Family Toons: These Are The Days (1974)

 I had originally written a review piece on this next item years ago, but stupidly deleted it when the video accompanying it was deleted.

These Are The Days, a Hanna-Barbera cartoon inspired by CBS' The Waltons, was part of the ill-fated class of 1974, a group of series between CBS, ABC, & NBC that were all cancelled after 1 season of 1st run episodes.

If it wasn't for ABC's equally brainless decision to schedule Days at the bottom of the lineup leading into American Bandstand, this might've gotten some legs and lasted a while, which at that time would be rare.

The usual H-B repertory players (i.e. Don Messick, John Stephenson) were joined by primetime vets Henry Jones (ex-Channing), who was a yeoman character actor at this point, Frank Cady (ex-Green Acres, Petticoat Junction), and June Lockhart (ex-Petticoat Junction, Lassie, Lost in Space), all making their toon debuts, although Lockhart could've had hers a year earlier when H-B adapted Space for the ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. Jackie Earle Haley was also heard on another H-B frosh, Valley of The Dinosaurs, over on CBS, and Days brought ex-Monkee Micky Dolenz (also heard on Devlin) and Pam Ferdin (ex-The Roman Holidays) into the mix, after Ferdin had been heard in "Charlotte's Web" a year earlier, and Dolenz had worked on Butch Cassidy.

Following is the series opener, "Sensible Ben":

We lost June Lockhart recently, and we weren't doing a rating anyway.