The Quick Draw McGraw Show
The Quick Draw McGraw Show is an American animated cartoon television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and their third television series overall after The Ruff and Reddy Show and The Huckleberry Hound Show. Voice actor Daws Butler performed the show's title character, Quick Draw McGraw.
The show debuted in syndication on September 28, 1959, ending its run on October 20, 1961, and was sponsored by Kellogg's. The series featured three cartoons per episode, with Quick Draw and his sidekick Baba Looey appearing in the first segment, father and son dog duo Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy in the second, and cat and mouse detectives Snooper and Blabber in the third. There were also "bumpers," mini-cartoons between the main cartoons that featured Quick Draw and other main characters on the show.
Michael Maltese wrote the stories of all the episodes. Screen Gems, the television division at the time of Columbia Pictures, originally syndicated the series. It ran on Saturday mornings on CBS for three seasons, 1963-66.
Segments
Quick Draw McGraw
Quick Draw was usually depicted as a sheriff in these short films set in the American Old West. Quick Draw was often accompanied by his deputy, a Mexican burro called Baba Looey. Although technically the sidekick, or deputy, to the main character of Sheriff Quick Draw, Baba Looey is often portrayed as the more thoughtful half of the duo; at times realizing some detail about a given situation and trying desperately without success to caution Quick Draw of a trap or other danger. The exchange would always go as follows: Baba Looey would see a fatal flaw in Quick Draw's plan, and begin voicing a warning such as "I don' thin' we should be doing...", to which Quick Draw would angrily interrupt with his frequent catchphrase, "I'll do the 'thin'in' around here and don't you forget it!" His plans would then go disastrously wrong, and Quick Draw would be forced to realize he should have listened to Baba Looey.Quick Draw was assisted in some cartoons by his bloodhound Snuffles, who refused to work until he was given a dog biscuit, after which he would hug himself and spring into the air, floating back down to Earth.
Quick Draw spent a number of cartoons as his alter ego, the masked El Kabong, who used a guitar to bash bad guys into submission. Writer Michael Maltese said the character was inspired by actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as Zorro.
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
A young dog named Augie Doggie and his father Doggie Daddy have different misadventures in their life.Snooper and Blabber
A detective cat named Super Snooper and his sidekick Blabber Mouse work for the Super Snooper Detective Agency solving mysteries and catching criminals. In several cartoons, the duo had a private secretary named Hazel, who was never seen on screen.Voice cast
- Daws Butler – Quick Draw McGraw, Baba Looey, Augie Doggie, Super Snooper, Blabber Mouse, Snagglepuss, Snuffles, Narrator, Various
- Doug Young – Doggie Daddy, Bigelow Mouse, Horse Face Harry, Narrator, Various
- Elliot Field – Blabber Mouse, Narrator, Various
- Don Messick – Narrator, Horse Face Harry, Various
Additional Voices
- Julie Bennett – Sagebrush Sal, Gisele
- Red Coffey – Duckling
- Vance Colvig – Tombstone Jones, Narrator
- Peter Leeds – Narrator
- Hal Smith – Narrator, Various
- Jean Vander Pyl – Hazel, Mrs. J. Evil Scientist, Various
- Penny Singleton - Witch, Peggy Poodle
- Alan Reed - Various
- Bea Benaderet - Various
- Dick Beals - Various
- Mel Blanc - Various
- Nancy Russell - Various
- Paul Frees - Various
- Paula Winslowe - Various