CB Bears (TV series)


 * For other uses, see CB Bears

The CB Bears is an animated American anthology television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1977, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season.

This series featured six segments making it one of the longest (content-wise) HB series in the 70's.

The show debuted with segments, CB Bears, Blast-Off Buzzard, Heyyy, It's the King!, Posse Impossible, Shake, Rattle and Roll and Undercover Elephant.

The series would later be split up into a half-hour format with CB Bears, Blast-Off Buzzard and Posse Impossible on one half, and Heyyy, It's the King!, Shake, Rattle and Roll and Undercover Elephant on the other half.

The series only lasted 13 episodes, although the real reason for it's cancellation is unclear, it's most likely due to low ratings.

Segments

 * CB Bears
 * Blast-Off Buzzard
 * Heyyy, It's the King!
 * Posse Impossible
 * Shake, Rattle and Roll
 * Undercover Elephant

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

It's the CB Bears!
 * Opening theme song lyrics:

Boogie, Hustle and Bump, mobile mystery solvers! ...with Blast-Off Buzzard and Crazylegs in a constant comedy chase of laughs and fun!

Along with Slipshod sheriff and his Posse Impossible!

All rolled into a surprise package of excitement! On the CB Bears show!

Cast

 * Daws Butler as Blast-Off Buzzard, Big Duke, Hustle, Stick and Undercover Elephant
 * Don Messick as Clyde
 * Alan Oppenheimer as Sidney Merciless
 * Bob Hastings as Loudmouse
 * Marvin Kaplan as Skids
 * Chuck McCann as Boogie and Blubber
 * Ginny McSwain as Sheena
 * Henry Corden as Bump
 * Sheldon Allman as Big H
 * Michael Bell as Chief
 * Susan Davis as Charlie
 * Joe E. Ross as Roll
 * Susan Silo as Zelda
 * Lennie Weinrib as The King, Rattle and Yuka Yuka
 * Paul Winchell as Shake
 * Bill Woodson as Sheriff of Saddlesore

Credits
These identical credits appeared at the end of every episode.


 * Executive Producers: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
 * Directed by: Charles A. Nichols
 * Creative Producer: Iwao Takamoto
 * Associate Producer: Alex Lovy
 * Story Editor: Ray Parker
 * Associate Story: Larz Bourne
 * Written by: Bill Ackerman, Haskell Barkin, Barry Blitzer, Tom Dagenais, Karl Geurs, Orville Hampton, Don Jurwich, Jon Kubichan, Joan Maurer, Ray Parker, Howard Post, Dick Robbins, Jerry Winnick
 * Story Directed by: Alvaro Arce, Dave Hanan, George Singer, Wendell Washer
 * Recording Directed by: Alex Lovy
 * Voices: Sheldon Allman, Daws Butler, Henry Corden, Scatman Crothers, Cindy Erickson, Gay Hartwig, Marvin Kaplan, Ginny McSwain, Julie McWhirter, Don Messick, Pat Parris, Ken Sansom, Hal Smith, Alexis Tramuntis, Frank Welker, Paul Winchell
 * Title Designed by: Bill Perez
 * Graphics: Iraj Paran
 * Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
 * Musical Supervision: Paul DeKorte
 * Character Design: Bob Singer, Willie Ito, Marty Murphy
 * Layout Supervision: John Ahern
 * Layout by: Steve Lumiey, Pete Alvarado, Dale Barnhart, Jaime Diaz, Bob Fosbry, Norm Gottfredson, Larry Huber, Chris Jenkyns, Jack Manning, Terry Moesker, Floyd Norman, Linda Rowley, Joe Shearer, Al Wilson
 * Unit Direction: Carl Urbano
 * Animation Supervision: Chris Cuddington, Bill Keil, Peter Aries
 * Assistant Animation Supervision: Bob Goe, Paul Maron
 * Animation Coordination: John Boersema
 * Animation: Carlos Alfonso, Thomas Barnes, Bob Bransford, Bob Carr, Steve Clark, John Conning, Joan Drake, Dick Dunn, John Ellis, Warwick Gilbert, Bob Goe, Bob Hathcock, Sebastian Hurpia, Greg Ingram, Cynthia Leech, Tony Love, Paul McAdem, Henry Neville, Ray Nowland, Edwardo Olivares, Morey Reden, Di Rudder, Michael Stapleton, Ed Sullivan, Dave Tendlar, Jean Tych, Kaye Watts, Xenia
 * Background Supervision: Al Gmuer
 * Backgrounds: Richard Zaloudek, Peter Connell, Bob Gentle, Alison Julian, Micheal King-Prime, Jerry Liew, Lesley Nicholl, Dennis Venizelos, Kin Wright
 * Checking and Scene Planning: Evelyn Sherwood, Narelle Nixon
 * Xerography: Star Wirth, Ellen Bayley
 * Ink and Paint Supervision: Billie Kerns, Narelle Derrick
 * Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
 * Camera: George Epperson, Jerry Smith, Mark D' Arcy-Irvine, Tom Epperson, Curt Hall, Terry Smith
 * Supervision Film Editor: Sam Horta
 * Film Editors: Earl Bennett, Peter Jennings, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Denise Horta, Elleen Horta
 * Dubbing Supervision: Pat Foley
 * Production Supervision: Doug Paterson, Mark D' Arcy-Irvine, Adrienne Smith
 * Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
 * Production Manager: Jayne Barbera
 * Post Production Supervision: Joed Eaton

Legacy
Aspects of the show would later air part of Captain Kangaroo in the 1980s and on the two-hour program, Go Go Globetrotters on February 4, 1978. Episodes of Undercover Elephant also aired as reruns part of Disney's Jump, Rattle & Roll.

Undercover Elephant appears for the Yogi's Treasure Hunt episodes, "The Moaning Liza" and "Yogi's Heroes."

Reruns of half-hour versions for the CB Bears and Heyyy, It's the King! would later air on both Cartoon Network and Boomerang during the 1990s and 2000s, but have since dropped out of airing.

In the 2021 reboot, Jellystone!, the CB Bears, King and his gang make several guest appearances, Big H and Skids are reimagined as girls for this continuity.