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 composition | 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 departed from the CB Bears series.
Production
Development
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.
Episodes
| Episode | Original air date |
|---|---|
| 1x01 | September 10, 1977 |
| 1x02 | September 17, 1977 |
| 1x03 | September 24, 1977 |
| 1x04 | October 1, 1977 |
| 1x05 | October 8, 1977 |
| 1x06 | October 15, 1977 |
| 1x07 | October 22, 1977 |
| 1x08 | October 29, 1977 |
| 1x09 | November 5, 1977 |
| 1x10 | November 12, 1977 |
| 1x11 | November 19, 1977 |
| 1x12 | November 26, 1977 |
| 1x13 | December 3, 1977 |
Cast
Legacy
Undercover Elephant would later go on to star in a few episodes of the 1980s TV series Yogi's Treasure Hunt.
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."
