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:''This article is about the segments. For the coloring book, see ''[[Heyyy, It's the King! (coloring book)]]''.
{{Infobox TV
{{Infobox TV
|title_card= [[File:HITK title card.png|300px]]
|title_card= [[File:HITK title card.png|300px]]
|caption= On-screen title card.
|caption= ''Heyyy, It's [[the Fonz]]!'', oops, I mean [[The King|King]].
|network= [[NBC]]
|network= [[NBC]]
|prodcompany= [[Hanna-Barbera]]
|prodcompany= [[Hanna-Barbera Productions]]
|distributor=
|distributor=
|released= September 10—December 3, 1977
|released= [[September 10]]—[[December 3]], [[1977]]
|run_time=
|run_time=
|starring= [[Lennie Weinrib]]<br />[[Sheldon Allman]]<br />[[Don Messick]]<br />[[Marvin Kaplan]]<br />[[Ginny McSwain]]<br />[[Susan Silo]]
|starring= [[Lennie Weinrib]]<br />[[Sheldon Allman]]<br />[[Don Messick]]<br />[[Marvin Kaplan]]<br />[[Ginny McSwain]]<br />[[Susan Silo]]
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|music= [[Hoyt Curtin]]
|music= [[Hoyt Curtin]]
|writer= [[Bill Ackerman]]<br />[[Haskell Barkin]]<br />[[Barry Blitzer]]<br />[[Tom Dagenais]]<br />[[Karl Geurs]]<br />[[Orville Hampton]]<br />[[Don Jurwich]]<br />[[Jon Kubichan]]<br />[[Joan Maurer]]<br />[[Ray Parker]]<br />[[Howard Post]]<br />[[Dick Robbins]]<br />[[Jerry Winnick]]
|writer= [[Bill Ackerman]]<br />[[Haskell Barkin]]<br />[[Barry Blitzer]]<br />[[Tom Dagenais]]<br />[[Karl Geurs]]<br />[[Orville Hampton]]<br />[[Don Jurwich]]<br />[[Jon Kubichan]]<br />[[Joan Maurer]]<br />[[Ray Parker]]<br />[[Howard Post]]<br />[[Dick Robbins]]<br />[[Jerry Winnick]]
|director= [[Charles Nichols]]
|director= [[Charles A. Nichols]]
}}
}}
'''''Heyyy, It's the King!''''' is a series of animated segments as part of the ''[[CB Bears (TV series)|CB Bears]]'', produced by [[Hanna-Barbera|Hanna-Barbera Productions]] for [[NBC]]'s Saturday morning children's programming debuting. It ran in 1977, airing 13 episodes.
'''''Heyyy, It's the King!''''' is a series of animated segments as part of the ''[[CB Bears (TV series)|CB Bears]]'', produced by [[Hanna-Barbera Productions]] for [[NBC]]'s Saturday morning children's programming debuting. It ran in [[1977]], airing 13 episodes that spanned one season.


The segments aired separately for the second half hour of the CB Bears, during the half hour, it aired with segments ''[[Undercover Elephant (segments)|Undercover Elephant]]'' and ''[[Shake, Rattle and Roll]]''.
The segments aired separately for the second half hour of the ''CB Bears''. During the half hour, it aired with segments ''[[Undercover Elephant]]'' and ''[[Shake, Rattle and Roll]]''.


[[The King]] is a parody of [[the Fonz]], played by [[Henry Winkler]], from the live-action sitcom ''Happy Days''. As it happens, three years later Hanna-Barbera got to do their own animated spin-off called ''[[The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang]]''.
[[The King]] is a parody of [[the Fonz]], played by [[Henry Winkler]], from the live-action sitcom ''Happy Days''. As it happens, three years later Hanna-Barbera got to do their own animated spin-off called ''[[The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang]]''.


The King, [[Yuka-Yuka]], [[Big H]], [[Clyde (Heyyy, It's the King!)|Clyde]] and [[Skids]] appear in the [[HBO Max]] original series, ''[[Jellystone!]]'', their probable role being in the episode "[[Cats Do Dance]]", in which they are depicted as a dancing group where they take [[Top Cat (character)|Top Cat]]'s alley, which causes Top Cat and his gang to move in with [[Peter Potamus]] temporarily. Big H and Skids are depicted as female in this series.
The entire series was possibly going to be planned for a DVD release at some point.<ref>[https://cdn.hanna-barberawiki.com/6/66/HITK_promo.png HITK promo] on ''[[Main Page|Hanna-Barbera Wiki]]''. Retrieved May 15, 2022</ref> With WB's promotional art and a poll from [[2012]]<ref>[[Hanna-Barbera]] ([[January 9]], [[2012]]).[https://www.facebook.com/HannaBarbera/photos/a.151882938206470/274262475968515/?type=3&source=54 Vote for HEYYY, IT'S THE KING! in The Warner Archive Collection poll.] ''Facebook''. Retrieved [[October 3]], [[2022]].</ref> being the only evidence supporting this claim.
 
==Production==
==Production==
===Development===
===Development===


==Music==
==Music==
When ''Heyyy, It's the King!'' aired in half hour format with ''Undercover Elephant'' and ''Shake, Rattle and Roll'', it featured it's very own theme song:
;Opening theme song lyrics:
<poem>
Hey, Hey, Hey, it's the King!<br />
He has a triple thread of humor and hi-jinx!
Starring the King, and his bunch of real cool characters!
And featuring that pachyderm of a thousand faces, Undercover Elephant!
Along with three goofy ghost in a series of harry scary fast moving adventures, it's Shake, Rattle and Roll!
Put them all together and it's a biggg daddy show! Hey, Hey, Hey it's the King!
</poem>


==Episodes==
==Episodes==
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! Episode
! Episode
! Number
! Number
! Air date
! Original air date
|-
|-
| "[[The Blue Kangaroo]]"
| "[[The Blue Kangaroo]]"
| 1x01
| 1x01
| September 10, 1977
| [[September 10]], [[1977]]
|-
|-
| "[[The First King on Mars]]"
| "[[The First King on Mars]]"
| 1x02
| 1x02
| September 17, 1977
| [[September 17]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[The Riverbed 5000]]"
| "[[The Riverbed 5000]]"
| 1x03
| 1x03
| September 24, 1977
| [[September 24]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[Surf's Up (Heyyy, It's the King!)|Surf's Up]]"
| "[[Surf's Up (Heyyy, It's the King!)|Surf's Up]]"
| 1x04
| 1x04
| October 1, 1977
| [[October 1]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[The King and His Jokers]]"
| "[[The King and His Jokers]]"
| 1x05
| 1x05
| October 8, 1977
| [[October 8]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[Hot Gold Fever]]"
| "[[Hot Gold Fever]]"
| 1x06
| 1x06
| October 15, 1977
| [[October 15]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[The Carnival Caper]]"
| "[[The Carnival Caper]]"
| 1x07
| 1x07
| October 22, 1977
| [[October 22]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[The Unhappy Heavy Hippo]]"
| "[[The Unhappy Heavy Hippo]]"
| 1x08
| 1x08
| October 29, 1977
| [[October 29]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[The King for Prez]]"
| "[[The King for Prez]]"
| 1x09
| 1x09
| November 5, 1977
| [[November 5]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[Snowbound Safari]]"
| "[[Snowbound Safari]]"
| 1x10
| 1x10
| November 12, 1977
| [[November 12]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[Great Billionaire Chase Case]]"
| "[[Great Billionaire Chase Case]]"
| 1x11
| 1x11
| November 19, 1977
| [[November 19]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[Boat Fever]]"
| "[[Boat Fever]]"
| 1x12
| 1x12
| November 26, 1977
| [[November 26]], 1977
|-
|-
| "[[Go for It, King]]"
| "[[Go for It, King]]"
| 1x13
| 1x13
| December 3, 1977
| [[December 3]], 1977
|-
|-
|}
|}


==Cast==
==Cast==
* [[Lennie Weinrib]] as [[The King]] and [[Yuka-Yuka]]
* [[Lennie Weinrib]] as [[The King]] and [[Yuka Yuka]]
* [[Sheldon Allman]] as [[Big H]]
* [[Sheldon Allman]] as [[Big H]]
* [[Don Messick]] as [[Clyde (Heyyy, It's the King!)|Clyde]]
* [[Don Messick]] as [[Clyde (Heyyy, It's the King!)|Clyde]]
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* [[Ginny McSwain]] as [[Sheena]]
* [[Ginny McSwain]] as [[Sheena]]
* [[Susan Silo]] as [[Zelda]]
* [[Susan Silo]] as [[Zelda]]
==Credits==
These identical credits appeared at the end of every episode. Note that these credits have slight differences from the CB Bears credits.
* '''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]]<br>
* '''Recording Directed by:''' Alex Lovy
* '''Voices:''' [[Sheldon Allman]], [[Daws Butler]], [[Scatman Crothers]], [[Cindy Erickson]], [[Gay Hartwig]], [[Marvin Kaplan]], [[Ginny McSwain]], [[Julie McWhirter]], [[Don Messick]], [[Pat Parris]], [[Ken Sansom]], [[Hal Smith]], [[Alexis Tramuntis]], [[Frank Welker (actor)|Frank Welker]], [[Paul Winchell]]
* '''Title Designed by:''' [[Bill Perez]]
* '''Graphics:''' [[Iraj Paran]]
* '''Musical Director:''' [[Hoyt Curtin]]<br>
* '''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]]<br>
* '''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==
In [[2021]], [[The King|King]], [[Yuka Yuka]], [[Big H]], [[Clyde (Heyyy, It's the King!)|Clyde]] and [[Skids]] appear in the ''[[Jellystone!]]'' reboot, their probable role being in the episode "[[Cats Do Dance]]", in which they are depicted as a dancing group where they take [[Top Cat (character)|Top Cat]]'s alley, which causes Top Cat and his gang to move in with [[Peter Potamus]] temporarily. Big H and Skids are depicted as female in this series. The group is also more played off as being villainous (likely due to the lack of villainous groups Hanna-Barbera had), after this episode, the group has also made various cameos throughout the series. In the second season, one time character, [[Cool Cat]] appears in the episode, "[[Disco Fever]]," while [[Zelda]] appears in the episode, "[[Girl, You My Friend!]]."
==In other languages==
{| class="wikitable"
! Language
! Name
|-
| Brazilian
| Trapaleão
|-
| French
| Le roi... c'est moi
|-
| Italian
| Hey il re
|}


==References==
==References==
<references/>
<references/>
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Latest revision as of 09:59, 24 April 2024

This article is about the segments. For the coloring book, see Heyyy, It's the King! (coloring book).
Heyyy, It's the King!
HITK title card.png
Heyyy, It's the Fonz!, oops, I mean King.
Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release September 10—December 3, 1977
Starring Lennie Weinrib
Sheldon Allman
Don Messick
Marvin Kaplan
Ginny McSwain
Susan Silo
Producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) 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
Director(s) Charles A. Nichols

Heyyy, It's the King! is a series of animated segments as part of the CB Bears, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming debuting. It ran in 1977, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season.

The segments aired separately for the second half hour of the CB Bears. During the half hour, it aired with segments Undercover Elephant and Shake, Rattle and Roll.

The King is a parody of the Fonz, played by Henry Winkler, from the live-action sitcom Happy Days. As it happens, three years later Hanna-Barbera got to do their own animated spin-off called The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang.

The entire series was possibly going to be planned for a DVD release at some point.[1] With WB's promotional art and a poll from 2012[2] being the only evidence supporting this claim.

Production

Development

Music

When Heyyy, It's the King! aired in half hour format with Undercover Elephant and Shake, Rattle and Roll, it featured it's very own theme song:

Opening theme song lyrics

Hey, Hey, Hey, it's the King!

He has a triple thread of humor and hi-jinx!

Starring the King, and his bunch of real cool characters!

And featuring that pachyderm of a thousand faces, Undercover Elephant!

Along with three goofy ghost in a series of harry scary fast moving adventures, it's Shake, Rattle and Roll!

Put them all together and it's a biggg daddy show! Hey, Hey, Hey it's the King!

Episodes

Episode Number Original air date
"The Blue Kangaroo" 1x01 September 10, 1977
"The First King on Mars" 1x02 September 17, 1977
"The Riverbed 5000" 1x03 September 24, 1977
"Surf's Up" 1x04 October 1, 1977
"The King and His Jokers" 1x05 October 8, 1977
"Hot Gold Fever" 1x06 October 15, 1977
"The Carnival Caper" 1x07 October 22, 1977
"The Unhappy Heavy Hippo" 1x08 October 29, 1977
"The King for Prez" 1x09 November 5, 1977
"Snowbound Safari" 1x10 November 12, 1977
"Great Billionaire Chase Case" 1x11 November 19, 1977
"Boat Fever" 1x12 November 26, 1977
"Go for It, King" 1x13 December 3, 1977

Cast

Credits

These identical credits appeared at the end of every episode. Note that these credits have slight differences from the CB Bears credits.

Legacy

In 2021, King, Yuka Yuka, Big H, Clyde and Skids appear in the Jellystone! reboot, their probable role being in the episode "Cats Do Dance", in which they are depicted as a dancing group where they take Top Cat's alley, which causes Top Cat and his gang to move in with Peter Potamus temporarily. Big H and Skids are depicted as female in this series. The group is also more played off as being villainous (likely due to the lack of villainous groups Hanna-Barbera had), after this episode, the group has also made various cameos throughout the series. In the second season, one time character, Cool Cat appears in the episode, "Disco Fever," while Zelda appears in the episode, "Girl, You My Friend!."

In other languages

Language Name
Brazilian Trapaleão
French Le roi... c'est moi
Italian Hey il re

References

  1. ^ HITK promo on Hanna-Barbera Wiki. Retrieved May 15, 2022
  2. ^ Hanna-Barbera (January 9, 2012).Vote for HEYYY, IT'S THE KING! in The Warner Archive Collection poll. Facebook. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
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