The Kwicky Koala Show

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The Kwicky Koala Show
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On-screen title card.
Created by Tex Avery
Network CBS
Production company Hanna-Barbera Australia
Distributor Worldvision Enterprises
Original release September 12December 26, 1981
Starring Bob Ogle
John Stephenson
Jim MacGeorge
Michael Bell
Don Messick
Peter Cullen
Allan Melvin
Frank Welker
Marshall Efron
Matthew Faison
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Bob Ogle
Tex Avery
Chuck Couch
Larz Bourne
Director(s) George Gordon
Carl Urbano
Rudy Zamora
Gordon Hunt (voices)

The Kwicky Koala Show is an animated American television series created by Tex Avery. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Australia for CBS' Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1981, airing 16 episodes in total. The series is also notable for being one of Avery's last works; as he died during production in 1980.

The show debuted with segments, Kwicky Koala, The Bungle Brothers, Crazy Claws and Dirty Dawg.

The entire series has been released on DVD.

Production

Development

Segments

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Opening theme song lyrics

They call him Kwicky, Koala, he is very tricky at the bottom.

Every time you think you will, that's when he wonks.

First you think you got him, and then you don't.

He's a quickie, koala, it's The Kwicky Koala Show!

Also starring the Bungle Brothers, the biggest little act in show biz.
And Dirty Dawg, and his sidekick, Ratso, forever in search of that pot of stew at the end of the rainbow.
Along with Crazy Claws, the wild cat with a sharp wit and claws to match.
They join the world's fastest Australian bear.

First you think you got, and then you don't, he's a quickie, koala.
It's The Kwicky Koala Show!

Episodes

Release

Dates are in order of release:

Cast

Legacy

In the Cartoon Network bumper, Sick Day, all the characters call in sick, causing the channel to do a 24-hour marathon of the Kwicky Koala Show, much to the viewers' dismay.

References