Editing The Huckleberry Hound Show (section)

==Background/production==

===Conception and development===
Joseph Barbera went to Chicago to pitch the program to Kellogg's executives through their ad agency, [[Leo Burnett Worldwide|Leo Burnett]]. "I had never sold a show before because I didn't have to. If we got an idea, we just made it, for over twenty years. All of a sudden, I'm a salesman, and I'm in a room with forty-five people staring at me, and I'm pushing Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear and 'the Meeces', and they bought it."<ref name="voices">{{cite book|author1=Tim Lawson|author2=Alisa Persons|title=The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's who of Cartoon Voice Actors|chapter-format=Scan|access-date=2008-10-20| date=December 2004 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Jackson, MS|isbn=1-57806-696-4|page=367|chapter=Daws Butler|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0cEAOsLJad8C&q=%22huckleberry+hound%22&pg=PA83}}</ref>

Barbera once recalled about [[Daws Butler]]'s voice acting versatility:
{{cquote|I can remember distinctly when I first met [Daws], I said, 'I kind of like this voice, but I think I'm gonna make it kind of a [[Southern American English|Southern]] voice because Southern voices are warm and friendly.' Daws said, 'Well, now I can do a Southern voice which is like [[North Carolina]], or I can do a Southern voice that would be like [[Florida]], that would be a [[Florida cracker|cracker]] kind of voice, or if you want to get a little harder, we could get into [[Texan English|Texas]],' and by gosh, he had about twelve different Southerners.<ref name="voices"/>}}

===Format===
The series featured three seven-minute cartoons, animated specifically for television. The first always starred Huckleberry, the next two featured other characters.<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Stasheff, Rudy Bretz|title=The Television Program|orig-year=1962|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jQULAAAAIAAJ&q=%22huckleberry+hound%22+date:1950-1972|format=Scan|access-date=2008-10-20|year=1962|publisher=Hill and Wang|page=335}}</ref> Each of three cartoons were in between the [[Interstitial television show|wraparound segments]], which originally set in the [[circus]] [[Pole marquee|tent]] where Huck acts like a showman in the late 1950s.

===Distribution===
The show was originally intended to be part of a line-up of kid programmes sponsored by Kellogg and broadcast on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC-TV]], joining ''[[The Woody Woodpecker Show|Woody Woodpecker]]'', ''[[Adventures of Superman (TV series)|Superman]]'' and ''[[The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok|Wild Bill Hickok]]'' in an early evening, weekday line-up.<ref>''Weekly Variety'', June 26, 1958, pg. 7</ref> However, Kellogg's agency, Leo Burnett, decided instead to syndicate the show and buy air time on individual stations.<ref>''Daily Variety'', June 26, 1958, pg. 1</ref> The show was originally distributed by [[Screen Gems#Television subsidiary (1948–1974)|Screen Gems]] (the television division at the time of [[Columbia Pictures]]) which held a part-ownership of Hanna-Barbera at the time, over 150 stations. In April 1967, Screen Gems announced the show had been released from advertiser control, and would be made available to stations on a syndicated basis with available bridges to create 92 half-hour shows.<ref>''Broadcasting'' magazine, Apr. 10, 1967, pg. 64</ref>

The distribution was later passed to [[Worldvision Enterprises]], after it became a sister company to Hanna-Barbera. It was later distributed by [[Turner Program Services]], after Turner's purchase of Hanna-Barbera; the current distributor [[Warner Bros. Television]] picked up ownership of the show following the 1996 acquisition of Turner by parent company, [[Time Warner]].

===Original syndication===
The show was not broadcast on the same day of the week, or the same time, in every city; airing depended on the deal for time that the Leo Burnett Agency brokered with individual stations. However, the first time the Huck series appeared on television was on Monday, September 29, 1958; it was first seen at 6 p.m. on [[WOOD-TV]] in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]], which also served [[Battle Creek]], home of Kellogg cereals.<ref>''Lansing State Journal'', Sept. 27, 1958, pg. 20.</ref> A few other stations airing it that day were [[WTHR|WLWI]] in [[Indianapolis]] (at 6:30&nbsp;p.m.)<ref>''Tipton Tribune'', Sept. 29, 1958, pg. 6.</ref> and [[WTAE-TV|WTAE]] in [[Pittsburgh]] (at 7:30&nbsp;p.m.).<ref>''The Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pennsylvania)'', Sept. 29, 1958, pg. 12</ref> The show debuted on other days that same week in other cities; Huck originally aired in [[Los Angeles]] on Tuesdays on [[KCBS-TV|KNXT]],<ref>''Los Angeles Times'', Sept. 30, pg. A6</ref> [[Chicago]] on Wednesdays on [[WGN-TV]],<ref>''Chicago Tribune'', Sep. 27 1958, pg. c16.</ref> and [[New York City]] on Thursdays on [[WPIX]].<ref>''New York Herald Tribune'', Sep 28, 1958, pg. G-12</ref> The show first aired in [[Canada]] on Thursday, October 2, 1958, at 7 p.m. on [[CKLW-TV]] in [[Windsor, Ontario]].<ref>''Toronto Globe and Mail'', Oct. 2, 1958, pg. 39</ref> The show first aired in [[Australia]] on Monday, February 16, 1959, on the [[Nine Network|National Television Network]] (now the [[Nine Network]]), and the show first aired in the [[United Kingdom]] on Friday, July 3, 1959, on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]].