| Yogi's Gang | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Genre | Adventure Comedy |
| Directed by | Charles A. Nichols |
| Voices of | Daws Butler Henry Corden Allan Melvin Don Messick John Stephenson Jean Vander Pyl |
| Composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 15 (and a TV movie) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | September 8 – December 29, 1973 |
| Related | |
| Fred Flintstone and Friends | |
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Yogi's Gang is an American Saturday-morning cartoon, and the second incarnation of the Yogi Bear franchise, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which aired for 16 half-hour episodes on ABC from September 8, 1973, to December 29, 1973.[1] The show began as Yogi's Ark Lark, a special TV movie on The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie in 1972.[2] Fifteen original episodes were produced for broadcast on ABC, with the hour-long Yogi's Ark Lark thrown in as a split-in-half two-parter.[3] The show confronted social and cultural issues like ecology and bigotry, with villains named Mr. Waste, Dr. Bigot, the Envy Brothers, Lotta Litter, the Greedy Genie and Mr. Cheater.[4]
After a successful run on Saturday mornings, episodes of Yogi's Gang were serialized on the syndicated weekday series, Fred Flintstone and Friends in 1977–78.[5] In the late 1980s, repeats were shown on USA Cartoon Express and later resurfaced on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. As of June 2024, the series is included as part of MeTV Toons' lineup.
Yogi's Gang is the only Yogi Bear show to have a laugh track.
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part I: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. pp. 316–317. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 55. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 934. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Studio. p. 66. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 717–720. ISBN 978-1538103739.