Hokey Wolf
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Hokey Wolf's Title Card
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Hanna-Barbera |
| Written by |
Joseph Barbera Warren Foster Dan Gordon Michael Maltese Charles Shows |
| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Presented by | Huckleberry Hound |
| Starring | Hokey Wolf Ding-A-Ling Wolf |
| Voices of |
Daws Butler Doug Young |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 28 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Running time | 7 minutes per short |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor |
Screen Gems (original) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (current) |
| Release | |
| Original network | First-Run Syndication |
| Picture format | Color (NTSC) |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 11, 1960 – December 1, 1961 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Yogi Bear (1958) |
| Related shows | The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958) |
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Hokey Wolf is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon about the adventures of a con-artist wolf who is always trying to cheat his way into the simple life. He is often accompanied alongside by his young, diminutive, sidekick Ding-A-Ling Wolf, both of whom are featured as part of The Huckleberry Hound Show in their own segment.
The initial creation of Hokey Wolf occurred when another follow-up segment was needed, because Yogi Bear's rising popularity in preceding appearances warranted a promotion to his own self-titled show. As a result of the change in schedule, Hokey Wolf had made its debut midway through the third season of The Huckleberry Hound Show and became a regular appearance afterward on this segment. Hokey's theme music for his segment of the show was composed by Hoyt Curtin and used an instrumental version of the refrain from Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here.
The segment follows the everyday misadventures of its protagonist, Hokey Wolf, and his young companion, Ding-A-Ling Wolf, through their typical con-artist routines of getting what they need in their daily lives. Through each episode, Hokey would usually try to fool different characters with food-stealing schemes and/or finding a place to stay without cost, only for most of these tricks to back-fire on him in one way or another.
Both of the cartoon's feature characters were designed by animation artist and character designer Ed Benedict.
Hokey Wolf (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Phil Silvers) is the smooth-talking title character throughout each cartoon. His main hobby in life was to outsmart and coax the clueless out of free meals or places to stay, much of which he seemed to do so with ease, despite possible consequences later on. Hokey typically wears his trademark green bow tie with white collar and a violet-colored hat. His personality would later be recycled for fellow Hanna-Barbera characters Top Cat who starred in a prime-time sitcom that ran from 1961 to 1962 that followed a very similar concept.
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