Motor Knows Best

Motor Knows Best
I can't believe this short predicted Villanous.
Premiere date	Week of December 21, 1959
Run time	7:16
Music composed by	Phil Green Jack Shaindlin
Writer(s)	Michael Maltese
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"Motor Knows Best" is the thirteenth episode of Snooper and Blabber season one, and came as a segment of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. It aired in the week of December 21, 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.

Snooper and Blabber enter a race to take down Crash Smithereens.

Memorable quotes

Blabber: Can that be Crash Smitheerens?

Crash: Well, it ain’t Huckleberry Hound.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Snooper	Daws Butler
Blabber Mouse	Daws Butler
Crash Smithereens	Don Messick
Denton Fender	Don Messick
Huckleberry Hound
Announcer	Don Messick

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Race Track

Vehicles

• Snooper's car

Music

The theme music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, while the rest of the episode's music was composed by Phil Green and Jack Shaindlin.

Crew credits

• Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
• Animator: Lewis Marshall
• Layout artist: Ed Benedict
• Background artist: Joseph Montell
• Titles artist: Lawrence Goble
• Story director: Alex Lovy

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: Week of December 21, 1959 in syndication

Behind the scenes

• The episode title is a play on the phrase, "Mother knows best." You're welcome.
• Huckleberry Hound is name dropped by Crash.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😢