Quick Draw McGraw, our newest series, appearing on KTTV-TV Channel 11, Tuesdays, at 7:00 p.m., is the combined efforts of our whole staff. The adults have all taken to the satire, while the children watch the programs for the face value of the action-packed story. We try to give the audience characters that they can identify with, then follow up with wild antics impossible to duplicate in real life. No one ever gets hurt despite clobberings and binding situations our characters encounter. We think the popularity of our shows "Huckleberry Hound," and "Quick Draw McGraw" lies in providing a psychological release for all human beings of all ages. No longer can a television producer foist a tired and trite story with a one-dimensional hero, whose vocabulary consists solely of "Yep" and "Nope" on viewers and hope to capture a large audience for any length of time. And, what's more, they're selective as well. I’ll bet you Hanna was watching the footage count, though.Īt the risk of being repetitive over the years here, it’d sure be nice if the Quick Draw show-even just the individual cartoons-would be released on a home video format. They were in much smaller confines which forced some people to work at home. At this point, they weren’t in the building everyone associates with them. Hanna and Barbera liked to talk about “no time clock” in their earliest interviews. George Nicholas and Carlo Vinci are among my favourite early H-B animators along with Mike Lah Don Patterson is up there, too, for some fine expressions in the earliest Flintstones seasons. Better still, it gives credit not only to the great writing staff at the time but even some of the animators who worked on the series. Their article (if, indeed, they wrote it themselves) talks about the appeal of the Quick Draw McGraw Show, which is my favourite of all the Hanna-Barbera series. At least, that’s what they told the Valley Times from North Hollywood in its issue of May 26, 1960. Did Quick Draw McGraw give me a psychological release at age 5?Īt that age, I don’t know what I’d want to have been released from, but Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera thought so.
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