The Flea and Me

The Flea and Me
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Premiere date	Week of December 7, 1959
Run time	7:14
Starring	Daws Butler Don Messick
Music composed by	Phil Green Jack Shaindlin Joe Cacciola
Writer(s)	Michael Maltese
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"The Flea and Me" is the eleventh 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 7, 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 Productions.

Snooper and Blabber are hired to capture and return a star attraction flea back to the Mammoth Flea Circus.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Super Snooper	Daws Butler
Blabber Mouse	Daws Butler
Karl Von Scratchem Bach	Don Messick
Little Rudolf	Don Messick
Dogs	N/A
Cop	Daws Butler
Monkey	N/A
Lion	Don Messick

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Mammoth Flea Circus
    • Dog pound
    • Zoo
  • France (indirectly mentioned)
    • Paris (mentioned)
  • Germany (indirectly mentioned)
    • Berlin (mentioned)
  • England (indirectly mentioned)
    • London (mentioned)

Vehicles

• Snooper's car

Music

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

Crew credits

• Production supervisor: Howard Hanson
• Animator: Carlo Vinci
• Layout artist: Dick Bickenbach
• Background artist: Fernando Montealegre
• Titles artist: Art Goble
• Story sketch artist: Dan Gordon

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: Week of December 7, 1959 in syndication

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

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