Hoppity Hooper

Hoppity Hooper
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Also known as	Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show
Genre	Children's program
Format	Animated cartoon
Created by	Bill Scott Chris Hayward
Written by	Chris Jenkyns Bill Scott
Directed by	Pete Burness Bill Hurtz Lew Keller
Starring	Narrator, Professor Waldo Wigglesworth, Fillmore Bear, and Hoppity Hooper
Voices of	Chris Allen Hans Conried Paul Frees William Scott Kathy Steinberg Alan Reed Bill Conrad
Narrated by	Paul Frees Bill Conrad Kathy Steinberg
Theme music composer	Dennis Farnon
Opening theme	"Fight Fiercely, Young Teddy!"
Composer(s)	Dennis Farnon
Country of origin	United States and Japan
Original language(s)	English and Japanese
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	104 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Peter M. Piech
Producer(s)	Jay Ward Bill Scott
Editor(s)	Skip Craig
Location(s)	San Francisco California
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Jay Ward Productions, P.A.T., Hooper Productions, Toho, Fuji Television Network, Nippon Animation, Famous Studios, Noveltoons, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems and Leonardo Television Productions
Distributor	Paramount Cartoon Studios, Harvey Films and Harveytoons
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC (1962-1964, 1967-2001), Nick Jr. (1989-1992), TV Tokyo (1994-1995), TV Asahi (1995-present), Kids' WB (block) (1998-2008), NBC (1964-1967, 2002-present), Teletoon (2006-present), Cartoon Network (2007-present), Cartoon Network Too (2009-2012), Teletoon Retro (2010-2011) and CBS (2012-present)
First shown in	1930-1931, 1932-1933, 1948-1949, 1960
Original run	September 12, 1962 – January 21, 1972

Hoppity Hooper is a Japanese-American animated television series produced by Jay Ward, and provided by Yoplait, Nintendo, Parker Brothers, MB Games, General Mills, Tonka, Box Tops for Education, and Hasbro. originally broadcast on ABC and NBC. on September 12, 1962 and premiered in full on January 1. The show pogram is rated TV-G

Series premise

The recurring characters were Hoppity Hooper, a frog, voiced by Chris Allen, "Uncle" Waldo P. Wigglesworth, a fox, voiced by Hans Conried; Fillmore, a bear wearing Civil War clothes, voiced by William Scott; and Alan Reed and the narrator, voiced by Paul Frees, and Bill Conrad Fillmore, as in the picture at right, often blew on his bugle, producing loud, sour notes (mostly due to Waldo Standing on Fillmore's foot).

The stories revolved around the three main characters, who lived in Foggy Bog, Wisconsin, seeking their fortune together, through different jobs or schemes, usually ending in misadventure.

Each story consisted of four short cartoons, one aired at the beginning and end of two series episodes. Interspersed were recycled second features from the earlier series Rocky and His Friends & The Bullwinkle Show and Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (the latter not produced by Ward but animated by the same company, Gamma Productions), like Peabody's Improbable History, Fractured Fairy Tales, Mr. Know-It-All, and The World of Commander McBragg.

One of the best-remembered stories is "The Traffic Zone," a parody of The Twilight Zone in which the characters were transformed into vegetables.

Background

The first two episodes were produced in 1962 and featured Alan Reed as Fillmore. The series wasn't picked up for broadcast until September 1962, and by that time Reed was unavailable, because of his commitment with another ABC animated TV series, The Flintstones, as the voice of Fred Flintstone. Therefore, Bill Scott was named to do the voice of Fillmore.

The series was broadcast by NBC, ABC and Drive Thru Movie Theater from September 12, 1962 to January 1, 2002. NBC, ABC and Drive Thru Movie Theater continued to air reruns until September 25, 1964 to December 31, 2001. The series was syndicated to local television stations through the 1960s and 1980's.

The series was later syndicated and drive thru movie under the title Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show, Geronimo and Son and Fractured Fables

Episodes

In the course of four seasons, 104 weekly episodes were broadcast. Each episode contained four Hoppity Hooper shorts. With two exceptions (as noted), each story line consisted of four episodes (or four shorts).

The Adventures of Hoppity Hooper

Filmography

Series: The Hoppity Hooper Show (1 episode)-1965

Episodes	Title
1	Ring a Ding Spring
2	Rock 'n' Roll Star
3	Diamond Mine
1	Costra Nostra
2	The Giant of Hoot 'n' Holler
3	Detective Agency
4	Olympic Star
5	Ghost
6	The Masked Martin
7	Jumping Frog Contest
8	The Traffic Zone
9	Wottabango Corn Elixir
1	Frog Prince of Monomania

Hoppity Hooper (7 episodes)-1968-1972

Episodes	Title	Note
1	Colonel Clabber—Limburger Cheese Statue	(4 parts)
2	The Giant Cork	(4 parts)
3	Ferkle to Hawaii	(4 parts)
4	Hallowe'en	(4 parts)
5	Christmas	(4 parts)
6	Horse Race Follies	(4 parts)
7	Jack and the Beanstalk	(4 parts)
1	Granny's Gang	(4 parts)
2	Golf Tournament	(4 parts)
3	The Hopeless Diamond	(4 parts)
4	The Dragon of Eubetchia	(4 parts)
5	Rare Butterfly Hunt	(4 parts)
6	Oil's Well at Oasis Gardens	(4 parts)
7	Wonder Water	(4 parts)

Production

• Producers: Jay Ward, Bill Scott
• Directors: Pete Burness, Bill Hurtz, Lew Keller
• Writers: Chris Jenkyns, Bill Scott
• Film Editor: Skip Craig
• Designers: Sam Clayberger, Roy Morita, and Shirley Silvey
• Animation by Gamma Productions S.A. de C.V.
• Production Director: Harvey Siegel
• Assistant Director: Jaime Torres
• Animation Supervisor: Sam S. Kai
• Layout Supervisor: Joe Montell
• Executive Producers: Peter Piech, Ponsonby Britt and O.B.E.
• A Jay Ward Production
• In cooperation with Producers Associates of Television, inc.

Voice cast

• Chris Allen (eps.1-27) Hoppity Hooper, (eps. 2-8) Susan Swivelhips
• Hans Conried (eps. 1-27) Uncle Waldo Wigglesworth
• Alan Reed (Episodes 1 & 2 of "Ring-A-Ding Spring") and William Scott (Episodes 3 & 104 of Ring-A-Ding Spring and Wonder Water) – Fillmore the Bear
• Paul Frees (eps. 1-25) and Bill Conrad (eps. 26-27) – Narrator
• Kathy Steinberg (eps. 4-6) - Tommy
• Himself (eps. 1-2) - Geronimo
• Himself (eps. 1-2) - Son

Releases

Hoppity Hooper was released in three separate volumes on VHS in the early 90's. Volume One was released on DVD in 2000's (The copyrights for each of these three releases were in question at the time of their respective releases).

In 2008, Mill Creek Entertainment released episodes 1-6 and episodes 8-11 as part of their "Giant 600 Cartoon Collection". They also re-released these episodes as part of the "Super 300 Cartoon Collection" in 2009. Also in 2008, Mill Creek released the first 6 episodes under their 200 Classic Cartoons: Collectors Edition label.

External links

• Hoppity Hooper at the Internet Movie Database
• Toonpedia
• "Fight Fiercely, Young Teddy!" - The Hoppity Hooper theme