The Yogi Bear Show
The Yogi Bear Show | |
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Genre | |
Created by | |
Directed by | |
Voices of | |
Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
Composer | Hoyt Curtin |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 33 (105 segments) (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producers | |
Running time | 22 minutes (7 minutes per segment) |
Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Syndicated |
Release | January 30, 1961 January 6, 1962 | –
Related | |
The Yogi Bear Show is an American comedy
Segments
Yogi Bear
Snagglepuss
Snagglepuss the Mountain Lion (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Bert Lahr) tries to make his life hospitable while occasionally evading a hunter named Major Minor (voiced by Don Messick).
Yakky Doodle
Yakky Doodle (voiced by Jimmy Weldon in the style of Donald Duck) is a duck that lives with his best friend Chopper the Bulldog (voiced by Vance Colvig impersonating Wallace Beery). Chopper usually protected Yakky from being eaten by Fibber Fox (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Shelley Berman) or Alfy Gator (voiced by Butler impersonating Alfred Hitchcock).
Episodes
Season | Segments | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
1 | 48 | 16 | January 30, 1961 | May 15, 1961 | |
2 | 49 | 17 | September 16, 1961 | January 6, 1962 |
Broadcast
The Yogi Bear Show premiered on January 30, 1961, on some major city markets, although the show was not broadcast on the same day of the week, or the same time, in every city's affiliation in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Like
Syndication
Only a few locally produced children's shows reran segments of The Yogi Bear Show into the 1970s and into the 1980s. Chicago's WGN-TV rarely picked up segments from The Yogi Bear Show among others on Ray Rayner and his Friends until its cancellation in 1980; and in the United Kingdom, BBC One rarely picked up segments of the show during its "Children's BBC" block in the 1980s.
The Yogi Bear Show along with mixed Yogi Bear segments from The Huckleberry Hound Show returned to television on cable-only
Characters
- Yogi Bear (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Art Carney) and Boo Boo Bear reside in Jellystone Park and often try to steal picnic baskets while evading Ranger Smith (voiced by Don Messick). Yogi also has a relationship with his girlfriend Cindy Bear.
- Boo-Boo Bear (voiced by Don Messick) is Yogi's diminutive sidekick, who tries, and never succeeds, to warn Yogi that "Mr. Ranger" would not like Yogi to steal picnic baskets. He only wears a blue bowtie.
- Ranger Smith (voiced by Don Messick) is the head ranger who argues with Yogi stealing picnic baskets. He wears a traditional ranger costume.
- Cindy Bear (voiced by Julie Bennett) is Yogi Bear's girlfriend. She speaks with a pronounced Southern accent and carries a parasol.
Voice cast
Main voices
- Daws Butler - Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Fibber Fox, Alfy Gator, various
- Don Messick - Boo Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, Major Minor, narrator, various
- Julie Bennett - Cindy Bear
- Jimmy Weldon - Yakky Doodle
- Vance Colvig - Chopper
Additional voices
Spin-offs, movies, and specials
Following the show's cancellation in 1962, many spin-off incarnations, feature-length movies, and specials first appeared.
- Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! was released to theaters in 1964 by Columbia Pictures.
- Yogi's Ark Lark is a one-hour special first aired in 1972, in which Yogi and fellow Hanna-Barbera stars go on a journey to find the perfect place.
- Yogi's Gang, which spun-off from Yogi's Ark Lark, ran for one season on ABC in 1973.
- Laff-A-Lympics first aired on ABC in 1977.
- Yogi's Space Race, featuring Yogi and friends in an outer space race, aired on NBC in 1978.
- Yogi's First Christmas, a made-for-television movie, premiered in 1980.
- Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper, a special, first aired in 1982.
- Yogi's Treasure Hunt, first aired in syndication as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera in 1985, featured Yogi and pals hunting for lost treasure.
- Yogi's Great Escape, a 1987 television film, is part of Superstars 10.
- Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose, a 1987 television film, is part of Superstars 10.
- The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound is a 1988 television film, part of Superstars 10.
- Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears is a 1988 television film, part of Superstars 10.
- The New Yogi Bear Show, a 1988 update of the 1961 original, first aired in syndication.
- Wake, Rattle, and Roll (Fender Bender 500 segment only) first aired in syndication and later on the Disney Channel in 1990.
- Yo Yogi!, featuring Yogi and the gang as teenagers, first aired on NBC in 1991.
- Yogi the Easter Bear, first aired in 1994, is syndicated.
- TBS, also in 1994.
- A Day in the Life of Ranger Smith and Boo Boo Runs Wild are two standalone shorts directed by John Kricfalusi.
- Yogi Bear, a live-action/CGI film, was released to theaters in 2010 by Warner Bros.
- HBO Maxin 2021.
Additionally, reruns of the original series were aired on the USA Network from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s as part of their USA Cartoon Express animation block, while Nickelodeon also aired these same episodes, plus Yogi's Gang, Yogi's Space Race, and the latter's spinoff series, Galaxy Goof-Ups, during the early 1990s under the umbrella title Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear.
Home media
On November 15, 2005,
The earlier Yogi Bear cartoons from the first season of The Huckleberry Hound Show can be found on The Huckleberry Hound Show - Volume 1.
Title | Ep # | Release date | Notes |
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The Yogi Bear Show - The Complete Series | 33 | November 15, 2005 |
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See also
- List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
- List of films based on Hanna-Barbera cartoons
- List of Hanna-Barbera characters
References
- ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ISBN 0-670-82978-1.
- ISBN 978-0-87972-821-2. Retrieved August 16, 2009.
External links
- The Yogi Bear Show at IMDb
- The Cartoon Scrapbook Archived November 15, 2013, at the Wayback Machine – Profile on Yogi Bear