Editing Gerald McBoing-Boing (section)

===UPA===
'''''The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show''''' (1956–57)
 
In 1956, [[CBS]] created a half-hour ''Gerald McBoing-Boing Show'', with well-known radio announcer [[Bill Goodwin]] narrating.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |pages=370–371}}</ref> Broadcast at 5:30&nbsp;p.m. on Sunday evenings, it was a showcase for UPA's cartoons, including ''Dusty of the Circus'', ''The Twirlinger Twins'', and ''[[Punch and Judy]]''. The program proved too expensive to continue and lasted only three months.<ref name=Perlmutter>{{cite book |last1=Perlmutter |first1=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |pages=239–241}}</ref>

The episodes were repeated on Friday nights in the summer of 1957. Thus, ''The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show'' apparently became the first cartoon series broadcast regularly during [[prime time]], preceding ''[[The Flintstones]]'' by two seasons.

'''TV specials'''

A character similar to Gerald McBoing-Boing appeared as Tiny Tim in the 1962 TV special ''[[Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol]]'', now as a speaking character. A bonus feature of the 2001 ''Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol'' DVD features Gerald McBoing-Boing being babysat by the nearsighted Magoo, also a UPA character. The short is titled "Magoo Meets McBoing-Boing".