The Ruff & Reddy Show
The Ruff & Reddy Show is a Hanna Barbera series starring Ruff, a cat , and Reddy, a dog. First broadcast in December 1957, it was the first television show produced by Hanna-Barbera.
Messick's "Ruff" voice characterization was very similar to the one he would later use for Pixie the mouse. Butler used his tried-and-true southern drawl for "Reddy", a voice that would later become mainly identified with Huckleberry Hound. A supporting character in some episodes was the tiny-sized Professor Gizmo (also voiced by Don Messick). Villains Ruff and Reddy faced included Harry Safari (Daws Butler), Captain Greedy and Salt Water Daffy (Daws Butler and Don Messick) and western outlaws Killer and Diller (Daws Butler and Don Messick). The show's episodes borrowed from the serialized storytelling format of such shows as Crusader Rabbit by making extensive use of cliffhanger storylines. Each story had 13 episodes, two airing per show. Don Messick was narrator. The episodes were not much longer than four minutes, including an opening song and much repetition of preceding events.

About the blog...

Today's cartoons are dominated by anime and other tv shows like power rangers,Ben 10, Hannah Montana,Drake & Josh..... the list is huge .But decades before, when cartoon network used to be the primary source of cartoons for kids, the duo of William Hanna & Joseph Barbera dominated the animation industry, giving classic cartoons like Scooby doo, Huckleberry Hound,Snagglepuss.Atom Ant & not to forget,The Tom & Jerry Show which continues to be one of the favourite cartoons of kids today.This blog was created to highlight these classic contributions of these masters of animation world.Feel free to share your memories & relive your childhood.


About Hanna Barbera...


The duo of William Hanna & Joseph Barbera dominated the animation world for more than three decades.The Hanna Barbera production came into existence with the closure of MGM in 1957.They created animations especially for television, their first directional project being "Puss gets the Boot" from the popular Tom & Jerry series.



The decade of 1960's saw the debut of many popular shows like Top Cat,The Jetsons,The Yogi Bear Show,Magilla Gorilla Show & many more.In 1970's most of the animation was produced by Hanna Barbera productions & the popular scooby doo series made their entry in this decade.
The slow rise & fall of the production began in 1980's & in 1990's it was aquired by Turner Broadcasting.Hanna Barbera continued their work to produce classics like Droopy The master detective,What a Cartoon! show until their name finally began to disappear around 1998.When William Hanna died on March 22, 2001, an era was over.Joseph Barbera continued to work for Warner Bros. Animation on projects relating to Hanna-Barbera and Tom & Jerry until his death on December 18, 2006.Now these cartoons continue to survive with the launch of "Boomerang"Tv,a channel especially made for Hanna Barbera Cartoons & through their website Saturday Morning Forever (SMF)TV.