Jay Ward's
"The Adventures of Hoppity Hooper"

Hoppity Hooper

A Hooper Production in association with Jay Ward Productions and Producers Associates for Television. Seen September 26, 1964 through September 2, 1967 on ABC-TV. Retitled Uncle Waldo in 1965 for syndication. Also seen from September 26, 1965 through December 19, 1965 as part of Cartoon Fun, a thirteen episode Sunday afternoon series on ABC.


Hoppity, Fillmore, and Professor Waldo.

Hoppity Hooper featured the escapades of a naive, lovable frog, Hoppity, and his cronies, Professor Waldo Wigglesworth, a shrewd and cunning fox, and Fillmore, a good-natured, dim-witted, bugle-blowing bear. The trio, hailing from the fictitious town of Foggy Bog, Wisconsin, traveled around the country in a medicine-show wagon, exploring Waldo's various get-rich quick schemes.



Our trio in the traveling medicine-show wagon.

Each week the series presented two episodes of a Hoppity four-part cliff-hanger, along with repeat episodes from other Jay Ward (Rocky and his Friends, Bullwinkle) and Total TV (Underdog, Tennessee Tuxedo) series. The repeated episodes included Ward's Fractured Fairy Tales, Peabody's Improbable History and Mr. Know-It-All, and Total TV's Commander McBragg.

Hoppity Hooper was created by Jay Ward and written by Chris Jenkyns and Bill Scott. Ward and Scott were also the co-producers. The directors of the series included Bill Hurtz, Pete Burness, and Lew Keller. Hoppity followed the same format as earlier Jay Ward series, such as Crusader Rabbit. The sharp satire and good natured puns offset the crude drawing and limited animation. The pilot for the series was produced in 1960, being funded by Ward employees who purchased stock in Hooper Productions. The original voice of Fillmore was Alan Reed, who did the first two episodes before leaving to work on Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones as the voice of Fred. When the Hoppity Hooper show was sold to General mills and ABC-TV in late 1963, Bill Scott took over for Reed as the voice of Fillmore. Joining Bill Scott on the series were the original voices from the pilot: Chris Allen as the voice of Hoppity, and Hans Conreid (Uncle Tanoose on Danny Thomas' Make Room for Daddy series) as Professor Waldo Wigglesworth.


Sherman and Peabody.


Our hapless heroes.


EPISODES

1-4

Ring-A-Ding Spring

5-8

Rock 'N' Roll Star

9-12

Diamond Mine

13-16

Costra Nostra

17-20

Giant of Hootin' Holler

21-24

Detective Agency

25-28

Olympic Star

29-32

Ghost

33-36

Masked Martin

37-40

Jumping Frog Contest

41-44

Traffic Zone

45-48

Wottabango Corn Elixer

49-52

Frog Prince of Monomania

53-56

Colonel Clabber - Limberger Cheese Statue

57-60

The Giant Cork

61-64

Ferkle to Hawaii

65-68

Halloween

69-72

Christmas

73-76

Horse Race Follies

77-80

Jack and the Beanstalk

81-84

Granny's Gang

85-86

Golf Tournament

87-88

Hopeless Diamond

89-92

The Dragon of Eubetcha

93-96

Rare Butterfly Hunt

97-100

Oil's Well at Oasis Gardens

101-104

Wonder Water


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See the Hoppity Hooper pilot, with Alan Reed as the voice of Fillmore.


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