The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound (film)

The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound is an American animated Western television film based on the Huckleberry Hound shorts of The Huckleberry Hound Show. It is the sixth overall in the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 movie anthology series. It aired on May 15, 1988 in syndication. It was written by John Ludin and Tom Ruegger, and directed by Bob Goe, John Kimball, Charles A. Nichols, Jay Sarbry and Ray Patterson.

The lone stranger, Huckleberry Hound, travels to Two Bit, and is tasked with jailing the roughest, toughest outlaws of the west, the Dalton Gang.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Desert Flower
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Dinky Dalton
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Stinky Dalton
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Michael Bell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Finky Dalton
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Pinky Dalton
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Huckleberry Hound
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bob
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Baba Looey
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Snagglepuss
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Hokey Wolf
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Quick Draw McGraw
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Yogi Bear
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Boo Boo Bear
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Narrator (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Dentist
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Howard Morris
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Prospector
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Race starter
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Station announcer (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Michael Bell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Husband
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wife
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Baby
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Judge Tumbleweed Flopner
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bailiff
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Michael Bell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Rusty Nails
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Red Eye
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Buttram
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Peter Potamus
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Super Snooper
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Muttley
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Doggie Daddy
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Two Bit Newscaster
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Magilla Gorilla
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mr. Peebles
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Howard Morris
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mission Control (voice only)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Old lady
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Devil
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Steer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Michael Bell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Chief
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Chieftess
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Game show announcer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Laughing Donkey
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Michael Bell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Educated Elk
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Scientific Skunk
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Chuckling Chipmunk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Howard Morris
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Girl
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Boy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Spooky movie narrator
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| State Governor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Howard Morris
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Autograph boy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Pig
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Old lady
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Devil
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Steer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Michael Bell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Chief
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Chieftess
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Game show announcer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Laughing Donkey
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Michael Bell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Educated Elk
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Scientific Skunk
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Chuckling Chipmunk
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Howard Morris
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Girl
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Boy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Spooky movie narrator
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| State Governor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Howard Morris
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Autograph boy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Pig
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| B.J. Ward
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Boy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Spooky movie narrator
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Allan Melvin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| State Governor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Howard Morris
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Autograph boy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Pig
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Autograph boy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Pat Fraley
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Pig
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Adler

Organizations

 * The Dalton Gang
 * Two Bit Tattler

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * California
 * Two Bit Californey
 * Rusty Nail Saloon
 * Two Bit National Bank
 * State prison
 * Jellystone Park

Objects

 * Betsy

Development
Tom Ruegger and John K. Ludin originally pitched a film starring Quick Draw McGraw, but Joseph Barbera wasn't interested and instead tasked them with an idea he had called The Good, the Bad, and the Huckleberry. Ruegger and Ludin wanted to do the best Huckleberry story possible, but to their dismay, Barbera insisted that Yogi and Boo be randomly inserted into a scene, with a group of bus kids pointing them out and saying, "Look at the bears! Look at the bears! Look at the bears!" Initially, they relented, thinking Barbera would forget the senseless of it, but every time they sent him a draft, he would remind them of the forgotten scene he wanted, which made no sense to them but eventually relented and obeyed their boss. But they then discovered William Hanna outdid Joe by sneaking in the "lame" Daltons' "Gold, Gold, Gold" song. However, they later learned that out of all the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 movies, The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound was the least interfered with.

The final script was dated December 19, 1986.

Filming
Daws Butler would record voice lines for characters like Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Quick Draw, Baba Looey, Hokey Wolf and Peter Potamus, but would soon pass away days after the release of the film, due to a heart attack.

Barbera wanted the Chuckling Chipmunk to have a very specific little giggle he enacted out himself that was to then be reenacted by Howard Morris, who did both his own laugh and then Barbera's laugh. Morris had seen Ludin inform the casting director Andrea Romano of this in the booth, and after he did the laugh he believed was Ludin's own idea, he insulted Ludin to his face, but in an unintelligible anger.

Music
The music was composed by Sven Libaek.

Songs

 * 1) "Stinky Dalton"
 * 2) "Rusty Nails Saloon"
 * 3) "Gold, Gold, Gold"
 * 4) "Boogie Woogie"

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: May 15, 1988 in syndication

Behind the scenes

 * This would be the last time Daws Butler would voice Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Hokey Wolf and Peter Potamus, as he died of a heart attack a few days after the release of this film.

Home availability

 * In the United Kingdom & Ireland:
 * May 1, 1989: Lollipop Video releases The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound on VHS.
 * In the United States:
 * August 9, 2011: Warner Archive Collection releases The Good, the Bad and Huckleberry Hound on DVD.