List of Yogi Bear Characters

The Yogi Bear Show

For the Yogi Bear fictional character, see Yogi Bear.

The Yogi Bear Show
Original Yogi Bear title card
Genre	Cartoon series Variety show Comedy
Created by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Starring	Daws Butler Don Messick Julie Bennett Vance Colvig Jimmy Weldon
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	33 (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Running time	30 min.
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Broadcast
Original channel	Syndication
Original run	January 30 – December 30, 1961
Chronology
Related shows	The Huckleberry Hound Show

The Yogi Bear Show is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions about a fast-talking picnic basket stealing bear named Yogi. The show debuted in syndication on January 30 and ran for 33 episodes until December 30 in 1961 and included two segments, Snagglepuss and Yakky Doodle. The show only had a two year production run.

Segments

Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Art Carney) and Boo-Boo Bear (voiced by Don Messick) reside in Jellystone Park and would often try to steal picnic baskets while evading Ranger Smith (voiced by Don Messick). Yogi also has a relationship with his girlfriend Cindy Bear (voiced by Julie Bennett).

Snagglepuss

Snagglepuss the Mountain Lion (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Bert Lahr) tries to make his life hospitable while occasionally evading a hunter named Major Minor (voiced by Don Messick).

Yakky Doodle

Yakky Doodle (voiced by Jimmy Weldon) is a duck who lives with his best friend Chopper the Bulldog (voiced by Vance Colvig impersonating Wallace Beery). Chopper would usually protect Yakky from being eaten by Fibber Fox (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Shelley Berman) or Alfy Gator (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Alfred Hitchcock).

Characters

Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Art Carney) and Boo Boo Bear (voiced by Don Messick) reside in Jellystone Park and would often try to steal picnic baskets while evading Ranger Smith (voiced by Don Messick). Yogi also has a relationship with his girlfriend Cindy Bear (voiced by Julie Bennett).

Boo-Boo Bear

Yogi's sidekick who trys (and never succeeds) to warn Yogi that "Mr. Ranger" wouldn't like Yogi to steal picnic baskets. He only wears a blue bowtie.

Ranger Smith

The head ranger who constanly gets annoyed by Yogi stealing picnic baskets. He wears a traditional ranger costume.

Ranger Jones

Ranger Jones is a calm, normal ranger that tried to help chief Ranger Smith deal with his problems (which all involved Yogi Bear). He wears a traditional ranger costume, although he doesn't wear a hat.

Cindy Bear

Cindy Bear (voiced by Julie Bennett) is the girlfriend of Yogi Bear. She speaks with a pronounced Southern accent, and carries a parasol.

Cindy Bear originally appeared in the shorts Acobatty Bear, A Wooin' Bruin and the three-parter Yogi's Birthday Party where her fur was blue, but it was later changed to a light gray-beige to match that of Yogi's (dark brown) and Boo Boo's (light tan) in Hey There, It's Yogi Bear! in 1964. In this same film, Cindy sported a very light-blue skirt, and a very light-yellow scarf tied about her neck. She also wore a hat in the original 1961 cartoons, and on a few of her later appearances as well.

In The New Yogi Bear Show, Cindy's Mom and niece Bebe The Biker are introduced, and it's also revealed that Cindy obviously comes from a rich southern family of bears.

Spinoffs, specials and movies

DVD release

On November 15, 2005, Warner Home Video released the complete series on DVD R1. a R2 DVD was later released on January 31st, 2011.

See also

References

1. Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. New York: Viking Penguin. pp. 63–64. ISBN 0-670-82978-1.
2. Browne, Pat (2001). The guide to United States popular culture (Illustrated ed.). Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 944. ISBN 978-0-87972-821-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=U3rJxPYT32MC&pg=PA944. Retrieved August 16, 2009.

External links

• The Cartoon Scrapbook – Profile on Yogi Bear

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