Huckleberry Hound Booby

Published February 29, 2012 • Updated July 22, 2022

Tower Press “Huckleberry Hound Booby” No 6648, c.1962.

Tower Press “Huckleberry Hound Booby” No 6648, c.1962. The Huckleberry Hound Show began in 1958 and ended in 1962. This is the final series of the Tower games just before Waddingtons took Tower Press over. See the Rules►

Above: Tower Press “Huckleberry Hound Booby” No 6648, c.1962. The makers of the TV show were the Hanna-Barbera partners and Screen Gems were the distributers for Colombia pictures.

The show format was a series of separate adventures of characters who only met in the opening title sequence and not in the actual stories. The leading character, Huckleberry Hound, was a slow talking blue bloodhound with a Southern drawl. Daws Butler was the Actor who provided his voice amongst other characters in the cast. Other Regulars were Pixie and Dixie, a pair of mice, Mr Jinks, a cool cat, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo, naughty bears from Jellystone Park. Yogi persistently seeking to acquire the “Pik-a-Nik” Baskets belonging to the tourists visiting the park declaring himself to be “smarter than the average bear” but invariably thwarted by fortune or the park Ranger. Also appearing were Ding-a-Ling a fox and from 1960, Hokey Wolf who replaced Yogi Bear when he was set up with his own show.

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By Rex Pitts (1940-2021)

United Kingdom • Member since January 30, 2009

Rex's main interest was in card games, because, he said, they were cheap and easy to get hold of in his early days of collecting. He is well known for his extensive knowledge of Pepys games and his book is on the bookshelves of many. His other interest was non-standard playing cards. He also had collections of sheet music, music CDs, models of London buses, London Transport timetables and maps and other objects that intrigued him.

Rex had a chequered career at school. He was expelled twice, on one occasion for smoking! Despite this he trained as a radio engineer and worked for the BBC in the World Service. Later he moved into sales and worked for a firm that made all kinds of packaging, a job he enjoyed until his retirement. He became an expert on boxes and would always investigate those that held his cards. He could always recognize a box made for Pepys, which were the same as those of Alf Cooke’s Universal Playing Card Company, who printed the card games. This interest changed into an ability to make and mend boxes, which he did with great dexterity. He loved this kind of handicraft work.

His dexterity of hand and eye soon led to his making card games of his own design. He spent hours and hours carefully cutting them out and colouring them by hand.