BANANA SPLITS ADVENTURE HOUR, THE (TV)
Summary
One in this series which combines live-action and animation segments, featuring the Banana Splits, a garage rock band comprised of four full-body puppets representing animals of grotesque proportions: Fleegle, a dog; Drooper, a lion; Bingo, a gorilla; and Snorky, a runt elephant. Highlights from this episode include: the first episode of the animated "Arabian Knights" series, which relates how the Knights initially join forces to battle the evil tyrant who has conquered the city of Baghdad; Fleegle attempts to retrieve mail from the mailbox; the Banana Splits perform in a music video replete with psychedelic graphics; Drooper answers fan mail; an episode of the live-action series "Danger Island," in which an archaeologist, his daughter, and a young assistant -- who are searching for a lost city in the treacherous waters of the uncharted South Pacific -- are besieged by a band of swarthy, maniacal latter-day pirates; a skit in which Fleegle is a canine news reporter; an episode of the animated "Three Musketeers," which pits the three heroes against a cabal of miscreants who desire to keep the Spanish envoy from reaching an important conference in Paris; Drooper takes out the trash and demonstrates his new invention, an electric car; the Banana Splits perform in a music video in which they race automobiles to a background of soul musc; and Drooper trains his pet flea to play the piano. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: November 30, 1967
- RUNNING TIME: 0:45:08
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:39199
- GENRE: Children's; Animation; Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Animation; Children's programs; Kabuki
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1968-1970
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Kellogg's cereal
CREDITS
- Joseph Barbera … Executive Producer
- William Hanna … Executive Producer
- Edward J. Rosen … Producer
- Alex Lovy … Associate Producer
- Lew Marshall … Associate Producer
- Art Scott … Associate Producer
- Richard Donner … Director
- Charles A. Nichols … Animation Director
- Vincente Bassols … Animation
- Rudy Cataldi … Animation
- Oliver E. Callahan … Animation
- Charles Downs … Animation
- Zdenko Gasparovic … Animation
- Robert Goe … Animation
- Alan Green … Animation
- Harry Holt … Animation
- Maria Jursic … Animation
- Bill Keil … Animation
- Ed Love … Animation
- George Nicholas … Animation
- Bill Nunes … Animation
- George Rowley … Animation
- Jay Sarbry … Animation
- Hank Smith … Animation
- Ken Southworth … Animation
- John Sparey … Animation
- David Mook … Animation
- Jack Hanrahan … Writer
- Phil Hahn … Writer
- Ellis Kadison … Writer
- Anthony Spinner … Writer
- Ted Nichols … Music by
- Jack Eskew … Music (Misc. Credits), Musical Arrangement
- Ritchie Adams … Composer, "The Tra La La Song"
- Mark Barkan … Composer, "The Tra La La Song"
- Paul Winchell … Cast, Fleegle, Voice
- Daws Butler … Cast, Bingo, Voice
- Don Messick … Cast, Snorky, Voice
- Allan Melvin … Cast, Drooper, Voice
- Julie Bennett … Cast, Voice
- Henry Corden … Cast, Voice
- Teddy Eccles … Cast, Voice
- Paul Frees … Cast, Voice
- Frank Gerstle … Cast, Voice
- Jonathan Harris … Cast, Voice
- Tommy Cook … Cast, Voice
- Patsy Garrett … Cast, Voice
- Rick Lancelot … Cast, Voice
- Shari Lewis … Cast, Voice
- Jay North … Cast, Voice
- Barney Phillips … Cast, Voice
- John Stephenson … Cast, Voice
- Bruce Watson … Cast, Voice
- Jay Larremore … Cast, Voice
- Thomas Poole … Cast, Voice
- Robert Smith … Cast, Voice
- Frank Aletter … Cast
- Kahana … Cast
- Rockne Tarkington … Cast
- Ronne Troup … Cast
- Vincent, Michael (See also: Jan-Michael Vincent) … Cast
- Jeffrey Brock … Cast
- Terence Henry … Cast
- Daniel Owen … Cast
- Robert Towers … Cast
- James Dove … Cast