Precious Pupp

Precious Pupp title card.

Precious Pupp is an animated cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and first broadcast as part of The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show on October 2, 1965.

Plot

The cartoon featured a large mangy dog named Precious Pupp and his owner Granny Sweet. Granny was a kindly woman with a passion for motorcycles, completely oblivious to the fact that her beloved, affectionate pet was something of a neighborhood terror. He had a habit of slipping behind a victim quietly---sometimes in defense of their home, sometimes just for the fun of it---and jolting him with a ferocious series of barks . . . but never where or when Granny could catch him in the act. Unlike many cartoon animals, Precious didn't speak. His usual vocalism was an asthmatic-sounding, "wheezing" laugh used even more famously by Muttley, a Hanna-Barbera character introduced three years later; he usually outsmarted his enemies, most notably Bruiser, the neighborhood bulldog, but he usually outsmarted his oblivious owner, too.

Twenty-six episodes were produced.

Episodes

Season 1 (1965-1966)

Season 2 (1966)

Cast

• Don Messick - Precious Pupp
• Janet Waldo - Granny Sweet

DVD release

• The episode "Precious Jewels" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's Vol. 1.

• The episode "Bowling Pinned" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's Vol. 2.

Precious Pupp in other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese: O Xodó da Vovó
• Spanish: Lindo Pulgoso
• Serbian: Kuče Dragoljupče
• Italian: Precious Pupp
• French: Charlemagne
• German: Poldi
• Hungarian: Cukorfalat
• Turkish: Değerli

Later appearances

• Granny Sweet later made an appearance in the Yo Yogi! episode "Super Duper Snag" voiced by Kath Soucie.

External links

• Precious Pupp at the Internet Movie Database
• Precious Pupp at Toonopedia
• Episode index at the Big Cartoon DataBase