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| Also known as | Peter Potamus and His Magic Flying Balloon |
| Genre | Animated television series |
| Written by | Tony Benedict Warren Foster Dalton Sandifer |
| Voices of | Daws Butler Don Messick Howard Morris Mel Blanc John Stephenson Hal Smith Doug Young |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
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| Producer(s) | Joseph Barbera William Hanna |
| Running time | 22-26 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Syndication / ABC |
| Picture format | Black-and-white / NTSC (480i) |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original run | September 16, 1964 – October 23, 1965 |
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| Related shows | Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law |
Peter Potamus is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and first broadcast on September 16, 1964 (Early promotional materials for the series carried the title Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon, but that title never appeared on screen).
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Premise
Peter Potamus was a syndicated series divided into three segments; one of Peter Potamus and So-So, one of Breezly and Sneezly, and one of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey. Peter Potamus was a companion series to Magilla Gorilla, and both series premiered in first-run syndication before being picked up by ABC-TV in 1966. At that time, the Breezly and Sneezly segment was swapped with Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long, a segment on the Magilla Gorilla show. After the ABC run, cartoons from the Magilla Gorilla and Peter Potamus shows were syndicated together.
The original Peter Potamus series can occasionally be seen on the cable TV channel Boomerang. During the original run of the cartoon (1964), at the end of each episode, the closing song ended with the phrase: "And there he goes Peter Potamus, our ideal" (The Ideal toy company was the sponsor of the television series. A similarly subtle sponsor reference appeared in the Magilla Gorilla theme song lyrics: "He's really ideal").
It featured Peter Potamus the hippopotamus (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Joe E. Brown) and his sidekick, So-So the monkey (voiced by Don Messick). Peter was big, purple, and friendly. Episodes generally consisted of Peter and So-So exploring the world in his time-traveling hot air balloon. When faced with a certain situation, Peter uses his Hippo Hurricane Holler technique to blow away his opponents.
Episodes
- Fee Fi Fo Fun / No Place Like Nome / The Volunteers
- Lion Around / All Riot on the Northern Front / Black Bart
- Cleo Trio / Missile Fizzle / Double Dragon
- No Rest for a Pest / Mass Masquerade / Outlaw in-Law
- Wagon Train Strain / Furry Furlough / Horse Shoo Fly
- Monotony on the Bounty / Bruin Ruin / Wild Child
- The Good Hood / Freezing Fleas / Witch is Which
- Stars on Mars / Stars and Gripes / Wise Quacking
- Kooky Spook / Armoured Amour / Nautical Nitwits
- The Island Fling / As the Snow Flies / Job Robbed
- Courtin Trouble / Snow Biz / Unicorn on the Cob
- Big Red Riding Hood / Unseen Trouble / Mouse Rout
- Hurricane Hippo / Nervous in the Service / Handy Dandy Lion
- What a Knight / Birthday Bonanza / Sappy Birthday
- Mask Task / Bad Guys Are Good Guys / King of the Roadhogs
- Pre-Hysterical Pete / Itchy Finger Gunslinger / Palace Pal Picnic
- Trite Flite / Clunko Buncko / Sleepy Time King
- Marriage Peter Potamus Style / Slick Quick Gun / Pie Pie Blackbird
- Calaboose Caboose / Mostly Ghostly
- Eager Ogre / Will O' the Whip
- The Reform of Plankenstein / Cactus Ruckus
- Dept and Taxes / Rapid Romance
- Wrong Time No See / El Loco, Loco, Loco Diablo
- America or Bust / Big Town Show Down
- Rebel Rumble / Space Sheriff
- Pilgrims Regress / Red Riding Ricochet
- The Crossbow Incident / Jail Break-In
Other appearances
- Peter Potamus and So So appeared in Yogi's Ark Lark and its spin-off series Yogi's Gang.
- Peter Potamus guest starred in some episodes of Yogi's Treasure Hunt.
- Peter Potamus appeared in teenager form in the early 1990s series Yo Yogi, where he was voiced by Frank Welker. He and So-So were shown to own a plant store at Jellystone Mall called Peter Potamus' Plant Palace. In "Tricky Dickie's Dirty Trickies," he is shown to be allergic to goldenrods.
- Peter Potamus later became a recurring character on the parody show Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, where he is voiced in a Brooklyn accent by Joe Alaskey and later voiced by Chris Edgerly. In it, he is a sexually charged hippo working in the firm with Harvey Birdman. He has the trademark phrase, "Did you get that thing I sent you?". Starting at episode 6 of season 3, Return of Birdgirl, Peter's hands have been changed to stumps.
- Peter Potamus was the mascot of the fictional restaurant "Pizza Potamus" in two episodes of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. In both episodes, the restaurant was destroyed by an explosion.
DVD release
- There is yet to be a DVD release of the series for the Hanna-Barbera classics collection from Warner Home Video.
External links
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