The Yogi Bear Show

The Yogi Bear Show
Original Yogi Bear title card
Genre	Cartoon series
Created by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Voices of	Julie Bennett Daws Butler Vance Colvig Don Messick Jimmy Weldon
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	35 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	30 min.
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	Syndication
Original run	January 30 – December 30, 1961
Chronology
Related shows	The Huckleberry Hound Show

The Yogi Bear Show is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions about a fast-talking bear named Yogi.

The show debuted in syndication on January 30 and ran for 31 episodes till December 30 in 1961 and included two segments, Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle.^[1] The show only had a two year production run.^[2]

Segments

Yogi Bear

Yogi (voiced by Daws Butler) and his companion and best friend, Boo Boo (voiced by Don Messick) would try to steal picnic baskets of food from tourists but are always foiled by Park Ranger Smith (voiced by Don Messick). Yogi's girlfriend Cindy Bear (voiced by Julie Bennett) was occassionally featured and would usually disapproved of Yogi's schemes to steal food from park visitors.

Snagglepuss

Snagglepuss the Mountain Lion (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Bert Lahr) tries to make his life hospitable while occassionally evading a hunter named Major Minor (voiced by Don Messick).

Yakky Doodle

Yakky Doodle (voiced by Jimmy Weldon) is a duck who live with his best friend Chopper the Bulldog (voiced by Vance Colvig impersonating Wallace Beery). Chopper would usually protect Yakky from being eaten by Fibber Fox (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Shelley Berman).

Spinoffs, specials and movies

• Following the show's cancellation, a film based upon the series was made entitled, Hey There, It's Yogi Bear was released in 1964 by Columbia Pictures.

• The series was revived in 1970s with Yogi and his fellow Hanna-Barbera cartoon stars saving the world from villians trying to ruin the earth and several different shows, specials and movies including a show featuring Yogi and company as teenagers. The original show will be adapated in to a live-action/CGI motion picture (in the style of 2007's Alvin and the Chipmunks) from Warner Bros. (owner of Yogi Bear and other Hanna-Barbera properites) that is set to be released next year.

DVD Release

On November 15, 2005, Warner Home Video released the complete series on DVD R1.

Cover Art	DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date	Additional Information
	The Yogi Bear Show- The Complete Series	33	November 15, 2005	Collectible animation cel Original episode with bridges and bumpers Never-before-seen animation sketches come to life Yogi gets global: One episode in variety of languages Featurette on the art of Hanna-Barbera sound

See also

• List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
• Theatrically-released films based on Hanna-Barbera animations
• List of Hanna-Barbera characters
• Boo Boo
• The New Yogi Bear Show
• Yogi's Treasure Hunt
• Yo Yogi!

References

1. ^ Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. New York: Viking Penguin. pp. 63-64. ISBN 0-670-82978-1. 
2. ^ Browne, Pat (2001). The guide to United States popular culture (Illustrated ed.). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 944. ISBN 978-0-87972-821-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=U3rJxPYT32MC&pg=PA944. Retrieved August 16, 2009. 

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