Yo Ho Ho

Yo Ho Ho
Premiere date	September 10, 1966
Starring	Paul Frees John Stephenson
Music composed by	Ted Nichols
Writer(s)	Tony Benedict Dalton Sandifer
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"Yo Ho Ho" is the first episode of Squiddly Diddly season two, and the twenty-first overall, which came as a segment of The Secret Squirrel Show. It aired on September 10, 1966 on NBC. It was written by Tony Benedict and Dalton Sandifer, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera.

Squiddly finds a time machine that takes him back to the pirate days of Captain Kidney, who forces Squiddly to help him bury his treasure.

Memorable quotes

Squiddly: Why couldn't I have been born rich, instead of good-looking?

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Squiddly Diddly	Paul Frees
Chief Winchley	John Stephenson
Captain Kidney	Unavailable
Overboard pirate	Unavailable
Lion	Unavailable

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Bubbleland

Objects

• Time machine

Vehicles

• Moving van
• Pirate ship

Music

• 0:00 - Main title theme (Ted Nichols)

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: February 12, 1966 on NBC

Errors

• Being a squid, why does Squiddly need to use a rowboat to get back to the ship?
• When Squiddly reacts to hearing Kidney's voice at Bubbleland, the sclera in his eyes turns purple.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
French	Le Pirate	The Pirate
Portuguese	Cachorrada Marinha	Puppy Marine

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 3, 2015: Warner Archive Collection releases The Secret Squirrel Show: The Complete Series on DVD.