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and <I>Casper</I>, few people remember that both series got their TV start on
<STRONG><I>MATTY'S FUNDAY FUNNIES</I>.</STRONG><BR><STRONG><I>MATTY'S FUNDAY
FUNNIES</I></STRONG> began it's run on October 11, 1959. It was originally seen
Sunday afternoons at 5:00/4:00C on ABC-TV and featured the Paramount Famous
Studios cartoons. <P>
Bob Clampett was a veteran animation director, having worked in Warner Brothers
"Termite Terrace" making animation history with the early <I>Bugs Bunny</I>,
<I>Daffy Duck</I> and <I>Porky Pig</I> cartoons. He left Warners in 1947 and had
worked on several uncompleted projects including an animated version of Edgar Rice
Burrough's <I>John Carter of Mars</I> and a stop motion animation test film
of Edgar Bergen's <I>Charlie McCarthy</I> dummy. He eventually developed the
<I>Beany and Cecil</I> puppet characters and sold a series to Paramount's KTLA-TV.
The series originated from KTLA's studios in Hollywood and began airing February 28,
1949. The show earned Clampett three Emmy Awards and a following of fans which
included Groucho Marx, Jimmy Stewart and Albert Einstein! The success of
<A HREF="http://geocities.datacellar.net/Hollywood/7762/timebean.htm"><I>Time For Beany</I></A>
was due to the talents of Clampett and the cast and crew which he put together.
Stan Freberg, Daws Butler (later the voice of practically every early Hanna-Barbera
character), and Bill Scott (best known as the voice of <a href="http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/bullwink.htm"><I>Bullwinkle</I></a>
and <I>Dudley Do-Right</I>) were just a few of the people responsible for putting out
the fifteen minute, five day a week, fifty two weeks per year <I>Time For Beany</I>
series.<p>
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In addition to <I>Time For Beany</I> Clampett did other early puppet shows for
TV including <I>Thunderbolt the Wondercolt</I> and <I>Buffalo Billy</I> (both characters
would later turn up in the animated <I>Beany and Cecil</I> series). <P>
Towards the middle 1950's it was evident to Clampett that animation was going to be the
dominant force on TV, displacing his puppets and the other live action kids fare.
Animation was showing up all over TV. Walt Disney had just started his <I>Disneyland</I>
and <I>Mickey Mouse</I> franchises on ABC-TV and cartoons were a dominant part of
both shows. <a href="http://geocities.datacellar.net/Heartland/3550/"><I>Harvey Publishing
Company</I></A>, the publishers of comic books featuring
<A href="http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/newcaspr.htm"><I>Casper the Friendly
Ghost</I></A> and the other Famous Studio characters, had purchased the rights to the
old Paramount Famous Studios cartoons in 1958 and repackaged them with new opening
titles. Paramount's <I>NOVELTOONS</I> became Harvey's <I>HARVEYTOONS</I>. Harvey
then sold the TV rights to ABC-TV.<P><bR>
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<BR> Associated Artists Productions (AAP), headed by Elliot Hyman, had purchased all
the pre-1948 Warner Brothers films, including the cartoons, along with Paramount's Max
Fleischer produced <I>Popeye</I> cartoons and was making a killing packaging them for
local stations. Clampett had helped AAP catalog the Warner cartoons after their purchase,
and AAP remembered Clampett when it was time for new animation. AAP flew Clampett to New
York and he and Elliot Hyman's son, Fred, went to meet with ABC-TV in hopes of selling them
some fresh animation. They were greeted by a puzzled programmer who had an office full of
<I>Casper</I> films. It turns out that after ABC had purchased the rights to the Harvey
owned cartoons, they sat on them, not knowing what to do with them.<P>
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ABC wasn't interested in new animation, they didn't even know what to do with the animation
they already had. Hyman and AAP, in the meantime, were still interested in new cartoons by
Clampett. They planned to syndicate the new fare if a network couldn't be lined up.
Clampett's wife Sody (Spumco's <I>Sody Pop</I> character is named in her honor) suggested
that he animate <I>Beany and Cecil</I>, seeing as the characters had been so successful and
were still well loved by fans. My original source stated that Clampett's pilot film for the animated series
was <I>Beany and Cecil Meet Billy the Squid</I>, but I recently received e-mail from Robert Story which
corrected this. Mr. Story said <strong><I> " ...The pilot for the series was an eight-minute Beany & Cecil film
entitled, "Beanyland," which had in it a few unfavorable Disney references which had to be cleared by
Disney legal before it could be aired as a segment of the ABC series. One line which seemed to irritate
the Disney execs, was, "this place (Beanyland) wasn't built for a mouse, it was built by a mouse."
I met Bob Clampett when I was eighteen, got a "gig" to do some writing for the live puppet show, then
after a couple years in the USN went to work for Clampett on the series."</STRONG></I> Thank you, Mr.
Story, for correcting this, and for your contributions towards one of the best animated series in television
history!<P>
After Clampett made the pilot, he and Hyman took it to a meeting in Florida with the AAP salesmen.
Everyone in attendance raved about it. Shortly after that meeting, AAP was purchased
lock, stock and barrel by United Artists. United Artists summoned Clampett to New York to
offer him a contract for <I>Beany and Cecil</I>. Unfortunately they wanted the titles and
story lines for all 104 proposed cartoons before they would finalize the contract. Clampett
found this out on a Thursday, and U.A. requested that they have this by early the following week.
To save the deal, Clampett wrote all 104 titles, storylines and created all the new characters
in one weekend. His wife Sody feverishly typed it all up and it arrived in New York on time. <P>
The initial <I>Beany and Cecil</I> cartoons were released by United Artists theatrically in
foreign markets, including Canada and Australia. In 1959, while Clampett was making the theatrical
films for U.A., he heard from a gag writer that Mattel was looking for a new animated show.
Clampett again contacted the Hyman's and they all flew out to the toy factory to meet with the
Mattel people and their ad agency. They showed them the initial <I>Beany and Cecil</I> films, but
Mattel didn't buy them. It seems ABC had convinced them to use the old <I>Casper</I> films which
ABC already had broadcast rights to (the same films Clampett and Hyman had seen sitting in a
programmers office a year earlier). They premiered as <I>Matty's Funday Funnies</I> on ABC in
October of 1959. The show was hosted by cartoon characters Matty Mattel and Sisterbelle, who
introduced each cartoon adventure. The cartoons most frequently seen were <I>Casper</I>,
<I>Little Audrey</I>, <I>Herman and Catnip</I>, <I>Baby Huey</I> and <I>Buzzy the Crow</I>.
The show proved so successful for the sponsor that, in 1960, it was moved into primetime on Friday
nights opposite <I>Dan Raven</I> on NBC and <I>Rawhide</I> on CBS. On Fridays, it aired one hour
before ABC's other animated primetime success, <I>The Flintstones</I>. <STRONG><I>MATTY'S FUNDAY
FUNNIES</I></STRONG> was moved to Saturday nights in October of 1961, airing at 7:00/6:00C.<P>
<I>Beany and Cecil</I> eventually did make it to TV in January, 1962. By then Mattel had tired
of the old <I>Casper</I> films and were looking for new <strong><I>Matty's Funnies</I></strong>.
They remembered Clampett and contracted with him for <strong><I>Matty's Funnies with Beany and
Cecil</I></strong>. After three months the title was shortened to <I>Beany and Cecil</I>. On
January 5, 1963, the series moved from prime time to Saturday mornings where it ran until 1967.
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<BR>Click here to see an animated GIF of <br>Beany, Cecil and Bob Clampett from<BR>
<A HREF="http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/animation.html"><I>MATTY'S FUNNIES</I></STRONG></A></H3><HR>
<BR><H2><STRONG>VOICES</STRONG></H2>
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Casper: Mae Questel, Norma McMillan, Gwen Davies, Cecil Roy
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Little Audrey: Mae Questel<BR>
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Herman the Mouse: Arnold Stang<BR>
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Katnip the Cat: Sid Raymond<BR>
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Baby Huey: Sid Raymond<BR>
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Buzzy the Crow: Jackson Beck<BR>
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Beany Boy: Jim MacGeorge<BR>
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Cecil, the Sea-Sick Sea Serpent: Irv Shoemaker<BR>
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Captain Huffenpuff: Jim MacGeorge<BR>
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Dishonest John: Irv Shoemaker<BR></STRONG>
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