The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series

The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series
Also known asThe New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series
The Wally Gator Show
Cartoon Zoo (WPIX-TV)
GenreCartoon series
Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Voices ofDaws Butler
Bill Thompson
Mel Blanc
Alan Reed
Don Messick
Country of originUnited States
No. of episodes52 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducersWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time30 minutes
Production companyHanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
NetworkFirst-run syndication
ReleaseSeptember 3, 1962 (1962-09-03) –
August 26, 1963 (1963-08-26)
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The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series, a.k.a. The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series or The Wally Gator Show, was an American syndicated television package of three animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The package started on September 3, 1962,[1] and ended on August 26, 1963, and included the following unrelated short cartoon segments featuring talking animals characters:

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.[5]

The title The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series was an off-screen promotional title to distinguish this package from other Hanna-Barbera cartoons available at the time (such as The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Quick Draw McGraw Show and The Yogi Bear Show, all of which had bridge animation between the cartoons). 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 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 television division at the time of Columbia Pictures. The Hanna-Barbera studio was later purchased by the Taft Broadcasting Company, 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'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, these shorts eventually appeared on Cartoon Network and later Boomerang.

  1. ^ Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Studio. p. 121. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 895–896. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  3. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 867. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  4. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 501. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  5. ^ Yowp (2012-04-25). "Mr. Barbera, When's My Birthday?". Yowp. Retrieved 2019-07-11.