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I can't say much about "Lucky Luke." I do remember seeing it listed in the Boston edition of TV Guide, but it's been so long I can't even remember which channel aired it. Most likely, Channel 56. But I guess I'd have loved to have seen Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper pursuing the Daltons. All I ever found out was that Hanna-Barbera produced it as a joint effort with Gaumont. So it was actually produced in France. The pictures I saw in animation books depicted Luke as a rather handsome guy. Maybe the cartoons are on YouTube or available at Amazon. I'll have to check.

Just saw "Lucky Luke: Les Daltons En Cavale" on YouTube.I love the plot, and the comments made by Jolly Jumper and Bushwhack. Not to mention the narration by Lucky Luke himself. :)

Trivia Question 21: Bushwhack's designated job was at: A. A saloon. B. A feed store. C. A pawn shop. D. A jail.

Answer: D.

There was a two-hour movie "pilot" (4 Lucky Luke episodes strung together to create a movie) that aired on my local independent tv station in San Francisco (KTVU). That station did not show the half hour tv series.

Created for broadcast for French television as "Lucky Luke" was created by French cartoonist Morris (aka Maurice De Bevere) and written by Rene Goscinny. US tv standards and practices probably wouldn't allow the perpetually drawn cigarette on top of Lucky Luke's bottom lip.

I recall seeing a 4 video cassette set of Hanna-Barbera "Lucky Luke" episodes in English on sale at a store but I didn't buy it. 7 total video cassettes containing 26 episodes from 1983 were released.
Disney also released a French animated Lucky Luke movie on VHS. Italian movie actor Terence Hill played Lucky Luke in a live-action France/Italian movie production in 1998 which also starred US actors Madeleine Kahn and Ron Carey.

For the US English-dubbed voice track, Bill Callaway played the voice of Lucky Luke and Frank Welker played Joe, the Dalton Brothers' leader (the shortest one). The 4 Dalton Brothers (Joe, William (the first two names should be a clue why Hanna-Barbera picked up the series rights to animate), Jack, and Averell) ranged from short to tall when standing side by side...with Averell being the stupid one in the family.

From Wikipedia:
"In 1983, Hanna-Barbera Productions, France 3, Gaumont Film Company, and Morris collaborated to release their version of Lucky Luke which contained 26 episodes. In 1991, 26 more episodes were released.

The TV series starred William Callaway as Lucky Luke, Robert Ridgely as Jolly Jumper, Paul Reubens (of Pee-Wee Herman fame) as Bushwack, Frank Welker as Joe Dalton, Rick Dees as Jack Dalton, Fred Travalena as William Dalton, Bob Holt as Averell Dalton, and Mitzi McCall as Ma Dalton. Additional voices were provided by Peter Cullen, Pat Fraley, Barbara Goodson, and Mona Marshall."

Bob Holt had previously played a Dalton Brother not connected to "Lucky Luke" as "Dinky Dalton" in "Laff-A-Lympics". Dinky and his shorter brothers Dirty (Don Messick) and Dastardly (Daws Butler) were all Really Rottens team members.

It is worth noting that Lucky Luke first appeared in animated form in 1971, in the Belgian movie Daisy Town (released in an English version as Lucky Luke, with Canadian Rich Little doing all the voices, as impressions - Luke as Gary Cooper, the narrator as Jimmy Stewart, the Daltons as James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson and... er.. Humphry Bogart?.. George Raft, maybe..? etc.) produced by Belvision, who had had previous success with Asterix and Tintin movies. The animation is fairly basic, but the original design is strong enough to carry the film.

Belgian artist Morris created the character in 1946, writing the stories as well as drawing, but it was in 1955, when he started collaborating with writer Rene Goscinny, that the strip really took off. Lucky Luke moved from the Belgian comic magazine Spirou to Goscinny's French magazine Pilote in 1967.

Lucky Luke made his second animated screen appearance in 1978, in La Ballade des Dalton (aka The Ballad of the Daltons). By this time the French publishers of Pilote, who had previously put money into the Belvision productions based on their comic strips, had decided to create their own animation studio, Studio Idéfix (named after the dog in Asterix) and had lured away most of Belvision's talent, so although the same animators worked on both films, La Ballade des Dalton was a French production.