Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera

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Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera
File:Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera TV Guide 19 November 1977.jpg
1977 TV Guide promotional advertisement
Written by Marshall Flaum
Directed by Marshall Flaum
Starring Gene Kelly
with special guests
Cloris Leachman
Jonathan Winters
Lorne Greene
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
Production
Executive producer(s) Louis M. Heyward
Producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Marshall Flaum
Cinematography Dennis Dalzell
Editor(s) Bert Lovitt
Running time 120 minutes
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera
Release
Original network CBS
Original release November 24, 1977
Chronology
Followed by The Hanna-Barbera Hall of Fame: Yabba Dabba Doo II
External links
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Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera is a 1977 retrospective television special celebrating the 20th anniversary of the award-winning partnership of animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera which aired on CBS on November 24, 1977.[1]

Summary

A salute to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, hosted by Gene Kelly with special guests Jonathan Winters, Cloris Leachman and Lorne Greene, which covers Hanna-Barbera creations from their first collaboration effort in 1938 working at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio, to their formed partnership of Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1957, and all the way through to Heidi's Song, an animated theatrical feature that was currently in production at the time, which would see release five years later in 1982.

The special spotlights several animated characters as The Flintstones, Ruff and Reddy, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry and many others, as well as feature-length pieces including Jack and the Beanstalk (1967), Charlotte's Web (1973) and Cyrano (1974). It also includes film clips in which the duo pioneered the technique of mixing animation with live-action such as Gene Kelly dancing with Jerry Mouse in Anchors Aweigh (1945) and Esther Williams teaching Jerry how to swim in Dangerous When Wet (1953).

In addition to the narrative provided by Kelly, Cloris Leachman introduces the various animated families of Hanna-Barbera and has a friendly chat with Pebbles Flintstone; Jonathan Winters introduces the strange, futuristic and fantastic world of Hanna-Barbera creations and Lorne Greene demonstrates how animated films are brought to the screen while in a recording studio.

A sequel special, The Hanna-Barbera Hall of Fame: Yabba Dabba Doo II, hosted by Bill Bixby, was broadcast on CBS in 1979.

Cast

Home media release

Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera has never been released on any physical format in the United States by current rightsholder Warner Home Video.

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