Ben Huck

Ben Huck

September 15, 1961 TV Episode Huckleberry Hound

Studio
Hanna-Barbera Studios
Distributor
Screen Gems

Synopsis

Huck is back in Roman times as a gladiator and fights against the Mad Barbarian.

Characters

Huckleberry Hound, The Mad Barbarian, Announcer, Lion, Chariot Horse

Credits

Directing

Director
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Producing

Producer
William Hanna, Joseph Barbera

Writing

Writer
Tony Benedict
Story Director
Lewis Marshall

Voices

Voice
Daws Butler (Huckleberry Hound, Audience Sounds, Lion), Don Messick (Narrator, Announcer, Audience Sounds, The Mad Barbarian)

Music

Music
Hoyt Curtin

Crew

Layouts
Tony Rivera
Backgrounds
Art Lozzi
Titles
Lawrence Goble
Production Supervision
Howard Hanson

Production notes

This was a segment on "The Huckleberry Hound Show." The show was originally sponsored by Kellogg's Cereal.

As originally planned, Huckleberry Hound's voice was to vary according to the cartoon- from Gary Cooper's in Westerns to Humphrey Bogart's in police stories, for example.

Director-actor Jack Webb made a joke about Huckleberry Hound in his 1959 feature film "-30-" (also known as "Deadline Midnight"). Research indicated that many viewers of the series were adults. Bars were said to close whenever The Huckleberry Hound Show aired.

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