The Volunteers

The Volunteers
The King introducing the Sergeant to Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey.
Premiere date	September 16, 1964
Run time	6:46
Starring	Doug Young Hal Smith Daws Butler Jean Vander Pyl
Writer(s)	Tony Benedict Warren Foster Dalton Sandifer
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"The Volunteers" is the first episode of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey season one. It aired as a segment of The Peter Potamus Show. It first aired on September 16, 1964 in first run syndication. It was written by Tony Benedict, Warren Foster and Dalton Sandifer, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey are trained by a sergeant to become soldiers, but their clumsiness becomes too much for the sergeant and eventually makes the King mad.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
The King	Hal Smith
Mrs. Rebel	Jean Vander Pyl
Yippee	Doug Young
Yappee	Hal Smith
Yahooey	Daws Butler
The Sergeant	Daws Butler
The Sergeant's mother

Locations

• Earth
  • Ye Royal Palace
  • Field

Objects

• Yippee, Yappee and Yahooeys' swords

Vehicles

• None

Music

• 0:00 - Main title theme (Hoyt Curtin).

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 16, 1964 in syndication

Behind the scenes

• Daws Butler used his Phil Silvers-based Hokey Wolf impression for the Sargent.

Everlasting influence

• In the Animal Follies book, there is a story based on this episode with the same name, which also reveals the sergeant's name to be Sergeant Barko.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • May 26, 2009: Warner Home Video releases Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 1.
  • November 1, 2016: Warner Archive Collection releases The Peter Potamus Show: The Complete Series on DVD.