Teletoon Retro brings back Yogi Bear and friends this May

[Sal]

Teletoon Retro is Canada's classic cartoon channel bringing you many great characters and shows from the 60s to the 80s and now it will get even better. On Monday May 18, which is Victoria Day in Canada, Teletoon Retro will deviate from its normal afternoon schedule by offering the movie "Hey There It's Yogi Bear" followed by Yogi himself and various other Hanna Barbera favourites in their own series for the rest of the afternoon, some of which will come back to claim a full-time spot on the schedule later this summer. The full official details are found here in this article from the Channel Canada website:




Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Top Cat & More Visit Teletoon Retro This May


Viewers can take a trip through time this May as TELETOON Retro airs classic cartoons from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s in Retro Rewind on May 18 from 3 pm ET. Featuring a sneak-peek of shows including Transformers, Josie and The Pussycats and Top Cat, Retro Rewind also features the feature-length, Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!.


On Monday, May 18, TELETOON Retro is treating viewers to a sneak-peek of classic cartoons from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s in Retro Rewind. Book-ending these cartoons is the 1964 feature-length Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear! starring Daws Butler as Yogi and Don Messick as Boo Boo. When Yogi is sent to San Diego Zoo his girlfriend, Cindy, sets out save him. However, when she falls into the clutches of a traveling circus it looks as though it is up to Yogi to do the saving. Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear! airs at 3 pm ET/PT with an encore presentation at 9 pm ET.

After Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!, TELETOON Retro viewers can catch a selection of cartoon classics that will be joining the TELETOON Retro schedule later in the year. At 5 pm ET, The Huckleberry Hound Show, also featuring the voices of Butler and Messick, follows the languid dog as he tries a variety of jobs. At 5:30 pm ET, the horse sheriff keeps the peace in his Western town in The Quick Draw McGraw Show.

Beginning at 6 pm ET, TELETOON Retro airs two cartoon comedies from the 1960s. First Yogi, along with his long-suffering pal Boo Boo, tries to steal picnic baskets while avoiding Ranger Smith in The Yogi Bear Show. At 6:30 pm ET, a gang of easy-going felines try to have fun in New York City in Top Cat.

As for shows from the 1970s, TELETOON Retro airs Josie and the Pussycats at 7 pm followed by Captain Caveman at 7:30 pm ET. Based on the Archie Comics characters of the same name, Josie and the Pussycats stars an all-girl pop group that get caught-up in curious adventures while on tour. Captain Caveman follows the eponymous and hirsute hero, voiced by Mel Blanc, as he defends Bedrock from Stone-Age villians.

The 1980s strike as Transformers and G.I. Joe join TELETOON Retro at 8 pm ET. There is more than meets the eye as Autobots and Decepticons battle it out on Earth in Transformers while knowing is half the battle when a team of heroes take on the evil COBRA in G.I. Joe. At 8:30 pm ET.


Now to show you what this all means, this is what the regular Teletoon Retro afternoon schedule looks like:

3:00 Rocky and Bullwinkle
3:30 Super Friends
4:00 Fat Albert
4:30 Jetsons
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Scooby Doo
6:00 Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
7:00 Jetsons
7:30 Jetsons
8:00 Smurfs
8:30 Flintstones

Now here's what it will look like for one day only on May 18:

3:00 Movie: "Hey There It's Yogi Bear!" repeated at 9 pm.
5:00 Huckleberry Hound
5:30 Quick Draw McGraw
6:00 Yogi Bear
6:30 Top Cat
7:00 Josie and the Pussycats
7:30 Captain Caveman
8:00 Transformers
8:30 G I Joe

Imagine all of the above shows from both schedules together each day on a regular basis which is likely to happen next month. TV Land and others can sure take a lesson from these guys. This is great stuff no matter how you look at it!

[Marvo301]

[peachysquirt21]

I so wish I had this channel. Lots of great toons