Huckleberry Hound Meets Wee Willie

"Huckleberry Hound Meets Wee Willie" is the first episode of Huckleberry Hound season one, and came as a segment of The Huckleberry Hound Show. It aired in the week of September 29, 1958 on NBC. It was written by Charles Shows and Dan Gordon, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera Enterprises.

Huck, as a police officer, attempts to capture an escaped gorilla named Wee Willie.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Huckleberry Hound
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Dispatcher
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wee Willie
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wee Willie
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * City

Objects

 * Huck's gun

Vehicles

 * Police car

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, Geordie Hormel, Bill Loose, John Seely, Jack Shaindlin, Theo Tobani, Victor Lamont.

Crew credits

 * Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
 * Animator: Kenneth Muse
 * Layout artist: Bick Bickenbach
 * Background artist: Sam Clayberger
 * Title artist: Art Goble
 * Story sketch artists: Charles Shows, Dan Gordon

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: Week of September 29, 1958 on NBC

Everlasting influence

 * In the Poochinski pilot, Poochinski turns on the TV to watch some of this short. The specific scene is of Wee Willie bursting through the top of Huck's car.

Home availability

 * In the United Kingdom & Ireland:
 * 1994: First Independent Films releases Huckleberry Hound: Sheriff Huckleberry on VHS.
 * In the United States:
 * November 15, 2005: Warner Home Video releases The Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume 1 on DVD.
 * June 6, 2017: Warner Home Video releases The Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume 1 (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.