguise it (with secret panels) from Peevly and Botch to avoid revealing their comfortable surroundings.
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