Paw Paws

Paw Paws
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Directed byArt Davis
Oscar Dufau
Don Lusk
Carl Urbano
Rudy Zamora
Alan Zaslove
Voices ofSusan Blu
Ruth Buzzi
John Ingle
Don Messick
Howard Morris
Thom Pinto
Robert Ridgely
Stanley Ralph Ross
Alexandra Stoddart
Frank Welker
Theme music composerHoyt Curtin
Opening theme"Paw Paw Bears"
Ending theme"Paw Paw Bears" (Instrumental)
ComposerHoyt Curtin
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes21
Production
Executive producersWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
ProducerBerny Wolf
Production companyHanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
NetworkSyndicated
ReleaseSeptember 15, 1985 (1985-09-15) –
February 2, 1986 (1986-02-02)
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Paw Paws (also known as Paw Paw Bears) is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that first aired in 1985 and 1986.[1] It debuted as part of the weekday/weekend morning programming block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.[2]

The series name is a play on the paw paw, a fruit cultivated by Native Americans and indigenous to North America, and a play on words with a bear's paw. Reruns of the show formerly aired on Cartoon Network and later Boomerang.

  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 446. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 604–605. ISBN 978-1476665993.