The Best 15 Hanna-Barbera Cartoons ranked

[robyrob]

http://www.cbr.com/nostalgia-punch-t...rtoons-ranked/

their list:
15. Godzilla (never saw this one)
14. The Addams Family (I was aware of this cartoon, but never watched it)
13. The Jetsons (a classic, sure - don't know where I'd rank it though)
12. Hong Kong Phooey (one of my all-time favs, I don't know if HB themselves would rate it so highly though)
11. Space Ghost (I only watched the original a few times and don't remember it too well, it was never anything special too me).
10. Top Cat (always loved it, not my fav though)
9. Jabberjaw (loved it as a kid, but I don't think it holds up as well as other shows)
8. The Yogi Bear Show (a classic, probably should be higher on the list)
7. Josie And The Pussycats (loved it, but the space episodes were TOO WEIRD)
6. The Adventures of Jonny Quest (classic show, but I wouldn't put it this high)
5. The Flintstones (loved it as a kid, watched most of the spin-offs too)
4. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You (watched it for years, practically the face of HB - I would think that they would probably put it higher)
3. Wacky Races (definitely one of my favs - it had a whole slew of characters, between that and Laugh-a-Lympics another fav)
2. Fantastic Four (it was OK for its time, but I don't think it should be this high - and I was a fan of the original comics in the early years).
1. Super Friends (as a kid it was one of my absolute favorites, re-watching them as an adult they really don't hold up very well at ALL, but I still love the show)

some of my favs left off the list: The Impossibles, Dynomutt/Blue Falcon, Augie Doggy, Dastardly and Muttley, Harlem Globetrotters/Super Globetrotters, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, Speed Buggy, Grape Ape, Captain Caveman, Mork&Mindy/Happy Days Gang, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley,

what do YOU think?

also Ranker poll: http://www.ranker.com/list/best-hann...oons/ranker-tv

[MrCleveland]

I'd have Secret Squirrel, Tom and Jerry, and Loopy de Loop on my list.

[Regulus]

I have 11 of these classic animated series on DVD. I'm quite surprised that The Flintstones didn't make it to No. 1.

[king of comedy]

I put Superfriends down at the bottom. It doesn't hold up and I stick and have Justice League. I have Scooby doo and Josie but the one when they went into space.

[Babalu]

I looked at the Wikipedia list of their shows. They did an amazing amount of series, mostly forgettable. I pretty much stopped watching sometime in the 1970's.

My favorites in more or less chronological order were:

Quick Draw McGraw
The Flintstones
Top Cat
The Jetsons
Magilla Gorilla
The Adventures of Jonny Quest
Fantastic Four
The Banana Splits
Wacky Races


The popular cartoons I really didn't like:

Huckleberry Hound
Scooby Doo
Josie and the Pussycats
Tom and Jerry (I really didn't like this one)

[king of comedy]

Originally Posted by Babalu

I looked at the Wikipedia list of their shows. They did an amazing amount of series, mostly forgettable. I pretty much stopped watching sometime in the 1970's.

My favorites in more or less chronological order were:

Quick Draw McGraw
The Flintstones
Top Cat
The Jetsons
Magilla Gorilla
The Adventures of Jonny Quest
Fantastic Four
The Banana Splits
Wacky Races


The popular cartoons I really didn't like:

Huckleberry Hound
Scooby Doo
Josie and the Pussycats
Tom and Jerry (I really didn't like this one)

Your'e not alone. I hate Tom and Jerry. Never found their antics funny.

[1960'sTVfan]

Hanna-Barbera reached their creative peak in the 1960's, then went downhill in the 1970's. Much of their 70's output is lackluster and forgettable. I think The Flintstones is by far their crowning achievement, I would put The Jetsons in 2nd place but the original series has only one season and 24 episodes, a far cry from The Flintstones six seasons and 166 episodes.

I never really got into Top Cat or Jonny Quest, Yogi Bear is OK in small doses, Josie & The Pussycats is OK but not a big favorite of mine, Wacky Races is OK too.

In the early 1970's Hanna-Barbera tried something different with the adult themed cartoon Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, a fairly amusing show that lasted for two seasons.

[Regulus]

IMO these were the best HB Cartoons.

1. The Flintstones

2. The Jetsons

3. Scooby Doo, Where are you/

4. The Fantastic 4

5. The New Adventures of Huck Finn

6. The Adventures of Gulliver

7. Jonny Quest

8. Space Ghost/Dino Boy

9. Birdman and the Galaxy Trio

10 Moby Dick/Mighty Mightor

11. The Herculoids

12. Shazzan

13 The Harlem Globetrotters

14 The Banana Splits

15 Yogi Bear.

Honorable mentions to all the rest.

Hanna Barbara, along with Filmation and other producers of animated series did NOT "Jump the Shark" in the 1970s voluntarily. You can blame the various "Do Gooder" groups such as Action for Children's Television, who persuaded the FCC to regulate children's shows, causing many shows to be taken off the air. Fortunately, most of these shows are available on home video. I've said this before, for all of you who have children/grandchildren go out and purchase these sets and let them see what REAL cartoons look like.

[king of comedy]

My bad. I have the original Josie and not where they went into space.

[king of comedy]

All those others from the 70s like Funky Phantom, Speed Buggy, Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch Captain Caveman, Fangface are never mentioned and forgotten.

[Hazel Anyday]

That list (from the 1st post) sounds like it was made up by someone in their 20’s or early ‘30’s who has probably never seen a Huckleberry Hound or Quick Draw McGraw classic.

The real best of Hanna Barberra are:
1. Huckleberry Hound
2. Quick Draw McGraw
3. Flintstones
4. Augie Doggie
5. Yogi Bear
6. Pixie & Dixie
7. Yakky Doodle
8. Jetsons
9. Snooper & Blabber
10. Lippy The Lion & Hardy Har Har

By the way I just recently RE-discovered just how extremely funny the Quick Draw McGraw cartoons really are. I used to watch them as a kid in the ‘60’s but forgot how funny they were till I recently watched again. I actually laugh out loud at least twice while I watch each one of them. They’re really clever and goofily funny.

[1960'sTVfan]

Compare the garbage cartoons that are made today with a Hanna-Barbera cartoon from the 1970's, and the Hanna-Barbera cartoon will seem like a classic. But take those same 1970's Hanna-Barbera cartoons and compare them to a 1960's Hanna-Barbera cartoon when the studio was at it's creative peak, then the 1970's cartoons seem lame in comparison. That's why the 1960's was clearly THE decade for Hanna-Barbera.

[Tubehead]

I liked mostly all the shows expect for super friends!! if it didn't have narration on it!! super man would pick up an car or fight super villain then the narrator say super man is about to punch some one !!

[Tubehead]

does any one remember Hanna-Barbera the bibles greatest Adventures? it was about these two archaeology students from the 20th century, and Moki, their nomadic Bedouin friend, discovered a portal through which they could witness events recorded in the Bible. i used to have all of them on vsh but i gave them to my cousins!! does any one esl remember them?

[MrCleveland]

I think H-B had a slump during the 1970's, but they got back with Smurfs in the 1980's. But after that they never got that independent fame...