Undercover Elephant
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- This article is about the segments. For the main title character, see Undercover Elephant (character).
| Undercover Elephant | |
|---|---|
 The style of each episode's title card. | |
| Network | NBC |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera |
| Original release | September 10—December 3, 1977 |
| Starring | Daws Butler Bob Hastings Micheal Bell |
| Producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
| Writer(s) | Bill Ackerman Haskell Barkin Barry Blitzer Tom Dagenais Karl Geurs Orville Hampton Don Jurwich Jon Kubichan Joan Maurer Ray Parker Howard Post Dick Robbins Jerry Winnick |
| Director(s) | Charles A. Nichols |
Undercover Elephant is a series of animated segments as part of the CB Bears, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for NBC's Saturday morning children's programming debuting. It ran in 1977, airing 13 episodes that spanned one season.
The segments were later included as part of Heyyy, It's the King!, after it was departed from the CB Bears series.
Undercover Elephant would later go on to star in a few episodes of Yogi's Treasure Hunt.
Production
Development
Music
Episodes
| Episode | Number | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
| "The Sneaky Sheik" | 1x01 | September 10, 1977 |
| "Baron Von Rippemoff" | 1x02 | September 17, 1977 |
| "The Moanin' Lisa" | 1x03 | September 24, 1977 |
| "Pain in the Brain" | 1x04 | October 1, 1977 |
| "The Great Hospital Hassle" | 1x05 | October 8, 1977 |
| "Latin Losers" | 1x06 | October 15, 1977 |
| "Dr. Doom's Gloom" | 1x07 | October 22, 1977 |
| "Chicken Flickin' Capon Caper" | 1x08 | October 29, 1977 |
| "Undercover Around the World" | 1x09 | November 5, 1977 |
| "Irate Pirates" | 1x10 | November 12, 1977 |
| "Perilous Pigskin" | 1x11 | November 19, 1977 |
| "Swami Whammy" | 1x12 | November 26, 1977 |
| "The Disappearing Duchess" | 1x13 | December 3, 1977 |
Cast
In other languages
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Brazilian | Elefantástico |
| French | Balour et Balu |
| Spanish | Elefagente Secreto |
| Italian | Poffy l'elefante col cappello |
Critical reception
The shorts weren't that successful, and in the unaired ToonHeads special, "The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever," the shorts were criticized for being a "poor imitation of Secret Squirrel."
