The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show

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The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
Photo of Bill Hanna (right) and Joseph Barbera (left) from a television special for the premiere of their new Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant television program.
Genre
Written by
  • Tony Benedict
  • Dalton Sandifer
Directed by
Voices of
Composers
Country of origin United States
Original language English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 26
Production
Executive producers
  • William Hanna
  • Joseph Barbera
Running time 30 minutes
Production company Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network NBC
Release October 2, 1965  ( 1965-10-02 )  ?
September 7, 1967  ( 1967-09-07 )

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show is an hour-long Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1965 to 1967 for NBC . [1]

In 1965, the show aired as two independent half-hour programs. The Atom Ant Show featured the tiny superhero Atom Ant , with additional segments The Hillbilly Bears and Precious Pupp . The Secret Squirrel Show features the master spy Secret Squirrel , backed up with Squiddly Diddly and Winsome Witch . [2] In the winter, the shows combine into an hour-long format, The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show . For the series' final NBC run under the Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel title, the show was a half-hour long. [3]

Production [ edit ]

On September 12, 1965, the series had an hour-long primetime preview on NBC called The World of Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant or The World of Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel . [4]

The Hillbilly Bears cartoon segments repeated during the second season of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1969?1970), and all 52 Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel half-hour episodes were syndicated as part of The Banana Splits and Friends Show , an umbrella title for a package combining episodes of several different Hanna-Barbera series (the other series included The Banana Splits Adventure Hour , The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Gulliver ).

Segments [ edit ]

The program contains six segments:

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows . Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 46?48. ISBN   978-1538103739 .
  2. ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 99?100. ISBN   978-1476665993 .
  3. ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981 . Scarecrow Press. pp. 27?29. ISBN   0-8108-1557-5 . Retrieved 14 March 2020 .
  4. ^ Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television . Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 46?47. ISBN   978-0823083152 . Retrieved 19 March 2020 .

External links [ edit ]

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