The Huckleberry Hound Show
| The Huckleberry Hound Show | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Written by |
Joseph Barbera Charles Shows Dan Gordon Michael Maltese Warren Foster Tony Benedict |
| Directed by |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices of |
Daws Butler Don Messick Doug Young Hal Smith Julie Bennett Red Coffey |
| Narrated by | Don Messick |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
| No. of episodes | 69 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Running time | 30 minutes 7 minutes per short |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Distributor |
Screen Gems (original) Warner Bros. Television (current) |
| Release | |
| Original network | First-run syndication |
| Picture format |
Color (Originally syndicated in Black-and-white) |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | September 29, 1958 – Dec. 1, 1961 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Ruff & Reddy Show (1957) |
| Followed by | The Quick Draw McGraw Show (1959) |
| Related shows |
Yogi Bear Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks Hokey Wolf |
The Huckleberry Hound Show is a 1958 syndicated animated series and the second from the Hanna-Barbera studios following The Ruff and Reddy Show, sponsored by Kellogg's. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound, another starring Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo, and a third with Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr. Jinks.
The Yogi Bear segment of the show proved more popular than Huckleberry's, it spawned its own series in 1961. A segment featuring Hokey Wolf and Ding-A-Ling was added, replacing Yogi during the 1960–61 season. The show contributed to making Hanna-Barbera Productions a household name, and is often credited with legitimizing the concept of animation produced specifically for television. In 1960, it became the first animated program to be honored with an Emmy Award.
Joseph Barbera went to Chicago to pitch the program to Kellogg's executives through their ad agency, Leo Burnett. "I had never sold a show before because I didn't have to. If we got an idea, we just made it, for over twenty years. All of a sudden, I'm a salesman, and I'm in a room with forty-five people staring at me, and I'm pushing Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear and 'the Meeces', and they bought it."
Barbera once recalled about Daws Butler's voice acting versatility:
The series featured three seven-minute cartoons, animated specifically for television. The first always starred Huckleberry, the next two featured other characters.
The show was originally distributed by Screen Gems in its network run and in syndication through the 1970s; it was later passed to Worldvision Enterprises, after it became a sister company to Hanna-Barbera. It was later distributed by Turner Program Services, after Turner's purchase of Hanna-Barbera; current distributor Warner Bros. Television picked up ownership of the show following the 1996 acquisition of Turner by parent company, Time Warner.
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