The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound
| The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound | |
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| Composer | Sven Libaek |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
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| Producer | Charles Grosvenor |
| Editor | Gil Iverson |
| Running time | 95 minutes (95:27) |
| Production company | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
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| Network | Syndication |
| Release | May 6, 1988 |
The Good, the Bad, and Huckleberry Hound is a 1988 animated Western television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series. This film marks the final time Daws Butler voiced Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey, Snagglepuss, Hokey Wolf, and Peter Potamus, as he died a couple weeks after its telecast from a heart attack (his final Yogi Bear performance, in Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears, would air in November of that year).
The film parodies various Western films (in a manner akin to Blazing Saddles) and its title is a take-off of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Huckleberry is constantly referred to as a "mysterious, steely-eyed, and silent-type stranger" (though Huck is just being himself), spoofing the Western stock character of the Man with No Name. Several other plot points are lifted from well-known film Westerns, such as High Noon and High Plains Drifter. The setting of the film is 1849 California, during the California Gold Rush.
This is the only movie in the Superstars 10 series where Huckleberry is the main character, with Dinky Dalton from Laff-A-Lympics being featured.