The Quick Draw McGraw Show

The Quick Draw McGraw Show is an American animated anthology television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for syndication. It ran from 1959 to 1961, airing 45 episodes.

The show debuted with segments, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy and Snooper and Blabber.

The show was made after the success of The Huckleberry Hound Show a year prior.

The series has yet to have a complete series DVD release by Warner Archive Collection, although there were many attempts in the past to release the series, Capitol Records, who is believed to held rights to the music used within the cartoons from 1959 to 1960, prevents a release.

Segments

 * Quick Draw McGraw (1959-1961)
 * Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy (1959-1961)
 * Snooper and Blabber (1959-1961)

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Theme Song Lyrics

Yipee yi-o ki-a

Galloping all the way

Great big star on his chest

Outdraws all of the rest

Fastest gun in the west

Yipee yi-o ki-a

Riding around your way

Here comes Quick Draw McGraw

The high-falutin'est

Fastest shootin'est

Cowboy you ever saw

That's Quick Draw McGraw

Cast

 * Daws Butler as Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Augie Doggie, Snooper and Blabber
 * Doug Young as Doggie Daddy

Legacy
Quick Draw, Baba Looey, Augie Doggie, Doggie Daddy, Snooper and Blabber would go on to make several appearances as either co-stars or guest stars in several subsequent crossover TV series and TV movies that followed in the decades to come from Hanna-Barbera right until the 1990s. Except for Snooper and Blabber, they also all guest starred in the 2000s spinoff parody series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law on Adult Swim.

There have been several attempts to revive Quick Draw McGraw for a new audience but every attempt to do so has been shot down by either Hanna-Barbera or Warner Bros. Many of the projects included two films in the late 1980s; one that Tom Ruegger and John K. Ludin originally pitched, but Joseph Barbera wasn't interested and instead tasked them with an idea he had called The Good, the Bad, and the Huckleberry. and another called Quickest Draw in the West, that never made it past the concept art, and during the early 2010s, a spaghetti western series made by Book of Life and El Tigre creator Jorge R. Gutiérrez.

Every character in the series, except Snuffles, appears in the 2021 HBO Max original series Jellystone!, with Quick Draw only being in his El Kabong guise, and female versions of Snooper, Baba Looey, and Augie.