Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks

Pixie and Dixie is a series of two mice brothers from the animation studio Hanna- Barbera. Their adventures were sent in 1958 in the United States as part of the Huckleberry Hound Show, which in addition to Pixie and Dixie, two other series contained: Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear (later replaced by Yakky Doodle ). The cartoon show ran on ARD under the title Huckleberry Hound and his friends in all the regional programs of the sixties and was the first long cartoon shows on West German television.

Pixie and Dixie must always be against the attacks of hangover Jinks (USA: Mr. Jinks ) put up a fight, who wants to prove himself as a mouser. But he regularly draws the short straw in the chases.

The series is similar in its basic features partially Tom and Jerry, a Kinovorfilmserie by William Hanna and Joe Barbera, created by the two artists for MGM before they founded their own studio. The basic conflict " counterproductive cat mouse " is the same. There are differences in the animation: Tom and Jerry were still fully animated, so came in Pixie and Dixie the much cheaper Limited animation is used ( as with all other TV series by Hanna -Barbera as well). - On the other hand Pixie, Dixie and Jinks were provided in American as in the German version with original voice-overs, while Tom and Jerry did not speak in the cinema.

The Adventures of Pixie and Dixie also appeared in the comic series of the New Tessloff publisher under the titles Huckleberry Hound and his friends, The Flintstones and The Jetsons. Jinks Kater was called there, however, Anton.