Animation ; the use of the Hanna-Barbera name ceased with William Hanna's death in 2001.

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was one of the first two Hanna-Barbera productions in 1968 in which William Hanna and Joseph Barbera received executive producer credits ; the other being The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn where Edward Rosen served as producer on both series.

* 22 – William Hanna, 90, American animator, co-founder ( with Joseph Barbera ) of the Hanna-Barbera animation studio, throat cancer.

( Coincidentally, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera headed the MGM cartoon studio on the Tom and Jerry anthology before opening Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1957.

Loopy De Loop was the only theatrical cartoon short series produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera after leaving MGM and opening their new Hanna-Barbera Studios.

Many of the original stars reprised their film roles including Christopher Lloyd and Thomas F. Wilson in Back to the Future: The Ride, Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt in Twister ... Ride it Out, Rip Torn and Will Smith in Men in Black: Alien Attack, Brendan Fraser for Revenge of the Mummy: The Ride, Christopher Walken and Dwayne Johnson in Disaster !, the cast from Shrek returned for Shrek 4-D, various Nicktoons voice actors reprised their roles in Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast, Roy Scheider recorded a voice over for the conclusion of Jaws, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera made appearances in The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera while Hanna-Barbera voice actors reprised their roles in the same ride, Alfred Hitchcock and Anthony Perkins appeared in Alfred Hitchcock: The Art of Making Movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong and Linda Hamilton reprised their roles for Terminator 2: 3-D Battle Across Time even Charlton Heston made an appearance in the pre-show for Earthquake: The Big One and Steve Carell, Miranda Cosgrove, Dana Gaier, and Elsie Fisher reprised there rolls from Despicable Me for Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem.

* William Denby Hanna, cartoon film producer, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions ( now known as Cartoon Network Studios ).

Hanna-Barbera founder and animator William Hanna was in charge of the film's production.

For a list of Hanna-Barbera TV shows released in DVD season sets, see List of Hanna – Barbera TV shows on DVD.

Most Hanna-Barbera series through 1985 had original theme music by Hoyt Curtin, with lyrics ( when used ) by Hanna and Barbera themselves.

Hanna and Barbera established their own television animation studio, Hanna-Barbera Productions, in 1957, which went on to produce famous TV shows and movies.

After MGM closed its animation studio in 1957, Sidney helped Hanna and Barbera form a deal with Screen Gems, the television division of Columbia Pictures, to form the successful television animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions, for which Sidney served as President / CEO for ten years, and was the majority shareholder in the company.

" Because of her dancing, her face, and her figure, she was ultimately voted one of the 10 Best Undressed Burlesque Dancers of the 20th Century by Bill Hanna of Hanna-Barbera.

The studio was shut down in 1957, and Hanna and Barbera would move on to television animation production success with their own Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Twenty-one half-hour episodes were produced by Ruby-Spears Productions, an animation house formed by former Hanna-Barbera head writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, from October 1980 to September 1982, when the show went off the air.

* Joe Barbera, animator and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions

Joe Barbera wrote in his autobiography, My Life in ' Toons, that the original name for the series was to be " The Banana Bunch ", but Hanna-Barbera was forced to change it after the author of a children's book by that name refused permission to use the title.

Other greats of the field have included Jimmy MacDonald of the Walt Disney Studios, Greg Watson and Don Douglas at Hanna-Barbera, and Joe Siracusa of UPA and various TV cartoon studios.

Hanna-Barbera Productions produced an animated series Jeannie from September 1973 to 1975, which featured Jeannie ( voiced by Julie McWhirter ) and genie-in-training Babu ( voiced by former Three Stooges star Joe Besser ) as the servants of Corry Anders, a high-school student ( voiced by Mark Hamill ).

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels is an animated series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from September 10, 1977 to June 21, 1980 on ABC.

Jabberjaw is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired from September 11, 1976 to September 3, 1978 on ABC.

* Joseph Barbera: ( 1911-2006 ) American animator, co-founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions

As is the standard for former Hanna-Barbera properties, Hanna-Barbera is still credited as the copyright owner, and Joseph Barbera served as an executive producer.

Coincidentally, Takomoto died exactly three weeks after Hanna-Barbera co-founder Joseph Barbera.

* Joseph Barbera, animator, artist, and co-founder of Hanna-Barbera

Joseph Barbera, one half of the legendary cartoon-creating duo Hanna-Barbera, served as executive producer for this movie.

By 1996, each TV series from the studio typically had its own set of sound effects, including some selected from the classic Hanna-Barbera sound library, as well as some new ones and various sounds from Disney and Warner Bros. cartoons ( this was especially true of Dexter's Laboratory and Cow and Chicken ).

His clientele, as well as most of the other characters on the show, are made up entirely of old Hanna-Barbera characters.

The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is a 1988 animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera starring Martin Short's Ed Grimley as well as other characters and actors from Second City's SCTV.

" Brutus " ( often pronounced " Brutusk " by Popeye ) appears in the 1960 – 1962 Popeye television cartoons ( with his physical appearance changed, making him morbidly obese rather than muscular ), but he is again " Bluto " ( and back to his original muscular physique ) in the 1978 Hanna-Barbera Popeye series and the 1980 live-action Popeye movie, as well as the 1987 Popeye and Son series also by Hanna-Barbera.

Four other Hanna-Barbera series ( originally unrelated to The Banana Splits, apart from having been produced by the same studio ) were folded into the syndicated series as well: Atom Ant ( 26 half-hours, also featuring Precious Pupp and the aforementioned Hillbilly Bears ), Secret Squirrel ( 26 half-hours, also featuring Squiddly Diddly and Winsome Witch ), The Adventures of Gulliver ( 17 half-hours ), as well as The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 20 half-hours, originally seen in prime time and here introduced as The Adventures Of Huck Finn ) which combined live action with animation.

Peary went on to continue his career ( often billed as Hal Peary ) in films and television well into the 1970s ; he was especially active as a voice actor for cartoons produced by Rankin-Bass and Hanna-Barbera among others.

* Although WB owns the Super Friends cartoons and spin-offs produced by Hanna-Barbera as well as The Dukes, Turner never owned them-instead, these were always under WB control ( unlike the other H-B series now part of the WB library ).

Craig McCracken acquired an art director job at Hanna-Barbera for the show 2 Stupid Dogs and recommended hiring Robert Renzetti and Tartakovsky as well.

Don Messick had previously used Muttley's distinctive laugh for the character of Griswold in an episode of Top Cat, then for an embryonic version of Muttley ( called ' Mugger ') appearing in the 1964 movie Hey There, It's Yogi Bear, as well as for another Hanna-Barbera canine, Precious Pupp, in 1966.

In the American release of Pac-Land by Bally Midway, the characters ' appearances are based on the designs from the Pac-Man animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera ( which also plays the same music from the show ), to promote the animated series, as well as the video game series.

In 1993, Craig was tapped by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons to work as art director on 2 Stupid Dogs, as well as Tartakovsky's Dexter's Laboratory, both of which aired primarily on Cartoon Network in the United States.

The early art of the production for the Laff-a-Lympics showed Jeannie as well as Josie and the Pussycats as members of the " Scooby Doobies " team, but legal problems with Columbia Pictures Television, Screen Gems ' successor, prevented it ( Hanna-Barbera owned Babu, but Columbia controlled all rights to Jeannie's image ).

KBHK had a typical independent program schedule consisting of a morning and afternoon children's block ( which in the 1970s consisted mainly of off-network reruns of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, as well as the Famous Studios Popeye shorts, the classic Warner Bros. Cartoons, Dusty's Treehouse, New Zoo Revue, plus the Our Gang and Three Stooges shorts ), off-network sitcoms ( such as The Brady Bunch ), feature films, and public affairs programming.

* The Powerpuff Girls ( Hanna-Barbera / Cartoon Network Studios ): The episode " City of Clipsville " had a flashback that featured the girls, as well as the Rowdyruff Boys, as teenagers.

Gori did numerous voices for Hanna-Barbera, such as Rosemary the Telephone Operator in the 1974 cartoon, Hong Kong Phooey, Laurie in Inch High Private Eye, Katie in Valley of the Dinosaurs and Gidget in Gidget Makes the Wrong Connection, as well as additional voices on The New Tom and Jerry Show, and Depatie-Freleng's Bailey's Comets.

Hickman eventually became a television executive and an acting coach, as well as a voice actor for Hanna-Barbera Productions towards the end of a five-decade career in the entertainment industry.

The Hanna-Barbera feature production unit created to produce Once Upon a Forest, as well as Jetsons: The Movie which was released earlier and also carried an environmental theme, was spun off into another unit under parent company Turner Entertainment, Turner Feature Animation, which produced The Pagemaster and Cats Don't Dance.

The company was responsible for distributing the Screen Gems television output, as well as many of the post-1948 Bob Hope theatrical output, with the exception of Hanna-Barbera produced programs ( excluding Jeannie and Partridge Family 2200 A. D .), which were syndicated by Worldvision Enterprises and later by Turner Broadcasting.