Quick Draw McGraw
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The Quick Draw McGraw Show is the third cartoon television production created by Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

 starring an anthropomorphic cartoon horse
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...

 named Quick Draw McGraw following their success with The Ruff & Reddy Show
The Ruff & Reddy Show
The Ruff & Reddy Show is a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a straight and smart cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dumb and stupid dog voiced by Daws Butler...

 and The Huckleberry Hound Show. The show debuted in syndication in the fall of 1959, sponsored by Kellogg's. Voice actor Daws Butler
Daws Butler
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor originally from Toledo, Ohio. He worked mostly for Hanna-Barbera and originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.Daws Butler trained many working actors...

 performed the lead character, Quick Draw. The series featured 3 cartoons per episode, one each by Quick Draw McGraw & Baba Looey, father and son dog duo Augie Doggie & Doggie Daddy and cat and mouse detectives Snooper & Blabber.

Michael Maltese
Michael Maltese
Michael "Mike" Maltese was a long-time storyboard artist and screenwriter for classic animated cartoon shorts.-Career:...

 crafted most of the episode stories. Screen Gems
Screen Gems
Screen Gems is an American movie production company and subsidiary company of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group that has served several different purposes for its parent companies over the decades since its incorporation....

 originally syndicated the series, followed later by Rhodes Productions, Taft H-B Program Sales, Worldvision Enterprises, then Turner Broadcasting, and now Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Television is the television production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Television Studios, it serves as a television production arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Shameless on...

 (through their 1996 purchase of Turner). Currently, the show is aired on the Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

's sister channel, Boomerang
Boomerang (TV channel)
Boomerang is a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. Boomerang specializes in reruns of animated programming from Time Warner's extensive archives, including pre-1986 MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises...

, the Canadian station Teletoon Retro
Teletoon Retro
Teletoon Retro is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel based on the Teletoon programming block Teletoon Retro. The service consists of animation series from Canada and around the world, all of which commenced production at least 10 years prior to their exhibition...

 and occasionally on the Infinity channel, broadcasting in the Middle East.

Quick Draw McGraw

Quick Draw
Quick Draw McGraw
The Quick Draw McGraw Show is the third cartoon television production created by Hanna-Barbera starring an anthropomorphic cartoon horse named Quick Draw McGraw following their success with The Ruff & Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. The show debuted in syndication in the fall of 1959,...

 (voiced by Daws Butler
Daws Butler
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor originally from Toledo, Ohio. He worked mostly for Hanna-Barbera and originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.Daws Butler trained many working actors...

) was usually depicted as a sheriff
Sheriff
A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....

 in these short films set in the American Old West
American Old West
The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the latter half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century...

. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy
Sheriff
A sheriff is in principle a legal official with responsibility for a county. In practice, the specific combination of legal, political, and ceremonial duties of a sheriff varies greatly from country to country....

, a Mexican burro
Burro
The burro is a small donkey used primarily as a pack animal. In addition, significant numbers of feral burros live in the Southwestern United States, where they are protected by law, and in Mexico...

 called Baba Looey
Baba Looey
Baba Looey is a fictional anthropomorphic Mexican burro that appeared in The Quick Draw McGraw Show. He is deputy and best friend to Quick Draw McGraw. He was voiced by Daws Butler.Character:...

 (voiced by Daws Butler
Daws Butler
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor originally from Toledo, Ohio. He worked mostly for Hanna-Barbera and originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.Daws Butler trained many working actors...

 and his name being a word play on Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer. While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is probably best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to...

's hit song called "Babalu
Babalu (song)
Babalu is the title of a Cuban song, written by Margarita Lecuona, the cousin of composers Ernestina and Ernesto Lecuona. The song title is either a reference to the Santería deity Babalu Aye or to Babalawo, the title of a Santería priest and diviner....

").

Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy

A young Dachshund
Dachshund
The dachshund is a short-legged, long-bodied dog breed belonging to the hound family. The standard size dachshund was bred to scent, chase, and flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals, while the miniature dachshund was developed to hunt smaller prey such as rabbits...

 named Augie Doggie (voiced by Daws Butler
Daws Butler
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor originally from Toledo, Ohio. He worked mostly for Hanna-Barbera and originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.Daws Butler trained many working actors...

) and his father Doggie Daddy (voiced by Doug Young
Doug Young (voice actor)
Douglas "Doug" Young is an American voice actor who has worked on radio programs and in animated cartoons.-Career:Early in his career, Young appeared in classic radio shows including The Cisco Kid, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Red Ryder, and The Whistler...

 impersonating Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante
James Francis "Jimmy" Durante was an American singer, pianist, comedian and actor. His distinctive clipped gravelly speech, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose helped make him one of America's most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s...

) has different misadventures in their life.

Snooper and Blabber

A detective cat
Cat
The cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests...

 named Super Snooper (voiced by Daws Butler
Daws Butler
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor originally from Toledo, Ohio. He worked mostly for Hanna-Barbera and originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.Daws Butler trained many working actors...

 impersonating Ed Gardner
Ed Gardner
Edward Francis 'Ed' Gardner was an American comic actor, writer and director, best remembered as the creator and star of the radio's popular Duffy's Tavern comedy series....

) and his sidekick Blabber Mouse
Mouse
A mouse is a small mammal belonging to the order of rodents. The best known mouse species is the common house mouse . It is also a popular pet. In some places, certain kinds of field mice are also common. This rodent is eaten by large birds such as hawks and eagles...

 (voiced by Daws Butler
Daws Butler
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor originally from Toledo, Ohio. He worked mostly for Hanna-Barbera and originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.Daws Butler trained many working actors...

)

Season 1

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| M-001
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  • Baby Rattled (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Million Dollar Robbery (Augie Doggie):
  • Lamb Chopped (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-002
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  • Bad Guys Disguise (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Puss N' Booty (Snooper & Blabber):
  • High And Flighty (Augie Doggie):

|-
| M-003
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  • Nag! Nag! Nag! (Augie Doggie):
  • Masking For Trouble (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Switch Witch (Snooper & Blabber):

|-
| M-004
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  • Fee-Fi-Fo Fumble (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Watchdog Augie (Augie Doggie):
  • Bow-Wow Bandit (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-005
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  • Scat, Scout, Scat (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Disappearing Inc. (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Big Top Pop (Augie Doggie):

|-
| M-006
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  • In The Picnic Of Time (Augie Doggie):
  • Scary Prairie (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Desperate Diamond Dimwits (Snooper & Blabber):

|-
| M-007
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  • Slippery Glass Slipper (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Talk It Up Pup (Augie Doggie):
  • El Kabong (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-008
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  • Choo-Choo Chumps (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Big Diaper Caper (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Good Mouse Keeping (Augie Doggie):

|-
| M-009
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  • Foxhound Hounded Fox (Augie Doggie):
  • Riverboat Shuffled (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Masquerader Raider (Snooper & Blabber):

|-
| M-010
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  • Real Gone Ghosts (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Skunk You Very Much (Augie Doggie):
  • Cattle Battle Rattled (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-011
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  • Double Barrel Double (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • The Flea And Me (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Tee Vee Or Not Tee Vee (Augie Doggie):

|-
| M-012
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  • Pop's Nature Pup (Augie Doggie):
  • Slick City Slicker (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Not So Dummy (Snooper & Blabber):

|-
| M-013
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  • Motor Knows Best (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Whatever Goes Pup (Augie Doggie):
  • El Kabong Strikes Again (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-014
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  • Six-Gun Spook (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Cloudy Rowdy (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Pup Plays Pop:

|-
| M-015
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  • Cat Happy Pappy (Augie Doggie):
  • Sagebrush Brush (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Adventure Is My Hobby (Snooper & Blabber):

|-
| M-016
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  • Gopher Goofers (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Pipsqueak Pop (Augie Doggie):
  • Gun Gone Goons (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-017
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  • Dizzy Desperado (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Monkey Wrenched (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Fan Clubbed (Augie Doggie):

|-
| M-018
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  • Gone To The Ducks (Augie Doggie):
  • Doggone Prairie Dog (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Impossible Impostors (Snooper & Blabber):

|-
| M-019
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  • Snap Happy Saps (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Ro-Butler (Augie Doggie):
  • Treasure Of El Kabong (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-020
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  • Bronco Bustin' Boobs (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • The Case Of The Purloined Parrot (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Mars Little Precious (Augie Doggie):

|-
| M-021
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  • Crow Cronies (Augie Doggie):
  • Locomotive Loco (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • The Lion Is Busy (Snooper & Blabber):

|-
| M-022
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  • Doggone Dog, Gone (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Swats the Matter (Augie Doggie):
  • Elephant Boy Oh Boy (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-023
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  • The Lyin' Lion (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Laughing Guess (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Fuss N' Feathers (Augie Doggie):

|-
| M-024
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  • Peck O' Trouble (Augie Doggie):
  • Bull-Leave Me (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Poodle Toodle-Oo! (Snooper & Blabber):

|-
| M-025
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  • Hula-Hula Hullabaloo (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Hum Sweet Hum (Augie Doggie):
  • Kabong Kabong's Kabong (Quick Draw McGraw):

|-
| M-026
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  • Chopping Spree (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Wild Man, Wild! (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Snagglepuss (Augie Doggie):

|}

Season 2

>
M-027
  • Yuk-Yuk Duck (Augie Doggie):
  • El Kabong Meets El Kazing (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Ala-Kazoop! (Snooper & Blabber):
M-028
  • Hop to It (Snooper & Blabber):
  • It's a Mice Day (Augie Doggie):
  • Bullet Proof Galoot (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • M-029
  • Two Too Much (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Fleas Be Careful (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Bud Brothers (Augie Doggie):
  • M-030
  • Pint Giant (Augie Doggie):
  • Twin Troubles (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • De-Duck-Tives (Snooper & Blabber):
  • M-031
  • Big Shot Blab (Snooper & Blabber):
  • It's a Worm Day (Augie Doggie):
  • Ali-Baba Looey (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • M-032
  • Shooting Room Only (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Observant Servants (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Patient Pop (Augie Doggie):
  • M-033
  • The Musket-Tears (Augie Doggie):
  • Yippee Coyote (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Scoop Snoop (Snooper & Blabber):
  • M-034
  • Big Cat Caper (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Little Wonder (Augie Doggie):
  • Who is El Kabong? (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • M-035
  • Extra-Special Extra! (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Prince Of A Fella’ (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Let's Duck Out (Augie Doggie):
  • M-036
  • The Party Lion (Augie Doggie):
  • Scooter Rabbit (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Bear-ly Able (Snooper & Blabber):
  • M-037
  • Surprised Party (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Horse Fathers (Augie Doggie):
  • Talky Hawky (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • M-038
  • Gun-Shy Gal (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Flea For All (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Treasure Jest (Augie Doggie):
  • M-039
  • Playmate Pop (Augie Doggie):
  • El Kabong, Jr. (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Eenie, Genie, Minie, Mo! (Snooper & Blabber):

  • Season 3

    >
    M-040
    • Zoom-Zoom Blabber (Snooper & Blabber):
    • From Ape to Z (Augie Doggie):
    • Baba Bait (Quick Draw McGraw):
    M-041
  • Dynamite Fright (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Outer Space Case (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Growing, Growing, Gone (Augie Doggie):
  • M-042
  • Dough-Nutty (Augie Doggie):
  • El Kabong Was Wrong (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Gem Jams (Snooper & Blabber):
  • M-043
  • Person to Prison (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Vacation Tripped (Augie Doggie):
  • Mine Your Manners (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • M-044
  • The Mark of El Kabong (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Chilly Chiller (Snooper & Blabber):
  • Party Popper Pop (Augie Doggie):
  • M-045
  • Hand to Mouse (Augie Doggie):
  • Big Town El Kabong (Quick Draw McGraw):
  • Bronco Bluster (Snooper & Blabber):

  • Voice cast

    • Daws Butler
      Daws Butler
      Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor originally from Toledo, Ohio. He worked mostly for Hanna-Barbera and originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.Daws Butler trained many working actors...

       - Quick Draw McGraw, and Baba Looey, Super Snooper, Blabber Mouse, Augie Doggie.
    • Don Messick
      Don Messick
      Donald Earl "Don" Messick was an American voice actor best known for his work for Hanna-Barbera. Perhaps his most well-known voice creations include Scooby-Doo, Papa Smurf, and Dr. Benton Quest....

       - Narrator
    • Doug Young
      Doug Young (voice actor)
      Douglas "Doug" Young is an American voice actor who has worked on radio programs and in animated cartoons.-Career:Early in his career, Young appeared in classic radio shows including The Cisco Kid, The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Red Ryder, and The Whistler...

       - Doggy Daddy

    DVD release

    A DVD release of the series for the H-B classics collection
    Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection
    The Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection is a series of two-to-four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Bros.' home video unit Warner Home Video, usually containing seasons and complete series of various classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows...

     was originally announced by Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros.
    Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

     for 2006 but was later canceled due to the poor condition of the masters and the music right issues. In 2006, a Warner spokesperson said of the DVDs, "They were pulled because significant remastering work needed to be researched." http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5830 There have also been issues with music copyright ownership, meaning any sort of future DVD release is extremely doubtful, unless Warner Bros. considers to sort out these issues and as of 2010 they haven't done so.

    Quick Draw McGraw in other languages

    • French: Grangallo Tirevite
    • Polish: Quick Draw McGraw
    • Italian: Ernesto Sparalesto
    • Brazilian Portuguese
      Brazilian Portuguese
      Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay....

      : Pepe Legal
    • Spanish: Tiro Loco McGraw
    • Japanese: 早射ちマック (Hayauchi Mack)
    • Hungarian: Villámpata Sheriff
    • Finnish: Salama-Santeri, later Paukku-Polle
    • Dutch: Texas Jim
    • German: Quick und seine Freunde
    • Swedish: Texas Jack
    • Croatian
      Croatian language
      Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...

      : At Strašnomlat (El Kabong), Rz Brzotrz (Quick Draw McGraw)

    See also

    • List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
    • List of Hanna-Barbera characters
    • Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
      Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
      Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy are Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters who debuted on The Quick Draw McGraw Show and appeared in their own segment of that show.-Summary:The segments centered around the misadventures of a dachshund father-and-son team...

    • Snooper and Blabber
      Snooper and Blabber
      Snooper and Blabber is one of the sequences from The Quick Draw McGraw Show . Snooper and Blabber form a pair of cat and mouse detectives. Daws Butler voiced both characters although some of the earliest episodes feature Jerry Hausner as Blabber. Michael Maltese crafted the stories...


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