Undercover Elephant (segments)

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This article is about the segments. For the main title character, see Undercover Elephant.
Undercover Elephant
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The style of each episode's title card.
Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Original release September 10December 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

In the unaired ToonHeads special, "The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever," the shorts were criticized for being a "poor imitation" of Secret Squirrel.

References