Blast-Off Buzzard

This article is about the segments. For the character, see Blast-Off Buzzard (character).

Blast-Off Buzzard
Title card of the first episode.
Network	NBC
Production company	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release	September 10―December 3, 1977
Starring	Daws Butler
Producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Bill Ackerman Haskell Barkin Barry Blitzer Tom Dagenais Karl Geurs Orville Hampton Don Jurwich Jon Kubichan Joan Maurer Ray Parker Howard Post Dick Robbins Jerry Winnick
Director(s)	Charles A. Nichols

Blast-Off Buzzard is a series of animated segments as part of CB Bears, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming debuting. It ran in 1977, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season.

Many fans call the segments "Hanna-Barbera's versions of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner," and there's no telling why they do: The segments follow a Buzzard named Blast-Off Buzzard, who tries numerous attempts to catch a snake named Crazylegs, most likely for food purposes.

Also just like Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, they don't speak and usually just make sounds instead, up until their Tom & Jerry Kids appearances, where they actually can talk.

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Episodes

CB Bears

Episode	Original air date
1x01 "Buzzard, You're a Turkey"	September 10, 1977
1x02 "Hard Headed Hard Hat"	September 17, 1977
1x03 "Hearts and Flowers, Buzzards and Snakes"	September 24, 1977
1x04 "The Egg & Aye Aye Aye"	October 1, 1977
1x05 "Testing 1-2-3"	October 8, 1977
1x06 "Ho, Ho, Ho, It's the Buzzard's Birthday"	October 15, 1977
1x07 "Wheelin' and Reelin'"	October 22, 1977
1x08 "Buzzard, Clean Up Your Act"	October 29, 1977
1x09 "Backyard Buzzards"	November 5, 1977
1x10 "Spy in the Sky"	November 12, 1977
1x11 "First Class Buzzard"	November 19, 1977
1x12 "Freezin' and Sneezin'"	November 26, 1977
1x13 "Cousin Snakey is a Groove"	December 3, 1977

Tom & Jerry Kids Show

Episode	Original air date
1x01 "Destructive Construction"	September 18, 1993
1x02 "Abusement Park"	September 25, 1993

Cast

• Daws Butler as Blast-Off Buzzard
• Charlie Adler as Crazylegs (in Tom & Jerry Kids)

In other languages

Language	Name
Brazilian	Careta e Mutreta
French	Buzzard et Vermisso