The Volunteers

The Volunteers
The King introducing the Sargent to Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey.
Premiere date	September 16, 1964
Run time	6:46
Writer(s)	Tony Benedict Warren Foster Dalton Sandifer
Director(s)	William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
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"The Volunteers" is the first episode of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey season one. It aired as a segment of The Peter Potamus Show. It first aired on September 16, 1964 in first run syndication. It was written by Tony Benedict, Warren Foster and Dalton Sandifer, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are trained by a sergeant to become soldiers, but their clumsiness becomes too much for the sergeant and eventually makes the King mad.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
The King	Hal Smith
Mrs. Rebel	Jean Vander Py
Yippee	Doug Young
Yappee	Hal Smith
Yahooey	Daws Butler
The Sargeant	Daws Butler
The Sargeant's mother

Locations

• The King's castle
• Field

Objects

• Yippee, Yappee and Yahooeys' swords

Vehicles

• None

Music

• 0:00 - Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey main title theme (Curtin).

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 16, 1964

Behind the scenes

• Daws Butler used his Hokey Wolf impression for the Sargent.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 1, 2016: Warner Home Video releases The Peter Potamus Show: The Complete Series on DVD.