Ro-Butler

"Ro-Butler" is the nineteenth episode of Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy season one, and came as a segment of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. It aired in the week of February 1, 1960 in first-run syndication. It was written by Michael Maltese, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Augie builds a robot servant for his dad on father's day.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Doggie Daddy
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Doug Young
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Augie Doggie
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Robot
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Robot
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Doggie residence

Music
The theme music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, while the rest of the episode's music was composed by Hecky Krasnow, Phil Green, Jack Shaindlin, Harry Bluestone, and Emil Cadkin.

Crew credits

 * Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
 * Animator: Kenneth Muse
 * Layout artist: Unknown
 * Background artist: Robert Gentle
 * Titles artist: Lawrence Goble

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: Week of February 1, 1960 in syndication

Behind the scenes

 * The credits say that Dick Bickenbach is the layout artist, although the Yowp blog isn't very convinced and has a question mark by his name. It also leaves out the story sketch artist or story director.

Home availability

 * Not available. 😢