Yogi's Treasure Hunt - The 1985 animated series

December 8 2021

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Yogi's treasure hunt (Yogi's Treasure Hunt) is an American animated TV series and the fifth installment of the Yogi Bear series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, featuring the Yogi Bear and various other Hanna-Barbera characters. The animated series debuted in late 1985 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera and it was the last series of Daws Butler's Hanna-Barbera, playing the voice of Yogi and his many other characters before his death in 1988. The main title of the song show was performed by Jon Bauman of Sha Na Na.

History

**Yogi's treasure hunt** (*Yogi's Treasure Hunt*) - From left: Svicolone, Top Cat, Braccobaldo, Ranger Smith, Bubu, Yoghi, Snooper, Blabber, Ernesto Sparalesto, Tatone and Tatino

The series tells the adventures of the Yogi bear and his friends, hunting for treasure all over the world, under the guidance of Top Cat who directs the operations from a monitor. The group of Hanna and Barbera characters made up of Yoghi, Bubu, Rager Smith, Svicolone, Braccobaldo, Ernesto Sparalesto, Snooper and Blabber, Tatino and Tatone, travels aboard their flying ship, the SS Jelly Roger in search of treasure. Their antagonists are Dick Dastardly and Muttley who, aboard their ship SS Dirty Tricks, try to beat Yogi to get first to get their hands on the precious treasure, engaging with their usual dirty illicit tricks.

Episodes

1 season

1 Enigma in the center of the earth (Riddle in the Middle of the Earth)
2 Yellow in the jungle (Bungle in the Jungle)
3 The treasure of Transylvania (Draco countdown)
4 The return of El Kabong (The Return of El Kabong)
5 The Viking with the Red Nose (Ole the Red Nose Viking)
6 The curse of all fruits (The Curse of Tutti-Frutti)
7 Yogi and the Unicorn (Yogi and the Unicorn)
8 The stolen diamond (The Case of the Hopeless Diamond)
9 The lost magical book of Merlin (Merlin Lost Book of Magic)
10 A fiasco in Beverly Hills (Beverly Hills Flop)

2 season

1 In search of the pot of gold (Follow the Yellow Brick Gold)
2 The Mississippi Treasure (To Bee or Not to Bee)
3 The missing planet (Heavens to Planetoids)
4 She doesn't know who I am (Beswitched, Buddha'd and Bewildered)
5 Sweet Alaska Alaska (There's No Place Like Nome)
6 The great American treasure (The Great American Treasure )
7 Super Bracco (Huckle Hero)
8 In search of the Trebizond (The Moaning Lisa)

3 season

1 Snow White and the 7 Hunters (Snow White & the 7 Treasure Hunters)
2 The trio of triumph (Yogi's Heroes)
3 Help Martians !! (The Attack of Dr. Mars)
4 Twenty thousand cracks under the seas (20,000 Leaks Under the Sea)
5 Goodbye Mr. Chump (Goodbye, Mr Chump)
6 Yogi goes on the air (Yogi Bear on the Air)
7 Yogi and the beanstalk (Yogi and the Beanstalk)
8 The greedy monster (The Greed Monster)
9 The secret agent Yogi (Secret Agent Bear)

Technical data

Original title Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Original language English
Country United States
Author William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
Regia Oscar Dufau (1st season), Bill Hutten (1st season), Tony Love (1st season), Alan Zaslove (1st-2nd season), Rudy Zamora (1st and 3rd season), Don Lusk (2nd season), Carl Urbano (2nd season) season), Art Davis (3rd season), Charlie Downs (3rd season), Paul Sommer (3rd season), Ray Patterson (supervisor)
Producer Bob Hathcock (1st-2nd season), Charles Grosvenor (3rd season), Jeff Hall (associate producer, 1st season only), William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (executive)
Music Hoyt Curtin, Gary Grant, Jerry Hey
Studio Hanna-Barbera
Network Syndication
1st TV September 15, 1985 - March 27, 1988
Episodes 27 (complete)
Episode duration 19 minutes
Italian dialogues Giuseppe Sindoni
Gender adventure, thriller, comedy
Preceded by The fools of space
Followed by Yogi, salsa and snacks