Sea Grunt
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Premiere date | November 6, 1965 |
Run time | 6:36 |
Starring | Paul Frees John Stephenson |
Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
Writer(s) | Tony Benedict Dalton Sandifer |
Director(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
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"Sea Grunt" is the sixth episode of Squiddly Diddly season one, and came as a segment of The Secret Squirrel Show. It aired on November 6, 1965 on ABC. It was written by Tony Benedict and Dalton Sandifer, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.
Squiddly gets cast in a TV show filming at Bubbleland.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Squiddly: ♫ Oh, give me a home, where the octopi roam, and the whales and the manta rays play! ♫
Director: Say, you're a for-real octopus!
Squiddly: Well, I'm not an aardvark.
Characters
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Locations
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 6, 1965 on ABC
Production
Development
Filming
Music
- 0:00 - Squiddly Diddly main title theme (Hoyt Curtin)
Behind the scenes
- Sea Grunt is a parody of the old show Sea Hunt.
- Floyd Bridges is a parody of actor Lloyd Bridges.
- Squiddly sings a parody of "Home on the Range."
Errors
Critical reception
In other languages
Language | Name | Meaning |
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French | Squiddly l'acteur | Squiddly the Actor |
Japanese | 空中サーフィン | Air Surfing |
Spanish | El Pulpo Actor | The Octopus Actor |
Home availability
- In the United Kingdom:
- June 10, 1985: The Video Collection releases Squiddly Diddly on VHS.
- November 3, 1986: The Video Collection releases Squiddly Diddly on VHS.
- In the United States:
- November 3, 2015: Warner Archive Collection releases The Secret Squirrel Show: The Complete Series on DVD.