The Volunteers

"The Volunteers" is the first episode of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey season one. It aired as a segment of The Peter Potamus Show. It first aired on September 16, 1964 in first run syndication. It was written by Tony Benedict, Warren Foster and Dalton Sandifer, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are trained by a sergeant to become soldiers, but their clumsiness becomes too much for the sergeant and eventually makes the King mad.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| The King
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Hal Smith
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mrs. Rebel
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jean Vander Pyl
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Yippee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Doug Young
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Yappee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Hal Smith
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Yahooey
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| The Sargeant
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| The Sargeant's mother
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Yahooey
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| The Sargeant
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| The Sargeant's mother
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| The Sargeant's mother
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| The Sargeant's mother

Locations

 * Earth
 * Ye Royal Palace
 * Field

Objects

 * Yippee, Yappee and Yahooeys' swords

Vehicles

 * None

Music

 * 0:00 - Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey main title theme (Hoyt Curtin).

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: September 16, 1964

Behind the scenes

 * Daws Butler used his Phil Silvers-based Hokey Wolf impression for the Sargent.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * May 26, 2009: Warner Home Video releases Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 1.
 * November 1, 2016: Warner Archive Collection releases The Peter Potamus Show: The Complete Series on DVD.