| Alt Name: | The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series The Wally Gator Show Cartoon Zoo |
| Genre: | Cartoon series |
| Director: | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices: | Daws Butler Bill Thompson Mel Blanc Alan Reed Don Messick |
| Country: | United States |
| Num Episodes: | 52 |
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| Producer: | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Company: | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Network: | First-run syndication |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
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.
| Nº | Wally Gator | Touché Turtle | Lippy & Hardy | Air date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Droopy Dragon" Animation: Dick Lundy | "Whale of a Tale" Animation: Ed Parks | "Sea-Saw" Animation: Kenneth Muse | ||
| 2 | "Gator-Napper" Animation: Unknown | "Zero Hero" Animation: Kenneth Muse | "Water-Melon Felon" Animation: William Keil | ||
| 3 | "Swamp Fever" Animation: George Goepper | "Dilly of a Lilly" Animation: George Nicholas | "Scare to Spare" Animation: William Keil | ||
| 4 | "White Tie and Frails" Animation: Jack Ozark | "Missing Missile" Animation: George Nicholas | "Gulp and Saucer" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 5 | "Escape Artist" Animation: Jack Carr | "Lake Serpent" Animation: Kenneth Muse | "Map Happy" Animation: William Keil | ||
| 6 | "California or Bust" Animation: George Goepper | "You Bug Me" Animation: Ed Parks | "Smile the Wild" Animation: William Keil | ||
| 7 | "Frame and Fortune" Animation: Harry Holt | "Roll-A-Ghoster" Animation: Ed Aardal | "Charge of the Fright Brigade" Animation: Unknown | ||
| 8 | "Tantalizin' Turnips" Animation: Ed Parks | "Giant Double-Header" Animation: George Nicholas | "Film Flam" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 9 | "Over the Fence Is Out" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Loser Take All" Animation: Bob Carr | "Gunflighter" Animation: Ed Parks | ||
| 10 | "Bear with Me" Animation: Unknown | "Takes Two to Tangle" Animation: Bob Carr | "Hick Hikers" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 11 | "Outside Looking In" Animation: Dick Lundy | "Mr. Robots" Animation: George Nicholas | "A Thousand and One Frights" Animation: Robert Bentley | ||
| 12 | "Bachelor Buttons" Animation: Unknown | "Touché at Bat" Animation: Kenneth Muse | "Double Trouble" Animation: Ed Parks | ||
| 13 | "Which Is Which Witch" Animation: Don Patterson | "Billy the Cad" Animation: Jerry Hathcock | "Laugh a Loaf" Animation: Don Williams | ||
| 14 | "Pen-Striped Suit" Animation: Allen Wilzbach | "Dog Daze" Animation: Bob Carr | "Genie Is a Meany" Animation: Unknown | ||
| 15 | "Ship Shape Escape" Animation: Robert Bentley | "Ant and Rave" Animation: Ed Love | "Banks for Everything" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 16 | "Semi Seminole" Animation: George Goepper | "Black Is the Knight" Animation: Ed Love | "Fiddle Faddled" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 17 | "Little Red Riding Gator" Animation: Don Patterson | "Dragon Along" Animation: Ed Love | "Kidnap Trap" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 18 | "Ice Cube Boob" Animation: Carlo Vinci | "Satellite Fright" Animation: Ed Love | "Witch Crafty" Animation: Unknown | ||
| 19 | "The Forest's Prime Evil" Animation: Unknown | "Sheepy-Time Pal" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Gas Again" Animation: Don Patterson | ||
| 20 | "Snooper Snowzer" Animation: Harry Holt | "Hex Marks the Spot" Animation: Ed Parks | "Horse and Waggin" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 21 | "Unconscious Conscience" Animation: Unknown | "Catch as Cat Can" Animation: Dick Lundy | "Baby Bottled" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 22 | "Gator-Baiter" Animation: Unknown | "Sea for Two" Animation: Ed Love | "Hard Luck Hardy" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 23 | "False Alarm" Animation: Unknown | "High Goon" Animation: Bob Carr | "Snow Use" Animation: John Boersema | ||
| 24 | "Phantom Alligator" Animation: Unknown | "Grandma Outlaw" Animation: Don Williams | "Injun Trouble" Animation: Don Patterson | ||
| 25 | "Puddle Hopper" Animation: George Goepper | "Duel Control" Animation: Don Williams | "Mouse in the House" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 26 | "Baby Chase" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Rapid Rabbit" Animation: Kenneth Muse | "Crazy Cat Capers" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 27 | "Gosh Zilla" Animation: Allen Wilzbach | "Thumb Hero" Animation: Ed Love | "Phoney Pony" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 28 | "Camera Shy Guy" Animation: Unknown | "Kat-Napped" Animation: Unknown | "Egg Experts" Animation: Don Patterson | ||
| 29 | "Rebel Rabble" Animation: George Goepper | "Romeo, Touché, and Juliet" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Rabbit Romeo" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 30 | "No More Mower" Animation: Harry Holt | "The Big Bite" Animation: Don Patterson | "Bird in the Hand" Animation: Harry Holt | ||
| 31 | "Knight Nut" Animation: Unknown | "Flying Saucer Sorcerer" Animation: Allen Wilzbach | "Legion Heirs" Animation: Unknown | ||
| 32 | "Ape Scrape" Animation: George Goepper | "Aladdin's Lampoon" Animation: Don Patterson | "Hoots and Saddles" Animation: Unknown | ||
| 33 | "Gator-Imitator" Animation: Unknown | "Haunting License" Animation: Unknown | "Monster Mix-Up" Animation: William Keil | ||
| 34 | "Safe at Home" Animation: Unknown | "The Phoney Phantom" Animation: Ed Love | "Bye-Bye Fly-Guy" Animation: Harry Holt | ||
| 35 | "Balloon Buffoon" Animation: William Keil | "Touché's Last Stand" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Wooden Nickels" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 36 | "Rassle Dazzle" Animation: Unknown | "Chief Beef" Animation: Ed Love | "Two for the Road" Animation: Edwin Aardal | ||
| 37 | "Sea Sick Pals" Animation: Carlo Vinci | "Like Wild, Man" Animation: Unknown | "King's X" Animation: Carlo Vinci | ||
| 38 | "Accidentally on Purpose" Animation: Unknown | "Dum de Dum Dum" Animation: Unknown | "Amusement Park Lark" Animation: Robert Bentley | ||
| 39 | "Whistle Stopper" Animation: Unknown | "Et Tu Touché?" Animation: Unknown | "T for Two" Animation: Don Williams | ||
| 40 | "Birthday Grievings" Animation: Harry Holt | "Dragon Feat" Animation: Allen Wilzbach | "Tiny Troubles" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 41 | "Medicine Avenue" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Red Riding Hoodlum" Animation: Unknown | "Flood for a Thought" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 42 | "Marshall Wally" Animation: Allen Wilzbach | "Dough Nuts" Animation: Unknown | "Hocus Focus" Animation: Unknown | ||
| 43 | "One Round Trip" Animation: Don Patterson | "Save the Last Trance for Me" Animation: Unknown | "Shamrocked" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 44 | "Gopher Broke" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Waterloo for Two" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Old Fuddy Duds" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 45 | "Gladiator Gator" Animation: Unknown | "Robin Hoodlum" Animation: Unknown | "Chow You Feeling" Animation: Carlo Vinci | ||
| 46 | "Bubble Trouble" Animation: Unknown | "The Shoe Must Go On" Animation: Don Williams | "Easy Doesn't It" Animation: Bob Carr | ||
| 47 | "Ice Charades" Animation: Unknown | "Quack Hero" Animation: Unknown | "Drop Me a Lion" Animation: Ed Love | ||
| 48 | "Creature Feature" Animation: Unknown | "Aliblabber and the Forty Thieves" Animation: Unknown | "Map Sap" Animation: Harry Holt | ||
| 49 | "Squatter's Rights" Animation: John Boersema | "Out of This Whirl" Animation: John Boersema | "Shark Shock" Animation: John Boersema | ||
| 50 | "The Big Drip" Animation: Ed Parks | "Hero on the Half Shell" Animation: Unknown | "No Spooking Allowed" Animation: Unknown | ||
| 51 | "Gourmet Gator" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Tenderfoot Turtle" Animation: Unknown | "Me-My-Mine" Animation: Unknown | ||
| 52 | "Carpet Bragger" Animation: Hugh Fraser | "Peace and Riot" Animation: Jerry Hathcock | "Together Mess" Animation: Ed Love |
The first episode of the three cartoons is on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960's - Vol. 2.[6]
Wally Gator was released separately as a mod DVD from Warner Archive as Wally Gator: The Complete Series on June 25, 2019.[7]
Lippy the Lion followed on July 9 as Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har: The Complete Series.[8]
Touché Turtle has yet to be released by Warner Archive, though it was considered to be released soon after the other two; as of February 2024, Warner Archive has yet to announce a release for the series.