Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!

Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!, also known as Hair Bear Bunch, is an American animated comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS' Saturday morning children's programming. It ran from 1971 to 1972, airing 16 episodes that spanned one season.

A trio of bears, led by Hair Bear, live it up at the Wonderland Zoo, where they would outwit zookeepers, Mr. Peevly and Botch, into getting whatever their goal may be.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Development
Jerry Eisenberg drew a piece of concept art featuring earlier designs of the Hair Bear Bunch, Peevly and Botch, as well as an early title for the series entitled The Yo-Yo Bears.

Music
The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin. In the Wonderland Zoo!
 * Opening theme song lyrics:

We're the certain bears who... Stay at home every night, Never quarrel or fight, Ah! We don’t even bite!

So don’t yell, Help! Help! Here come the bears, Help! Help! Here come the bears, Help! Help! Here come the bears, Let’s split!

So don’t yell, Help! Help! Here come the bears, Help! Help! Here come the bears, Help! Help! Here come the bears, Let’s split!

Help! It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!

Cast

 * Daws Butler as Hair Bear
 * Paul Winchell as Bubi Bear
 * Bill Callaway as Square Bear
 * John Stephenson as Mr. Peevly
 * Joe E. Ross as Botch

Legacy
Hair Bear makes a cameo in Marvel Comics' Laff-A-Lympics story "The Ends of the Earth."

The Hair Bear Bunch appear in the Jellystone! reboot.

In popular culture

 * In the Animaniacs segment "Back in Style," Scare Bare Crunch is mentioned to have lost ratings by adding the Warner siblings.