| The Space Kidettes | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Created by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Directed by | Joseph Barbera William Hanna |
| Voices of | Chris Allen Lucille Bliss Daws Butler Don Messick Janet Waldo |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Joseph Barbera William Hanna |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | September 10, 1966 (1966-09-10) – February 4, 1967 (1967-02-04) |
The Space Kidettes is an American Saturday morninganimated television series produced byHanna-Barbera Productions, originally airing onNBC during the 1966–67 season. In the show, junior rangers Snoopy, Jenny, Countdown and Scooter patrol the cosmos from their space-capsule clubhouse, with help from their dog Pupstar.[1] Twenty episodes were produced.[2]
Set inouter space, the series followed the adventures of a group of childastronauts,[3] who have acquired atreasure map and have to keep it away from theirspace pirate nemesis Captain Skyhook and his sidekick Static.[4]
Originally airing for one season on NBC as a half-hour program and sponsored byGeneral Mills,The Space Kidettes episodes were later edited down to ten-minute episodes and paired with other General Mills-sponsored shows such asTennessee Tuxedo andGo Go Gophers to form a full half-hour for syndication.[7]
Edited further, it was later paired with edited reruns of cartoons from another NBC Hanna-Barbera program,(Young) Samson & Goliath to form the syndication packageThe Space Kidettes and Young Samson.[4] The original master elements for both programs were lost, leaving the syndicated edits as the only extant broadcast quality versions.[4]
All 20 episodes ofThe Space Kidettes and Young Samson were released on DVD via theWarner Archive Collection manufacture-on-demand program in 2011.[4]
