Yogi's Space Race
Genre	Comedy Adventure Sci-Fi Fantasy
Directed by	Ray Patterson Carl Urbano
Voices of	Daws Butler Joe Besser Mel Blanc Pat Parris Marilyn Schreffler Frank Welker
Narrated by	Gary Owens
Composer	Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Producer	Art Scott
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 9 (1978-09-09) – December 2, 1978 (1978-12-02)

Yogi's Space Race is a 90-minute Americananimated television series and the third entry in theYogi Bear franchise.^[1] Thirteen episodes were broadcast onNBC from September 9, 1978, to December 2, 1978, and featured the following four segments:^[2]

• Yogi's Space Race:Yogi Bear,Huckleberry Hound,Jabberjaw and several new characters participating in intergalactic racing competitions.
• Galaxy Goof-Ups: Yogi Bear, Scare Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and Quack-Up as four intergalactic police officers.
• The Buford Files: Buford is a sleepy bloodhound who solves mysteries in Fenokee County with two teenagers named Cindy Mae and Woody. Not to be confused withThe Rockford Files.
• The Galloping Ghost: Nugget Nose is a ghost miner who is a guardian to Wendy and Rita at the Fuddy Dude Ranch.

WhenGalaxy Goof-Ups was given its own half-hour timeslot on November 4, 1978,Yogi's Space Race was reduced to 60 minutes. In early 1979, theSpace Race segment was also spun off in its own half-hour series from February 3 to March 3, 1979. The series was later aired in reruns onUSA Cartoon Express,Nickelodeon,Cartoon Network,Boomerang andMeTV Toons.^[3]

Yogi's Space Race was referenced inJellystone!

The show featuredYogi Bear,Huckleberry Hound,Jabberjaw and several new characters as competitors in an outer space reworking ofWacky Races and commentated by an unseen announcer. They would each compete for the race's prize. The winners of each race got a prize which ended up unfortunate such as having to do the dishes after their meal at the Ritz or being literally painted by an artist.

Cameo guests includedFred Flintstone,Barney Rubble,Quick Draw McGraw,Grape Ape,Frankenstein Jr. andJana of the Jungle; the supporting segments wereGalaxy Goof-Ups,The Buford Files andThe Galloping Ghost.

The latter two were repackaged the following year asBuford and the Galloping Ghost. WhenGalaxy Goof-Ups was given its own half-hour timeslot on November 4, 1978,Yogi's Space Race was reduced to 60 minutes. On February 3, 1979, theSpace Race segment andBuford and the Galloping Ghost were also spun off in their own half-hour series.

• Yogi Bear (voiced byDaws Butler) andScare Bear (voiced byJoe Besser) – Yogi stays unchanged save for the change in setting, but his friendBoo Boo was unable to participate in the race and never appears in the show. Instead, his companion and partner is Scare Bear, a small fuzzy bear who (as his name implies) is afraid of almost everything. Yogi and Scare Bear are a racing team on "Space Race" and members of the "Galaxy Goof-Ups".^[4]
• Huckleberry Hound (voiced by Daws Butler) andQuack-Up (voiced byMel Blanc) - Quack-Up is a duck who is the crazy and clumsy pilot of the team while Huck just rests at the top of their ship. They are also members of the "Galaxy Goof-Ups".
• Jabberjaw and Buford (both voiced byFrank Welker) – Jabberjaw is still on his search for respect from his original series. His partner is Buford, fromThe Buford Files, where he's the lazy pet dog of two kids, Cindy Mae and Woody who solve mysteries in Fenokee County. Their race ship contains a track on which Buford runs to increase speed, which, since it is hard to keep him awake, is seldom used. Jabberjaw was once seen running on it during the episode "The Saturn 500".
• Nugget Nose (voiced by Frank Welker),Wendy (voiced byMarilyn Schreffler) andRita (voiced byPat Parris) – The only racing team in the race that's a trio (as the rest are all duos), and the only team with any female members. They all are characters fromThe Galloping Ghost where Wendy and Rita work at the Fuddy Dude Ranch and Nugget Nose is a gold-obsessed ghost who is jealous of the girls. His nose looks like a nugget (hence the name).
• Captain Good/Phantom Phink and Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge (both voiced by Frank Welker) To the eyes of the other characters, Captain Good is the personification of good sportsmanship and fights for everything right. To the viewers, he's actually Phantom Phink, a space racer who uses all possible sorts of cheating likeDick Dastardly, except that he actually wins some races, crossing the finish line either as Captain Good or as Phantom Phink. The duo can transform themselves, and their car, at the touch of a button. Captain Good looks like a handsome white-clad and blond-haired muscle man while Phink is a skinny costumed creep with a big nose and bristly black beard. Although Good/Phink never tricks people into believing they are seeing both of them at the same time and Phink never shows up for the start of any race, no one (including the narrator) ever suspects Good and Phink are one and the same. No matter which identity he must use, Good/Phink usually tries to get help from people who live on the planets where the races take place.
• Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge is the pet cat/dog of Captain Good/Phantom Phink. Clean Kat is a white and snobby cat while Sinister Sludge is a sleazy brown dog who's usually told by Phink to shut up. Whenever Good/Phink morphs, Kat/Sludge also morphs (however, he is capable of doing it separated from his master, such as in "The Saturn 500", when Phink says dogs aren't allowed onMars and he morphs, causing Phink to says cats aren't either and in "The Mizar Marathon" when Good said that cats aren't allowed in a castle, to which he morphs and Good says that goes for dogs too).

• The Narrator (voiced byGary Owens) – This unseen character is the narrator of the Space Race and presenter ofthe Space Race Biography. He sometimes talks to the characters of the series.
• El Fabuloso – The Space Race's official computer which often speaks in Spanish. It analyzes the races to catch any cheat practiced and often disqualifies Phantom Phink for cheating. As a result, Phink usually uses his alter-ego to stay in the race. In "Franzia" after Good/Phink tricks the local version ofQuasimodo to stop the other racers, El Fabuloso finally discovers they're one and the same. Nobody believes it and the narrator assumes El Fabuloso has a malfunction. To keep his secret identity, Phink has to convert into Captain Good to save the Space Racers.

The series often introduces the biography of some Space Racers or their ancestors. Phantom Phink was once described as a "descendant" ofDr. Jekyll, who was described looking like Captain Good whileMr. Hyde looks like Phink, giving us an idea of Good's/Phink's original look thatcontradicts the idea believed by many fans that Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge is originally a dog since this is his shape as Phantom Phink's pet and Sludge is the one to have a biography.

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Thirteen episodes were broadcast in 1978.

• Daws Butler –Yogi Bear,Huckleberry Hound,Quick Draw McGraw
• Joe Besser – Scare Bear
• Mel Blanc – Quack-Up,Barney Rubble
• Frank Welker – Jabberjaw, Buford, Nugget Nose, Captain Good/Phantom Phink, Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge
• Marilyn Schreffler – Wendy
• Pat Parris – Rita, Cindy Mae
• Dave Landsburg – Woody
• Henry Corden – Sheriff Muletrain,Fred Flintstone
• Roger Peltz – Deputy Goofer McGee
• Hal Peary – Fenwick Fuddy
• Bob Holt –Grape Ape
• John Stephenson – Captain Snerdley, General Blowhard
• Gary Owens – The Narrator

• List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
• List of Hanna-Barbera characters
• Yogi Bear (character)
• The Yogi Bear Show
• Wacky Races
• Yogi's Gang
• Galaxy Goof-Ups
• Yogi's Treasure Hunt
• The New Yogi Bear Show
• Fender Bender 500
• Yo Yogi!

• French:Le Grand Prix Spacial de Yogi
• Italian:La corsa spaziale di Yoghi
• Spanish:La Carrera Espacial de Yogi

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