Yogi's Space Race
| Yogi's Space Race | |
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| Network | NBC |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera |
| Original release | September 9—December 2, 1978 |
| Run time | 90 minutes |
| Starring | Gary Owens Daws Butler Joe Besser Mel Blanc Frank Welker Marilyn Schreffler Pat Parris |
| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) | Art Scott |
| Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
| Director(s) | Ray Patterson Carl Urbano |
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Yogi's Space Race is an American adventure/comedy animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1978, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season. It was the third Yogi Bear series after Yogi's Gang, which ran in 1973.
The series was originally aired as an anthology series that aired with segments, Galaxy Goof-Ups, The Buford Files and The Galloping Ghost.
Racing through space, competitors with the likes of Yogi Bear, Scare Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quack-Up, Jabberjaw, Buford, Nugget Nose, Rita and Wendy compete to race through space in order to be first place and win a prize, but also competing in the race is Captain Good, nemesis to all evil, and his companion Clean Kat, although, unknown to everyone else, they are really villainous cheaters, Phantom Phink and his companion, Sinister Sludge.
Production
Development
Casting
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.
Episodes
| Episode | Number | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| "The Saturn 500" | 1x01 | September 9, 1978 |
| "The Neptune 9000" | 1x02 | September 16, 1978 |
| "The Pongo Tongo Classic" | 1x03 | September 23, 1978 |
| "Nebuloc-The Prehistoric Planet" | 1x04 | September 30, 1978 |
| "The Spartikan Spectacular" | 1x05 | October 7, 1978 |
| "The Mizar Marathon" | 1x06 | October 14, 1978 |
| "The Lost Planet of Atlantis" | 1x07 | October 21, 1978 |
| "Race Through Oz" | 1x08 | October 28, 1978 |
| "Race Through Wet Galoshes" | 1x09 | November 4, 1978 |
| "The Borealis Triangle" | 1x10 | November 11, 1978 |
| "Race to the Center of the Universe" | 1x11 | November 18, 1978 |
| "Race Through the Planet of the Monsters" | 1x12 | November 25, 1978 |
| "Franzia" | 1x13 | December 2, 1978 |
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: September 9, 1978 on NBC
Cast
- Daws Butler as Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound
- Joe Besser as Scare Bear
- Mel Blanc as Quack-Up
- Frank Welker as Jabberjaw, Buford, Nugget Nose, Captain Good/Phantom Phink and Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge
- Marilyn Schreffler as Wendy
- Pat Parris as Rita
- Gary Owens as the Announcer
Legacy
In "Yogi's Tummy Trouble," the first episode of 2021 HBO Max series Jellystone! Yogi says he was having a dream about driving space cars around the galaxy, alluding to Yogi's Space Race.
