Sea Grunt

Sea Grunt
And this is just the rehearsal.
Premiere date	November 6, 1965
Run time	6:36
Starring	Paul Frees John Stephenson
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.

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

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Squiddly Diddly	Paul Frees
Chief Winchley	John Stephenson

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Bubbleland

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 6, 1965 on ABC

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 Lloyd Bridges.
• Squiddly sings a parody of "Home on the Range."

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Dans l'Ouest	In the West
Japanese	タコのロクちゃん西部に行く	Roku-chan the Octopus Goes West
Spanish	Occidente Já!	West Ha!

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 3, 2015: Warner Archive Collection releases The Secret Squirrel Show: The Complete Series on DVD.