Riverboat Shuffled

Riverboat Shuffled
Premiere date	Week of November 23, 1959
Run time	7:16
Starring	Daws Butler Don Messick
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin Harry Bluestone Emil Cadkin Phil Green Jack Shaindlin Phil Green
Writer(s)	Michael Maltese
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"Riverboat Shuffled" is the ninth episode of Quick Draw McGraw season one, and came as part of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. It aired in the week of November 23, 1959 in first-run syndication. It was written by Michael Maltese, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Narrator (voice only)	Don Messick
Bold Weevil	Don Messick
Card player	Daws Butler
Baba Looey	Daws Butler
Quick Draw McGraw	Daws Butler

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Memphis
      • Mississippi River
    • Louisiana (indirectly mentioned)
      • New Orleans (mentioned)

Objects

• Quick Draw's guns

Vehicles

• Memphis Queen

Music

The theme music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, while the rest of the music was composed by Harry Bluestone, Emil Cadkin, Phil Green, Jack Shaindlin, and Phil Green.

Crew credits

• Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
• Animator: Carlo Vinci
• Layout artist:
• Background artist:
• Titles artist: Lawrence Goble

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: Week of November 23, 1959 in syndication

Behind the scenes

• Michael Maltese is simply reusing his parts of what he wrote for the Looney Tunes theatrical short Mississippi Hare in 1949.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • 1994: First Independent Films releases Quick Draw McGraw: Riverboat Shuffled on VHS.