''The Quick Draw McGraw Show'' is an American animated television series produced by

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, and their third television series overall after ''

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'' and ''

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''. Voice actor

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performed the show's title character,

Quick Draw McGraw Quick Draw McGraw is a fictional anthropomorphic horse and the protagonist and title character of '' The Quick Draw McGraw Show''. He is a white horse, wearing a red Stetson cowboy hat, a red holster belt, a light blue bandana, and occasion ...

. The show debuted in

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on September 28, 1959, ended its run on October 20, 1961, and was sponsored by Kellogg's. The series featured three cartoons per episode, with Quick Draw and his sidekick

Baba Looey Baba Looey is a fictional Mexican donkey that appeared in ''The Quick Draw McGraw Show''. He is the deputy and familiar to Sheriff Quick Draw McGraw. He speaks Spanish with a Mexican accent. He was originally voiced by Daws Butler. Character ...

appearing in the first segment, father and son dog duo Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the second, and cat and mouse detectives

Snooper and Blabber ''Snooper and Blabber'' is one of the three segments from '' The Quick Draw McGraw Show''. This show was produced by Hanna-Barbera between September 19, 1959 and October 20, 1962, and consists of 45 episodes. History Snooper and Blabber form a p ...

in the third. There were also "bumpers," mini-cartoons between the main cartoons that featured Quick Draw and other main characters on the show. Michael Maltese wrote all of the episode stories. Screen Gems originally syndicated the series. It ran on CBS Saturday mornings for one season, 1965-66.

Segments

Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey

Quick Draw (voiced by

) was usually depicted as a sheriff in these short films set in the American Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican

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called

(also voiced by Butler). Although technically the side-kick, or deputy, to the main character of Sheriff Quick Draw, Baba Looey is often portrayed as the more thoughtful half of the duo; at times realizing some detail about a given situation and trying desperately without success to caution Quick Draw of a trap or other danger. The exchange would always go as follows: Baba Looey would see a fatal flaw in Quick Draw's plan, and begin voicing a warning such as "I don' thin' we should be doing...", to which Quick Draw would angrily interrupt with his frequent

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, "I'll do the 'thin'in' around here, Baba Looey!" His plans would then go disastrously wrong, and Quick Draw would be forced to realize he should have listened to Baba Looey. Quick Draw was assisted in some cartoons by his bloodhound Snuffles (voiced by Butler), who refused to work until he was given a dog biscuit, after which he would hug himself and spring into the air, floating back down to Earth. Quick Draw spent a number of cartoons as his alter ego, the masked El Kabong, who used a guitar (a "Kabonger") to bash bad guys into submission. Writer Michael Maltese said the character was inspired by actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as

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Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy

A young

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named Augie Doggie (voiced by

) and his father Doggie Daddy (voiced by Doug Young impersonating Jimmy Durante) have different misadventures in their life.

Snooper and Blabber

A detective

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named Super Snooper (voiced by

impersonating Ed Gardner as the character Archie from the radio show ''

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'') and his sidekick Blabber Mouse (voiced by

, originally voiced by Los Angeles radio announcer Elliot Field) work for the Super Snooper Detective Agency solving mysteries and catching criminals. In several cartoons, the duo had a private secretary named Hazel (voiced by

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) with a Southern accent, who was never seen on screen.

Episodes

Voice cast

- Augie Doggie, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Baba Looey, Super Snooper, Blabber Mouse, Snuffles, Narrator, Horse Face Harry, Various * Doug Young - Doggie Daddy, Bigelow Mouse, Narrator, Various * Elliot Field - Blabber Mouse (4 early episodes), Narrator, Various * Don Messick - Narrator, Various *

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- Sagebrush Sal (''Quick Draw McGraw''), Various * Red Coffey - Duckling (''Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy'') *

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- Tombstone Jones (''Quick Draw McGraw''), Narrator * Peter Leeds - Narrator (''Quick Draw McGraw'') *

- Hazel (''Snooper and Blabber''), Mrs. J. Evil Scientist (''Snooper and Blabber''), Various * Hal Smith - Narrator, Various

Home media

Season sets of the series for the '' Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection'' label was originally announced by

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for release in 2006 but was later cancelled due to poor conditions of the masters and the music right issues. In 2006, a Warner spokesperson said of the DVDs, "They were pulled because significant remastering work needed to be researched." Four episodes are available on DVD, the first two episodes on ''Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s: Vol. One'' and the other two on ''Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s: Vol. Two''.

Baba Booey mispronunciation

On the July 26, 1990, broadcast of ''

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'', executive producer Gary Dell'Abate was talking about the animation cels that he buys and collects. When attempting to say 'Quick Draw and Baba Looey', he accidentally said 'Quick Draw and Baba Booey'. He said later that talking about it would last a few hours. But since then, hundreds of 'Baba Booey' song parodies have been played on ''The Howard Stern Show''. In addition, 'Baba Booey' was often yelled out during live news broadcasts. Until recently, it was also frequently yelled at golf tournaments after the ball was struck.

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