| The Huckleberry Hound Show | |
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 Huckleberry Hound's Title Card |
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| Genre | Cartoon Comedy |
| Created by | Hanna-Barbera |
| Written by | Joseph Barbera Warren Foster Dan Gordon Michael Maltese Charles Shows |
| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Presented by | Huckleberry Hound |
| Starring | Huckleberry Hound Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks Yogi Bear Hokey Wolf |
| Voices of | Daws Butler Don Messick Doug Young Hal Smith |
| Narrated by | Don Messick |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin[1] |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| 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 |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | First-Run Syndication |
| Picture format | Color (Originally syndicated in Black-and-white) |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original run | October 2, 1958 – April 24, 1962 |
| Status | Ended |
| 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 |
Hanna-Barbera's second series, made specifically for television, The Huckleberry Hound Show was a 1958 syndicated animated series, sponsored by Kellogg's. 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. Jinks. The Yogi Bear segment of the show proved more popular than Huckleberry's; it spawned its own series in 1961.[2] A segment featuring Hokey Wolf and Ding-A-Ling was added, replacing Yogi Bear during the 1960-61 season.
In 1961, the series became the first animated program to be honoured with an Emmy Award,[3] 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.
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Background/Production
Conception and Development
Joe 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."[4]
Barbera once recalled about Daws Butler's voice acting versatility:
| “ | I can remember distinctly when I first met [Daws], I said, 'I kind of like this voice, but I think I'm gonna make it kind of a Southern voice because Southern voices are warm and friendly.' Daws said, 'Well, now I can do a Southern voice which is like North Carolina, or I can do a Southern voice that would be like Florida, that would be a cracker kind of voice, or if you want to get a little harder, we could get into Texas,' and by gosh, he had about twelve different Southerners.[4] | ” |
Format
The series featured three seven minute cartoons, animated specifically for television. The first was always starring Huckleberry, the next two featuring other characters.[5]
The show was originally distributed by Screen Gems, then by Worldvision Enterprises and then Turner Program Services, before current distributor Warner Bros. Television 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
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 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
Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks
Hokey Wolf
Hokey Wolf (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Phil Silvers) is a con-artist wolf who is always trying to cheat his way to the simple life (much like another Hanna-Barbera character, Top Cat). He is accompanied in this by his diminutive, bowler hat-wearing sidekick Ding-A-Ling Wolf (voiced by Doug Young impersonating Buddy Hackett).
Reception
In 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn) briefly dons a mask of Huckleberry. The name for Rock et Belles Oreilles, a Québécois 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."[6]
In January 2009, IGN named The Huckleberry Hound Show as the 63rd best in its "Top 100 Animated TV Shows". [7]
Media Information
DVD Release
On November 15, 2005, Warner Home Video released The Huckleberry Hound Show - Vol. 1 for the H-B classics collection, featuring the complete first series of 26 episodes from the series on DVD. The other remaining 31 episodes are yet to be released.
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
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| The Huckleberry Hound Show - Volume 1 The complete first series | 26 | November 15, 2005 |
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Original (1958) Syndication
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Alphabetized by city.
- WSB-TV / Channel 2 at the time* Atlanta, Georgia
- WBTV-TV / Channel 3• Charlotte, North Carolina
- WTVC-TV / Channel 9• Chattanooga, Tennessee
- WGN-TV / Channel 9• Chicago, Illinois
- KHSL-TV / Channel 12• Chico, California
- WCPO-TV / Channel 9• Cincinnati, Ohio
- KYW-TV / Channel 3• Cleveland, Ohio
- WEWS-TV / Channel 5• Cleveland, Ohio
- WKBF-TV / Channel 61• Cleveland, Ohio
- KFJZ-TV / Channel 11• Dallas, Texas
- KTVC-TV / Channel 6• Ensign, Kansas
- WFMY-TV / Channel 2• Greensboro, North Carolina
- WFBC-TV / Channel 4• Greenville, North Carolina
- KTRK-TV / Channel 13• Houston, Texas
- KMBC-TV / Channel 9• Kansas City, Missouri
- WATE-TV / Channel 6• Knoxville, Tennessee
- WGAL-TV / Channel 8• Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- KTTV-TV / Channel 11• Los Angeles, California
- WAVE-TV / Channel 3• Louisville, Kentucky
- WMAZ-TV / Channel 13• Macon, Georgia
- WPIX-TV / Channel 11• New York, New York
- KTVU-TV / Channel 2• Oakland, California
- KPHO-TV / Channel 5• Phoenix, Arizona
- KDKA-TV / Channel 2• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- WIIC-TV / Channel 11• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- WRAL-TV / Channel 5• Raleigh, North Carolina
- WEYI-TV / Channel 25• Saginaw, Michigan
- WRGB-TV / Channel 6• Schenectady, New York
- WNEP-TV / Channel 16• Scranton, Pennsylvania
- KREM-TV / Channel 2• Spokane, Washington
- KPLR-TV / Channel 11• St. Louis, Missouri
- WSYR-TV / Channel 3• Syracuse, New York
- WTOL-TV / Channel 11• Toledo, Ohio
- KVOA-TV / Channel 4• Tucson, Arizona
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.[8] Hanna-Barbera owner Taft Broadcasting started opening theme parks in 1972, beginning with King's Island. 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-brand Thermos.[9]
Books based on the show include:
- Huckleberry Hound Christmas, P. Scherr, Golden Press, 25 cents.[10]
- Huckleberry Hound: The Case of the Friendly Monster, Ottenheimer Publishers, 1978, 96 pages.[11]
Production Credits
- Produced and Directed: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
- Voices: Daws Butler, Don Messick
- Story: Warren Foster
- Story Director: Alex Lovy
- Titles: Lawrence Goble
- Musical Diector: Hoyt Curtin
- Production Supervision: Howard Hanson
- Associate Producer: Alan Dinehart
- Animation: Kenneth Muse, Leis Mashall, Carlo Vinci, Dick Lundy, George Nicholas, Don Patterson,
- Layout: Dick Bickenbach, Walt Clinton
- Backgrounds: Art Lozzi, Robert Gentle,
- Huckleberry Hound © Copyright MCMLVIII Hanna-Barbera Productions
- A Hanna-Barbera Production
- A Screen Gems Film Presentation
- Television Subsidiary: Columbia Pictures Corporation
See also
- Huckleberry Hound
- List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
- The Yogi Bear Show
- Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks
- Hokey Wolf
References
- ^ "Musicnotes.com: Huckleberry Hound". musicnotes.com. Madison, WI: Musicnotes, Inc.. http://www.musicnotes.com/download/viewer/downloadviewer.asp?ppn=MN0016088&mnuid=0UGVJHNY4UD4N5QP1BRWSTK71H647B5718QV7B57&dltype=0. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- ^ Mallory, Michael. Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1998. ISBN 0-88363-108-3. p. 44.
- ^ "Animation legend William Hanna dies at 90". CNN.com/Entertainment. 2001-03-23. http://archives.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/23/obit.hanna/index.html. Retrieved 2008-08-06.
- ^ a b Tim Lawson and Alisa Persons.; Tim Lawson, Alisa Persons (12 2004). "Daws Butler" (Scan). The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's who of Cartoon Voice Actors. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. pp. 367. ISBN 1578066964.
- ^ (Scan) The Television Program. Hill and Wang. 1962 [1962]. pp. 335. http://books.google.ca/books?id=jQULAAAAIAAJ&q=%22huckleberry+hound%22+date:1950-1972&dq=%22huckleberry+hound%22+date:1950-1972&lr=&as_brr=0&ei=Xab8SLvTNIvwMtrClKcL&client=firefox-a&pgis=1. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- ^ Green, Jonathon (2005) [2005] (Scan). Cassell's Dictionary of Slang. New York, New York: Sterling Publishing Company. pp. 1565. ISBN 0304366366. http://books.google.ca/books?id=5GpLcC4a5fAC&pg=PA752&dq=%22huckleberry+hound%22&lr=&as_brr=3&ei=iK78SOHhCojkMrLp6JAL&client=firefox-a. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- ^ http://tv.ign.com/top-100-animated-tv-series/63.html
- ^ "Huckleberry Hound To Be At Gasparilla" (Scan). St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Florida: The Times Publishing Company). 1961-02-12. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Y_QNAAAAIBAJ&dq=huckleberry%20hound&sjid=CHkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4876%2C603178. Retrieved 2008-10-20.
- ^ The United States Patents Quarterly (1962) at Google Book Search
- ^ The Publishers Weekly at Google Book Search
- ^ Huckleberry Hound: The Case of the Friendly Monster at Google Book Search
External links
- Huckleberry Hound's Toonopedia entry
- The Huckleberry Hound Show at Toon Tracker
- The Huckleberry Hound Show at the Internet Movie Database
- The Huckleberry Hound Show at TV.com
- The Big Cartoon Database – Informational site and episode guides on The Huckleberry Hound Show.
- The Cartoon Scrapbook – Information and details on Huckleberry Hound.
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