Yogi's Gang
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Yogi's Gang is an American animated television series and the second incarnation of the Yogi Bear franchise, which aired 16 half-hour episodes on ABC from September 8, 1973 (1973-09-08), to December 29, 1973 (1973-12-29).[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]
Yogi's Gang | |
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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 (1973-09-08) – December 29, 1973 (1973-12-29) |
Related | |
Fred Flintstone and Friends |
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.
Yogi's Gang is the only Yogi Bear show to have a laugh track.