Yogi's Treasure Hunt

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Yogi's Treasure Hunt

On-screen title card.
Network Syndication
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Distributor Worldvision Enterprises
Original release September 6, 1985March 25, 1988
Run time 19 minutes
Starring Daws Butler
Don Messick
Paul Winchell
Arnold Stang
Jimmy Weldon
John Stephenson
Julie Bennett
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Bob Hathcock
Charles Grosvenor
Jeff Hall
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Tom Ruegger
John K. Ludin
Director(s) Ray Patterson
Oscar Dufau
Bill Hutten
Tony Love
Alan Zaslove
Rudy Zamora
Don Lusk
Carl Urbano
Art Davis
Charlie Downs
Paul Sommer
Bob Alvarez
Bob Goe
Bill Hutton
Rick Leon
Tony Love
Tim Walker
Irv Spence
Gordon Hunt (voice director)
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Yogi's Treasure Hunt is an American adventure/comedy animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, airing in syndication on stations that took part in The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera programming block. It ran from 1985 to 1988, airing 27 episodes that spanned three seasons. It was the fifth Yogi Bear series after The Yogi Bear Show, which ran from 1960 to 1961.

On behalf of the President of the United States, Top Cat sends Yogi and a crew on special missions to retrieve rare and invaluable items around the world, before Dick Dastardly and Muttley can claim them for themselves.

Throughout the series, various guest stars would recurrently make appearances, such as Hokey Wolf, Mr. Jinks, Yakky Doodle, Cindy Bear, Baba Looey, Undercover Elephant and Wally Gator.

Production

Development

It was originally called Funtastic Treasure Hunt. Mark Evanier was the first writer hired, and even voluntarily had a pay cut to work on it because of his love of the characters and voice actor Daws Butler, but left when he ended up butting heads with Joseph Barbera, who had decided to become more involved and disagreed with all that Evanier had been doing, which eventually made him quit the studio altogether, although he remained on good terms with Barbera. One episode Evanier wrote was called "The Neil Diamond." Evanier was replaced with Tom Ruegger.[1]

Circa 1987, Ruegger, John Ludin, Scott Jeralds, and Alfred Gimeno developed the series bible for a potential spin-off called The Trio of Triumph, starring the Trio of Triumph, made up of Huckle Hero, Ram-Boo-Boo, and El Kabong.[2]

Music

The theme song was performed by Sha Na Na's Jon Bauman. The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin, with musical supervision from Paul DeKorte.

Theme Song Lyrics

Yogi: Hey, kids, it's Yogi's Treasure Hunt!

Fun fun fun fun-tastic!

Fun-tastic!
Fun-tastic!

Now you're gonna get a riddle.
Gonna get a clue.
Wanna know where the treasure is?
The answer's up to you!

Looking for adventure?
Looking for some fun?
The gang is ready, so get on board
We're gonna take a trip!

Looking for a treasure in the strangest places!
Riddles and mysteries funtastic!

Gonna get a riddle, gonna get a clue.
Put it all together, it's up to you

Fun-tastic treasure hunt!

It's fun fun fun fuuun-tastic!

Episodes

Episode Original air date
1x01 September 6, 1985
1x02 September 13, 1985
1x03 September 20, 1985
1x04 September 27, 1985
1x05 October 4, 1985
1x06 October 11, 1985
1x07 October 18, 1985
1x08 October 25, 1985
1x09 November 1, 1985
1x10 November 8, 1985
2x01 November 7, 1986
2x02 November 14, 1986
2x03 November 21, 1986
2x04 December 5, 1986
2x05 December 12, 1986
2x06 January 2, 1987
2x07 January 9, 1987
2x08 January 16, 1987
3x01 November 6, 1987
3x02 November 13, 1987
3x03 November 20, 1987
3x04 December 4, 1987
3x05 December 11, 1987
3x06 February 5, 1988
3x07 February 12, 1988
3x08 February 19, 1988
3x09 March 25, 1988

Release

Dates are in order of release:

Cast

Legacy

In 1998, DC Comics featured the series as two story segments, under its original Funtastic Treasure Hunt title, in Cartoon Network Presents #18.

The series partially inspired the Jellystone! episode "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Rat Race," which aired on Max in 2022.

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