Amazon Ape
- Studio
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
Synopsis
The Grape Ape is 40 ft. purple ape who goes on all sorts of adventures with his best buddy, Beegle Beagle. They get themselves into all sorts of sticky predicaments, but thanks to Grape Ape's size, they wind up getting out of them.
Characters
Grape Ape, Beegle Beagle
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
Producing
- Producer
- William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Writing
Animation
- Animator
- Steve Clark, Izzy Ellis, Hugh Fraser, Bob Hathcock, Bill Hutten, Lou Kachivas, Tony Love, Don Patterson, Ed Parks, Morrie Reden, Ken Southworth, Bob Trochim, Russ Von Neida, Ken Walker
- Animation Supervisor
- Jerry Hathcock
Voices
- Voice
- Bob Holt (Grape Ape), Marty Ingels (Beegle Beagle), Joan Gerber, Virginia Gregg, Bob Hastings, Allan Melvin, Don Messick, Alan Oppenheimer, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Lurene Tuttle, Lennie Weinrib, Frank Welker, Paul Winchell
Music
- Music
- Hoyt Curtin
- Musical Supervisor
- Paul DeKorte
Editing
- Editor
- Pat Foley, Joe Sandusky, James Yaras, Richard Allen, Terry Moore
- Supervising Film Editor
- Larry Cowan
Crew
- Creative Producer
- Iwao Takamoto
- Assistant Recording Director
- Maxine Hoppe
- Storyboard Direction
- Don Sheppard, Paul Sommer, Tom Yakutis
- Production Design
- Bob Singer
- Production Supervisor
- Victor O. Schipek
- Graphics
- Iraj Paran
- Recording Direction
- Gordon Hunt
- Layout Unit Supervisor
- Owen Fitzgerald
- Layout
- Pete Alvarado, Dale Barnhart, Bob Givens, Alex Ignatiev, Bill Lignante, Dan Noonan, Tony Rivera, Terry Slade
- Technical Supervision
- Frank Pakier
- Checking and Scene Planning
- Evelyn Sherwood
- Ink And Paint Supervision
- Billie Kearns
- Xerography
- Robert "Tiger" West
- Background Supervision
- F. (Fernando) Montealegre
- Background
- Fernando Arce, Bill Proctor, John Currin
- Sound Direction
- Richard Olson, Bill Getty
- Negative Consultant
- William E. DeBoer
- Post-Production Supervision
- Joed Eaton
- Production Manager
- Jayne Barbera
- Camera
- Curt Hall, Roy Wade, Ron Jackson, George Epperson
Companies and other credits
- A
- HANNA-BARBERA
- PRODUCTION
- © 1975 Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Inc
Production notes
Let's have an exercise in visualization, shall we? Imagine any city in the world. Now imagine that you live in that city. You're successful, enjoying life, things couldn't be going better. Now, imagine that a thirty-foot tall purple gorilla cruises into town, riding ON TOP of a van as if it were a skateboard—a van driven by the gorilla's buddy, a fast-talking dog. Things in Anytown, USA will never be the same again, and you're not very happy about it.
Neither were the denizens of the unidentified city Grape Ape and his pal Beegle Beagle came to visit in this show. The very fact that a creature of Grape Ape's size existed put everyone on edge, no matter how nice the Big G was to everyone. His attempts to put them at ease usually backfired because, to paraphrase a certain moose, Grape Ape "don't know his own strength."
It also didn't help that Grape Ape had a very scary voice, roughly the sound of someone belching through a sock. He referred to himself in the third person, and always twice at a time—"Grape Ape, Grape Ape"—and called Beegle Beagle "Beegily Beagily."
This show was originally a segment of The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show, which aired in the 1975-76 season, becoming The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show in the fall of '76. ABC phased Grape Ape out of the show in December of that year, only to bring him back the next season in this incarnation.
The Great Grape Ape Show ended its run after one season on its own. Beegle Beagle and Grape Ape, however, lived on as cast members of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics.
Neither were the denizens of the unidentified city Grape Ape and his pal Beegle Beagle came to visit in this show. The very fact that a creature of Grape Ape's size existed put everyone on edge, no matter how nice the Big G was to everyone. His attempts to put them at ease usually backfired because, to paraphrase a certain moose, Grape Ape "don't know his own strength."
It also didn't help that Grape Ape had a very scary voice, roughly the sound of someone belching through a sock. He referred to himself in the third person, and always twice at a time—"Grape Ape, Grape Ape"—and called Beegle Beagle "Beegily Beagily."
This show was originally a segment of The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show, which aired in the 1975-76 season, becoming The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show in the fall of '76. ABC phased Grape Ape out of the show in December of that year, only to bring him back the next season in this incarnation.
The Great Grape Ape Show ended its run after one season on its own. Beegle Beagle and Grape Ape, however, lived on as cast members of Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics.