Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Joseph Barbera, RIP

My real introduction to DC's characters was through Super Friends. I guess without Hanna and Barbera I wouldn't be here now.

RIP

When, in regard to his cartoons, he said
“The way to appreciate them is to see them.”
he summed it up perfectly.
As long as we - and the following generations - have the cartoons our world will be a better place.

What a career they had. SO many wonderful memories from my childhood are thanks to these two men. The Flintstones & The Jetsons, Johnny Quest, Tom & Jerry, Huckleberry Hound & Yogi Bear...wow!

Rest in Peace and thank you.

Yabba Dabba Dammit...

For those that don't fully comprehend the magnitude of this man's input to animation here is a list of the shows created by Hanna-Barbera Productions as compiled by The Big Cartoon DataBase :

Abbott and Costello
The Addams Family
The Adventures of Gulliver
The All-New Popeye Hour
All-New Pound Puppies
The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
The All-New Super Friends Hour
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
Amigo and Friends
The Atom Ant Show
The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
Back to Bedrock
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour
The Best of Scooby-Doo
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures
Birdman and the Galaxy Trio
The Bisketts
Buford and the Galloping Ghost
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids
C.B. Bears
Capitol Critters
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Cartoon Planet
Casper and the Angels
The Cattanooga Cats
Cave Kid Adventures
Challenge of the GoBots
Challenge of the Super Friends
Clue Club
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley
Cow and Chicken
Dastardly and Muttley and Their Flying Machines
Devlin
Dexter's Laboratory
Drak Pack
Droopy, Master Detective
The Dukes
Dumb and Dumber
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Max
Fish Police
The Flintstone Comedy Hour
The Flintstone Comedy Show (1973)
The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980)
The Flintstone Kids
The Flintstones
Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
Foofur
Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles
Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
Fred Flintstone and Friends
The Fun World of Hanna-Barbera
The Funky Phantom
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
The Gary Coleman Show
The Go-Go Globetrotters
Godzilla
The Godzilla/Dynomutt Hour with The Funky Phantom
The Godzilla/Globetrotters Adventure Hour
The Godzilla/Hong Kong Phooey Hour
The Godzilla Power Hour
The Godzilla Super 90
Goober and the Ghost Chasers
Rick Moranis in Gravedale High
The Hanna-Barbera Happy Hour
The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series
Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure
The Harlem Globetrotters
Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch
The Herculoids
The Hogatha Show
Hong Kong Phooey
The Huckleberry Hound Show
I.M. Weasel
Inch High Private Eye
It's the Wolf and Motormouse and Autocat
Jabberjaw
Jeannie
The Jetsons
Johnny Bravo
Jokebook
Jonny Quest
Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures
Josie and the Pussycats
Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space
The Kwicky Koala Show
Laurel and Hardy
Laverne and Shirley in the Army
The Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
Loopy de Loop
Lucky Luke
The Magilla Gorilla Show
Midnight Patrol: Adventures In The Dream Zone
Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor
Monchhichis
The Mork and Mindy/Laverne and Shirley with the Fonz Show
The New Adventures of Captain Planet
The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The New Fred and Barney Show
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
The New Yogi Bear Show
Pac-Man
The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show
Paddington Bear
Partridge Family: 2200 A.D.
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (II)
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon
The Peter Potamus Show
Peter Puck
Pink Panther and Sons
The Pirates of Dark Water
The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show
Popeye and Son
Pound Puppies
The Powerpuff Girls
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
The Quick Draw McGraw Show
The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show
The Roman Holidays
The Ruff and Reddy Show
Scooby and Scrappy-Doo
The Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Puppy Hour
Scooby Doo, Where Are You!
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
Scooby's All-Stars
Scooby's Laff-A-Lympics
Scooby's Mystery Funhouse
The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour
Sealab 2020
The Secret Squirrel Show
Shazzan!
Shirt Tales
Sinbad Jr.
Skatebirds
Smurfs
Snorks
Space Ghost and Dino Boy
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
The Space Ghost/Frankenstein Jr. Show
Space Kidettes
Space Stars with the Teen Force and Astro and the Space Mutts
Speed Buggy
Super Friends
Super Friends (II)
Super Friends- The Legendary Super Powers Show
The Super Globetrotters
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
Swat Kats
Teen Wolf
These Are the Days
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
The Three Robonic Stooges
Tom and Jerry
The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show
The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show
Tom and Jerry Kids Show
Top Cat
Trollkins
2 Stupid Dogs
Valley of the Dinosaurs
Wacky Races
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
Wake, Rattle and Roll
What A Cartoon! Show
Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch
Where's Huddles?
Wildfire
The World's Greatest Super Friends
Yo Yogi!
Yogi Bear and Friends
The Yogi Bear Show
Yogi's Gang
Yogi's Space Race
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Young Robin Hood
Young Samson and Goliath

Holy moley! That's a long list! And so many wonderful memories on it.

I met Joe Barbera when he was in town about 8 years ago to do signings at an animation gallery. I bought a Scooby-Doo cel and wrote an article about the event for the paper. He signed one of his business cards and gave it to me when I interviewed him. He said if I ever wanted a tour of H-B studios, all I had to do was present it at the door. I never got to take him up on the offer.

He was such a sweet and genuine guy, in addition to being such an immense talent. Sure, Disney is more high-brow and classic WB had higher production quality, but animation wouldn't be where it is today without H-B.

Oh no! How sad! He will be greatly missed... *sniffle*

This is definitely the end of an era. R.I.P.

Being a child of the late 70s and early 80s, I tend to gravitate toward the H-B shows that never quite became household names* -- Dynomutt, Jabberjaw, The New Shmoo, Drak Pack, and my favorite, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (I so want that one on DVD).

*The exception is the various versions of Superfriends, except the last one, which I've heard is the best (and tvshowsondvd posted an interview with people from Warner Home Video where they said they do have plans to release the 80s Superfriends. Yay!)