Heyyy, It's the King!
- This article is about the segments. For the coloring book, see Heyyy, It's the King! (coloring book).
| Heyyy, It's the King! | |
|---|---|
 Heyyy, It's the Fonz!, oops, I mean King. | |
| Network | NBC |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
| Original release | September 10—December 3, 1977 |
| Starring | Lennie Weinrib Sheldon Allman Don Messick Marvin Kaplan Ginny McSwain Susan Silo |
| 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 Alex Lovy (voices) |
Heyyy, It's the King! is a series of animated segments as part of the 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.
The segments aired separately for the second half hour of the CB Bears. During the half hour, it aired with segments Undercover Elephant and Shake, Rattle and Roll.
The King is a parody of the Fonz, played by Henry Winkler, from the live-action sitcom Happy Days. As it happens, three years later Hanna-Barbera got to do their own animated spin-off called The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang.
The entire series was possibly going to be planned for a DVD release at some point.[1] With WB's promotional art and a poll from 2012[2] being the only evidence supporting this claim.
Production
Development
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Music
When Heyyy, It's the King! aired in half hour format with Undercover Elephant and Shake, Rattle and Roll, it featured it's very own theme song:
- Opening theme song lyrics
Hey, Hey, Hey, it's the King!
He has a triple thread of humor and hi-jinx!
Starring the King, and his bunch of real cool characters!
And featuring that pachyderm of a thousand faces, Undercover Elephant!
Along with three goofy ghost in a series of harry scary fast moving adventures, it's Shake, Rattle and Roll!
Put them all together and it's a biggg daddy show! Hey, Hey, Hey it's the King!
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
- Lennie Weinrib as The King and Yuka Yuka
- Sheldon Allman as Big H
- Don Messick as Clyde
- Marvin Kaplan as Skids
- Ginny McSwain as Sheena
- Susan Silo as Zelda
Credits
These identical credits appeared at the end of every episode. Note that these credits have slight differences from the CB Bears credits.
- Executive producers: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
- Directed by: Charles A. Nichols
- Creative producer: Iwao Takamoto
- Associate producer: Alex Lovy
- Story editor: Ray Parker
- Associate story: Larz Bourne
- Written by: 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
- Story directed by: Alvaro Arce, Dave Hanan, George Singer, Wendell Washer
- Recording directed by: Alex Lovy
- Voices: Sheldon Allman, Daws Butler, Scatman Crothers, Cindy Erickson, Gay Hartwig, Marvin Kaplan, Ginny McSwain, Julie McWhirter, Don Messick, Pat Parris, Ken Sansom, Hal Smith, Alexis Tramuntis, Frank Welker, Paul Winchell
- Title designed by: Bill Perez
- Graphics: Iraj Paran
- Musical director: Hoyt Curtin
- Musical supervision: Paul DeKorte
- Character design: Bob Singer, Willie Ito, Marty Murphy
- Layout supervision: John Ahern
- Layout by: Steve Lumiey, Pete Alvarado, Dale Barnhart, Jaime Diaz, Bob Fosbry, Norm Gottfredson, Larry Huber, Chris Jenkyns, Jack Manning, Terry Moesker, Floyd Norman, Linda Rowley, Joe Shearer, Al Wilson
- Unit direction: Carl Urbano
- Animation supervision: Chris Cuddington, Bill Keil, Peter Aries
- Assistant animation supervision: Bob Goe, Paul Maron
- Animation coordination: John Boersema
- Animation: Carlos Alfonso, Thomas Barnes, Bob Bransford, Bob Carr, Steve Clark, John Conning, Joan Drake, Dick Dunn, John Ellis, Warwick Gilbert, Bob Goe, Bob Hathcock, Sebastian Hurpia, Greg Ingram, Cynthia Leech, Tony Love, Paul McAdem, Henry Neville, Ray Nowland, Edwardo Olivares, Morey Reden, Di Rudder, Michael Stapleton, Ed Sullivan, Dave Tendlar, Jean Tych, Kaye Watts, Xenia
- Background supervision: Al Gmuer
- Backgrounds: Richard Zaloudek, Peter Connell, Bob Gentle, Alison Julian, Micheal King-Prime, Jerry Liew, Lesley Nicholl, Dennis Venizelos, Kin Wright
- Checking and scene planning: Evelyn Sherwood, Narelle Nixon
- Xerography: Star Wirth, Ellen Bayley
- Ink and paint supervision: Billie Kerns, Narelle Derrick
- Sound direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
- Camera: George Epperson, Jerry Smith, Mark D' Arcy-Irvine, Tom Epperson, Curt Hall, Terry Smith
- Supervision film editor: Sam Horta
- Film editors: Earl Bennett, Peter Jennings, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Denise Horta, Elleen Horta
- Dubbing supervision: Pat Foley
- Production supervision: Doug Paterson, Mark D' Arcy-Irvine, Adrienne Smith
- Negative consultant: William E. DeBoer
- Production manager: Jayne Barbera
- Post production supervision: Joed Eaton
Legacy
In 2021, King, Yuka Yuka, Big H, Clyde and Skids appear in the Jellystone! reboot, their probable role being in the episode "Cats Do Dance", in which they are depicted as a dancing group where they take Top Cat's alley, which causes Top Cat and his gang to move in with Peter Potamus temporarily. Big H and Skids are depicted as female in this series. The group is also more played off as being villainous (likely due to the lack of villainous groups Hanna-Barbera had), after this episode, the group has also made various cameos throughout the series. In the second season, one time character, Cool Cat appears in the episode, "Disco Fever," while Zelda appears in the episode, "Girl, You My Friend!"
In other languages
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Brazilian | Trapaleão |
| French | Le roi... c'est moi |
| Italian | Hey il re |
References
- ^ HITK promo on Hanna-Barbera Wiki. Retrieved May 15, 2022
- ^ Hanna-Barbera (January 9, 2012).Vote for HEYYY, IT'S THE KING! in The Warner Archive Collection poll. Facebook. Retrieved October 3, 2022.
