"The Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume 1" DVD Talkback

[Kolbar]

Discuss the classic Hanna-Barbera series!

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Huckleberry Hound is a blue-haired Southern dog with a fondness for the song, "My Darling, Clementine", and is a jack-of-all-trades cartoon star, appearing as a scientist (trying to neutralize a gigantic, thinking potato), a Scotland Yard detective (chasing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Victorian London or investigating reports of a mad scientist's Frankenstein-like weiner monster in early-1900s rural England), a Foreign Legion soldier (foiling a renegade Frenchman-turned-Arab), or a modern policeman (trying to subdue an impish ape named Wee Willie). Episodes of this television series begin and end with a Huckleberry cartoon. Sandwiched between them is a cartoon with two mischievous mice, Pixie and Dixie and a cantankerous cat named Mr. Jinks. Sometimes appearing in their stead in the middle cartoon was a free-spirited Hokey Wolf or the "smarter than the average" Yogi Bear.

Special Features Include:

Available Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 1.0), French (Dolby Digital 1.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0)
26 episodes on three single-sided discs and one double-sided disc
Reconstructing the premiere episode: view the pilot as originally aired with segments never before seen in color
Huckleberry Quotes: The Remix: music video celebrating memorable hound quotes
Huckleberry Hound: A Linguistical Masterpiece: houndspeak as humorously interpreted by a linguistics professor
The Legendary Sound of Daws Butler
Reassembled episodes: play other cartoons just as they aired originally
Additional bumpers and bridges: never-before-seen color and black-and-white segments
Limited-edition collectible animation celDiscuss both the DVD and the show!

[TheBlueHombre]

Okay, I'm biased. Huckleberry Hound is my favorite cartoon character of all time. He has been my favorite for over 45 years and nothing has changed in all that time. My main hobby is collecting Huck memorabilia. I consider myself the #1 Huckleberry Hound fan in the world.

Needless to say, I am thrilled that the Huck DVD box set came out last November. In particular, I love the reconstructed episodes. The way these shows are presented is how I remember the show airing in the early 1960's. I am thrilled that Yogi Bear, Pixie, Dixie and Mr. Jinks cartoons are a part of the set as they were a part of the original show. The extras are pretty good. I like the one where the Linguistics Professor breaks down "Houndspeak." The Daws Butler retrospective is also exemplary. Most of the Huck cartoons on this set were previously released on VHS over the years.

Overall, this is a great set. This is the first video release of Huck since 1988. In October of that year came out, simultaneously, "Huckleberry Hound and Friends - Hanna-Barbera Personal Favorites" and "The Good, The Bad and Huckleberry Hound." I still own these VHS tapes.

Hopefully some day we'll see the release of a volume two and three to complete out the set. Also, I hope Huck's TV movie, "The Good, The Bad and Huckleberry Hound" will also make its way on DVD.

I understand sales for the set were disappointing due to poor marketing. If you haven't purchased this set, now's the time.

[The Cartoon]

I love Huckelberry Hound, but the people who make the box sets are really inconsistent. There is no telling when they will release Volume 2 of this DVD set. I gave this set 4 stars.

[Kolbar]

I love Huckelberry Hound, but the people who make the box sets are really inconsistent. There is no telling when they will release Volume 2 of this DVD set. I gave this set 4 stars. The reason for that is low sales for Volume 1. Because of that, Warner Home Video decided to wait awhile before releasing Volume 2.

[ToonFanForever]

I am anxiously awaiting my copy of the HUCKLEBERRY HOUND DVD to arrive in
the mail any day now. I must point out, though, that the first message in this
thread states that the original series included two Huck cartoons and one
Pixie & Dixie, Yogi or Hokey cartoon sandwiched between. That is NOT the
way the series originally aired between 1958 and 1960. There were three
cartoons per episode: a Huck, a Yogi and a Pixie & Dixie (with the order
switched around from week to week). Then, when Yogi got his own show in
January 1961, his spot on Huck's show was filled by Hokey Wolf.

[JCorey3rd]

it does stink that Vol. 2 isn't on the release slate since my fave Huck and Yogi cartoons are trapped in there. When Huck takes on the potato and when Yogi joins the Chicago Bears are great moments.

[Kolbar]

I should also note that the short "Robin Hood Yogi" (the Cartoon of the Week (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=171820)) is featured on this set. I urge anybody who has this set to re-watch this cartoon and please comment on it in the Cartoon of the Week thread.

[Steve Carras]

I have that one..and I want to comment on the following:

"Big Bad Bullly"(1958) Odd for: Bears trying to get honey in the usual situation with a bee, but something ELSE INSTEAD standing in their way, a bull, and for using music from the SAME COMPOSER/LIBRARY-Jack Shaindlin (born:April 14,1909, Odessa, Russia-died:Sept.22,1978,New York City, New York) and his venerated Langlois Film Music (now Cienmusic),known for "Toboggan Run", that fast tune at the end - I THINK that brassy chase music - both foten used,m is one his pieces.. and the beginning "Pixie Pranks",then "Fishy Story" (the next SLOW piece), then the happy sounding "Fun on ice" when the two bears dress as a freakin' heifer!!! (and the great dialogue,of Daws Butler trying to sound "womanly":"I'll be.,." (changes voice!) "I-i-ll be right backk"
..very coy,Yogi,very coy)..and the Boo Boo "kid-dialect" "bumbly bee".Interestingly,NO John Seely-Bill Loose,George Hormel,Spencer Moore,Philip Green (though they saved most of HIS stuff for "Queecks Draw","Augie",'Snoops and Blab")

"Jiggers in Jinkx" Jinks is a "Tex Avery/North Carolina Wolf" like character, a friend to Pixie and Dixie,and that is exactly what gets him fired from the cheese factory.A Cat later seen in "Mopuse Nappers"(on this DVD) & nxt season's "Lend Lease Meeces" is hired to replace him. Some Pixie and Dixies like very first, "Uncle Tex" and "Mark of the Mouse',a "Zorro" "spoof", have charatcers doing MST3K-lkike proto-commentary on their findinds on TV!!--e.g.,making remarks about what they are watchingf!

Huck's first episode has him after a giant ape,later seen in "Huck and Ladder"(IIRC),named Willie..listen for the real hokey(:D ..and I don't mean wolf) version of "Hearts & Flowers" played during the construction site scene.(This, after I browsed BMI.com earlier this year was found to be by "George S.Chase", mayeb he wrote soem "chase music"..("Huckleberry Houdn cues","Hearts and Flowers",etc.I had to make that connection from there!) then some more cues like the "fast BIG Bad Bully" cue and the happy "Doris Day sunny" clipped horn string cue that is yet another often used piece, both of these possibly from Cinemusic-Langlois Library,whose music was composed and done as I mention above, by Russian-born-transplant compsoer Jack Shaindlin (the old radio show "The March of time") close out the cartoon.

Huck himself has trouble with a couple of spoiled brats who wanna ditch school (LOTS of the Warner Bros. Seely-Loose "Prehysterical Hare" soundtrack is played here as in so many other Huck trilogy shows) but there is a suprse for Truant officer huck,here as with Jinks in "Jiggers its Jinks", reprising that Tex Avery wolf look (well, HE was based on that character!) and dealing with two smart=pants crows, talking like two very different Hanna Barbera sleuths - Super Snooper the cat (Daws Butler) and the dog from Beelezebub's place, Scrappy Doo (Don Messick), both in very good form here, Iggy and Ziggy (I forget which is which, like the two similiar Terry magpies Heckle and Jeckle.)

Yogi,then the
Meeces", then Huck are in that order.Some different theme music variations are ehard too.

[The Cartoon]

The reason for that is low sales for Volume 1. Because of that, Warner Home Video decided to wait awhile before releasing Volume 2.
The reason for that was that I have never seen it in stores. I had to order it online. Same with Yogi Bear, Wacky Races, Dasturdly, Mutley & Their Flying Machines, & The Perils Of Penelope Pitstop

[JCorey3rd]

Warners does not nearly have the same amount of pull in the kiddie section as Disney. Rarely do I walk into a store and see a section dedicated to these H-B boxsets.

[The Cartoon]

By the way, you run HBShows.com right?

[Kolbar]

By the way, you run HBShows.com right?

If you're talking to me then yeah, I do.

[The Cartoon]

If you're talking to me then yeah, I do.
Cool, I was wondering if you still needed help with the Superfriends subsite. The message was from June 21st, but if you still need help with it, I can help:D

[Kolbar]

Cool, I was wondering if you still needed help with the Superfriends subsite. The message was from June 21st, but if you still need help with it, I can help:DActually, I've shifted all of my efforts to "The Flintstones" for the time being. If you want to help with that, then please PM me.

[The Cartoon]

Actually, I've shifted all of my efforts to "The Flintstones" for the time being. If you want to help with that, then please PM me.
ok, thanks

[Eric Brown]

I finally got my Huck Hound DVD that was on back order with Deep Discount DVD. I did get to view it for an hour or so. I found what I think is one incorrect assembly. On one of the discs there are 6 re-assembled episodes. They say that these are representitive of the programs as they actually aired on TV in 1958/59. In my recollection, NOT SO. On the DVD each cartoon has the lead in production credits. These did not appear on the TV programs. Only the title card was used. The only production credits that appeared on the TV show were during the closing run. The same process was used in "Quick Draw McGraw" and "The Yogi Bear Show". I never even saw an opening production credit on these H-B cartoons until the early 70s when they were aired as seperate entities.
Anybody else remember it that way?????

THANX

[ToonFanForever]

You are 100% correct. I was eleven years old in 1958, when the show first
aired. I never saw the credits for individual cartoons either, until they began
showing them on Cartoon Network (and later Boomerang).

[Kolbar]

I'm merging this new thread with the official "Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume 1" DVD talkback.

[Eric Brown]

Back on the "Robin Hood Yogi" thread I was speculating on the first Yogi Bear cartoon. How about the first "Pixie and Dixie" cartoon? I just watched "Pistol Packing Pirates" on the HH DVD. It's my guess that this is the first P & D cartoon. It's based on the same assumptions as the first Yogi cartoon. 1). The characters have not been established in their "household" enviorment. I think H-B was going to try something different for a cat and mouse routine. It's the Only P & D cartoon I can think of that took this departure. 2). The use of the "Ruff and Reddy" series backround music.
This cartoon was animated by Ken Muse, except toward the middle where Jinx uses a cannon ball as a bowling ball. As in the Yogi cartoon "High Fly Guy", (Lew Marshall animated) the animator changes to Michael Lah, and then at the end, back to Ken Muse.
Any speculation from out there????

SIDEBAR; on the HH DVD the Yogi Bear cartoon "Big Brave Bear" is credited as being animated by Lew Marshall. It was obviously animated by Carlo Vinci. Am I an H-B geek or what?

THANX

[Steve Carras]

Back on the "Robin Hood Yogi" thread I was speculating on the first Yogi Bear cartoon. How about the first "Pixie and Dixie" cartoon? I just watched "Pistol Packing Pirates" on the HH DVD. It's my guess that this is the first P & D cartoon. It's based on the same assumptions as the first Yogi cartoon. 1). The characters have not been established in their "household" enviorment. I think H-B was going to try something different for a cat and mouse routine. It's the Only P & D cartoon I can think of that took this departure. 2). The use of the "Ruff and Reddy" series backround music.
This cartoon was animated by Ken Muse, except toward the middle where Jinx uses a cannon ball as a bowling ball. As in the Yogi cartoon "High Fly Guy", (Lew Marshall animated) the animator changes to Michael Lah, and then at the end, back to Ken Muse.
Any speculation from out there????
THANX

1.Some others: another early one also cited as a first Pixie and Dixie, "Little Birdmouse"(this had MUCH use of the "Seely-Loose" cue (actually "by George Hormel" in the Capital library but "credited to Seely and Loose" in another library (in an EARLIER, "Guy Lombardo/Paul Whiteman" like late 20s sax version--think Gumby in the circa 1956-1957 "Toy Fun" when he's flying some toy that is much like a hovercraft, unable to control it and then falls down!), one of MANY that Capitol accquired, called "Water Skis"--if you watch "Mark of the Mouse' (second half of the chase scene-this also had that same cue)", with P&D "Liontamer Huck", (near end), and "Daffy addy" with Yogi (during the spurs scene--NOT when that little kid is coming with spurs, but the scene when his naiive but smarty aleck Brooklynese parents who obviously have NEVER visited ANY park--they'd return in "Bravest Bear" title?), try to surmise just what that SOUND is, (it's Yogi yelping from the kid's cowboy spurs),etc.,even in Gumby called "Too Loo" anytime the evil niote flies..composer and title unknown but Capitol/Seely titles this one, "4-SF-10". (The "SF being (Synchro-Fox-meaning Sam Fox, a Seely contemporary.He was a publisher of that music!) If you like those,you'll like a piece used during the sickly lion and near the end of "Lion tamerr Huck", called "The Cockeyed Colonel" by David Buttolph, a longtime film composer (1903-1976). He, Jack belasco ("Monorail"-a calm tune used in Gumby and maybe elsewhere),and a few otehrs composed for Britain's Syncro. I've mentioned other aspects of the lubrary elsewhere.Which brings us to the next part..but either Crew Cat or Puss in Boats and most of Missile Bound Cat take place outside the household.Back to the music issue..that brings us to..)

2.The music in "Pistol Pakcin Pirate" seemed during those uptempo times to be of Jack Shaindlin's "Langlois Produciton Music", but the end music (in the rowboat scene!) is "Spencer Moore: ANIMATION NAUTICVAL: L-1121". NO, I dunno if Mandy Moore ("The Princess Diaries","American Dreamz"(Sic)) is ANY relation to him,guys!:)

Pistol Packing Pirate's title is based on the WWII era Bing Crosby and Andrews Sisters, and (compsoer) Al Dexter's cowboy novelty (Excellent Quick Draw or huck music) tune, with "Mama" instead of "Pirate",one of MANY cartoon titles that spoofs the title of a famous song,work,etc.

BTW I think Daws Butler did the pirate,much like Captain Skyhook in HB's 1966 "Space Kiddettes", one of their most obscure cartoons of the 1960s.Pixie and Dixie are more "antiheroic" here than in some..:)

[Jon Cooke]

I got my copy the other day from DeepDiscount too, and I can't recommend this set enough! These are Hanna-Barbera cartoons at their best and the extras and even the main menu are great. I can't get enough of the original bumpers, they always get me in the mood to watch these cartoons.