Peter Potamus and So-So in their Magic Flying Balloon.
Also known as
The Peter Potamus Show
Peter Potamus and His Magic Flying Balloon
Genre
Comedy
Adventure
Created by
William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Written by
Tony Benedict
Warren Foster
Dalton Sandifer
Directed by
William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Voices of
Daws Butler
Doug Young
Hal Smith
Don Messick
Howard Morris
Mel Blanc
John Stephenson
Composer
Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of episodes
27
Production
Producers
William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time
22–26 minutes
Production company
Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network
Syndication
ABC
Release
September 16, 1964 (1964-09-16) – October 23, 1966 (1966-10-23)
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Peter Potamus is a purple animated hippopotamus that first appeared in the 1964–1966 animated television series The Peter Potamus Show, produced by Hanna-Barbera and first broadcast on September 16, 1964.[1]
The Peter Potamus Show is divided into three segments: Peter Potamus and So-So, Breezly and Sneezly and Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey.[2]Peter Potamus was broadcast as a companion series to The Magilla Gorilla Show. Both series premiered in first-run syndication before being picked up by ABC in January 1966. Peter Potamus ran on Sunday mornings and The Magilla Gorilla Show went to Saturday mornings before moving to Sundays the following year. At that time, the Breezly and Sneezly segment was swapped with Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long, a segment on The Magilla Gorilla Show. After the ABC run ended in 1967, cartoons from Magilla Gorilla and Peter Potamus shows were syndicated together.
The Ideal Toy Company sponsored the television series,[3] and during the original run of the cartoon, the closing song ended with the phrase: "And there he goes Peter Potamus, our ideal". A similarly subtle sponsor reference appeared in the Magilla Gorilla theme song lyrics: "He's really ideal". Early promotional materials for the series carried the title Peter Potamus and His Magic Flying Balloon, but that title never appeared on screen. The original Peter Potamus series was broadcast on the cable TV channel Boomerang, often as part of its anthology series Boomerang Zoo.
^Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946–1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. pp. 219–220. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
^Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 342. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 454. ISBN 978-1538103739.
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