''The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series'', a.k.a. ''The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series'' or ''The Wally Gator Show'', was a syndicated television package of animated cartoon series produced by
Hanna-Barbera Productions
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 c ...
, starting in 1962. The show included three unrelated short cartoon segments featuring
talking animal
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characters:
* ''
Wally Gator
Wally may refer to:
Music
* Wally (band), British prog rock band
** ''Wally'' (album), a 1974 album by Wally
* ''La Wally'', an opera by Alfredo Catalani
Other uses
*Wally (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
*WALLY, a propose ...
''
* ''
Touché Turtle and Dum Dum''
* ''
Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har''
The package consisted of 52 episodes, each with three individual segments and no bridge animation. Each individual cartoon segment, had its own opening theme and closing title.
The title ''The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon series'' was an off-screen promotional title to distinguish this package from other Hanna-Barbera cartoons (such as ''
The Ruff and Reddy Show
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'', ''
The Huckleberry Hound Show
''The Huckleberry Hound Show'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and the second series produced by the studio following '' The Ruff and Reddy Show''. The show first aired in syndication on September ...
'' and ''
The Yogi Bear Show
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'', all of which had bridge animation between the cartoons) available at the time. For example, WGN-Channel 9 in Chicago ran the three segments in a half-hour timeslot under the name ''Wally Gator''. In New York,
WPIX-TV
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originally used the segments for a local series, ''Cartoon Zoo'', featuring Milt Moss as host and "Zookeeper", with life-sized cutouts of the characters in "cages" as a backdrop.
The package was originally syndicated by
Screen Gems, the TV division of
Columbia Pictures
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. The Hanna-Barbera studio was later purchased by the
Taft Broadcasting Company
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The company was rooted in the family of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the Un ...
, which distributed the studio's product first through Taft-HB Program Sales, and later through Worldvision Enterprises. Over time, the studio regained control of many of its earlier productions and distributed them through Worldvision. The elements of ''The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series'' were split up, with ''Wally Gator'' airing as a segment on ''Magilla Gorilla and Friends'' on
USA Network
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's ''
Cartoon Express'' from 1987 through 1991. Meanwhile, ''Touche Turtle'' and ''Lippy the Lion'' were part of another package of cartoons aired on
The Family Channel. Following the purchase of the Hanna-Barbera library by
Turner Entertainment
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, these shorts eventually appeared on
Cartoon Network and later
Boomerang
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.
Episode list
Home media
The first episode of the three cartoons is on the DVD ''Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960's - Vol. 2''.
Wally Gator was released separately as a mod DVD from Warner Archive as ''Wally Gator: The Complete Series'' on June 25, 2019.
Lippy the Lion followed on July 9 as ''Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har: The Complete Series''.
Touché Turtle has yet to be released by Warner Archive, though it was considered to be released soon after the other two; as of December 2022, Warner Archive has yet to announce a release for the series.
See also
*
List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
*
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 Wo ...
References
External links
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