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In 1987, the Great American Communications Group bought Hanna-Barbera, hiring 35 year-old David Kirschner as CEO and president of its new subsidiary.
Since 1964, various animated and live-action theatrically released films based on Hanna-Barbera cartoons have been created and released to theaters. While alive, Joseph Barbera and William Hanna (the founders of Hanna-Barbera ) were involved with each production in some capacity.
- 10 The Ruff & Reddy Show
- 9 The Huckleberry Hound Show
- 8 The Quick Draw Mcgraw Show
- 7 The Flintstones
- 6 The Yogi Bear Show
- 5 Top Cat
- 4 The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series
- 3 The Jetsons
- 2 The Magilla Gorilla Show
- 1 Jonny Quest
Before building Hanna-Barbera, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera used to work for MGM and helped produce one of the company's all-time classics, Tom and Jerry. Despite leaving the company, traces of their tenure can still be found in a few of their cartoons, especially when they were just trying to establish a foothold with their first one. RELATED:...
While The Ruff and Reddy Show may have been Hanna-Barbera's first animated series, they really wouldn't get their work off the ground until their seminal, next work, The Huckleberry Hound Show. Focusing on the misadventures of one, Southern speaking, blue hound, the eponymous Huckleberry would try to skirt through various positions and odd jobs in ...
The late 1950s and 1960s may have been a pivotal era for animation, but it also saw the rise of the Western, one of the most influential genres in cinema. Combining two of their time's fastest rising platforms, Hanna-Barbera created the definitive, Western cartoon of their time, The Quick Draw McGraw Show. Essentially a caricature of the Spanish ep...
The Flintstones is a series that really needs no introduction. Perhaps Hanna-Barbera's most influential work to date, The Flintstoneseasily became the first family of animation, as it dazzled audiences with the familial misadventures of its titular family, all while dressing up the jokes with pre-historic themes. RELATED: The 10 Most Powerful Famil...
Spawning from its tenure in The Huckleberry Hound Show, the wise-cracking, slow-witted forest animal would find his domain on broadcast television. In The Yogi Bear Show, Yogi Bear and his smaller, gentler sidekick, Boo-Boo Bear, would often get in trouble in their home forest of Yellowstone National Park. This is often because of their harebrained...
Top Cat looked at the various schemes and scams of the Top Cat himself and his gang of other ne'er-do-well felines. Taking inspiration from The Phil Silvers Show, Top Cat was a con cat just trying to get himself and his cohorts some easy change on the streets of Manhattan, often through various, hilarious trials of cheating and stealing. Their plot...
The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series wasn't so much a program within its own right as it was a package of new projects from the animation duo, more akin to Cartoon Network's influential block, Cartoon Cartoons. In it, Hanna-Barbera released three new, short series that would premiere differently across stations. Wally Gator would focus on its happy...
A conceptual, spin-off from its Jurassic sister series, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, for its time, modernized the classic formula to fit in well with the 1960s increasing shinier, more Populuxe design sensibilities, complete with a literal futuristic theme to go with it. Examining the everyday lives of the Jetson Family, this series mixed its typi...
The Magilla Gorilla Show debuted another iconic mascotfor Hanna-Barbera, Magilla Gorilla. In his adventures, begrudging pet store owner, Melvin Peeble, would often try to get rid of Magilla Gorilla because of the incorrigible ape's tendency to drain his resources. However, Magilla Gorilla isn't an easy pet to take care of. RELATED: Animation’s 17 M...
A stark contrast to Hanna-Barbera's more typical lineup at that point, Jonny Quest marked the arrival of the action-adventure cartoon in the West. Making way for action-packed narratives, such as The Herculoids, Fantastic Four, and Birdman, Jonny Questtook a more serious tone and arty style. The series focused on its famous boy adventurer and his c...
6 days ago · In 1966, Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting (later known as Great American Broadcasting), until 1991 when it was bought by Turner Broadcasting System. It was finally bought by Time Warner when it merged with Turner in 1996, where it remains today; although only as a brand name.
Animation studio founded by William Hanna (1910-2001) and Joseph Barbera (1911-2006) in 1957 (initially as H-B Enterprises), following the closure of the MGM cartoon studio for which they had created the classic Cat versus Mouse series Tom & Jerry ( 1940 -current). The studio was bought by Taft Broadcasting in 1966, then by Turner Broadcasting ...
This is a list of animated television series, made-for-television films, direct-to-video films, theatrical short subjects, and feature films produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions (also known as H-B Enterprises, H-B Production Company, and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons).
Hanna-Barbera: The Legacy of Animation Pioneers. In the annals of animation history, few names shine as brightly as Hanna-Barbera. Founded by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1957, this iconic animation studio left an indelible mark on the world of entertainment.
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