Hanna Barbera Cartoons

[billsqueak]

Hello HB fans,

Does anyone know where the Richie Rich cartoons and also the Sccooby and the Gang (with Scrappy) were animated? (although not my preference or favorites by any stretch)

Were these H-B cartoons from 1970-80 animated in the US in house by H-B or overseas?

The Richie Rich show contains classic H-B sound effects which contain some sounds missing from the public released Hanna Barbera SFX collection. The sounds heard on Richie Rich are also heard on Spongebob. Here is my question: Did some of the H-B SFX get released to other studios? (for example, ray beam, pulley sound, classic door squeak, baby carriage wheel squeaks, etc.) Meanwhiile, the Sound Ideas set of Hanna Barbera SFX omits these entirely. Why?

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[SF4Ever]

Hello HB fans,

Does anyone know where the Richie Rich cartoons and also the Sccooby and the Gang (with Scrappy) were animated? (although not my preference or favorites by any stretch)

Were these H-B cartoons from 1970-80 animated in the US in house by H-B or overseas?

The Richie Rich show contains classic H-B sound effects which contain some sounds missing from the public released Hanna Barbera SFX collection. The sounds heard on Richie Rich are also heard on Spongebob. Here is my question: Did some of the H-B SFX get released to other studios? (for example, ray beam, pulley sound, classic door squeak, baby carriage wheel squeaks, etc.) Meanwhiile, the Sound Ideas set of Hanna Barbera SFX omits these entirely. Why?

Sincerely,

Bill

Quite frankly, Bill, what difference does it make? I'm still awaiting the DVD release of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Hour, Volume 2. I'm pretty sure the show was animated in the United States, in Hollywood, California, of all cities.

 

[derosa]

I'm still awaiting the DVD release of The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Hour, Volume 2.

me too! i'd really like more of that show... but not how iTunes has them,
chopped up into "scooby doo and scrappy doo Season 1, 2 and 3
without the richie rich episodes. that show is way better in the original
one hour format where the two characters alternate segments and shorts.

 

[Eric B]

The Scooby and Scrappy shorts (Also known as the "Scary Scooby Funnies") have the same, normal HB sound effects. If you've heard odd sounds, then what you were probably seeing was the similar following season, from the Scooby/Scrappy and Yabba show. The Scooby episodes are similar to the previous two seasons, but you hear different sound effects (including some you would associate with classic WB), because the show was co-produced by Ruby-Spears, who produced the accompanying Puppy series.

 

[billsqueak]

Richie Rich follow up

Hello,

Thanks Eric for the info on the sound effects. That explains alot. I know not everybody is "not" interested in which company or country the show's animation was done as shown by some of the others response to my questions and I understand, but to me, the quality of the show often evidences whether something was done in the US or overseas. I personally think the US animation had better fluid movement but I would agree with many, that animation overall really got cheap looking in the 70's despite some good shows and stories. My other reason for technical questions is that some of the Hanna Barbera shows seem to be on hiatus from any DVD release for hold ups not known to the general public. I've been waiting for years to see Hanna Barbera's prime time live action/animation TV show from 1968 THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN to be released first on VHS and not to DVD, but no such response, despite my writing Warner Brothers Archives about it. They same scenario goes for the animation ABBOTT AND COSTELLO cartoons from 1967-68.

Boomerang is good but they seem to recycle the same cartoons over and over again while other classic H-B shows sit in the vaults somewhere.

Back to Richie Rich (season #1 release), it seems Richie Rich's actor voice isn't the same in all the cartoons from that DVD release. Does anyone know if different boy actors were used to provide Richie Rich's voice? The other voices seem to be the same as Stanley Jones as Richie's father or the mother or Irona or the Butler, etc. I know Frank Welker did Dollar's voice.

Was Richie Rich shown separately or was it always combined with Scooby and Scrappy Doo?

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Eric B]

Yes, some shows in the 70's were shipped out to HB Australia, and have some differences in sound and graphics. I know the second season on the New Scooby Movies were like that, but i'm not sure what else (Wait Till Your Father gets Home, and/or Roman Holidays?)

Richie Rich for the third season of new episodes was paired with Little Rascals, while Scooby was paired with Petey the Puppy.
Then, in syndication (1988), and cable afterwards, the show ran in its present form by itself (but with that little reference to the Scoobytheme in the beginnign of the opening).

According to the Cartoon Encyclopedia, all three seasons the voice was credited to Sparky Marcus.

 

[SF4Ever]

Hello,

Thanks Eric for the info on the sound effects. That explains alot. I know not everybody is "not" interested in which company or country the show's animation was done as shown by some of the others response to my questions and I understand, but to me, the quality of the show often evidences whether something was done in the US or overseas. I personally think the US animation had better fluid movement but I would agree with many, that animation overall really got cheap looking in the 70's despite some good shows and stories. My other reason for technical questions is that some of the Hanna Barbera shows seem to be on hiatus from any DVD release for hold ups not known to the general public. I've been waiting for years to see Hanna Barbera's prime time live action/animation TV show from 1968 THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN to be released first on VHS and not to DVD, but no such response, despite my writing Warner Brothers Archives about it. They same scenario goes for the animation ABBOTT AND COSTELLO cartoons from 1967-68.

Boomerang is good but they seem to recycle the same cartoons over and over again while other classic H-B shows sit in the vaults somewhere.

Back to Richie Rich (season #1 release), it seems Richie Rich's actor voice isn't the same in all the cartoons from that DVD release. Does anyone know if different boy actors were used to provide Richie Rich's voice? The other voices seem to be the same as Stanley Jones as Richie's father or the mother or Irona or the Butler, etc. I know Frank Welker did Dollar's voice.

Was Richie Rich shown separately or was it always combined with Scooby and Scrappy Doo?

Sincerely,

Bill

No, Bill- Sparky Marcus voiced Richie Rich for all four years of his ABC Saturday morning run.

 

[billsqueak]

Richie Rich and the Little Rascals

If Sparky Marcus did the Richie Rich voice the whole time, he must overgone the typical boy's voice change during that time of his life because I hear a young boy's voice in the early episodes and his voice steadily sounds deeper and then like a young man's teenage voice but the later episodes.

The Little Rascals: being paired with Richie Rich: I vaguely remember the Little Rascals as a cartoon..was it a Hanna Barbara set of cartoons? Has the Little Rascals (the cartoon, not the live action Hal Roach shorts from the 30's and 40's) as a cartoon series ever been put on DVD?

Sincerely interested,

Bill

 

[SF4Ever]

If Sparky Marcus did the Richie Rich voice the whole time, he must overgone the typical boy's voice change during that time of his life because I hear a young boy's voice in the early episodes and his voice steadily sounds deeper and then like a young man's teenage voice but the later episodes.

The Little Rascals: being paired with Richie Rich: I vaguely remember the Little Rascals as a cartoon..was it a Hanna Barbara set of cartoons? Has the Little Rascals (the cartoon, not the live action Hal Roach shorts from the 30's and 40's) as a cartoon series ever been put on DVD?

Sincerely interested,

Bill

I remember The Richie Rich/Little Rascals Hour from back in 1983. Yes, the whole hour was handled by Hanna-Barbera. Although Warner Bros. is handling The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Hour DVD releases, Richie is also partly owned by Classic Media Ltd., if you can believe that. As for The Little Rascals, although Hanna-Barbera produced the cartoon, CBS owns the rights to the property, so any chance of a DVD release of the cartoon runs by CBS. Getting back to Sparky Marcus, yes, his voice changed, during the Richie Rich run on ABC Saturday mornings, in fact, so much so, he was later cast as older teenager Nick Burns in Hanna-Barbera's Challenge of the GoBots in the mid-1980's, after Richie concluded his run of four years on ABC's airwaves. Keep the questions coming, Bill.

 

[prudence12]

I used to watch this with my sibs when we were younger. In fact, we were almost HB fans all day. #thosewerethedays