Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show
| Hoppity Hooper | |
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| Also known as | Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show |
| Genre | Children's program |
| Created by |
Bill Scott Chris Hayward |
| Written by | Chris Jenkyns Bill Scott |
| Directed by |
Pete Burness Bill Hurtz Lew Keller |
| Starring | Uncle Waldo P. Wigglesworth, Fillmore Bear, and Hoppity Hooper |
| Voices of | Chris Allen Hans Conried Paul Frees William Scott Kathy Steinberg Alan Reed Bill Conrad |
| Narrated by |
Paul Frees Bill Conrad Kathy Steinberg |
| Theme music composer | Dennis Farnon |
| Opening theme | "Olga Moletoad's Ride" |
| Composer(s) | Dennis Farnon |
| Country of origin | United States and Mexico |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 104 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Peter M. Piech |
| Producer(s) |
Jay Ward Bill Scott |
| Editor(s) | Skip Craig |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Jay Ward Productions, P.A.T. |
| Distributor | P.A.T., Filmtel International, DFS Program Exchange |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC (1964–1967) |
| Picture format | Color |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | September 26, 1964 – September 2, 1967 |
Hoppity Hooper is an American animated television series produced by Jay Ward, and sponsored by General Mills, originally broadcast on ABC on September 26, 1964. The series was produced in Hollywood by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, with animation done in Mexico City by Gamma Productions.
The three main characters were Hoppity Hooper, a plucky frog, voiced by Chris Allen; Waldo P. Wigglesworth, a patent medicine-hawking fox, voiced by Hans Conried, who posed as Hoppity's long-lost uncle in the pilot episode; and Fillmore, a bear wearing Civil War clothes and (poorly) playing his bugle, voiced by William Scott (with Alan Reed portraying the character in the pilot). The stories revolved around the three main characters, who lived in Foggy Bog, Wisconsin, seeking their fortune together, through different jobs or schemes, usually ending in misadventure.
Each story consisted of four short cartoons, one aired at the beginning and end of each episode, with the four-part story shown over two consecutive episodes. Much like Jay Ward's other series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Hoppity Hooper used pun-based titles to identify each upcoming segment and a narrator (voiced at various times by William Conrad and Paul Frees) who often interacted with the characters and broke the fourth wall. Interspersed were recycled second features from the earlier series Peabody's Improbable History, Fractured Fairy Tales, and Aesop and Son. In later syndicated runs, each four-part story was assembled into a single half-hour episode.
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