Yogi's Gang
Yogi's Gang is an American Saturday-morning cartoon, and the second incarnation of the Yogi Bear franchise, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which aired for 16 half-hour episodes on ABC from, to. The show began as Yogi's Ark Lark, a special TV movie on The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie in 1972. Fifteen original episodes were produced for broadcast on ABC, with the hour-long Yogi's Ark Lark thrown in as a split-in-half two-parter. The show confronted social and cultural issues like ecology and bigotry, with villains named Mr. Waste, Dr. Bigot, the Envy Brothers, Lotta Litter, the Greedy Genie and Mr. Cheater.
After a successful run on Saturday mornings, episodes of Yogi's Gang were serialized on the syndicated weekday series, Fred Flintstone and Friends in 1977–78. In the late 1980s, repeats were shown on USA Cartoon Express and later resurfaced on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. As of June 2024, the series is included as part of MeTV Toons' lineup.
Yogi's Gang is the only Yogi Bear show to have a laugh track.
Plot
Yogi, Quick Draw, Huck and the rest of the gang encounter a variety of villains such as Captain Swashbuckle Swipe, Smokestack Smog, Lotta Litter, the Envy Brothers, Mr. Hothead, Dr. Bigot, the Gossipy Witch of the West, J. Wantum Vandal, the Sheik of Selfishness, Commodore Phineas P. Fibber, I.M. Sloppy, Peter D. Cheater, Mr. Waste, Hilarious P. Prankster, and the Greedy Genie, who act as their friends, hosts and/or guests, but embody some of the most common human faults and vices. Yogi and crew would often put up with them which ends with the villains either being repelled or outdone by their actions.Characters
- Atom Ant
- Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
- The Hillbilly Bears
- Hokey Wolf and Ding-A-Ling Wolf
- Huckleberry Hound
- Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har
- Magilla Gorilla
- Peter Potamus and So-So
- Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks
- Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse
- Quick Draw McGraw & Baba Looey
- Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long
- Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
- Snagglepuss
- Snooper and Blabber
- Squiddly Diddly
- Touché Turtle and Dum Dum
- Wally Gator
- Yakky Doodle
- Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo Bear
Voice cast
- Daws Butler – Yogi Bear, Augie Doggie, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator, Peter Potamus, Baba Looey, Lippy the Lion, Hokey Wolf, Tantrum
- Henry Corden – Paw Rugg, Dr. Bigot, Chief Ranger Short, Mr. Waste, Tex Jackson
- Allan Melvin – Magilla Gorilla, Haggling, Vic Vagabond, I.M. Sloppy/Mr. Neat
- Don Messick – Boo-Boo Bear, Squiddly Diddly, Touché Turtle, Atom Ant, Ranger Smith, Billy Bindlestiff, Messy Mayans, Mayor of Smog City, Narrator, Police Officer, Temper
- John Stephenson – Doggie Daddy, Hardy Har Har, Mr. Cheerful, Bickering, Greedy Genie, Butler, Hilarious P. Prankster, Ark-o-Beak Bird, Postal Pelican, Mr. Waste's Parrot, Professor Woodstock, P.T. Barnswallow, The Great Zucchini, Envy Brother #2, Fumbo Jumbo the Masked Avenger, Mr. Hothead
- Jean Vander Pyl – Maw Rugg
Additional voices
- Josh Albee - Freddy, Jimmy
- Julie Bennett – Cindy Bear
- Tom Bosley – Commadore Phineas P. Fibber
- Walker Edmiston –
- Virginia Gregg – Gossipy Witch of the West
- Jim MacGeorge –
- Rose Marie – Lotta Litter
- Hal Smith – Smiley the Hobo, J. Wanton Vandal
- Lennie Weinrib – Smokestack Smog
- Jesse White – Peter D. Cheater
- Paul Winchell – Sheik of Selfishness