Huckleberry Hound Meets Wee Willie

Huckleberry Hound Meets Wee Willie
Wee Willie grabs Huck
Premiere date	Week of September 29, 1958
Run time	6:58
Writer(s)	Charles Shows Dan Gordon
Director(s)	William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
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"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 in first run syndication. It was written by Charles Shows and Dan Gordon, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

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

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Huckleberry Hound	Daws Butler
Dispatcher	Don Messick
Wee Willie	Don Messick

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • City

Objects

• Huck's gun

Vehicles

• Police car

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: Week of September 29, 1958 in syndication

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

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.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 15, 2005: Warner Home Video releases The Huckleberry Hound Show: Volume 1 on DVD.