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Precious Pupp DVD (1965)
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In the mid-1960s and earlier, the average half-hour Hanna-Barbera cartoon had two back-up series to go with each title character. When they launched Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel in an hour-long show with two title characters, it was necessary to come up with no less than four second bananas. Fortunately, they had a tried and true method of generating such characters — swiping them from TV shows (e.g., turning Sgt. Bilko into Top Cat), comic strips (Blondie transferred into the future as The Jetsons), other studios Humphrey Bear into Yogi Bear) or even themselves (Yogi Bear into Magilla Gorilla). One of the four, Precious Pupp, was highly reminiscent of Warner Bros.' Tweety Bird. The hour's main stars debuted in a half-hour special, while the four lesser stars (besides Precious, they were Winsome Witch, Hillbilly Bears and Squiddly Diddly) debuted with the regular show, on Oct. 2, 1965. Precious's voice was done by Don Messick, whom the studio generally relied on for non-anthromorphic animals such as Kaboobie the Camel and Sebastian the Cat. For Precious, Messick did a kind of wheezy snicker, which he drew on later for Muttley and still later for Mumbly. His co-star, Granny Sweet, who corresponded to Warner's Granny character, was voiced by Janet Waldo (Penelope Pitstop, Lana Lang in Filmation's version of Superman).
Episode List
Precious Jewels
Doggone Dognapper
Bites and Gripes
Queen of the Road
Crook Out Cook Out
Next of Kin
Bowling Pinned
Poodle Pandemonium
Dog Tracks
Sub-Marooned
Lady Bugged
Test in the West
Bones And Groans
Girl Whirl
Butterfly Nut
Precious Bone
The Bird Watcher
Dog Trained
Oliver Twisted
Pup, Skip and Jump
A Grapple for the Teacher
Pot-Time Work
A Fiend In Need
Ski Sickness
Mascot Massacre
A.M. Mayhem
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