The Quick Draw McGraw Show
Quick and Friends is an American animated television series that was produced in the Hanna -Barbera studios from 1959 to 1961 under the original name of The Quickdraw McGraw Show.
Content
Quickdraw is a humanoid stallion who wants to bring order to the Wild West. Mostly, however, it must be smaller companion, the Mexican donkey Baba Looey, bail out. Often disguised as a masked avenger Quickdraw El Kabong who puts the bad guys with his guitar out of action. Another character of the series is Snuffles, a dog who gets through dog biscuits in ecstasy, and only then does his orders. The mountain lion Snagglepuss, who plays as the two heroes many a trick, got in the U.S. later his own series, as part of the Yogi Bear Show.
Production and publication
The series was produced from 1959 to 1961, directed by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna. The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, as authors were Warren Foster and Michael Maltese involved. In the U.S., The Quickdraw McGraw show ran with three parts. In addition to the title character Augie Doggie and Doggie were with Daddy, father and son in dog version, and Snooper and Blabber, cat and mouse with a detective pair, represented two other series.
In West Germany Quick and his friends ran in the 1970s in the ARD regional programs of Radio Free Berlin, the Saarland Radio and SDR / SWF Community program. The series was also translated among others into Italian, Greek, Spanish and Finnish.