Ro-Butler

Ro-Butler
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Production number	J-48
Premiere date	Week of February 1, 1960
Run time	7:16
Starring	Daws Butler Doug Young
Music composed by	Hecky Krasnow Phil Green Jack Shaindlin Harry Bluestone Emil Cadkin
Writer(s)	Michael Maltese
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"Ro-Butler" is the nineteenth episode of Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy season one, and came as a segment of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. It aired in the week of February 1, 1960 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.

Augie builds a robot servant for his dad on father's day.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Doggie Daddy	Doug Young
Augie Doggie	Daws Butler
Robot	N/A

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Doggie residence

Music

The theme music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, while the rest of the episode's music was composed by Hecky Krasnow, Phil Green, Jack Shaindlin, Harry Bluestone, and Emil Cadkin.

Crew credits

• Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
• Animator: Kenneth Muse
• Layout artist: Unknown
• Background artist: Robert Gentle
• Titles artist: Lawrence Goble

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: Week of February 1, 1960 in syndication

Behind the scenes

• The credits say that Dick Bickenbach is the layout artist, although the Yowp blog isn't very convinced and has a question mark by his name. It also leaves out the story sketch artist or story director.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😢