Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper

Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper
Genre	Adventure Comedy drama Fantasy
Written by	Mark Evanier
Directed by	Steve Lumley
Starring	Daws Butler Don Messick Mel Blanc Henry Corden Georgi Irene Allan Melvin Hal Smith John Stephenson Janet Waldo Jimmy Weldon
Music by	Hoyt Curtin (musical director) Paul DeKorte (music supervisor)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Editors	Robert Ciaglia (film editor) Larry C. Cowan (supervising film editor) Gil Iverson (show editor)
Running time	24 minutes
Production company	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	December 21, 1982 (1982-12-21)

Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper is a 1982 animated Christmas television special starring Yogi Bear. It is the third and final Yogi Christmas special. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, it first aired on December 21, 1982 (1982-12-21) on CBS. Along with Yogi's traditional cast, the characters also met up with many other Hanna-Barbera characters, including Magilla Gorilla and Fred Flintstone.

Plot

Huckleberry Hound brings his friends Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber with him to visit Jellystone Park for Christmas and they discover Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo have escaped from Jellystone and hidden out in a department store, where Yogi is posing as a Santa Claus. Along the way, he helps a little girl named Judy Jones rediscover her faith in Christmas when her father, a billionaire named J. Wellington Jones, is too busy for her. Yogi says that many parents have to work hard to support their kids, and since her father is not home, Yogi and Boo-Boo propose escorting Judy through the city to bring her to her dad.

Ranger Smith and the others look for Yogi when they learn he and Boo-Boo are in the city. After getting a picnic basket from a man named Murray, Yogi reunites with his friends who help to look for Judy's father. Auggie Doggie and Doggie Daddy agree to watch over Judy while they are away.

• In his search, Snagglepuss encounters Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble as Street Santa Claus who are collecting money for a Bedrock charity. They tell him to ask a passing lady his question for donations. When the old lady screams in fear of Snagglepuss, Fred and Barney attack him, claiming it to be an entertainment purpose. Snooper and Blabber go to the police.
• Quick Draw has no luck as Mr. Jinks states that nobody named Mr. Jones lives in his building. Pixie and Dixie leave a present for Mr. Jinks which contains a bulldog.
• Magilla Gorilla, Wally Gator, and Yakky Doodle haven't seen Mr. Jones either. As Yogi hasn't had any luck locating her dad's office, they remain in the park to try to figure out a plan there.

At Judy's home, J. Wellington Jones is troubled when his daughter isn't there, so he calls the police to help find her. Also working with the police is Ranger Smith, who is looking for Yogi and Boo-Boo. The police are at the department store where Judy was last seen and interrogate all the men who work as Santas. When they realize Judy went off with a Santa who wasn't a department store employee, they assume she was kidnapped. This accusation concerns Ranger Smith (despite having past problems with Yogi's antics, he can't believe Yogi would commit such a grave act).

Snooper and Blabber were speaking to Police Chief Blake at the time when word comes that Judy was seen in the park by a patrol car, and the Chief heads out to personally see the arrest of Judy's kidnapper.

At the park, Yogi and his friends celebrate Christmas when the police arrive with Mr. Jones and Ranger Smith. As he is being loaded into the paddy wagon, Yogi tells Mr. Jones that he needs to spend more time with Judy before she becomes an adult, but Mr. Jones denies it because he's busy all the time and is never home only to then realize that Yogi is right.

Guilty over his failure of being a good father to Judy, Mr. Jones tells the police to release Yogi by telling Police Chief Blake that it was really his fault that Judy ran off with Yogi, taking full responsibility for the whole debacle that's happened today. Ranger Smith takes care of sorting out anything else the police would charge Yogi with.

The special then ends with everyone singing Christmas carols around a campfire in the park.

Cast

• Daws Butler - Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Mr. Jinks, Hokey Wolf, Augie Doggie, Snooper and Blabber, Dixie, Wally Gator
• Mel Blanc - Barney Rubble, Bulldog, Security Guard #1
• Henry Corden - Fred Flintstone, Policeman, Security Guard #2
• Georgi Irene - Judy Jones
• Allan Melvin - Magilla Gorilla, Murray
• Don Messick - Boo-Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, Pixie
• John Stephenson - Doggie Daddy, Butler, Announcer
• Hal Smith - J. Wellington Jones, Police Sergeant, Zookeeper #1
• Janet Waldo - Mrs. Jones, Murray's Wife, Lady in the Street, P.A. Voice at Bus Depot
• Jimmy Weldon - Yakky Doodle, Zookeeper #2

Home media

On September 26, 1995 (1995-09-26), Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper was released by Turner Home Entertainment on VHS, later a DVD of it came out on December 7, 2010, by Warner Home Video.

See also

• List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
  • The Yogi Bear Show
  • Casper's First Christmas
  • Yogi's First Christmas
  • Yogi's Treasure Hunt
  • The New Yogi Bear Show
  • Fender Bender 500
  • Yo Yogi!
• List of Hanna-Barbera characters
• List of Yogi Bear characters

External links

• Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper at IMDb
• Toonarific – Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper at Toonarific
• POVonline Daws Butler, Part 4 at POVonline, by writer Mark Evanier