Huckleberry Hound Interstitials #2

In 1985, USA Network added YOGI BEAR to its CARTOON EXPRESS lineup. But the series actually consisted of cartoons from both the YOGI BEAR and HUCKLEBERRY HOUND shows (mostly the latter). Early in the run, they'd throw in a few interstitials (also known as bumpers) from the original HUCKLEBERRY HOUND show in between the cartoons. USA promoted the show under the YOGI BEAR title and most shows began with the original YOGI BEAR show opening (freeze-framed towards the end in an attempt to remove the Kellogg's logo, although the name is still visible if you look closely) and ended with the HUCKLEBERRY HOUND closing. Presented here are the YOGI BEAR show opening and two of the HUCKLEBERRY HOUND interstitials ("Star-Gazing Observatory" and "North Pole") as seen on CARTOON EXPRESS in the 1980s. Hokey Wolf originally appeared in both segments but was edited out for these showings. ("Star-Gazing Observatory" was a "top of the show" segment, "joined in progress" here after the Kellogg's rooster disappears behind the door.) This is followed with another (non-USA) "end of show" segment with the cast ("Elevator") and then rounding things out is the full-length "North Pole" (unfortunately this last one is silent).

[@nkmcfrln]

I remember sitting down and watching Huckleberry Hound, intently, when I was 3 and after driving around town with my Grandmother in her VW singing, "Oh my darlin', oh my darlin, oh my darlin' Clementine" : ) I loved Huckleberry Hound.

[@SuzieKemp]

Love huckleberry hound and mr jinx nd pinkie and dixie xxx

[@shinyoldtimer3572]

🤔Favorite Yogi Bear line : “Looks more like a Sycamore “ Great timing Daws/Don Team GOAT 🙏

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

The cartoons that USA Network didn't get were Augie Doggie, Snooper & Blabber, Touche Turtle and Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har-Har. Those cartoons wound up on the old Family Channel blocks Augie Doggie & Friends, and later Toon Toast, from 1988 to 1994 (Toon Toast also had Mumbly, an obscure 1976 cartoon that had been sandwiched with reruns of the segments making up 1975's _The [New] Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show_ ).

[@Cryptofwrestling]

Bravo, ToonORama, and thanks for these rarities!

[@MindsEyeTHPS]

0:53-1:00 - Listen closely to the music and you will notice how this portion of it was featured in the pre-2015 Boomerang "Ring Toss" ID, albeit with beats added to mix in with the music.

[@fromthesidelines]

Original sponsor I.D. at 0:33- "KELLOGG'S- your best choice in cereals, 'The Best To You Each Morning', presents.....YOGI: "Who else?" YOGI BEAR!".
The "bumpers" featuring Hokey Wolf are from 1961.

[@ronaldbrush4373]

Daws Butler!

[@susanfit47]

The Yogi Bear segments left the Express in the fall of 1988, when The (New) Yogi Bear Show had been newly distributed to local syndicated stations. Two years would pass before Nickelodeon would pick up the series as part of their Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear block, which ran for still another 3 years from 1990 to 1993, after a year Cartoon Network had launched. Their package had all the original 1958-1962 shorts, plus "Yogi's Birthday Party" in full or close to it, the 1988 cartoons, "Yogi's Gang" (but not "Yogi's Ark Lark" which was then licensed to the Disney Channel), "Yogi's Space Race" and "Galaxy Goof-Ups" in a half-hour format. The latter three all had their original show openings as well as closings -- including the Hanna-Barbera closing logos of the period, which had been replaced with the "swirling star" in syndication a couple years earlier. The non-Yogi cartoons featured in the 1988 package were not part of this -- they ended up on the Family Channel (minus Precious Pupp, Augie Doggie, Snooper & Blabber, Touche Turtle and Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har-Har and Secret Squirrel) blocks Augie Doggie & Friends, and later Toon Toast, from 1991 to 1994 (Toon Toast also had Mumbly, an obscure 1976 cartoon that had been sandwiched with reruns of the segments making up 1975's The [New] Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show ).

[@jgjperlman]

have we really aged this fast?

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

I would think the Yogi Bear segments left the Express in the fall of 1988, when _The (New) Yogi Bear Show_ had been newly distributed to local syndicated stations. Another two years would pass before Nickelodeon would pick up the series as part of their _Most Wanted_ block, which ran for still another two years before going to Turner to be broadcast on TNT as well as their newest establishment, Cartoon Network.

[@RayPointerChannel]

Good for you, Barry in bringing this into historical accuracy, including the use of the term, 'bumpers." The term "interstitials" is a recent "re-inventing of the wheel" term by the newbies to make an impression.

[@ToonORama]

The full unedited version is on the Yogi Bear DVD set released by Warner Bros. This version is still shown on Boomerang (or at least has been seen there very recently), same edits and freeze-frames on both the show opening and closing.

[@carollockridge]

First part is ok but then all of a sudden, no sound.......Love the characters though.

[@nyctmtakid8358]

Why was there no sound at the end? Was it a TV Technical Difficulty

[@cd637299]

One thing I could not understand, is why the interstitials humor is so childish, while the main cartoons themselves were for all ages.

[@piotrs88]

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[@supersonico5044]

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[@albertojuniorchavez6690]

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[@albertojuniorchavez6690]

They didn't even show Yogi Bear punk ass mother f*****