The Hillbilly Bears

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The Hillbilly Bears is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It aired as a segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show for two seasons, from 1965 to 1967. During the first half of the 1966-67 television season, The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show was split into two shows, and The Hillbilly Bears aired as part of The Atom Ant Show. The characters in the series were a family of four anthropomorphic bears: Maw and Paw Rugg, their teenage daughter Floral, and their young son Shag (whose voices and personas were nearly identical to Elroy and Judy Jetson).

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[edit] Overview

The Hillbilly Bears played on a social stereotype of the "hillbilly", with a gun toting, mumbling father (Paw Rugg) who was always "feudin" with the neighbors the Hoppers. Paw Rugg's voice was a comical mumble, splattered with a few understandable words. Particularly in the first episodes, Paw Rugg's voice was incomprehensible; his speech improved with the later episodes.

[edit] Episode list

There were a total of 26 six-minute episodes produced.

  • "Detour For Sure" (1965)
  • "Woodpecked" (1965)
  • "Anglers Aweigh" (1965)
  • "Stranger Than Friction" (1965)
  • "Goldilocks and the Four Bears" (1965)
  • "Going, Going Gone Gopher" (1965)
  • "Courtin' Disaster" (1965)
  • "Picnic Panicked" (1965)
  • "Judo Kudos" (1965)
  • "Just Plane Around" (1965)
  • "War Games" (1965)
  • "Bricker Brats" (1965)
  • "Slap Happy Grandpappy" (1965)
  • "Do the Bear" (1966)
  • "Pooped Pops" (1966)
  • "Leaky Creek" (1966)
  • "My Fair Hillbilly" (1966)
  • "Rickety-Rockety-Raccoon" (1966)
  • "Modern Inconvenience" (1966)
  • "Rabbit Rumble" (1966)

[edit] Cast

[edit] Other Appearances

The Hillbilly Bears appeared in Yogi's Ark Lark and its spin-off series Yogi's Gang.

The Hillbilly Bears made a cameo in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Guitar Control."

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