Talk:The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series

This page is a work in progress, for the episodes I just did "Wally episode/Lippy episode/Touché episode". -- Snoopy The Dog (talk) 19:35, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

BTW, today is September 3, the day these first premiered on. -- Snoopy The Dog (talk) 20:20, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks. -- Signed by James (talk) 21:12, 3 September 2021 (UTC)

The name first appeared in the book, The Art of Hanna-Barbera in 1989, and that's what it was referred to as ever since. -- Snoopy The Dog (talk) 06:59, 6 September 2021 (UTC)

Development
Everyone, I recently found a 2014 blog post from Yowp surrounding the development of The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series. There's a whole lot of information but here are the things that I read so far:
 * Touché Turtle started as a character known as "Hairbrain Hare" (or "Hairbreath Hare" in one of the concept arts)
 * "Hairbrain Hare" and Lippy the Lion, were mentioned as early as October 20, 1960 on Variety magazine
 * As reported by Variety on October 31, 1961, Bill Thompson and Paul Frees were mentioned as the voices in the Wally Gator segments. According to Yowp, Frees was possibly cast as the title character due to his cache of voices, though it didn't happen because it might've been too similar to Captain Peachfuzz; a character he voiced in Jay Ward's Rocky and Bullwinkle
 * 104 episodes were originally planned for syndication (when it was still just Lippy and Hairbrain)
 * On January 31, 1962, the budget for the three segments was suggested to be $1,500,000. On August 15th, $1,900,000 had been set aside for 156 cartoon segments
 * On March 12 the first sales of what it called Hanna-Barbera Five-Minute Cartoons had been made to seven stations, the biggest being WPIX in New York.

Here is the link bellow: https://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2014/07/a-lion-swingin-gator-and-rabbit-that.html?m=1

Hope this helps out. --QuestJ65 (talk) 08:32, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Definitely. -- Snoopy The Dog (talk) 08:39, 10 March 2023 (UTC)