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Punkin' Puss' weapon of choice is a shotgun. In a send up of the feuding Hatfields and McCoys, an orange hillbilly cat named Punkin' Puss (voiced by Allan Melvin) is constantly chasing a hard-to-catch hillbilly mouse named Mushmouse (voiced by Howard Morris). During the four-day broadcast, neither Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse nor Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-long were aired. After an eight-year wait, The Magilla Gorilla Show returned on Boomerang for four days during November 26 until Novemincluding the opening and closing themes and titles. The show aired on Boomerang until July 22, 2012. After a year on airing its original runs, repeats of all 31 episodes were aired between 19 during ABC-TV's Saturday morning schedule and on Sunday mornings the following season. Like many of Hanna-Barbera's animal characters, Magilla Gorilla was dressed in human accessories, sporting a bow tie, shorts held up by suspenders, and an undersized derby hat.

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Prior to the show's launch, the show made an interview on their 'upcoming' series in between the middle-and-late December 1963 on first-run syndication entitled Here Comes A Star. In syndication, the main and supporting characters from the Peter Potamus show were also added. The show had other recurring characters, including Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse, and Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long. The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Screen Gems, and was originally sponsored in syndication by Ideal Toys from 1964 through 1967.

These excerpts include some some of Magilla’s host duties, banter between Ricochet and Droop-A-Long, some prehistoric jokes and each character singing about himself.The Magilla Gorilla Show is an American animated television series starring Magilla Gorilla. Magilla, Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-A-Long Coyote What the hey? It’s a whole album of Melvin, Blanc, Messick and Morris (what a great law firm that would be!) voicing their own characters. Maybe this was Charles Shows’ entré into writing for Hanna-Barbera Records, since his HBR scripts also contain character monologues peppered with passages from The Book of Youngman. It can be speculated that a studio writer might have drafted the dialogue, which is largely a gaggle of jokes that date back to the Ancient Druids. studio freshly built, Hanna and Barbera might well have been counting on the success of the Magilla and Peter Potamus series and their deal with Ideal Toys. It may very well be that the duo really did knock out a script, since they seemed very “hands-on” with The Magilla Gorilla Show project, as evidenced by the “Birth of a Star” promo film. Hanna and Barbera, informally called “Bill” and “Joe”, as on other Golden Records, are given writing credit, though Hoyt Curtin certainly supplied the music. The album closes with all the characters gathering to celebrate, followed by a reprise of Magilla singing his theme and the soundtrack theme. Here’s where it gets odd: On side two, Ricochet and Droop-A-Long return, banter a bit and then sing each other’s song in the third person. Magilla introduces Mush Mouse and Punkin’ Puss, who do the same. He introduces Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-A-Long, who chat briefly in the form of more jokes, then each sing songs about themselves in first person. After the theme, Magilla sings a longer version of it himself, then does a short monologue. Like Golden’s “Songs of The Flintstones” LP, the music tracks from the album songs served double duty as background music on the Magilla, Ricochet and Mush Mouse cartoons, then appeared countless times in additional H-B shows.

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The other music on the album is from the TV soundtrack, too-not in a dialogue or singing sense, but in the musical accompaniment itself. This is the only Golden Record with an actual Hanna-Barbera soundtrack theme. It opens with “Magilla for Sale”, one of TV’s best remembered themes-from the soundtrack! A fan familiar with Golden’s on-again, off-again way of using genuine cartoon material or studio sound-alikes might stare with wonder as the actual Hanna-Barbera theme comes from Golden grooves. Songs: “Magilla For Sale (Theme)”: “Ricochet Rabbit”, “Droop-A-Long Coyote”, “Mush Mouse,” “Punkin’ Puss” by Hoyt Curtin, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.įor those of us who grew up with the gnawing uncertainty of whether the latest cartoon-related vinyl records were voiced by the original cast or not, this album seemed to float down to us on a Heavenly beam of light.

Voices: Allan Melvin (Magilla Gorilla, Punkin’ Puss) Mel Blanc (Droop-A-Long) Howard Morris (Mush Mouse) Don Messick (Ricochet Rabbit). Writer/Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera. Golden Records LP-120 (12” 33 1/3 RPM / Mono / 1964)Įxecutive Producer: Arthur Shimkin. In honor of National Gorilla Suit Day ( have YOU made your plans yet?), we salute the recording debut of the gorilla who’s mighty nice, along with his co-stars.