The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show is an hour-long Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1965 to 1967 for NBC.[1]

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
Photo of Bill Hanna (right) and Joseph Barbera (left) from a television special for the premiere of their new Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant television program.
GenreComedy
Adventure
Written byTony Benedict
Dalton Sandifer
Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Voices ofDon Messick
Howard Morris
Janet Waldo
Henry Corden
Jean Vander Pyl
Paul Frees
Mel Blanc
John Stephenson
ComposersWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Ted Nichols
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes52
Production
Executive producersWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time30 minutes
Production companyHanna-Barbera Productions
DistributorScreen Gems
Release
Original networkNBC
Original releaseSeptember 9, 1965 (1965-09-09) –
September 7, 1967 (1967-09-07)

In fall 1965, the show aired as two independent half-hour programs. The Atom Ant Show featured the tiny superhero Atom Ant, with additional segments Precious Pupp and The Hillbilly Bears. The Secret Squirrel Show featured the master spy Secret Squirrel, backed up with Squiddly Diddly and Winsome Witch.[2] In the winter, the shows combine into an hour-long format, The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show. For the series' final NBC run under the Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel title, the show was one half-hour long.[3]

Production

On September 12, 1965, the series had an hour-long primetime preview on NBC called The World of Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant.[4]

The Hillbilly Bears cartoon segments were later repeated during the second season of The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1969–1970), and all 52 Atom Ant and Secret Squirrel half-hours were syndicated as part of The Banana Splits and Friends Show, an umbrella title for a package combining episodes of several different Hanna-Barbera series (the other series included The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Gulliver).

Segments

The program contained six segments:

See also

References
  1. Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 46–48. ISBN 978-1538103739.
  2. Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 99–100. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  3. Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. pp. 27–29. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  4. Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
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