Peter Potamus

The Peter Potamus Show
Also known as 'Peter Potamus and His Magic Flying Balloon'
Genre Animated
Comedy
Adventure
Written by Tony Benedict
Warren Foster
Dalton Sandifer
Directed by William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Voices of Daws Butler
Don Messick
Howard Morris
Mel Blanc
John Stephenson
Hal Smith
Doug Young
Composer(s) Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3
No. of episodes 27
Production
Producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time 22–26 minutes
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor Screen Gems (original)
Warner Bros. Television Distribution (current)
Release
Original network Syndication
ABC
Picture format Black-and-white (syndicated)
Color (ABC) / NTSC (480i)
Audio format Monaural
Original release September 16, 1964 – October 23, 1965

The Peter Potamus Show is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and first broadcast on September 16, 1964. (Early promotional materials for the series carried the title Peter Potamus and His Magic Flying Balloon, but that title never appeared on screen.)

Premise

The Peter Potamus Show was divided into three segments: Peter Potamus and So-So, Breezly and Sneezly and Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey. Peter Potamus was a companion series to The Magilla Gorilla Show and both series premiered in first-run syndication before being picked up by ABC in January 1966. At that time, the Breezly and Sneezly segment was swapped with Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long, a segment on The Magilla Gorilla Show. After the ABC run ended in 1967, cartoons from Magilla Gorilla and Peter Potamus shows were syndicated together.

The original Peter Potamus series used to be seen on the cable TV channel Boomerang, often as part of its anthology series Boomerang Zoo. During the original run of the cartoon (1964), at the end of each episode, the closing song ended with the phrase: "And there he goes Peter Potamus, our ideal" (The Ideal toy company was the sponsor of the television series. A similarly subtle sponsor reference appeared in the Magilla Gorilla theme song lyrics: "He's really ideal").

Segments

Peter Potamus and So-So

The main segment featured Peter Potamus (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Joe E. Brown; Butler used an identical voice for Lippy the Lion) and his diminutive sidekick So-So the monkey (voiced by Don Messick).[1] Peter is big, purple, and friendly, dressed in a safari jacket and hat. Episodes generally consisted of Peter and So-So exploring the world in his hot air balloon, which was capable of time travel at the spin of a dial. When faced with a precarious situation, Peter uses his Hippo Hurricane Holler to blow away his opponents.

Breezly and Sneezly

A polar bear named Breezly Bruin (voiced by Howard Morris) and his friend Sneezly the Seal (voiced by Mel Blanc) use various schemes to break into an army camp in the frozen north, while trying to stay one step ahead of the camp's leader Colonel Fuzzby (voiced by John Stephenson).

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey

Three dogs named Yippee (voiced by Doug Young), Yappee (voiced by Hal Smith), and Yahooey (voiced by Daws Butler) aka The Goofy Guards, work for the King, a short, complaining ruler (voiced by Hal Smith) who is often on the receiving end of their antics. The trio's plumed hats and swords are reminiscent of the Three Musketeers.

Episodes

# Plot
1
  • Fee Fi Fo Fun:
  • No Place Like Nome:
  • The Volunteers:
2
  • Lion Around:
  • All Riot on the Northern Front:
  • Black Bart:
3
  • Cleo Trio:
  • Missile Fizzle:
  • Double Dragon:
4
  • No Rest for a Pest:
  • Mass Masquerade:
  • Outlaw in-Law:
5
  • Wagon Train Strain:
  • Furry Furlough:
  • Horse Shoo Fly:
6
  • Monotony on the Bounty:
  • Bruin Ruin:
  • Wild Child:
7
  • The Good Hood:
  • Freezing Fleas:
  • Witch is Which:
8
  • Stars on Mars:
  • Stars and Gripes:
  • Wise Quacking:
9
  • Kooky Spook:
  • Armoured Amour:
  • Nautical Nitwits:
10
  • The Island Fling:
  • As the Snow Flies:
  • Job Robbed:
11
  • Courtin Trouble:
  • Snow Biz:
  • Unicorn on the Cob:
12
  • Big Red Riding Hood:
  • Unseen Trouble:
  • Mouse Rout:
13
  • Hurricane Hippo:
  • Nervous in the Service:
  • Handy Dandy Lion:
14
  • What a Knight:
  • Birthday Bonanza:
  • Sappy Birthday:
15
  • Mask Task:
  • Bad Guys Are Good Guys:
  • King of the Roadhogs:
16
  • Pre-Hysterical Pete:
  • Itchy Finger Gunslinger:
  • Palace Pal Picnic:
17
  • Trite Flite:
  • Clunko Buncko:
  • Sleepy Time King:
18
  • Marriage Peter Potamus Style:
  • Slick Quick Gun:
  • Pie Pie Blackbird:
19
  • Calaboose Caboose:
  • Mostly Ghostly:
20
  • Eager Ogre:
  • Will O' the Whip:
21
  • The Reform of Plankenstein:
  • Cactus Ruckus:
22
  • Debt and Taxes:
  • Rapid Romance:
23
  • Wrong Time No See:
  • El Loco, Loco, Loco Diablo:
24
  • America or Bust:
  • Big Town Show Down:
25
  • Rebel Rumble:
  • Space Sheriff:
26
  • Pilgrims Regress:
  • Red Riding Ricochet:
27
  • The Crossbow Incident:
  • Jail Break-In:

Voice cast

Other appearances

Home Media releases

The episode Fe Fi Fo Fun is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol. 1. The episode Wagon Train Strain is available on the Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's Vol. 2 set. The episode Cleo Trio is on the Hanna Barbera 25 Cartoon Collection DVD, part of The Best of Warner Bros. series.

On November 1, 2016, Warner Archive released The Peter Potamus Show- The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 for the very first time, as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Markstein, Don (2008). "Peter Potamus". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on 2015-03-08.
  2. ↑ "'The Complete Series' Formally Announced by the Warner Archive".
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