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List Of Hanna-Barbera Characters
The following is a list of characters created by and featured in various Hanna-Barbera productions and series: 2 Stupid Dogs (1993–1995) ;2 Stupid Dogs * Big Dog * Little Dog * Mr. Hollywood * The Kitten * Red Riding Hood * Grandma * The Wolf * The Witch * Secret Squirrel * Morocco Mole * The Chief * Penny the Squirrel * Kenny Fouler * Buffy Zigenhagen The All New Popeye Hour (1978–1983) ;The All New Popeye Hour * Alice the Goon * Bluto * Col. Crumb * Dinky * Eugene the Jeep * Olive Oyl * Monica * Pipeye * Peepeye * Popeye * Poopdeck Pappy * Poopeye * Pupeye * Sandy * Sgt. Bertha Blast * Swee%27Pea * Uncle Dudley * J. Wellington Wimpy, Wimpy The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972) ;The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan * Charlie Chan * Henry Chan * Stanley Chan * Suzie Chan * Alan Chan * Anne Chan * Tom Chan * Flip Chan * Nancy Chan * Mimi Chan * Scooter Chan * Chu Chu The Atom Ant Show (1965–1967) ;The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show, The Atom Ant Show * Atom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ) was an American animation studio and production company which was active from 1957 to 2001. It was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera following the decision of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to close its in-house cartoon studio. Headquartered in Cahuenga Blvd. until 1998 and then Sherman Oaks, both in Los Angeles, California, until going defunct, it created many television shows, theatrical films, televised movies and specials, including ''Huckleberry Hound'', ''Quick Draw McGraw'', ''The Flintstones'', ''Yogi Bear'', ''The Jetsons'', ''Jonny Quest'', ''Wacky Races'', ''Scooby-Doo'' and ''The Smurfs''. Its productions have won a record-breaking 8 Emmy Awards. Its fortunes declined by the 1980s as the profitability of Saturday-morning cartoons was eclipsed by weekday afternoon syndication. Taft Broadcasting acquired Hanna-Barbera in 1966 and retained ownership until 1991 when Turner Broadcasting System took over and used its ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Banana Splits
''The Banana Splits'' is an American television variety show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and featuring the Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four costumed animal characters in red marching band hats with yellow plumes. The costumed hosts of the show are Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper ( bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). The series ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings from September 7, 1968, to September 5, 1970, and in syndication from 1970 to 1982. The show features the Banana Splits band as live-action costumed characters, who host both live-action and animated segments within their program. The costumes and sets were designed by Sid and Marty Krofft, and the series' sponsor was Kellogg's Cereals. A feature-length comedy horror film adaptation called ''The Banana Splits Movie'' premiered at the San Diego Comic-Con on July 18, 2019, and was released worldwide on August 27, 2019. History In 1967, William H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Grimley
Edward Mayhoff 'Ed' Grimley is a fictional character created and portrayed by Martin Short. Developed amongst The Second City improv comedy troupe, Grimley made his television debut on the sketch comedy show '' SCTV'' in 1982, leading to popular success for both Short and the persona. Short continued to portray Grimley on ''Saturday Night Live'' and in various other appearances. The character also starred in Hanna-Barbera's 1988 animated series ''The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley'', and appeared in Short's comedy specials ''I, Martin Short, Goes Hollywood'' and ''I, Martin Short, Goes Home''. Concept and creation Martin Short originated the character on Toronto's Second City stage as an unnamed school parent in a sketch. Originally, his hair was simply very greasy and unkempt, but another cast member joked offstage that the height of the hair seemed to increase with each performance. In an interview, Short said that he was inspired by a scene from the John Wayne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clue Club
''Clue Club'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on CBS from September 4 to December 11, 1976. Overview The series follows a group of four teenage detectives, the Clue Club – Larry, Pepper, D.D. and Dottie – who solved mysteries with the help of two talking dogs, a bloodhound and basset hound named Woofer and Wimper. Clue Club mysteries usually involved investigating bizarre crimes such as animals, trains, airports, a movie director and statues vanishing into thin air. ''Clue Club'' only had one season's worth of first-run episodes produced, which were shown on Saturday mornings on CBS. In the fall of 1977, cut-down versions of the half-hour episodes of ''Clue Club'' appeared under the new title ''Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives'' to showcase the show's bloodhound and basset hound which aired as a segment on the CBS Saturday morning package program ''The Skatebirds'' from September 10, 1977, to January 21, 1978. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casper And The Angels
''Casper and the Angels'' is an American animated television series based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1979, to December 15, 1979. Plot Casper the Friendly Ghost is a " guardian ghost" to two female Space Police officers named Mini (who is a rather ditzy redhead) and Maxi (who is a much more intelligent African-American woman with a very short temper) who patrol the ''Jetsons''-style Space City on their flying motorcycles in the year 2179. They are joined by the rambunctious but good-hearted Hairy Scary, a large, shaggy, thousand year old ghost with a red nose and big bow tie who enjoys scaring people, especially villains and other troublemakers, but because he has a great deal of affection for his little pal Casper he, unlike most of their ghostly kind, tries to accept the fact that the gentle ghost does not like to scare people. Less accepting, especially toward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina And The Count
''Mina and the Count'' is an American animated television series created by Rob Renzetti, which was never brought into development as a full-fledged series. Instead, animated shorts of this series aired on both of Fred Seibert's animation anthology showcases, Cartoon Network's ''What a Cartoon!'' and Nickelodeon's ''Oh Yeah! Cartoons''. Summary The original ''Mina and the Count'' pilot short, "Interlude with a Vampire," premiered on the ''What a Cartoon!'' show on Cartoon Network on November 5, 1995, making it the only short to be featured on both creator-guided short projects guided by Fred Seibert. The short was about a seven-year-old girl named Mina Harper (a play on ''Dracula'' character Mina Harker) and her encounters with Vlad, a 700-year-old vampire one night while she is sleeping (Vlad had accidentally found her when he was looking for "Nina Parker," another reference to the ''Dracula'' character). The aforementioned further episodes concerned the vampire, known simply a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Shorts
''The Life of Larry'' and ''Larry & Steve'' are two animated short films created by Seth MacFarlane in the mid-1990s that eventually led to the development of the animated sitcom ''Family Guy''. He originally created ''The Life of Larry'' as a thesis film in 1995 while attending the Rhode Island School of Design. His professor at RISD submitted MacFarlane's cartoon to Hanna-Barbera, where he was hired a year later. Later that year, MacFarlane created a sequel to ''The Life of Larry'' called ''Larry & Steve'' that features the main character of his first film, the middle-aged Larry, and an intellectual dog named Steve. MacFarlane was also hired as a writer for Disney's ''Jungle Cubs''. The short was broadcast as one of Cartoon Network's ''World Premiere Toons'' in 1997. Executives at Fox saw both ''Larry'' shorts and contracted MacFarlane to create a series based on the characters, to be called ''Family Guy''. Peter Griffin, one of the main characters in ''Family Guy'', is largely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Cartoon!
''What a Cartoon!'' (later known as ''The What a Cartoon! Show'' and ''The Cartoon Cartoon Show'') is an American animated anthology series created by Fred Seibert for Cartoon Network. The shorts were produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions; by the end of the run, a Cartoon Network Studios production tag was added to some shorts to signal they were original to the network. The project consisted of 48 cartoons, intended to return creative power to animators and artists, by recreating the atmospheres that spawned the iconic cartoon characters of the mid-20th century. Each of the shorts mirrored the structure of a theatrical cartoon, with each film being based on an original storyboard drawn and written by its artist or creator. Three of the cartoons were paired together into a half-hour episode. ''What a Cartoon!'' premiered under the ''World Premiere Toons'' title on February 20, 1995. The premiere aired alongside a special episode of Cartoon Network's ''Space Ghost Coast to Coast'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Planet And The Planeteers
''Captain Planet and the Planeteers'' is an American animated environmentalist superhero television series created by Barbara Pyle and Ted Turner and developed by Pyle, Nicholas Boxer, Thom Beers, Andy Heyward, Robby London, Bob Forward and Cassandra Schafausen. The series was produced by Turner Program Services and DIC Enterprises and broadcast on TBS and in syndication from September 15, 1990, to December 5, 1992. Captain Planet And The Planeteers . ''www.bcdb.com'', April 12, 2012 A sequel series, ''The New Adventures of Captain Planet'', was produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., distributed by |
Captain Caveman And The Teen Angels
''Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels'' is an American animated mystery comedy series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for ABC. The series aired during the network's Saturday morning schedule from September 10, 1977, to June 21, 1980. All 40 episodes are available on the Boomerang subscription app. Summary The series follows the mystery-solving adventures of the Teen Angels—Brenda, Dee Dee and Taffy—and their friend Captain Caveman (or Cavey for short), a prehistoric caveman and superhero whom the girls discovered and thawed from a block of ice. The concept and general plot for the show was seen as a parody of ''Charlie's Angels'' (which also aired on ABC). The show also borrowed heavily from other Hanna-Barbera shows such as ''Scooby-Doo'' and ''The Flintstones'', among others. Captain Caveman's powers include super-strength, a variety of useful objects hidden inside his hair, and a club that allows him to fly and from which pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CB Bears
''CB Bears'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC from September 10 to December 3, 1977. As with many Hanna-Barbera shows of the time, ''CB Bears'' was an anthology series with six regular segments: ''The CB Bears''; ''Blast-Off Buzzard''; ''Heyyy, It's the King''; ''Posse Impossible''; ''Shake, Rattle & Roll''; and ''Undercover Elephant''. Each segment riffed on a popular television show or film. The ''CB Bears'' segment was a spoof on the 1976 hit show ''Charlie's Angels'', with a trio of ursine investigators given assignments by an unseen dispatcher. Similarly, ''Heyyy, It's the King'' was a takeoff on the 1974 hit ''Happy Days'', with a royal lion based on Henry Winkler's famous Fonzie. ''Blast-Off Buzzard'' imitated Looney Tunes' Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner; ''Posse Impossible'' was a cowboy show caricaturing John Wayne; ''Shake, Rattle & Roll'' featured a trio of ghosts imitating comics Hugh Herbert, Lou Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butch Cassidy (TV Series)
''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids'' is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 8, 1973, to December 1, 1973. The series title is a play on the name of the unrelated 1969 film '' Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''. The character's music group is called the Sun Dance Kids. Plot Similar to both ''Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!'' and ''Josie and the Pussycats'' on CBS, the show depicts the adventures of the titular teen pop group. The band consists of 4 heartthrobs: Butch Cassidy (lead vocals and lead guitar); mini-skirted blonde beauty Merilee (tambourine); sensible Stephanie, nicknamed Steffy (bass guitar); and curly-haired Wally (drums). Accompanied by Wally's dog Elvis, these popular rock stars lead double lives as government-backed crime-fighters. The teens are advised by a supercomputer named Mr. Socrates, who is (somehow) violently allergic to dogs. When the group meets with Mr. Socrates in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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