![]() I haven't seen one in years and I miss them. I didn't really care for Augie Dogie, even as a kid, because I never was much of a Jimmy Durante fan and it's pretty obvious who they were trying to pattern Doggie Daddy after.but Snooper and Blabber cartoons were fun to watch. The humor's good, fresh, and fun, and Butler really hams it up in a silly was as Quick Draw's voice. Daws Butler, Don Messick, and Jean Vanderpyl do great voice work on these early toons, too. "Bad Guys Disguise" is my favorite QD toon of all time, it's the quintessential Quick Draw toon. The Hoyt Curtin background music in the Quick Draw cartoons is good (a lot of it came from Columbia Pictures music library music off old Columbia cartoons) and the animation is often so quirky and crude that it's cute. Like a lot of people I've met here in the Southern United States (and hey, I can say that, I'm FROM here!)Queeks Draw is often long on mouth and short on brains but Baba and the rest of us tend to look over that and enjoy him anyway. I don't know just who or what person or character Hanna and Barbara patterned Quick Draw after, but I know Baba Looey was envisioned to be some kind of cross between the Cisco Kid's sidekick and Desi Arnaz (that's where Baba gets the 'thin' theeng from!). Years later, I began to appreciate it even more for the background music and the clever humor in the show. Art © Hanna-Barbera.I always liked horses and cowboys as a kid, so I thought this show ruled simply because it had a talking cartoon horse in it. Purchase Hanna-Barbera Merchandise Online Today in Toons: Every day's an anniversary! Quick Draw hasn't been seen much in recent years, but he remains a strong memory among those who saw him in his heyday.īACK to Don Markstein's Toonopedia Home Page Charlton put out eight issues, from 1970-72. Gold Key put out one last issue in 1969, then the Hanna-Barbera license went to Charlton Comics. The series transferred to Gold Key in 1962, along with the rest of Dell's licensed properties, and ran until 1963. Within a few weeks of his TV debut, Quick Draw was starring in a Dell comic book. The latter was strongly reminiscent of Spike & Tyke, a minor series of cartoons Hanna and Barbera had worked on earlier, at MGM. The back-ups on Quick Draw's show were Snooper & Blabber (a pair of private eyes) and Augie Doggie & Doggie Daddy (a father/son sitcom). Quick Draw's pet, Snuffles (who was the answer to the popular trivia question about the dog who floated ecstatically in the air when given a dog biscuit) was played by Don Messick, who also did the voices of non-anthropomorphic animals in Hong Kong Phooey, Shazzan, Inch High, Private Eye and several other shows.īack then, most half-hour cartoon shows had three segments, each about as long as the average theatrical cartoon (in fact, many used actual theatrical cartoons as the segments). The series remained in production three years, for a total of 45 episodes, which were re-run on CBS's Saturday morning from 1963-66.ĭaws Butler, who provided voices for both characters, also did voices for Yogi Bear, the unnamed Wolf who played opposite Droopy, and many other toons. ![]() Still, the series was entertaining enough to hold the interest of its young viewers - especially, to judge from the attention they've gotten in the years since, the episodes in which Quick Draw assumed a Zorro-like persona called El Kabong. Getting past the clever idea, the series was based on a stock situation - between Quick Draw, who wore the star, and his sidekick, a burro named Baba Looey, there was about enough gray matter to make one good brain, and the second banana had most of it. 29, 1959, one year after Huckleberry Hound. Quick Draw's show debuted in syndication on Sept. ![]() Quick Draw McGraw the title character of their second half-hour animated TV series. Clever enough for Hanna-Barbera to have made ![]() Please contribute to its necessary financial support.Ī funny animal western where the hero is a horse - pretty clever idea. If this site is enjoyable or useful to you, QUICK DRAW MCGRAW Original Medium: TV animation
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