CB Bears (TV series)

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CB Bears
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On-screen title card.
Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Original release September 10December 3, 1977
Starring Daws Butler
Don Messick
Alan Oppenheimer
Bob Hastings
Marvin Kaplan
Chuck McCann
Ginny McSwain
Henry Corden
Sheldon Allman
Michael Bell
Susan Davis
Joe E. Ross
Susan Silo
Lennie Weinrib
Paul Winchell
Bill Woodson
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

The CB Bears is an animated American anthology television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1977, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season.

This series featured six segments making it one of the longest (content-wise) HB series in the 70's.

The show debuted with segments, CB Bears, Blast-Off Buzzard, Heyyy, It's the King!, Posse Impossible, Shake, Rattle and Roll and Undercover Elephant.

The series would later be split up into a half-hour format with CB Bears, Blast-Off Buzzard and Posse Impossible on one half, and Heyyy, It's the King!, Shake, Rattle and Roll and Undercover Elephant on the other half.

The series only lasted 13 episodes, although the real reason for it's cancellation is unclear, it's most likely due to low ratings.

Only the Posse Impossible segments were released in their entirety, in the form of a VHS release.

Production

Development

Segments

  • CB Bears
  • Blast-Off Buzzard
  • Heyyy, It's the King!
  • Posse Impossible
  • Shake, Rattle and Roll
  • Undercover Elephant

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Opening theme song lyrics

It's the CB Bears!

Boogie, Hustle and Bump, mobile mystery solvers! ...with Blast-Off Buzzard and Crazylegs in a constant comedy chase of laughs and fun!

Along with Slipshod sheriff and his Posse Impossible!

All rolled into a surprise package of excitement! On the CB Bears show!

Episodes

Episode Original air date
1x01 September 10, 1977
1x02 September 17, 1977
1x03 September 24, 1977
1x04 October 1, 1977
1x05 October 8, 1977
1x06 October 15, 1977
1x07 October 22, 1977
1x08 October 29, 1977
1x09 November 5, 1977
1x10 November 12, 1977
1x11 November 19, 1977
1x12 November 26, 1977
1x13 December 3, 1977

Cast

Credits

These identical credits appeared at the end of every episode.

Legacy

Aspects of the show would later air part of Captain Kangaroo in the 1980s and on the two-hour program, Go Go Globetrotters on February 4, 1978. Episodes of Undercover Elephant also aired as reruns part of Disney's Jump, Rattle & Roll.

Undercover Elephant appears for the Yogi's Treasure Hunt episodes, "The Moaning Liza" and "Yogi's Heroes."

Reruns of half-hour versions for the CB Bears and Heyyy, It's the King! would later air on both Cartoon Network and Boomerang during the 1990s and 2000s, but have since dropped out of airing.

In the 2021 reboot, Jellystone!, the CB Bears, King and his gang make several guest appearances, Big H and Skids are reimagined as girls for this continuity.

References