The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show

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The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
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Photo of Bill Hanna (right) and Joe Barbera (left) from a television special for the premiere of their new Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel television program.
Genre
Written by
  • Tony Benedict
  • Dalton Sandifer
Directed by
Voices of
Composers
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes26
Production
Executive producers
  • William Hanna
  • Joseph Barbera
Running time30 minutes
Production company Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network NBC
ReleaseOctober 2, 1965 (1965-10-02) –
September 7, 1967 (1967-09-07)

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show is an hour-long Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1965 to 1967 for NBC. [1]

Contents

In 1965, the show aired as two independent half-hour programs. The Atom Ant Show featured the tiny superhero Atom Ant, with additional segments The Hillbilly Bears and Precious Pupp . The Secret Squirrel Show features the master spy Secret Squirrel, backed up with Squiddly Diddly and Winsome Witch . [2] In the winter, the shows combine into an hour-long format, The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show. For the series' final NBC run under the Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel title, the show was a half-hour long. [3]

Production

On September 12, 1965, the series had an hour-long primetime preview on NBC called The World of Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant or The World of Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel. [4]

The Hillbilly Bears cartoon segments repeated during the second season of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1969–1970), and all 52 Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel half-hour episodes were syndicated as part of The Banana Splits and Friends Show, an umbrella title for a package combining episodes of several different Hanna-Barbera series (the other series included The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Gulliver ).

Segments

The program contains six segments:

Characters

Atom Ant

Atom Ant (voiced by Howard Morris)

The Hillbilly Bears

Paw Rugg (voiced by Henry Corden)

Maw Rugg (voiced by Jean Vander Pyl)

Floral Rugg (voiced by Jean Vander Pyl)

Shag Rugg (voiced by Don Messick)

Precious Pupp

Precious Pupp (voiced by Don Messick)

Granny Sweet (voiced by Janet Waldo)

Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole

Secret Squirrel (voiced by Mel Blanc)

Morocco Mole (voiced by Paul Frees)

Squiddly Diddly

Squiddly Diddly (voiced by Paul Frees)

Chief Winchley (voiced by John Stephenson)

Winsome Witch

Winsome Witch (voiced by Jean Vander Pyl)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 46–48. ISBN   978-1538103739.
  2. ↑ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 99–100. ISBN   978-1476665993.
  3. ↑ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. pp. 27–29. ISBN   0-8108-1557-5 . Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  4. ↑ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 46–47. ISBN   978-0823083152 . Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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