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Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
's second series, made specifically for television, The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 syndicated animated series. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound
Huckleberry Hound

Hanna-Barbera's second series, made specifically for television, The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 Syndication animated series. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound; Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo ; and Pixie and Dixie, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr....
; Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show....
 and his sidekick Boo Boo
Boo Boo (Yogi Bear)

Boo Boo Bear is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character, an anthropomorphic bear cub in a bow tie, who is Yogi Bear's best friend, and often acts as his conscience; he tries to keep Yogi from doing things he should not do, and also to keep Yogi from getting into trouble with Ranger Smith....
; and Pixie and Dixie, 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
1961 in television

The year 1961 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1961.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1961-62 American network television schedule....
.






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Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. , was an American List of animation studios that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century....
's second series, made specifically for television, The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 syndicated animated series. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound
Huckleberry Hound

Hanna-Barbera's second series, made specifically for television, The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 Syndication animated series. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound; Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo ; and Pixie and Dixie, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr....
; Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show....
 and his sidekick Boo Boo
Boo Boo (Yogi Bear)

Boo Boo Bear is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon character, an anthropomorphic bear cub in a bow tie, who is Yogi Bear's best friend, and often acts as his conscience; he tries to keep Yogi from doing things he should not do, and also to keep Yogi from getting into trouble with Ranger Smith....
; and Pixie and Dixie, 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
1961 in television

The year 1961 in television involved some significant events.Below is a list of television-related events in 1961.For the United States TV schedule, see: 1961-62 American network television schedule....
. A segment featuring Hokey Wolf
Hokey Wolf

Hokey Wolf is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that appeared on The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1960, filling the slot left by Yogi Bear.The theme music for Hokey?s segment of the show was an instrumental version of the refrain from Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here....
 and Ding-a-Ling was added.

In 1961, the series became the first animated program to be honoured with an Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
, American television's highest honor. The Huckleberry Hound Show was probably the series that truly made Hanna-Barbera a household name, and is often credited with legitimizing the concept of animation produced specifically for television.

Background/production


Conception and development


Joe Barbera went to Chicago to pitch the program to the networks. "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:

Format


The series featured three seven minute cartoons, animated specifically for television. The first was always starring Huckleberry, the next two featuring other characters.

The show was originally distributed by Screen Gems
Screen Gems

Screen Gems is an United States subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia Pictures that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....
, then by Worldvision Enterprises and then Turner Program Services, before current distributor Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television is the television production company and distribution arm of Warner Bros., itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Paramount Television, it serves as a television production company arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Chuck on NBC, Pushing Daisies on ABC, and...
 picked up ownership of the show following its 1996 acquisition of Turner.

Plot and characters


Each of the three segments featured one or two main characters acting as a duo, and numerous one-off or supporting characters.

Huckleberry Hound
Huckleberry Hound

Hanna-Barbera's second series, made specifically for television, The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 Syndication animated series. Three segments were included in the program: one featuring Huckleberry Hound; Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo Boo ; and Pixie and Dixie, two mice who in each short found a new way to outwit the cat Mr....


Huck's voice was one that Butler had already developed and used in earlier work, such as the dog character in The Ruff & Reddy Show, Smedley the Dog in Chilly Willy
Chilly Willy

Chilly Willy is a cartoon character, a diminutive anthropomorphic penguin living in Fairbanks, Alaska, although the species is native only to the southern hemisphere....
 cartoons, and earlier characters in the MGM cartoon library. It was said to be based on the neighbor of his wife, Myrtis; Butler would speak with said neighbor when visiting North Carolina.

Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear is a fictional anthropomorphic bear who appears in animated cartoons created by Hanna-Barbera Productions. He made his debut in 1958 as a supporting character in The Huckleberry Hound Show....


Pixie and Dixie


Hokey Wolf
Hokey Wolf

Hokey Wolf is a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that appeared on The Huckleberry Hound Show in 1960, filling the slot left by Yogi Bear.The theme music for Hokey?s segment of the show was an instrumental version of the refrain from Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here....

Hokey Wolf (voiced by Daws Butler
Daws Butler

Daws Butler was a voice actor born in Toledo, Ohio, Ohio. He originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, and Huckleberry Hound....
 impersonating Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a United States Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko....
) is a con-artist
Confidence trick

A confidence trick or confidence game is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence....
 wolf who is always trying to cheat his way to the simple life (much like another Hanna-Barbera character, Top Cat
Top Cat

Top Cat was a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the American Broadcasting Company network on Wednesdays....
). He is accompanied in this by his diminutive, bowler hat
Bowler hat

File:Olga Petrova with Knox Riding Hat,1915.jpgThe bowler hat, also known as a coke hat, derby or billycock, is a hard felt hat with a rounded crown originally created in 1849 for Edward Coke, the younger brother of the Thomas Coke, 2nd Earl of Leicester....
-wearing sidekick Ding-a-Ling Wolf (voiced by Doug Young
Doug Young (voice actor)

Douglas "Doug" Young, born February 10, 1931, is an United States voice acting who has worked on Radio programming and in animated cartoons.As of March 2003, Young has been doing freelancer voice work in Seattle, Washington....
 impersonating Buddy Hackett
Buddy Hackett

Buddy Hackett was an United States comedian and actor. In his later life, he and his wife set up the Sinigita Animal Sanctuary in the San Fernando Valley, California....
).

Reception


In 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 in film United States film starring Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard, and featuring Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney....
, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) briefly dons a mask of Huckleberry.

The name for Rock et Belles Oreilles
Rock et Belles Oreilles

Rock et Belles Oreilles, often referred to as R.B.O., was a Qu?b?cois radio and television comedy group that was very popular in the essentially French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec during the 1980s....
, a Quιbιcois
Quιbιcois

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 comedy group popular during the 1980s, was a pun on the name of Huckleberry Hound ("Roquet Belles Oreilles" in French).

Australian prison slang vernacular includes "huckleberry hound", a term originated in the 1960s, meaning "a punishment cell, solitary confinement."

Media information


DVD release

On November 15, 2005, Warner Home Video
Warner Home Video

Warner Home Video is the home video unit of Warner Bros., itself part of Time Warner. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video . It was re-named Warner Home Video in 1980....
 released The Huckleberry Hound Show - Vol. 1, featuring the complete first series of 26 episodes from the series on DVD. The other remaining 31 episodes are yet to be released.

DVD NameEp #Release DateAdditional Information
The Huckleberry Hound Show - Volume 1 The complete first series 26 November 15 2005
  • A bonus collectible animation cel
  • Featurette on reconstructing the premiere episode
  • Never-before-seen bumpers and bridge
  • Segment tributing Daws Butler
    Daws Butler

    Daws Butler was a voice actor born in Toledo, Ohio, Ohio. He originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, and Huckleberry Hound....
    , voice actor


Original (1958) syndication


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     / Channel 2 at the time* Atlanta, Georgia
    Atlanta, Georgia

    Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
  • WBTV-TV / Channel 3• Charlotte, North Carolina
    Charlotte, North Carolina

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  • WTVC-TV / Channel 9• Chattanooga, Tennessee
    Chattanooga, Tennessee

    Chattanooga, "the Scenic City", is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee , and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, in the United States....
  • WGN-TV
    WGN-TV

    WGN-TV, channel 9, is a television station in Chicago, Illinois. It has been owned by the Tribune Company since its inception, and is an affiliate of the CW Television Network....
     / Channel 9• Chicago, Illinois
  • KHSL-TV
    KHSL-TV

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     / Channel 12• Chico, California
    Chico, California

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  • WCPO-TV
    WCPO-TV

    WCPO-TV is a broadcast television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company network. It broadcasts on analog channel 9 and digital channel 10....
     / Channel 9• Cincinnati, Ohio
    Cincinnati, Ohio

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  • KYW-TV / Channel 3• Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio

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  • WEWS-TV
    WEWS-TV

    WEWS-TV, channel 5, is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio. WEWS has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception, and is an affiliate of the American Broadcasting Company television network....
     / Channel 5• Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio

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  • WKBF-TV
    WKBF-TV

    WKBF-TV channel 61 was an Independent station serving the Cleveland, Ohio market owned by a joint venture between Kaiser Broadcasting and Field Communications ....
     / Channel 61• Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
  • KFJZ-TV
    KTVT

    KTVT, channel 11, is a CBS Corporation owned and operated station television station licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas, Texas-Fort Worth designated market area....
     / Channel 11• Dallas, Texas
    Dallas, Texas

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  • KTVC-TV
    KBSD-TV

    KBSD channel 6 is a CBS affiliate based in Dodge City, Kansas, and serves the southwestern Kansas portion of the Wichita, Kansas TV market and part of the Oklahoma panhandle ....
     / Channel 6• Ensign, Kansas
    Ensign, Kansas

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  • WFMY-TV
    WFMY-TV

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     / Channel 2• Greensboro, North Carolina
    Greensboro, North Carolina

    Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city, by population, in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County, North Carolina and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region....
  • WFBC-TV
    WYFF

    WYFF is the NBC television affiliate based in Greenville, South Carolina. It serves a market which includes Greenville, Spartanburg, South Carolina and Anderson, South Carolina in South Carolina and Asheville, North Carolina....
     / Channel 4• Greenville, North Carolina
    Greenville, North Carolina

    Greenville is the county seat of Pitt County, North Carolina and principal city of the Greenville, North Carolina Greenville, North Carolina metropolitan area....
  • KTRK-TV
    KTRK-TV

    KTRK-TV, channel 13, is an owned-and-operated station television station of the Walt Disney Company-owned American Broadcasting Company, located in Houston, Texas....
     / Channel 13• Houston, Texas
    Houston, Texas

    Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
  • KMBC-TV
    KMBC-TV

    KMBC-TV, channel 9, is a television station located in Kansas City, Missouri. KMBC-TV is owned by Hearst-Argyle Television, and is affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company....
     / Channel 9• Kansas City, Missouri
    Kansas City, Missouri

    Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
  • WATE-TV
    WATE-TV

    WATE-TV, Channel 6 is the American Broadcasting Company affiliate in Knoxville, Tennessee. The station is owned by Young Broadcasting....
     / Channel 6• Knoxville, Tennessee
    Knoxville, Tennessee

    Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
  • WGAL-TV / Channel 8• Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    Lancaster, Pennsylvania

    Lancaster is a city in the South Central Pennsylvania part of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and is the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania....
  • KTTV-TV / Channel 11• Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California

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  • WAVE-TV / Channel 3• Louisville, Kentucky
    Louisville, Kentucky

    Louisville is Kentucky's largest city and county seat of Jefferson County, Kentucky. The city's estimated population as of 2006 is listed as 557,789, with a population of 1,233,733 in the Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  • WMAZ-TV
    WMAZ-TV

    WMAZ-TV, channel 13, is the CBS affiliate in Macon, Georgia, United States. It is owned by Gannett....
     / Channel 13• Macon, Georgia
    Macon, Georgia

    Macon is a city located in central Georgia , USA. It is among the largest metropolitan areas in Georgia, and the county seat of Bibb County, Georgia....
  • WPIX-TV / Channel 11• New York, New York
  • KTVU-TV / Channel 2• Oakland, California
    Oakland, California

    Oakland , founded in 1852, is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Alameda County, California. Oakland is approximately 8 miles east of San Francisco and the cities are separated by San Francisco Bay....
  • KPHO-TV
    KPHO-TV

    KPHO-TV is the CBS affiliate television station in Phoenix, Arizona. Its transmitter is located on South Mountain in Phoenix. It broadcasts locally over-the-air in NTSC on very high frequency channel 5 and in ATSC on ultra high frequency channel 17, identifying as channel 5 via Program and System Information Protocol....
     / Channel 5• Phoenix, Arizona
    Phoenix, Arizona

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  • KDKA-TV
    KDKA-TV

    KDKA-TV is the CBS owned and operated station television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its studios are located at One Gateway Center in Downtown Pittsburgh....
     / Channel 2• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
  • WIIC-TV
    WPXI

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     / Channel 11• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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  • WRAL-TV
    WRAL-TV

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     / Channel 5• Raleigh, North Carolina
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  • WEYI-TV
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     / Channel 25• Saginaw, Michigan
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  • WRGB-TV / Channel 6• Schenectady, New York
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  • WNEP-TV
    WNEP-TV

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     / Channel 16• Scranton, Pennsylvania
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  • KPLR-TV
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     / Channel 11• St. Louis, Missouri
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  • WTOL-TV / Channel 11• Toledo, Ohio
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  • KVOA-TV / Channel 4• Tucson, Arizona
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Licensing


The characters from The Huckleberry Hound Show spawned various product, publishing, and other licensing deals.

No later than 1961, the characters began appearing "in person" at events across America. Hanna Barbera commissioned costumed characters of Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, and Quick Draw McGraw, which appeared at events like the Florida State Fair
Florida State Fair

The Florida State Fair is held annually at the Florida State Fairgrounds near Tampa, Florida. The official state fair of Florida, it includes indoor and outdoor exhibits, rides and shows....
. Hanna-Barbera owner Taft Broadcasting
Taft Broadcasting

The Taft Broadcasting Company, also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated, was a media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio....
 started opening theme parks in 1972, beginning with King's Island
King's Island

King's Island is an area of Limerick City, Ireland. The River Shannon and Abbey River, Limerick flow on either side of the island. The 13th century King John's Castle is located on the island, as is the 800-year old St....
. These parks included areas themed to the company's cartoons, and included walk-around characters of Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, and others. The characters were also featured on rides, including carousels.

Licensed Huckleberry products included a Aladdin
Aladdin

Aladdin is one of the tales of Islamic Golden Age origin in the One Thousand and One Nights, and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....
-brand Thermos
Thermos

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.

Books based on the show include:
  • Huckleberry Hound Christmas, P. Scherr, Golden Press, 25 cents.
  • Huckleberry Hound: The Case of the Friendly Monster, Ottenheimer Publishers, 1978, 96 pages.


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