Yippee yi-o ki-a, 
Galloping all the way 
Here comes Quick Draw McGraw. 

Yippee yi-o ki-a, 
Galloping all the way 
Great big star on his chest. 
Outdraws all of the rest. 
Fastest gun in the west. 

Yippee yi-o ki-a, 
Riding around your way, 
Here comes Quick Draw McGraw. 
The high-falutin'est, 
Fastest shootin'est, 
Cowboy you ever saw. 
That's Quick Draw McGraw.

"Quick Draw McGraw" appeared on the air shortly after the success of the "Huckleberry Hound Show." It was the third series to be produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in association with the Screen Gems distributors and their second to be syndicated nationally by the Kellogg's Cereal Company.

Quick Draw was the bumbling horse sheriff of a lawless Western town. He was "the high-falutin'est, fastest shootin'est cowboy you ever saw," and he spoofed every Western clich� television has ever offered. Quick Draw was assisted in keeping the town free of wrongdoers by his friend and deputy Baba-Looey, a Spanish-accented burro who sounded a bit like Desi Arnaz's Ricky Ricardo, on "I Love Lucy." In episodes that ranged from amusing to absurd. Several cartoons featured Quick Draw, in a parody of Zorro, as a swashbuckling masked avenger called El-Kabong, who used a guitar in place of a sword. Other Quick Draw cartoons featured Snuffles, a treat loving canine who would help Quick Draw and Baba-Looey only after being awarded a dog biscuit. When given the biscuit, Snuffles would moan in joy, hug himself, float up into the air and slowly return to the ground in total ecstasy. 

Snuffles, demonstrating his love of dog biscuits

Additional animated segments included "Augie Doggy and Doggy Daddy," the domestic adventures of a cute little boy dog and his "dear old dad." Doggy Daddy, whose voice was provided by Doug Young, was a caricature of beloved comedian Jimmy Durante. The third segment showcased Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse, an inept but funny pair of cat and mouse detectives. A satire of the private eye shows of the 1950s, these cartoons often involved characters from children's storybook tales. In "Fee Fi Fo Fumble," the sleuths are assigned the task of locating a missing bank building believed stolen by the giant from "Jack and the Beanstalk." And in "The Hansel and Gretel Case," they are the star witnesses in a court battle as the witch is accused of endangering the welfare of young people.

Daws Butler and Don Messick supplied the additional voices for the show's characters. "Quick Draw McGraw" was syndicated on September 29,1959. "Quick Draw McGraw" was later picked up by CBS-TV, appearing on that network's Saturday morning schedule in the mid-1960s. The 30-minute show appeared at 10:00 from September 28,1963, through September 4,1965. It moved to 11:30 on September 9, 1965, through its final appearance on September 3, 1966.

Quick Draw McGraw, like many of the old Hanna-Barbera favorites, was revived once again in the 1970s as a supporting character on several of the Yogi Bear spin-offs, such as "Yogi's Gang" (ABC, 1973-75).