Yogi's Space Race

Infobox Television
show_name = Yogi's Space Race


caption = "Star Wars"-inspired title card for "Yogi's Space Race"
genre = Animation
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runtime = 90 minutes
creator =
director = Ray Patterson
Carl Urbano
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executive_producer = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
starring =
voices = Daws Butler
Joe Besser
Mel Blanc
Pat Parris
Marilyn Schrefler
Frank Welker
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country = flagcountry|USA
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language = English
network = NBC
first_aired = September 9, 1978
last_aired = September 1, 1979
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num_episodes = 13
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preceded_by = "Yogi's Gang" (1973-1975)
followed_by = "Galaxy Goof-Ups" (1978-1979)
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imdb_id = 0177468
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"Yogi's Space Race" was a 90-minute Saturday morning cartoon program block produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from September 9, 1978 to September 1, 1979 for NBC. It contained the following four segments:

* "Yogi's Space Race": intergalactic racing competitions with Yogi Bear, Jabberjaw, Huckleberry Hound and several new characters.
* "Galaxy Goof-Ups": Yogi Bear, Scare Bear, Huckleberry Hound and Quack-Up as four intergalactic police officers and their leader, Captain Snerdley.
* "Buford and the Galloping Ghost", featuring:
** "The Buford Files": a lazy bloodhound named Buford who solves mysteries in Fenokee County with two teenagers, Cindy Mae and Woody.
** "The Galloping Ghost": Nugget Nose is a ghost miner who haunts the Fuddy Dude Ranch and is a guardian to Wendy and Rita.

When "Galaxy Goof-Ups" was given its own half-hour timeslot on November 4, 1978, "Yogi's Space Race" was reduced to 60 minutes; in early 1979, the "Space Race" segment and "Buford and the Galloping Ghost" were also spun-off in their own half-hour series until September 1979.

Characters

* Yogi Bear and Scare Bear: While Yogi remains unchanged save for the change in setting, his regular sidekick Boo Boo does not appear. Instead, his partner is Scare Bear, a small bear who is afraid of almost everything. Yogi and Scare are a racing team on "Space Race" and members of the "Galaxy Goof-Ups".

* Huckleberry Hound and Quack-Up: Quack-Up is the crazy and clumsy pilot of the team while Huck just rests at the top of their ship. They are also members of the "Galaxy Goof-Ups".

* Jabberjaw and Buford: Jabberjaw is still on his search for respect from his original series. His partner is Buford, from "The Buford Files", where he's the lazy pet dog of two kids who solve mysteries in Fenokee County. Their race ship contains a track on which Buford runs to increase speed, which is seldom used since it's hard to keep him awake. Jabberjaw was once seen running on it during the episode "The Saturn 500".

* Nugget Nose, Wendy and Rita: The only racing team in the race that's a trio instead of a duo. They all are characters from "The Galloping Ghost", where Wendy and Rita work at the Fuddy Dude Ranch and Nugget Nose is a gold-obsessed ghost who's jealous about the girls. His nose looks like a nugget (hence the name).

* Captain Good/Phantom Phink and Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge: To the eyes of the other characters, Captain Good is the personification of good sportsmanship and fights for everything right, while he's actually Phantom Phink, a space racer who uses all possible sorts of cheating like Dick Dastardly, except that he actually wins some races, crossing the finish line either as Captain Good or as Phantom Phink. The duo can transform themselves, and their car, at the touch of a button. Captain Good looks like a blonde muscleman while Phink is a skinny man with a big black beard. Although Good/Phink never tricks people into believing they are seeing both of them at the same time and Phink never shows up for the start of any race, nobody suspects they're one and the same. Good/Phink usually tries to get help from people who live in the planets where the races take place, no matter which identity he must use. Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge is Captain Good's/Phantom Phink's pet cat/dog. Clean Kat is a white and snobbish cat while Sinister Sludge is a brown dog who's usually told by Phink to shut up. Whenever Good/Phink morphs, Kat/Sludge morphs together (although he is capable of doing it separated from his master, as revealed in the Saturn 500, when Phink says dogs aren't allowed in Mars and he morphs, causing Phink to says cats aren't either).

* The Narrator: This unseen character (voiced over by Gary Owens) is the narrator of the Space Race and introducer of "the Space Race Biography". He sometimes talks to the characters of the series.

* El Fabuloso: The Space Race's official computer. He analyzes the races to catch any cheat practiced and often disqualifies Phantom Phink for cheating. Phink usually utilizes his alter-ego to proceed on the race because of that. In "Franzia", after Good/Phink tricks the local version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame to stop the other racers, El Fabuloso finally discovers they're one and the same, but no one believes him and the narrator assumes El Fabuloso has a malfunction. To keep his secret identity, Phink has to convert into Captain Good to save the Space Racers.

Biography

The series often introduces the biography of some Space Racers or their ancestors. Phantom Phink was once described as a "descendant" of Dr. Jekyll, who was described looking like Captain Good while Mr. Hyde looks like Phink, giving us an idea of Good's/Phink's original look that contradicts the idea believed by many fans that Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge is originally a dog since this is his shape as Phantom Phink's pet.

Prizes

Every Space Race offers a seemingly wonderful prize for the winners. At the end, it's revealed something that makes the winners dislike their prize.

*The Saturn 500 - Winners: Yogi Bear and Scare Bear; Prize: Vacation trip to Mars; Trouble: There are monsters in Mars.

*The Neptune 9000 - Winners: Captain Good and Clean Kat; Prize: A car/ship that converts into a bag for easy keeping; Trouble: The car/ship did it with Captain Good inside it.

*The Spartikan Spectacular - Winners: Captain Good and Clean Kat; Prize: A ride at a cruise boat; Trouble: They had to travel with the cargo.

*Race Through Oz - Winners: Captain Good and Clean Kat; Prize: A date with a computer-chosen partner; Trouble: He's got a date with the Wicked Witch of the West.

*Franzia - Winners: Huckleberry Hound and Quack-Up; Prize: Tickets for a flight on a luxury jet plane; Trouble: They didn't get seats inside the plane.

* The Mizar Marathon - Winner: Jabberjaw and Buford; Prize: A self massaging bed; Trouble: The bed beats them up with its robot hands.

Other races were: The Pongo Tongo Classic; Nebuloc - The Prehistoric Planet; The Lost Planet of Atlantis; Race Through Wet Galoshes; The Borealis Triangle; Race To The center of The Universe; and Race Through The Planet of The Monsters.

* Winners: Huckleberry Hound and Quack-Up; Prize: Tickets to an Amusement Park named Funkyland; Trouble: they were the dunking clowns.

* Winners: Phantom Phink and Sinister Sludge; Prize: Being painted by a famous artist; Trouble: They were literally painted.

* Winners: Yogi Bear and Scare Bear; Prize: Dinner at Ritz; Trouble: They dine at the kitchen and have to do the dishes.

* Winners: Captain Good and Clean Kat; Prize: Tickets to the Rolling Clones; Trouble: They have to lay down at the floor with other viewers over them.

* Winners: Phantom Phink and Sinister Sludge; Prize: Vacation time at a ski lodge; Trouble: They had to pull the sleigh.

* Winners: Nugget Nose, Wendy and Rita; Prize: Vacation time at a dude ranch; Trouble: It's "Fuddy's Dude Ranch". The first prize whose winners had specific reason to dislike.

* Winners: Phantom Phink and Sinister Sludge; Prize: Roles in a movie made in Hollywood; Trouble: They had to make dangerous scenes.

Episodes

#The Saturn 500 (September 9, 1978)
#The Neptune 9000 (September 16, 1978)
#The Pongo Tongo Classic (September 23, 1978)
#Nebuloc-The Prehistoric Planet (September 30, 1978)
#The Spartikan Spectacular (October 7, 1978)
#The Mizar Marathon (October 14, 1978)
#The Lost Planet of Atlantis (October 21, 1978)
#Race Through Oz (October 28, 1978)
#Race Through Wet Galoshes (November 4, 1978)
#The Borealis Triangle (November 11, 1978)
#Race to the Center of the Universe (November 18, 1978)
#Race Through the Planet of the Monsters (November 25, 1978)
#Franzia (December 2, 1978)

Voices

*Daws Butler - Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound
*Joe Besser - Scare Bear
*Mel Blanc - Quack-Up
*Frank Welker - Jabberjaw, Buford, Nugget Nose, Captain Good/Phantom Phink, Clean Kat/Sinister Sludge
*Marilyn Schrefler - Wendy
*Pat Parris - Rita, Cindy Mae
*Dave Landsburg - Woody
*Henry Corden - Sheriff Muletrain
*Roger Peltz - Deputy Goofer McGee
*Hal Peary - Fenwick Fuddy
*Gary Owens - The Narrator

Production credits

*Executive Producers: William Hanna AND Joseph Barbera
*Producer: Art Scott
*Directors: Ray Patterson, Carl Urbano
*Creative Producer: Iwao Takamoto
*Story Editors: Andy Heyward, Ray Parker, Jim Ryan
*Story: Herb Armstrong, George Atkins, Haskell Barkin, Jack Bonestell, Doug Booth, Chuck Couch, Mark Fink, Gary Greenfield, George Greer, Andy Heyward, Len Janson, Mark Jones, Glenn Leopold, Ray Parker, Sam Roeca, Jim Ryan, Susan "Misty" Stewart
*Story Direction: Tom Barron, Ed Benedict, John Bruno, Ron Campbell, Bob Dranko, Carl Fallberg, Jan Green, Cullen Houghtaling, Michael O'Connor, Don Sheppard, George Singer, Paul Sommer, Howard Swift, John Walker, Tom Yakutis
*Recording Directors: Alex Lovy, Art Scott
*Voices: Robert Behr, Joe Besser, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Tony Caruso, Ted Cassidy, Henry Corden, B.J. Cling, Joan Gerber, Marcy Goldman, Virginia Gregg, Bob Hastings, Ralph James, Casey Kasem, Dave Landsburg, Jim MacGeorge, Ginny McSwain, Don Messick, Gary Owens, Pat Parris, Hal Peary, Robert Peltz, Ronnie Schell, Marilyn Schrefler, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Alexis Tramanti, Lennie Weinrib, Frank Welker
*Graphics: Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke
*Title Design: Bill Perez
*Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
*Musical Supervisor: Paul DeKorte
*Design Supervisor: Bob Singer
*Character Design: Bob Singer, Willie Ito
*Layout Supervision: John Ahern, Warren Marshall, Bill Hutten, Tony Love
*Layout: Dale Barnhart, Lyle Beddes, Garnett Bugby, Barry Bunce, Fred Crippin, Todd Curtis, Cory Dangerfield, Owen Fitzgerald, Bob Foster, Rene Garcia, George Goode, Simon Gittins, Dave Hanan, Jack Huber, Homer Jonas, Boyd Kirkland, Sylvia Mattinson, Floyd Norman, Gerrard Pointak, Debra Pugh, Keith Sargent, Doyle Shaw, Kay Smith, Thomas Tholen, Greg Thurber, Grant Wilson
*Song Sequences: Director: Ken Mundie, Animator: Marija M. Dail
*Animation Supervision: Bill Keil, Jay Sarbry, Mark Glamack
*Animation: Bill Hutten, Tony Love, Carlos Alfonso, Juan Pina, Bob Alvarez, Cosmo Anzilotti, Isabel Belio, David Brain, Bob Cara, Amaro Carretero, Alberto Conejo, Daniel De La Vega, Ed De Mattia, Julio Diez, Valentin Domenech, Judy Drake, Thomas Fraish, Manuel Garcia Galiana, Charlette Grable, Angel Izquierdo, Walt Kubiak, Ed Love, Roberto Marcano, Ezequiel Martin, Luis Martinez, Lee Mishkin, Pedro Mohedano, Manuel Sanchez Molano, Pepita Pardell, Vicente Rodriguez, Mariano Rueda, Jim Simmon, Jose Luis Torres, Richard Trueblood, Norton Virgien, Allen Wilzbach
*Background Supervision: Al Gmuer
*Background: Deborah Akers, Dario Campanile, Dennis Durrell, Bob Gentle, Ann Guenther, Marsha Hanes, James Hickey, Paro Hozumi, Richard Khim, Bill Lorencz, Fernando Montealegre, Andy Phillipson, Bill Proctor, Michael Reinman, Jeff Riche, Craig Robertson, Sera Segal-Alsberg, Gary Selvaggio, Stephen Thompson, Peter Van Elk, Dennis Venizelos, Gloria Wood
*Checking and Scene Planning: Cindy Smith, Rollie Greenwood
*Xerography: Star Wirth, Yolanda Vallas
*Ink and Paint Supervision: Billie Kerns, Sharon Bryant
*Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
*Camera: Robert Cohen, John Cunningham, George Epperson, Tom Epperson, Chuck Flekal, Ron Jackson, Danny Larsen, Joe Ponticello, Jerry Smith, Larry Smith, Terry Smith, Brandy Whittington, Jerry Whittington
*Supervising Film Editor: Larry C. Cowan
*Dubbing Supervisor: Pat Foley
*Music Editors: Sam Horta, Warner Leighton, Terry Moore, Robert Talboy
*Effects Editors: Mark Green, Scott Hecker, Denise Horta, Robert R. Rutledge, Kerry Williams
*Show Editor: Gil Iverson
*Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
*Production Supervision: Peter Aries
*Production Manager: Jayne Barbera
*Post Production Supervisor: Joed Eaton
*A Hanna-Barbera Production:© 1978 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Hanna-Barbera_Studios/U-Z/Yogi_s_Space_Race/index.html "Yogi's Space Race" @ The Big Cartoon DataBase]