The Great Grape Ape Show

The Great Grape Ape Show
On-screen title card.
Network	ABC
Production company	Hanna-Barbera
Original release	September 6 – December 13, 1975
Run time	30 minutes
Starring	Bob Holt Marty Ingels
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Tom Dagenais Joel Kane Jack Mendelsohn Ray Parker Duane Poole Dick Robbins
Director(s)	Charles A. Nichols

The Great Grape Ape Show is an animated American television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for ABC's Saturday morning children's programming. It ran in 1975 airing 16 episodes that spanned one season.

The show was also featured as a segment of The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show.

The series followed around a 40 foot tall, purple-furred gorilla named Grape Ape, as he goes on various misadventures with his best friend, Beegle Beagle.

While the entire series is not available for home video, it is available for purchase in some places such as YouTube and Microsoft.

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Episodes

Episode	Original air date
1x01 "That Was No Idol, That Was My Ape" "The All-American Ape"	September 6, 1975
1x02 "Movie Madness" "Trouble at Bad Rock"	September 13, 1975
1x03 "Flying Saucery" "There's No Feud Like an Old Feud"	September 20, 1975
1x04 "The Grape Race" "The Big Parade"	September 27, 1975
1x05 "A Knight to Remember" "S.P.L.A.T."	October 4, 1975
1x06 "G.I. Ape" "The Purple Avenger"	October 11, 1975
1x07 "Grapefinger" "Return to Balaboomba"	October 18, 1975
1x08 "Amazon Ape" "Grape Marks the Spot"	October 25, 1975
1x09 "The Invisible Ape" "Public Grape No. 1"	November 1, 1975
1x10 "The Incredible Shrinking Grape" "What's a Nice Prince Like You Doing in a Duck Like That?"	November 8, 1975
1x11 "Who's New at the Zoo" "The Indian Grape Call"	November 15, 1975
1x12 "A Grape is Born" "The First Grape in Space"	November 22, 1975
1x13 "S.P.L.A.T.'s Back"	November 27, 1975
1x14 "To Sleep or Not to Sleep" "Olympic Grape"	November 29, 1975
1x15 "Ali Beagle and the 40 Grapes" "Grape Five-O"	December 6, 1975
1x16 "The Purple Avenger Strikes Again" "The Grape Connection"	December 13, 1975

Cast

• Bob Holt as Grape Ape
• Marty Ingels as Beegle Beagle

Legacy

Grape Ape appears in the 2000s Jellystone! reboot. In this series, he is child-like and voiced by series creator, C.H. Greenblatt.

In popular culture

• In the Robot Chicken skit "Hear the G" segment of the episode "I'm Trapped", Grape Ape is seen dead with police officers surrounding his body, once they checked his ID, they realized they didn't hear the "G" in his name which explains why they shot him.
• In the Family Guy episode "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q.," a forged letter mentions Grape Ape.

In other languages

Language	Name
Brazilian	João Grandão
French	Momo et Ursul
Italian	Il Gorilla Lilla
Japanese	ジャンボゴリラの大冒険 (Jumbo Gorilla's Big Adventure)
Spanish	El show de Simiolón