Scary Prairie

Scary Prairie
Production number	J-1
Premiere date	Week of November 2, 1959
Run time	7:16
Starring	Daws Butler Elliot Field
Music composed by	Jack Shaindlin Spencer Moore Phil Green Bill Loose John Seely
Writer(s)	Michael Maltese
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"Scary Prarie" is the sixth episode of Quick Draw McGraw season one, and came as part of The Quick Draw McGraw Show. It aired in the week of November 2, 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.

The not-too-quick Quick Draw chooses the hardest-to-catch bank robber Grumble-Weed as his next arrest.

Memorable quotes

Narrator: Uh, Mr Quick Draw?
Quick Draw: Yep, there's not much of a line but it's the way I read it.
Narrator: Would you show us your famous "Quick Draw", Quick Draw?
Quick Draw: Yep, there's nothing to it. I just toss this tin can up in the air, whip out my six gun and- (Gunshot)
Narrator: OH!
Quick Draw: (Face full of gunpowder)....Shucks. I had the bullet in backwards. Ha!

Baba: I thin' maybe we go back to herding sheeps, Don't you thin' so, Queek Straw?
Quick Draw: No I don't thinnnn' so, Queek Straw!

Baba: Are you loco? Señior Grumble-Weed will kill you to pieces.
Grumble-Weed: And I'll throw the pieces to the coyotes, tenderfoot.
Quick Draw: Whom's a tenderfoot?
Grumble-Weed: You are!

Quick Draw: Grumble-weed, I have had enough of yer treacherous tricks! You and me are gonna have a showdown at sundown! And doooon't you forget it!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Narrator (voice only)	Elliot Field
Man #1	Elliot Field
Man #2	Daws Butler
Man #3	Elliot Field
Dog-Face Dawson (poster)	N/A
Singin-Sam (poster)	N/A
Dangerous Dan (poster)	N/A
Tumbleweed Tom (poster)	N/A
Slippery Sam (poster)	N/A
Horse-Face Harry (poster)	N/A
Kactus Kisser (poster)	N/A
Singin-Sam (poster)	N/A
Baby-Face Celson (poster)	N/A
Quick Draw McGraw	Daws Butler
Baba Looey	Daws Butler
Big Bad Buster (poster)	N/A
Fancy-Foot Finnegan (poster)	N/A
Pretty Pete (poster)	N/A
Bank teller	Elliot Field
Grumble-Weed	Elliot Field

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Imperial Hotel

Objects

• William Tell Do-It-Yourself Kit

Vehicles

• None

Music

The theme music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, while the rest of the music was composed by Jack Shaindlin, Spencer Moore, Phil Green, Bill Loose, and John Seely.

Crew credits

• Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
• Animator: Carlo Vinci
• Background artist: Unknown
• Layout artist: Unknown
• Titles artist: Lawrence Goble
• Story sketch artist: Dan Gordon

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: Week of November 2, 1959 in syndication

Behind the scenes

• This is one of the rare occasions where Quick Draw will mimic Baba's accent.
• The gag where Grumble-Weed tricks Quick Draw to cross some lines until he falls into a cliff is taken from the 1948 Merrie Melodies short, Bugs Bunny Rides Again, where Bugs does the same act to Yosemite Sam; Michael Maltese wrote both this episode and the short of which this gag came from.

Errors

• When the tin can hits Quick Draw in the nose, his mane disappears.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😢