Lamb Chopped

Lamb Chopped
Bah Bah Looey? Get it?
Premiere date	Week of September 28, 1959
Run time	7:16
Starring	Daws Butler
Music composed by	Phil Green
Writer(s)	Michael Maltese
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"Lamb Chopped" is the first episode of Quick Draw McGraw season one, and came as part of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. It aired in the week of September 28, 1959 in first-run syndication. It was written by Michael Maltese, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Quick Draw and Baba must stop Snagglepuss from eating all the sheep.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Baba Looey	Daws Butler
Quick Draw McGraw	Daws Butler
President of Sheepers Association	Daws Butler
Sheep	Daws Butler
Snagglepuss Lion	Daws Butler
French mountain goat	Daws Butler

Organizations

• Sheepherders Assocation

Locations

• Earth
  • Southern or Western United States
    • Sheepherders Association HQ
    • Sheep country

Objects

• None

Vehicles

• Quick Draw's Jeep

Music

The theme music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, while the rest of the music was composed by Phil Green.

Crew credits

• Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
• Animator: Kenneth Muse
• Background artist: Robert Gentle
• Layout artist: Ed Benedict
• Titles artist: Lawrence Goble
• Story sketch artist: Dan Gordon

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: Week of September 28, 1959

Behind the scenes

• Snagglepuss is in a prototype stage, as he is orange, instead of pink.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😢