You know the characters, from Yogi Bear to Cap'n Crunch. In 1987, PBS devoted an hour during a national pledge drive to the early career of the incomparable Daws Butler.
Butler started as a vaudeville impressionist, and parlayed that into a lucrative career in radio and animation. In the course of the hour, narrated by William Conrad (ex-Rocky & His Friends, The Fugitive, Cannon, et al), we see and hear from Butler, along with a fair number of his contemporaries, specifically Stan Freberg, Don Messick and June Foray, and producers Walter Lantz, William Hanna, & Joseph Barbera.
On with the show!
Yes, it stops with the launch of Hanna-Barbera in 1957, and that might be because as time progressed, Daws began to recycle some of his voices. Snagglepuss, for example, was reused for The Funky Phantom. Blabber Mouse led to Elroy Jetson and Lambsy from It's The Wolf, and so on.
We lost Daws a year after this show aired.
Rating: A.
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