The Quick Draw McGraw Show

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The Quick Draw McGraw Show
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On-screen title card.
Network Syndication
Production company Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release September 29, 1959–March 6, 1962
Starring Daws Butler
Doug Young
Producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Phil Green
Jack Shaindlin
Joe Cacciola
Writer(s) Joseph Barbera
Dan Gordon
Michael Maltese
Warren Foster
Alex Lovy
Director(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera

The Quick Draw McGraw Show is an American animated anthology television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for syndication. It ran from 1959 to 1962, airing 45 episodes that spanned three seasons.

The show debuted with segments, Quick Draw McGraw, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy and Snooper and Blabber.

The show was made after the success of The Huckleberry Hound Show a year prior.

The series has yet to have a complete series DVD release by Warner Archive Collection, although there were many attempts in the past to release the series, some of the music of Capitol, Hi-Q, who owned the rights from 1959 to 1960, is either missing or owned by someone who prevents its use.

Production

Development

Segments

Music

The theme and other musical cues were composed by Hoyt Curtin, with the rest of the music composed by Phil Green, Jack Shaindlin, and Joe Cacciola.

Theme Song Lyrics

Yipee yi-o ki-a

Galloping all the way

Great big star on his chest

Outdraws all of the rest

Fastest gun in the west

Yipee yi-o ki-a

Riding around your way

Here comes Quick Draw McGraw

The high-falutin'est

Fastest shootin'est

Cowboy you ever saw

That's Quick Draw McGraw

Episodes

Episode Original air date
1x01 Week of September 28, 1959
1x02 Week of October 5, 1959
1x03 Week of October 12, 1959
1x04 Week of October 19, 1959
1x05 Week of October 26, 1959
1x06 Week of November 2, 1959
1x07 Week of November 9, 1959
1x08 Week of November 16, 1959
1x09 Week of November 23, 1959
1x10 Week of November 30, 1959
1x11 Week of December 7, 1959
1x12 Week of December 14, 1959
1x13 Week of December 21, 1959
1x14 Week of December 28, 1959
1x15 Week of January 4, 1960
1x16 Week of January 11, 1960
1x17 Week of January 18, 1960
1x18 Week of January 25, 1960
1x19 Week of February 1, 1960
1x20 Week of February 8, 1960
1x21 Week of February 15, 1960
1x22 Week of February 22, 1960
1x23 Week of February 29, 1960
1x24 Week of March 7, 1960
1x25 Week of March 14, 1960
1x26 Week of March 21, 1960
2x01 Week of March 28, 1960
2x02 Unknown
2x03 Unknown
2x04 Unknown
2x05 Unknown
2x06 Unknown
2x07 Unknown
2x08 Unknown
2x09 1961
2x10 1961
2x11 Unknown
2x12 Unknown
2x13 Unknown
3x01 Unknown
3x02 Unknown
3x03 Week of February 4, 1962
3x04 Week of February 11, 1962
3x05 Week of March 11, 1962
3x06 Week of April 1, 1962

Cast

Legacy

Quick Draw, Baba Looey, Augie Doggie, Doggie Daddy, Snooper and Blabber would go on to make several appearances as either co-stars or guest stars in several subsequent crossover TV series and TV movies that followed in the decades to come from Hanna-Barbera right until the 1990s. Except for Snooper and Blabber, they also all guest starred in the 2000s spinoff parody series Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law on Adult Swim.

There have been several attempts to revive Quick Draw McGraw for a new audience but every attempt to do so has been shot down by either Hanna-Barbera or Warner Bros. Many of the projects included two films in the late 1980s; one that Tom Ruegger and John K. Ludin originally pitched, but Joseph Barbera wasn't interested and instead tasked them with an idea he had called The Good, the Bad, and the Huckleberry.[1] and another called Quickest Draw in the West, that never made it past the concept art,[2] and during the early 2010s, a spaghetti western series made by Book of Life and El Tigre creator Jorge R. Gutiérrez.[3]

Every character in the series with the exception of Snuffles, appear in the 2021 HBO Max original series Jellystone!, with Quick Draw only being in his El Kabong guise, and female versions of Snooper, Baba Looey, and Augie.

In popular culture

  • In "Episode 18" (series 7) of the UK BBC One Pointless game show, the first round of questions that fell into the "Cartoon" category is Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. The contestants have to be able to pick out all the obscure characters that 100 anonymous public people had been able to guess. None of the contestants picked Doggie Daddy, who cohost Richard Osman pointed out had starred in Quick Draw McGraw.

References

  1. ^ Ruegger, Tom (January 23, 2011). "'The Good, the Bad, and the Huckleberry' -- starring Daws Butler". Cartoonatics. Retrieved October 6, 2022.
  2. ^ (June 19, 2020). "Quickest Draw in the West Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Louie Pitch Art Cel (Hanna-Barbera, 1989)". Comics Heritage Auction. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  3. ^ Gutierrez, Jorge R. (August 29, 2019). "Long time ago when I was working on the MAD cartoon, I pitched WB a super violent Spaghetti Western starring Quick Draw and Baba Looey. I wonder why it didn't go anywhere?". Twitter. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
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