The Volunteers

"The Volunteers" is the first episode of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey season one. It aired as a segment of The Peter Potamus Show. It first aired on September 16, 1964 in first run syndication. It was written by Tony Benedict, Warren Foster and Dalton Sandifer, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are trained by Sergeant to become soldiers, but their clumsiness becomes too much for the Sergeant and eventually makes the King mad.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| The King
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Hal Smith
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Mrs. Rebel
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jean Vander Py
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Yippee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Doug Young
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Yappee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Hal Smith
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Yahooey
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| The Sargent
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| The Sargent's mother
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Yahooey
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| The Sargent
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| The Sargent's mother
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| The Sargent's mother
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| The Sargent's mother

Locations

 * The King's castle
 * Field

Objects

 * Yippee, Yappee and Yahooeys' swords

Vehicles

 * none

Music

 * 0:00 - Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey main title theme (Curtin).

Behind the scenes

 * Daws Butler used his Hokey Wolf impression for the Sargent.

Home availability

 * This episode is on the DVD The Peter Potamus Show: The Complete Series, part of the Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection series. It was released by Warner Home Video in the United States on November 1, 2016.