Huckleberry Hound: Season 02 Plot Summary and Details

Entering its second season as one of the most popular TV series in off-network syndication (beaten only by the live-action Sea Hunt), Hanna-Barbera's The Huckleberry Hound Show boasts better animation and sharper writing than ever before in the 13 new episodes produced for the year. As before, each half-hour show consists of three separate cartoon components, respectively starring Southern-fried "everydog" Huckleberry Hound, the "smarter than av-er-age" Yogi Bear, and the cat-mouse combo of Mr. Jinks and Pixie & Dixie. This year, all of these characters would appear for a curtain call in the closing credit sequence, replacing the advertising icons of series sponsor Kellogg's Cereals. This season's "Huckleberry Hound" offerings includes such gems as "Piccadilly Dilly", a wild and wooly spoof of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Of the "Yogi Bear" shorts, the best of the batch is "Snow White Bear", a witty skewering of the cutesy-wootsy Walt Disney offerings of the era (one of the Seven Dwarfs identifies himself with a proud "I'm 'Stupid'!") And let's not forget the "Pixie and Dixie" cartoon "Heavens to Jinksy", in which Mr. Jinks must stop being nasty to mice lest he never be allowed entrance in the Kingdom of Heaven--a limitation he immediately forsakes when he realizes that he's got nine lives! When Hanna-Barbera mounted its ad campaign for Huckleberry Hound in the fall of 1960, the producers never let the opportunity pass to inform local stations that the series was the first cartoon show to win an Emmy--in the "Best Children's Program" category. This in itself was good for a laugh, since it was well established that at least a third of Huckleberry Hound's audience consisted of adults!