Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera, also known as HB Enterprises, Hanna-Barbera Productions, and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, was an animation studio founded in 1957 by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, with financial backing by film director George Sidney. Sidney formed a friendship with Barbera and Hanna when they worked at MGM as animation directors during the 1940s, and when MGM's animation department closed down, Sidney helped form a deal with Screen Gems, the television arm of Columbia Pictures, which led to the creation of Hanna-Barbera. In the 1990s, it also gained its own spin-off studio with Cartoon Network Studios, which become its own full-fledged studio when Hanna-Barbera was dismantled.

Hanna-Barbera had never been an independent studio, always having been a subsidiary of another company. In 1966, Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting (later known as Great American Broadcasting), until 1991 when it was bought by Turner Entertainment Company. It was finally bought by Time Warner when it merged with Turner in 1996, where it remains today, although only as a brand name. The studio continued to operate until 2002, when it was finally shut down after Hanna died, with Warner Bros. Animation officially taking over. It remains as an in-name-only subsidiary of Warner Bros.

Hanna-Barbera worked as an in-house studio until the beginning of the 1970s when they outsourced to Australia (which eventually led to its own independent off-shoot known as Hanna-Barbera Australia until the late '80s), and then to South Korea by the end of the '70s. They also used other animation outlets in Spain and the Philippines in the '80s.

In 2021, Cartoon Network Studios Europe rebranded itself as Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe.

History
In 1963, a larger building of the studio was built in Los Angeles, California. The building was designed by architect Arthur Froehlich, and was made in a clean Mid-Century Modern style. It was horizontally oriented, with flat roofs and dramatic perforated concrete screens, and protected by a small guard station.

1950s

 * The Ruff and Reddy Show (1957-1960)
 * Ruff and Reddy
 * The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962)
 * Huckleberry Hound
 * Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks
 * Yogi Bear (1958-1961)
 * Hokey Wolf (1961-1962)
 * The Quick Draw McGraw Show (1959-1961)
 * Quick Draw McGraw
 * Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
 * Snooper and Blabber
 * Loopy De Loop (1959-1965)

1960s

 * The Flintstones (1960-1966)
 * The Yogi Bear Show (1961)
 * Yogi Bear
 * Yakky Doodle
 * Snagglepuss
 * Top Cat (1961-1962)
 * The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series (1962-1963)
 * Wally Gator
 * Touché Turtle and Dum Dum
 * Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har
 * The Jetsons (1962-1963; 1985-1987)
 * Hey There, It's Yogi Bear (1964)
 * The Magilla Gorilla Show (1964-1967)
 * Magilla Gorilla
 * Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse
 * Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-long (1964-1966)
 * Breezly and Sneezly (1966-1967)
 * Jonny Quest (1964-1965; 1986-1987)
 * The Peter Potamus Show (1964-1967)
 * Peter Potamus and So-So
 * Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey
 * Breezly and Sneezly (1964-1966)
 * Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long (1966-1967)
 * The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (1965-1968)
 * Atom Ant
 * Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
 * Precious Pupp
 * Squiddly Diddly
 * The Hillbilly Bears
 * Winsome Witch
 * Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt (1965-1966)
 * Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid like You Doing in a Place like This? (1966)
 * The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
 * A Laurel & Hardy Cartoon (1966-1967)
 * Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles (1966-1968)
 * The Impossibles
 * Frankenstein Jr.
 * Space Ghost & Dino Boy (1966-1968)
 * Space Ghost
 * Dino Boy in the Lost Valley
 * The Space Kidettes (1966-1967)
 * Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)
 * The Abbott & Costello Cartoon Show (1967-1968)
 * Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (1967-1969)
 * Birdman
 * Galaxy Trio
 * The Herculoids (1967-1968)
 * Shazzan (1967-1969)
 * Fantastic Four (1967-1968)
 * Moby Dick and Mighty Mightor (1967-1969)
 * Moby Dick
 * Mighty Mightor
 * Young Samson (1967-1968)
 * The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-1970)
 * The Three Musketeers
 * Arabian Knights
 * Micro Ventures
 * Danger Island
 * The Adventures of Gulliver (1968-1969)
 * The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968-1969)
 * Wacky Races (1968-1969)
 * The Perils of Penelope Pitstop (1969-1970)
 * Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines (1969-1970)
 * Cattanooga Cats (1969-1971)
 * Cattanooga Cats
 * Around the World in 79 Days
 * It's the Wolf
 * Motormouse and Autocat
 * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969-1970)

1970s

 * Motormouse (1970-1971)
 * Harlem Globetrotters (1970-1971)
 * Josie and the Pussycats (1970-1971)
 * Where's Huddles? (1970)
 * The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971-1972)
 * Duffy's Dozen (1971, unsold pitch)
 * Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! (1971-1972)
 * The Funky Phantom (1971-1972)
 * "Love and the Private Eye" (1972)
 * Hardcase (1972)
 * "Love and the Old-Fashioned Father" (1972)
 * The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan (1972)
 * Wait Till Your Father Gets Home (1972-1974)
 * The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972-1973)
 * The Roman Holidays (1972)
 * Sealab 2020 (1972)
 * The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972-1973)
 * Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space (1972)
 * Yogi's Ark Lark (1972)
 * Oliver and the Artful Dodger (1972)
 * The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik (1972)
 * Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection (1972)
 * The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park (1972)
 * Tabitha and Adam and the Clown Family (1972)
 * The Last of the Curlews (1972)
 * The Flintstones on Ice (1973)
 * The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't (1972)
 * A Christmas Story (1972)
 * Charlotte's Webb (1973)
 * Baxter! (1973)
 * Lost in Space (1973)
 * Speed Buggy (1973)
 * Butch Cassidy (1973)
 * Yogi's Gang (1973)
 * Super Friends (1973-1974)
 * Goober and the Ghost Chasers (1973)
 * Inch High, Private Eye (1973)
 * Jeannie (1973)
 * The Addams Family (1973)
 * The Count of Monte Cristo (1973)
 * Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1973)
 * Shootout in a One-Dog Town (1974)
 * Hong Kong Phooey (1974)
 * Devlin (1974)
 * Partridge Family 2200 A.D. (1974)
 * These Are the Days (1974-1975)
 * Valley of the Dinosaurs (1974)
 * Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (1974)
 * Korg: 70,000 B.C. (1974-1975)
 * Cyrano (1974)
 * The Runaways (1974)
 * The Crazy Comedy Concert (1974)
 * Smoganza (1975)
 * The Tom & Jerry Show (1975)
 * The Great Grape Ape Show (1975)
 * The Last of the Mohicans (1975)
 * The Phantom Rebel (1976)
 * The Mumbly Cartoon Show (1976)
 * The Scooby-Doo Show (1976-1978)
 * Dynomutt, Dog Wonder (1976-1978)
 * Clue Club (1976)
 * Jabberjaw (1976)
 * Davy Crockett on the Mississippi (1976)
 * Silent Night, Holy Night (1976)
 * Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977-1978)
 * Laff-A-Lympics (1977-1978)
 * Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (1977-1980)
 * CB Bears (1977)
 * CB Bears
 * Blast-Off Buzzard
 * Posse Impossible
 * Heyyy, It's the King!
 * Undercover Elephant
 * Shake, Rattle and Roll
 * Heyyy, It's the King! (1977)
 * Heyyy, It's the King!
 * Undercover Elephant
 * Shake, Rattle and Roll
 * The Skatebirds (1977-1978)
 * The Robonic Stooges
 * Wonder Wheels
 * Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives
 * Mystery Island
 * The All-New Super Friends Hour (1977-1978)
 * The Beach Girls (1977, unsold pilot)
 * Energy: A National Issue (1977)
 * 5 Weeks in a Balloon (1977)
 * Yabba Dabba Doo! The Happy World of Hanna-Barbera (1977)
 * A Flintstone Christmas (1977)
 * The Gathering (1977)
 * Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978)
 * It Isn't Easy Being a Teenage Millionaire (1978)
 * The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour (1978)
 * The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978)
 * The Funny World of Fred and Bunni (1978, unsold pilot)
 * The Thing (1978)
 * The All-New Popeye Hour (1978-1983)
 * Yogi's Space Race (1978)
 * Galaxy Goof-Ups (1978)
 * Buford and the Galloping Ghost (1978)
 * The Buford Files
 * The Galloping Ghost
 * Challenge of the Superfriends (1978)
 * Godzilla (1978-1979)
 * Jana of the Jungle (1978)
 * Black Beauty (1978)
 * Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978)
 * Legends of the Superheroes (1979)
 * The New Fred and Barney Show (1979)
 * Sergeant T.K. Yu (1979)
 * The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea (1979)
 * America vs. the World (1979)
 * Casper and the Angels (1979)
 * The New Shmoo (1979-1980)
 * The Hanna-Barbera Hall of Fame: Yabba Dabba Doo II (1979)
 * The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1979)
 * Casper's Halloween Special (1979)
 * Casper's First Christmas (1979)
 * The Super Globetrotters (1979)
 * Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979-1982)
 * The World's Greatest Superfriends (1979-1980)
 * Gulliver's Travels (1979)
 * The Gathering Part II (1979)
 * C.H.O.M.P.S. (1979)
 * Scooby Goes Hollywood (1979)

1980s

 * Belle Star (1980)
 * The Flintstones Primetime Specials (1980-1981)
 * The Gymnast (1980)
 * The B.B. Beegle Show (1980, unsold pilot)
 * Superfriends (1980-1982)
 * The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White (1980)
 * The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (1980-1981)
 * Richie Rich (1980-1983)
 * Yogi's First Christmas (1980)
 * The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980-1982)
 * The Great Gilly Hopkins (1981)
 * The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera Arena Show (1981)
 * Laverne & Shirley (1981-1982)
 * Space Stars (1981-1982)
 * Trollkins (1981)
 * The Smurfs (1981-1989)
 * Daniel Boone (1981)
 * Here Comes The Smurfs (1981)
 * The Smurfs Springtime Special (1982)
 * Amigo and Friends (1982)
 * The Little Rascals (1982-1983)
 * Pac-Man (1982-1983)
 * Mork & Mindy (1982-1983)
 * Jokebook (1982)
 * Shirt Tales (1982-1983)
 * The Gary Coleman Show (1982)
 * Heidi's Song (1982)
 * The Smurfs Christmas Special (1982)
 * Christmas Comes to Pac-Man (1982)
 * Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982)
 * My Smurfy Valentine (1983)
 * The Secret World of Og (1983)
 * The Dukes (1983)
 * Monchhichis (1983)
 * The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (1983)
 * The Biskitts (1983-1984)
 * Benji, Zax & the Alien Prince (1983)
 * The Amazing Bunjee Adventure (1984)
 * The Smurfic Games (1984)
 * The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1984)
 * Going Bananas (1984)
 * Snorks (1984-1988)
 * Lucky Luke (1984-1985)
 * Challenge of the GoBots (1984-1985)
 * Pink Panther and Sons (1984-1985)
 * Superfriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show (1984-1985)
 * We Think the World is Round (1984)
 * Smurfily Ever After (1985)
 * The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible (1985-1992)
 * Yogi's Treasure Hunt (1985-1988)
 * The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo (1985)
 * The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (1985-1986)
 * Galtar and the Golden Lance (1985-1986)
 * Paw Paws (1985-1986)
 * The Return of the Bunjee (1985)
 * The Velveteen Rabbit (1985)
 * The Pound Puppies (1985)
 * Star Fairies (1985)
 * GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords (1986)
 * The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986)
 * Pound Puppies (1986-1987)
 * The Flintstone Kids (1986-1988)
 * Foofur (1986-1988)
 * Wildfire (1986)
 * Stone Fox (1987)
 * Rock Odyssey (1987)
 * Sky Commanders (1987)
 * Popeye and Son (1987)
 * Yogi's Great Escape (1987)
 * The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
 * Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers (1987)
 * Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987)
 * Ultraman: The Adventure Begins (1987)
 * The Little Troll Prince (1987)
 * 'Tis The Season to Be Smurfy (1987)
 * Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988)
 * Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)
 * Rockin' with Judy Jetson (1988)
 * The Good, the Bad and the Huckleberry Hound (1988)
 * Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears (1988)
 * Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988)
 * Skedaddle (1988)
 * A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988-1991)
 * The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (1988)
 * The New Yogi Bear Show (1988)
 * The Flintstone Kids "Just Say No" Special (1988)
 * Fantastic Max (1988-1990)
 * Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989)
 * The Further Adventures of SuperTed (1989-1990)
 * Hägar the Horrible (1989)
 * Paddington Bear (1989-1990)

1990s

 * Timeless Tales from Hallmark (1990-1991)
 * The Yum Yums: The Day Things Went Sour (1990)
 * The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (1990)
 * Jetsons: The Movie (1990)
 * ...Where's Rodney? (1990)
 * Poochinski (1990)
 * Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990)
 * The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda (1990-1991)
 * Tom & Jerry Kids (1990-1994)
 * Wake, Rattle & Roll (1990-1991)
 * Gravedale High (1990)
 * Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone (1990)
 * The Dreamer of Oz (1990)
 * The Pirates of Dark Water (1991-1993)
 * Yo, Yogi! (1991)
 * Young Robin Hood (1991-1992)
 * The Last Halloween (1991)
 * Fish Police (1992)
 * Capitol Critters (1992)
 * The Addams Family (1992-1993)
 * Monster in My Pocket: The Big Scream (1992)
 * I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993)
 * Jonny's Golden Quest (1993)
 * Once Upon a Forest (1993)
 * 2 Stupid Dogs (1993-1995)
 * Super Secret Secret Squirrel (1993)
 * Droopy, Master Detective (1993)
 * The New Adventures of Captain Planet (1993-1996)
 * SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993-1995)
 * The Halloween Tree (1993)
 * The Moxy Show (1993-1995)
 * The Town Santa Forgot (1993)
 * Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993)
 * A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993)
 * Yogi the Easter Bear (1994)
 * The Flintstones: The Best of Bedrock (1994)
 * Arabian Nights (1994)
 * The Pagemaster (1994)
 * A Flintstone Christmas Carol (1994)
 * Daisy-Head Mayzie (1995)
 * What a Cartoon! (1995-1997)
 * Dumb and Dumber (1995-1996)
 * Jonny Quest Versus the Cyber Insects (1995)
 * Dexter's Laboratory (1997-1999)
 * Dexter's Laboratory
 * Dial M for Monkey (1996-1997)
 * The Justice Friends (1996-1997)
 * The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996-1997)
 * Cave Kids (1996)
 * Johnny Bravo (1997-2002)
 * Cow and Chicken (1997-1999)
 * I Am Weasel
 * I Am Weasel (1999)
 * The Powerpuff Girls (1998-2002)
 * Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998)
 * Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
 * Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip (1999)

2000s

 * Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (2000)
 * Tom and Jerry: The Mansion Cat (2001)
 * Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase (2001)
 * Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire (2003, logo only)
 * Scooby-Doo! and the Monster of Mexico (2003, logo only)

2010s

 * Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs (logo only)

In popular culture

 * In the Red Razors arc of the comic 2000AD, a group of Sov-Block mercenary enforcers called themselves the Spooky Doo Gang, due to owning a dog called Spooky who resembled a green Scooby-Doo. Daphne and Velma's doppelgangers are called Hannah and Barbra, in reference to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, respectively.
 * In the Animaniacs segment "Back in Style," Thaddeus Plotz, the CEO of Warner Bros., tries to save the company by loaning off the Warner siblings to Phil and Schmoe, parodies of Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, who were known for making cartoons of limited animation.
 * The humans in the animated TV series Krypto the Superdog resembled the cartoonish designs of the humans used in Hanna-Barbera's cartoons such as The Flintstones and The Jetsons.
 * In the Drawn Together episode "A Tale of Two Cows," when Live Action Squirrel with Big Balls is chased off, he makes the Hanna Barbera running sound effect.
 * In the Torchwood book Slow Decay, Jack Harkness expressed his dissatisfaction with the TV film Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf, marking it to be a low point in Hanna-Barbera's output.
 * In the American Dad! episode "Shallow Vows," Stan trips on a harp that produces the "Kabong" sound.
 * In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "One Hundred," realizing that their series has reached a hundred episodes, Master Shake demands the network put his team's show in syndication. But this leads to Hundred, a monster shaped like the number 100, on the warpath. In their escape, Master Shake takes the Aqua Teen Hunger Force to a place to hide that's a parody of the Scooby-Doo series called Aqua Unit Patrol Squad with the pilot called "The Bayou Boo-Ya!," which in reality, is what actor Dana Snyder is pitching to the network. It has all the tropes and conventions one would expect, including a reference to the cheapness of the studio reusing backgrounds for characters to run in front of continuously.
 * In the Comic Book Men episode "The Clash at the Stash," a seller mentions Hanna-Barbera being part of the Underoos line.
 * In the Family Guy episode "No Country Club for Old Men," Peter tells the family he got tired of not being able to find their luggage, so he tied a "vaguely looking Hanna-Barbera character" to it. True to his word, the family sees a purple rhinoceros come out on the luggage belt, with their luggage roped around it. The rhino angrily quips, "This trip was impoceros!"
 * In the Regular Show episode "The Dream Warrior," Rigby and Mordecai help Pops overcome his nightmares by watching Funkie Wunky and the Groovy Gang (a parody of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!), with the only nightmares from that show is the bad animation.
 * In the Legends of Tomorrow episode "Raiders of the Lost Art," Nate christens the main set of villains for the second season to be the Legion of Doom after a Hanna-Barbera cartoon he watched as a kid.
 * In Harley Quinn #64, Harley believes that Justice League Dark is dressed up like Mystery Incorporated because it is a DC/Hanna-Barbera event in reference to the one-shot crossovers DC Comics had been doing at the same time.

The Simpsons

 * "The Front:" Roger Meyer's Jr. notes that animators reuse backgrounds to save cost as he, Bart and Lisa pass by the same door, water cooler and cleaning lady several times. This parodies the fact that Hanna-Barbera reused their backgrounds many times.
 * "HOMЯ:" The voice actor who copies other characters' voices and celebrity voices at the animation festival references how many early Hanna-Barbera "funny animal" characters' voices were often based off popular celebrities of the time.
 * "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" and "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One):" The couch gag features the family in Hanna-Barbera poses running past the couch several times.

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