| The Yogi Bear Show | |
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| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 33 (97 segments)(list of episodes) |
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| Running time | 22 minutes (7 minutes per segment) |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
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| Network | First-run syndication |
| Release | January 30, 1961 (1961-01-30) – January 6, 1962 (1962-01-06) |
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The Yogi Bear Show is an American comedyanimated television series, and the first entry of theYogi Bear franchise, produced byHanna-Barbera Productions. Aspin-off ofThe Huckleberry Hound Show, the show centers on the adventures of forest-dwellingYogi Bear in Jellystone Park. The show debuted insyndication on January 30, 1961, and ran for 33 episodes until January 6, 1962.[1] Two other segments for the show wereSnagglepuss andYakky Doodle.[2] The show had a two-year production run.[3]
Yogi Bear (voiced byDaws Butler impersonatingArt Carney) andBoo-Boo Bear (voiced byDon Messick) reside inJellystone Park, and often try to steal picnic baskets while evadingRanger Smith (also voiced by Don Messick). Yogi also has a relationship with his girlfriendCindy Bear (voiced byJulie Bennett).
Snagglepuss theMountain Lion (voiced byDaws Butler impersonatingBert Lahr) tries to make his life hospitable while occasionally evading ahunter named Major Minor (voiced byDon Messick).
Yakky Doodle (voiced byJimmy Weldon in the style ofDonald Duck) is aduck that lives with his best friend Chopper the Bulldog (voiced byVance Colvig impersonatingWallace Beery). Chopper usually protected Yakky from being eaten by FibberFox (voiced byDaws Butler impersonatingShelley Berman) or AlfyGator (voiced by Butler impersonatingAlfred Hitchcock).
| Season | Segments | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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| 1 | 48 | 16 | January 30, 1961 (1961-01-30) | May 15, 1961 (1961-05-15) | |
| 2 | 49 | 17 | September 16, 1961 (1961-09-16) | January 6, 1962 (1962-01-06) | |
The Yogi Bear Show premiered on January 30, 1961, on some major city markets, although the show was not broadcast on the same day of the week, or the same time, in every city's affiliation in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. LikeThe Huckleberry Hound Show, some major city markets picked up the program from independent stations such asWPIX in New York City,KTTV inLos Angeles,KTVU inSan Francisco,WGN-TV inChicago, andKTVT inDallas. In Canada, the show was split into two networks, with most episodes aired on theCTV Television Network with a fewCBC Television networks picking up a few episodes in syndication. In Australia, the show aired on theNine Network. In the United Kingdom, the show had its premiere on Christmas Day 1962 onITV in all across England.
Only a few locally produced children's shows reran segments ofThe Yogi Bear Show into the 1970s and into the 1980s. Chicago's WGN-TV rarely picked up segments fromThe Yogi Bear Show among others onRay Rayner and his Friends until its cancellation in 1980; and in the United Kingdom,BBC One rarely picked up segments of the show during its "Children's BBC" block in the 1980s.
The Yogi Bear Show along with mixed Yogi Bear segments fromThe Huckleberry Hound Show returned to television on cable-onlyNickelodeon, airing from 1990 until 1993, when it then moved to the then-one-year-oldCartoon Network, along with its sister stationBoomerang in 2000. The show aired on Cartoon Network until 2004 because of Boomerang airing the show during the time. From November 26 until November 30, 2020, Yogi Bear segments from bothHuckleberry Hound andYogi Bear shows returned to Boomerang for a four-day Thanksgiving weekend. Along withHuckleberry Hound being aired on the same four days, bothSnagglepuss andYakky Doodle segments were not aired during the period; instead, they were replaced by anotherYogi Bear segment to fill the block in separate times. Reruns returned again on Boomerang starting in 2023. In 2025,The Yogi Bear Show started airing onMeTV Toons.
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Following the show's cancellation in 1962, many spin-off incarnations, feature-length movies, and specials first appeared.
Additionally, reruns of the original series were aired on theUSA Network from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s as part of theirUSA Cartoon Express animation block, while Nickelodeon also aired these same episodes, plusYogi's Gang,Yogi's Space Race, and the latter's spinoff series,Galaxy Goof-Ups, during the early 1990s under the umbrella titleNickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear.
On November 15, 2005,Warner Home Video (viaHanna-Barbera Productions andWarner Bros. Family Entertainment) released the complete series on region 1DVD. The R1H-B Golden Collection Complete Series DVD set features the edited-for-syndication versions instead of the original, uncut network broadcast masters due to cost issues. A Region 2 DVD was released on January 31, 2011. A Region 4 DVD was released on September 6, 2011.
The earlierYogi Bear cartoons from the first season ofThe Huckleberry Hound Show can be found onThe Huckleberry Hound Show - Volume 1. In 2025, all theYogi Bear segments from both Seasons 1 and 2 ofThe Huckleberry Hound Show were released as part ofThe Huckleberry Hound Show - The Complete Series Blu-Ray box-set by theWarner Archive Collection.
| Title | Ep # | Release date | Notes |
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| The Yogi Bear Show - The Complete Series | 33 | November 15, 2005 |
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