Yogi Bear Snap
Yogi Bear Snap No.6647 “Smarter than the average bear” c 1962.
“Smarter than the average bear”
Yogi Bear Snap No.6647, c 1962. Yogi Bear first appeared in “The Huckleberry Hound Show” a cartoon series made for TV by Hanna-Barbera which ran from 1958 to 1962. The show was distributed by Screen Gems part of the TV arm of Colombia Pictures and sponsored by Kelloggs. Yogi was so Popular that he was given his own show from 1960 to 1962 and was replaced on the “Huckleberry Hound Show” by a new character, Hokey Wolf.
Yogi had a companion called Boo Boo, a much younger Bear, and Yogi was always showing off to him by devising new schemes to steal picnic (“Pic-A-Nic”) baskets from the tourists in Jellystone Park where they lived. Sometimes Yogi was thwarted by the park Ranger John Smith, but occasionally he was successful, proving to Boo Boo That he was “smarter than the average bear”
Above: “Yogi Bear Snap” No.6647, c 1962.
Other characters from “the Huckleberry Hound Show” appear on these cards – Mr Jinks (a beatnik cat) and Pixie and Dixie, mice (known as “meeces”) together with at least one from “The Yogi Bear Show”, Yakky Doodle, a miniature duck who was ably protected by Chopper the bulldog who called him his “little fella”. Yogi’s voice was provided by Daws Butler who also voiced Huckleberry Hound, Snagglepuss and Dixie one of the meeces. Much later, in 1988, more programmes were compiled using the stories from the original shows.
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.
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