Gosh Zilla

Gosh Zilla
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Network	Syndication
Premiere date	March 4, 1963
Run time	4:40
Starring	Daws Butler Don Messick
Director(s)	William Hanna
Voice director(s)	Joseph Barbera
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"Gosh Zilla" is the first episode of Wally Gator season two, and the twenty-seventh overall, which came as part of The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series. It aired on March 4, 1963 in syndication. It was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

After taking too many vitamin pills, Wally grows larger in size, and upon escaping from the zoo, Wally unintentionally terrorizes the city, only later does the scenario turn out to just be Wally's dream.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Mr. Twiddle	Don Messick
Wally Gator	Daws Butler
Lady	Don Messick
Painter	Don Messick
Charlie	N/A
Dispatcher	Unavailable
Policeman	Daws Butler
Pilot	Don Messick
C.G.	Don Messick
Writer	Don Messick

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • City Zoo

Release

Dates are in order of release.

• United States: March 4, 1963 in syndication

Behind the scenes

• The episode title is a play on the Japanese monster movie character Godzilla, as well as the episode itself being a parody of that.
• Incidentally, Wally was depicted as a Godzilla-sized monster in The Powerpuff Girls episode "Knock It Off," which aired in 2002.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • January 10, 2020: Warner Archive Collection releases Wally Gator: The Complete Series on DVD.