I remember many HB cartoons due to their re-runs of classic shows during the 80s. Yogi Bear, Flintstones, Scooby Doo, Whacky Races, Casper the Friendly Ghost. I also remember plenty of Christmas Specials, really loved that Scary Ghost that would scare all the other characters in that Christmas Special.

27:33 For the Abbott & Costello cartoon, IMDB indicates the last episode was shown on June 1, 1968

Yeah, Bill and Joe's development of "limited animation" is the real reason, I feel, that we even had cartoons for tv much less Saturday Morning ones. TV budgets are a lot tighter than full animation ones that were meant for the movie theaters. It set one of many standards that would persist to today. Plus, they gave a handful of actors the chance to really stretch their skills and go on to become legends. And you better be glad that you mentioned Hoyt and Ted else we would have words! LOL. To this day, my favorites of Hoyt's are Jonny Quest and the intro/outro for Battle of the Planets and the segues to and from Bob Sakuma's original Gatchaman score. EDit: Oh, and Alex's last name is pronounced like "both". It is good you mentioned him as his character design process persisted into the 70s (my favorite being the Superfriends prior to the Firestorm years). Oh, if I remember correctly, some early HB work may have gone uncredited because Screen Gems stamped their ownership on the IP instead. I can't remember if the opening animation for "I Dream of Jeannie" was done before the sell of HB. I know Paul Frees did the narration. Only other production company that could have done it was David DePatie and Friz Freleng's new company they formed after Termite Terrace closed at Warner Brothers in the early 60s (best known for the animated version of The Pink Panther).

Loved Hannah Barbera cartoons while growing up through my parents. My parents even dressed up as both Fred and Wilma Flinstone once for Halloween.

Very informative! Im very interested in hanna barbera so im excited to be able to finish watching the other videos as well. So glad i found your channel, love the thouroughness!

Great job as always Dr. Animaction and can’t wait to see this continue as an alternate series to run alongside your “ The Animated” decade series.😎👍🏼

Thanks to VHS, Hanna-Barbera was a big part of my early childhood, with 1 episode of The Flintstones, 4 episodes of The Jetsons (which helped establish my love of sci-fi along with Star Trek and Star Wars), 3 episodes of Jonny Quest (including the terrifying The Invisible Monster), Dick Dastardly & Muttley, along with the movies Yogi's Great Escape (1987) and Jetsons: The Movie (1990). Years later, I read this big book called The Art of Hanna-Barbera, which told the story of the studio up until the mid-1980s. Good job on the history here, including some projects I never heard of.

I would bet that William Hanna and Joe Barbara each arrived in heaven Jesus thanked them for all the joy they brought to the world

I think you nailed the mix with this. A good blend of history & trivia, without coming across as too similar to your "year-by-year Retrospective" series when talking about the individual shows. Well done! Personally, I'm a addict when it comes to learning about the shows themselves and would never say no to a deep dive into any/all of them, but with regards to the layout of these "Studio Retrospectives", I think you nailed it perfectly.

Thank For the Faces to All the Voice Actors.

William Hanna and Joesph Barbera, BROTHERHOOD.

1959 -1969 was the Golden Age of Hanna-Barbera. I Love 1964 Jonny Quest.

Great Job as always Doc! I think it was a great overview. Personally I would like to see a more detailed look into HB's history and would love to see a year by year review of these toons! Still it was informative and fun.

Yeah

Long Live Hanna-Barbera

*before watching* Huh. It's 2am, I live in Ireland, and I'm still in a pub, so I'll come back to this later, but HB output in those years? Man that's a lot of shows! Ok, not Hannah-Barbara, but today, I just learned of the existence of Lou Scheimer's (of Filmation) year 2000 film "Robin and the Dreamweavers" (which never found distribution) on KZfaq and have it downloaded to watch. As a child of the 70's and 80's, obviously Lou (and Norm Prescott) have a special place in my heart, so I'm looking forward to watching it, even though the fact the film never found a distributor means it's probably terrible. While I'm here, here's a cut and paste of my spoiler-free review of TMNT MUTANT MAYHEM. TMNT Mutant Mayhem. Animation is beautiful. Thanks to "Into the Spider-Verse" finally, CG animated movies don't all try to look like Pixar films. This TMNT has a gorgeous style trying to evoke marker work and it's particularly effective with light/lens flare, and fire/explosion elements. (Human) Character designs have this odd, asymmetric look which reminds me of certain Klasky/Csupo shows from the 90's. I believe it's also unique to see the Turtles so strongly delineated in their designs. Their proportions, postures and body language are so different enough you can tell them all apart without color coding, weapons and initials on their belts. Naked, disguised, in "normal" clothes and you can tell the boys apart. Character dynamics are solid. The banter between the brothers is gold. Finally the teens are TEENS and BROTHERS! Themes align across A, B, and C plots. Splinter's fighting style is taken from Jackie Chan. Plot is OK - one Act III twist happens too fast. It's a minor nit, since there's a lot more to come, but it needed a minute to breathe. There is a mid-credit scene to set up the future of the franchise. Overall, best TMNT since 1990 movie. Highly recommended. Seriously, "Doc," see it. I think you'll be quite happy with it.

This was a really interesting video! I thought it was well presented and well researched. I think it might have been a little more visually stimulating if you switched up the background image once in awhile, but that's a very small gripe in an otherwise excellent video. I'm really glad I found this channel. Can't wait for part 2!

New fan here, great work mate

10:30 That's Alan Reed the Voice of Fred Flintstone.

Hannah Barbara are still great today. 😀👍

Great video! I just subscribed to the channel! I'm an oldhead animation/Saturday morning cartoon fan (born in 1964) so I can relate to all of these classic Hanna-Barbera shows and characters!, many of these shows I saw first run when they debuted. One request, could you do a history on Filmation Studios? They were one of H-B's chief rivals in television animation from the mid 60's to the mid 80's.

This is a really interesting series and I can't wait for Filmation to get this treatment. I'm curious if Saban will also get a retrospective. The name was behind a lot of shows but I don't know if they actually produced them or just distributed them.

That's not all of them Doctor. Just Wait Till Your Father Gets Home! Ok. That was merely an excuse to give a title shout out

Always delighted when the Dr puts out a new video. Any chance of seeing this format for Filmation or even Sunbow?

Can you do top 10 best animated movie villains of the 80's?

Harry Cohn. Eeeewww. There's a legit monster if there ever was one. Hoyt Curtin was an absolutely brilliant composer, though. The Super Friends theme might be my favorite from him.

Right. Good video. Lots of information on the background of the studio I didn't know. Budget realities, blah-blah, studios are cheap, blah-blah, if "limited animation" hadn't been developed, american animation would have died around 1960,except for the Disney feature film, but, *heavy sigh* there's a whole bunch of Hanna-Barbara and Jay Ward shows where you could listen to the audio tracks alone and not miss anything, but the visuals are so cheaply done and so static as to almost be superfluous. Yogi Bear could practically be a radio show. Hanna-Barberra as a studio is one where I truly wish I enjoyed their shows more than I do. I enjoyed (and still appreciate) Johnny Quest, and somewhat enjoy certain versions of Scooby-Doo (Although I got frustrated when I consciously realized the audience never actually sees half of the clues given at the end of the show - Velma finds the clues while we're watching Shaggy and Scooby making sandwiches), but most of the famous Hanna-Barberra characters are... Things I guess I'm glad other people enjoy, because, hey, if it makes someone happy, it's got some value, and I can always find some Looney Toons. Yet so many love these characters that I do, at times, feel like I'm missing out from not understanding the appeal. Of the Hanna-Barbera shows I remember my Dad had a fondness for Augie Doggie and Top Cat (along with Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle and Peabody and Sherman). And here I was just waiting for my Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies, because, of all those classic 1930's-1960's shorts from Warner's, MGM, Universal, King Features, Terrytoons, Disney, etc, the Warner's stuff just had the best characters and writers, even if Disney had more fluid movement and detailed backgrounds, and MGM had Preston Blair, while Universal ended up with Tex Avery (the only two artists who could teach Chuck Jones anything, ever). Oddly enough, my favorite Hanna-Barberra stuff is their 1940s Tom and Jerry shorts during the really ultra-violent phase when both Tom and Jerry were vicious bastards hell-bent on utterly destroying each other... By 1978 they were...friends? WTF? In many ways to me Hanna-Barberra ended up being the place that gave Ruby-Spears their start (before they moved to the Kroffts before branching out on their own), and the studio that gave Williams Street endless fodder for deconstructive parodies which transcended the source material to become something special. Yeah, that's a Venture Bros. reference. How a second-rate parody of Johnny Quest and Scooby-Doo went on to become one of the most compelling and rich cartoon mythos around is fascinating, and takes about... a season and a half. From this video I learned a lot more about outside work. I'm utterly gobsmacked to learn HB did the openings for Bewitched and I Dream of Jeanie! Those are so far outside the two Hanna-Barberra "house styles" (i.e. Everything looks like "The Flintstones" or an Alex Toth design) that no one would guess! Yet, despite a comment that's mostly complaining, I do have the utmost respect for Bill and Joe. A bottom line is American television animation exists because of them and the development of limited animation techniques, including the use of photocopying pencils to cels. Jay Ward, Friz Freling (with David DePatie), and Bill Melendez followed their lead (while Chuck Jones remained squarely in a full animation flow), which is why Ward, Melendez, and DePatie/Freling also had so many projects come out in the 60's and 70's while the mighty Chuck... Not so much. None of those shows from those other studios would exist without Hanna and Barbera's innovation. And, to repeat, just cuz *I* don't enjoy most H-B characters doesn't mean I can't be thrilled millions of others across several generations have embraced them. Bill and Joe brought a lot of joy to a lot of people, and that's a great legacy.

The true reason why MGM cartoon studios shut down in 1957 due to the rise of Television at the time. 📺

The image at 10:31 is Alan Reed, not Hoyt Curtin.

There are still some Hanna Barbera 60's Shows that have not been officially released on Physical Media !!!! C'mon Warner Archive.

Even though most of Huckleberry hound, quick draw mcgraw, and ruff and ready have not been release on home media, at least internet archive has those series there. I wish I could say the same about Filmation.Ironically and unironically.

i would to see u do a video on HB the Fantastic 4

i would enjoy this more withOUT the constant background. i have short attention span and visually this video is incredibly boring, so i wont be subscribing. It might as well be a podcast.