TV's Saturday Morning Cartoon Legacy: The Huckleberry Hound Show (sponsored by Kellogg's)
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- As we continue our summer-long look back at vintage Saturday morning cartoons of the 1960's, we kick-off July with more from Hanna Barbera. The Hanna Barbera team was firing on all cylinders in the 1960s. They had a lock on 'family suburbia' with the Flintstones and the Jetsons, and they had a near lock on the animal kingdom with Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and company.
This video clip is from the Huckleberry Hound Show, which featured Yogi Bear and all their friends from Jellystone Park. What made this cartoon series so successful and ground breaking for the sponsors was the seamless interaction between the cartoon cast of Yogi and Huck, and the cartoon cast of their friends (and our friends from childhood) at Kellogg's: Kornelius the rooster, Snap, Crackle and Pop, Tony the Tiger and Tony Jr. and some additional friends that frankly, we can't recall their names (but we're investigating!)
There was a time when television cartoon characters graced the covers of the very Kellogg's cereal boxes they were helping to sell on their television programs and local supermarket shelves. The interaction between those television cartoon characters and Kellogg's cartoon characters and products was enticingly seamless.
This symbiosis took on another dimension when Kellogg's cereal competitor Post developed their own cartoon creations, and were given their own Saturday morning cartoon shows; these shows (and cartoon characters) were fast becoming every bit as successful as the Hanna Barbera creations. The difference between a children's cartoon character helping to sell a breakfast cereal on Saturday mornings, and a breakfast cereal helping to sell a cartoon character with a Saturday morning television show was becoming increasingly blurred. Adding to this interesting and complex relationship were premiums/toys of the cartoon/cereal characters that one could purchase from the cereal company by mail, and the circle was complete... and very successful.
We'll look back in more detail at this interaction of cartoons, cereal and Saturday mornings later this summer in August, and we'll provide (lament?) more details on how it all started coming apart in the late 1960s as the 1970s were approaching.
In the meantime kids, let's all sit back and open up a box of cereal for breakfast and enjoy the show! It's Saturday morning!!
This video clip is presented here on TH-cam for the entertainment and informational value of the viewer, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Coming up later this holiday week, more from Jellystone Park and at week's end, we'll have more from Yogi and some great tasting cereal called 'OKs', that looked and tasted surprisingly like Cherrios from our friends at General Mills. But not to worry, the fine folks at General Mills would soon have their own cartoon characters to help sponsor Saturday mornings! Eat up kids!
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HUCKLEBERRY HOUND is my absolute favorite H-B cartoon character, ever!!!! He premiered on TV on Oct. 2, 1958. He was such a great cartoon character, IMO. Daws Butler was the voice behind this great character. He was the first Emmy winner for H-B Prod. , l believe.
From 1958 to 1961, when this show was brand new, it was not on Saturday mornings. It was syndicated to local TV stations to air Monday to Friday afternoons after school. In my town, Huckleberry Hound was on before our local news at 5:30 pm each day, hosted by a local TV cartoon host. Loved this show.
Kellogg's sponsored Huck in syndication (in black and white) through the 1965-'66 season. In the fall of '66, Screen Gems finally distributed color prints of Huck's show as a daily "strip", with new "sponsorless" opening and closing titles [and a 1966 copyright date], and the Screen Gems "S" logo at the end.
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Happy 60th Anniversary to Huckleberry Hound, Pixie, Dixie, Mr. Jinks, Yogi Bear, and Boo Boo. May you guys entertain the kids of the this generation.
The best-animated Hanna-Barbera character: Corn Flakes Rooster
That Screen Gems logo at the end is legendary, a marvelous find.
On the USA airings during the “Cartoon Express”, it was plastered by the “Swirling Star” logo.
How marvelous
TV was still amazing even without color.
It has been over fifty years since I last saw the Huckleberry Hound Show in the 1960s, but watching this footage now it all looks so familiar. It's as though no time had passed since I last saw this.
That oh so merry chuckleberry HUCKLEBERRY HOUND! Now this was real entertainment!
we need a full original airing of this on either youtube or internet archive without getting taken down right now! this is amazing!
Appearing in the closing credits are Kellogg's mascots "Cornelius the Rooster" [Corn Flakes], "Snap", "Crackle" and "Pop" [Rice Krispies], "Smaxey the Seal" [Sugar Smacks], "Tony the Tiger" and "Tony Jr." [Sugar Frosted Flakes], and "Sugar Pops Pete" [Sugar Pops].
Old vintage Kellogg’s commercials with Hanna-Barbera stars
I love Hanna-Barbera
Starting at 4:46, I've seen this ending many, many times when I was a kid - FAR, FAR OUT!!!😊
He reveals Grizzly Beaver's true form in the making of his short film
He wakes up from a bad Cow and Chicken dream.
He sleeps with Dexter.
His name is Huckleberry Hound!
The seal was Smaxie Seal ( Sugar Smacks) and the prairie dog w/ cowboy hat and gun belt was Sugar Pops Pete ( Sugar Pops).
Somewhere on a VHS tape I have Hanna Barbera cartoons showing the Huckleberry Hound ending in color. In this sequence Jinks is driving the car with Pixie and Dixie in the back seat, Huck sitting on the hood, and the 2 hitchhikers are Yogi and Boo Boo!
That was the ending WITHOUT the Kellogg's sponsor I.D. and their cereal icons.....intended for syndication after Kellogg's ended their national sponsorship in 1966.
Wow
At least we got great new cartoons in the 2010 decade.
Are you sure all of them are good? 😃
@@mihaichetreanu3664they have to be good at least
It’s a right shame the rest of the Huckleberry Hound Show didn’t maintain this quality of animation. It could have changed the trajectory of perception over television animation
Same with the animation in the General Mills commercials for Rocky and His Friends/The Bullwinkle Show.
Mind you, the decision to outsource the majority of the animation to Mexico was made by the sponsor and its agency, while Jay Ward was in the hospital recovering from a nervous breakdown.
Screen Gems logo at the end maybe
Right on
All the cereal characters are hitchhickers
Kurt Reed Kutcel and Bobby sawicki
Forget Huckleberry Hound. The rooster should be the star of the show!
2nd season closing credits
Huckleberry hound, Pixie,Dixie and Mr Jinks,along with Yogie bear and Boo boo I loved Wally Gator, Top cat, so many more, all of those classic cartoons were pure gold. The cartoons of today are not that good.
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The closest thing we have to Huckleberry hound now is Sarah Hucklebee.
No...just NO.
In the late 1990s, it's too bad Sony's TriStar, Hanna, Barbera and Spielberg's Amblin never made a live-action Huckleberry Hound movie. Robin Williams of Hook would have voiced him in that movie.
Classic
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Timestamps:
Intro 0:01
Sponsored 0:33
Outro 0:45
Commercials 1:45
😃 & 😠
We all loved Huckleberry Hound. His speaking mannerisms were the epitome of a nice, easygoing style.
I was 3/4 when Huckleberry Hound began in 1958. Thanks for bringing back these treaures.
Hi Richard, you are welcome! Much more to come as we'll continue to unearth vintage VHS tapes to find hidden clues to television's past, as well as reflecting on television's present day. - Best to you, Television Vanguard staff
At the end of "Chicken in the Bathroom" Cow who was very desperate to go to the toilet could not hold it any longer and ends up flooding the bathroom with urine/milk causing her and her family to tragically drown. Luckily, It turns out to be a bad Cow and Chicken dream Huckleberry Hound had.
The series was originally syndicated during the week, either in a late afternoon or early evening time period (in New York, it was on WPIX-TV Thursday nights at 6:30). Huck's cartoons were shown on Saturday mornings- but as part of Kellogg's "THE MAGIC LAND OF ALLAKAZAM" {featuring magician Mark Wilson} on CBS from 1960 through '62.
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