How I Became A Devoted Follower Of Hanna-Barbera.

It all began way back in the '60's, when I was just in kindergarten. By that time, many of H-B's earliest shows were airing in the late afternoon/early evening time slots. "The Flintstones" had been cancelled by then, and was the first one from that studio I ever saw. Think the first episode I caught was "No Biz Like Show Biz," the one that had Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm singing "Let The Sun Shine In. Needless to say, I was taken with their performance.

It was all uphill from there, as I constantly saw the funny animals like Yogi, Huck, Magilla, etc. Then came the many superheroes and action characters like Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, and Birdman. Sunday nights in '68 were memorable for seeing "The New Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn" just before "The Wonderful World Of Disney." And the movies like "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear," and "The Man Called Flintstone."

H-B kept getting better, with "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" in 1969. and all the shows of the '70's that followed in its wake. I got the chance to see all of these and more. My folks may have complained, but as country legend T. G Sheppard would say, "I loved 'em every one." That even includes "The Smurfs" and others from the 80's and 90's.

So there you have it. Now you know the story of a true Hanna-Barbera fan girl. Anyone else care to tell their tales?

Very long story for me. Being a Child of the 80's, I was more into the non-HB stuff at the time (mostly the "30 Minute Commercial" variety of 'toons). I don't think I really got much into HB until 1992, at age 10, when we got Cartoon Network. My first HB show of choice was "Josie & the Pussycats" (and when I say HB show of choice, it means what I was setting my VCR for). Anyway, first it was "Josie & the Pussycats" (it was on while I was home, but my parents didn't let me or my sister watch TV on school nights), then I started setting the timer for "Paw Paws" (which was on while I was at school), then "Top Cat" (it was on at like midnight or something) then it was "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" (again, on while I was at school; and don't hurt me for this, but I actually kind of like "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" better than the original). Then came 1996, and then came the cartoon that set me as an HB fangirl for life: The Impossibles. I had seem this cartoon sporadically when Cartoon Network first got started, but I didn't become obsessed with it until 1996.

My HB DVD collection includes Top Cat, Wacky Races, The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Josie & the Pussycats, Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf, and a Pup Named Scooby Doo from the commercially released DVDs, and Yogi's First Christmas, Yogi's Great Escape, Frankenstein Jr. & The Impossibles, Shazzan, Josie & The Pussycats in Outerspace, The Good, The Bad, and Huckleberry Hound, and Yogi's Gang (the latter two being mein sister's discs) from the Warner Archives. I also have Secret Squirrel from the Boomerang channel, which I converted to DVD, but I'm awaiting an official release of it. So that's my story, sorry it's so long, though.