| Genre: | Adventure Comedy |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Director: | Charles A. Nichols |
| Executive Producer: | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices: | Daws Butler Henry Corden Allan Melvin Don Messick John Stephenson Jean Vander Pyl |
| Composer: | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Network: | ABC |
| Num Episodes: | 15 (and a TV movie) |
| Company: | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Related: | Fred Flintstone and Friends |
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, to .[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]
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. As of June 2024, the series is included as part of MeTV Toons' lineup.
Yogi's Gang is the only Yogi Bear show to have a laugh track.
Yogi, Quick Draw, Huck and the rest of the gang encounter a variety of villains such as Captain Swashbuckle Swipe, Smokestack Smog, Lotta Litter, the Envy Brothers, Mr. Hothead, Dr. Bigot, the Gossipy Witch of the West, J. Wantum Vandal, the Sheik of Selfishness, Commadore Phineas P. Fibber, I.M. Sloppy, Peter D. Cheater, Mr. Waste, Hilarious P. Prankster, and the Greedy Genie, who act as their friends, hosts and/or guests, but embody some of the most common human faults and vices. Yogi and crew would often put up with them which ends with the villains either being repelled or outdone by their actions.
The episode "The Greedy Genie" was included on the DVD compilation Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 1 released from Warner Home Video on . The "Mr. Bigot" episode is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Vol. 2. On February 19, 2013, Warner Archive released Yogi's Gang: The Complete Series on DVD in NTSC picture format with all region encoding, as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store, Walmart.com and Amazon.com.[6] Yogi's Gang: The Complete Series is also available for download via iTunes Store and Google Play Store.