"Hearts and Flowers, Buzzards and Snakes" Their situation was very similar to Wile E. The CB Bears see a spacecraft dive below the surface of a crater lake, follow it, and discover a giant space station in a huge cavern.īlast-Off Buzzard (vocal effects provided by Daws Butler) is a buzzard in aviator gear and a de facto villain who chases Crazylegs, a wacky football helmet-wearing snake who outruns the buzzard. The CB Bears rise high over New City in a balloon to discover that the source of mysterious destructive rays permeating the city is a huge probe in the middle of the Top Secret Space Center. The CB Bears discover that hissing monsters, which are swallowing buildings in the town of Fool's Gold, ooze out of a giant drainpipe. The CB Bears go to the North Pole to search for the source of mysterious floods in the Northwest. The CB Bears battle a giant octopus to reach the sinking island of Mikimos. While Charlie warns the CB Bears to watch for strange creatures near their campground, Boogie is snatched up by a giant vine. The CB Bears try to save the world from embittered old ex-sea Captain Sly, who turns water to sand with a machine. While looking for clues to why all the peasants of Drackenstein are asleep, the CB Bears discover the town's valuables are missing. The CB Bears follow a mysterious old man named Abernathy who has been stealing animals from the zoo to his hideout at the Fright Farm where he is loading them onto a huge ark. They find that an archaeologist named Seeker has driven the animals out of the Valley of No Return in order to excavate its lost city. The CB Bears go deep into the jungle to discover why the animals are fleeing in terror from the Valley of No Return. While investigating the strange case of the disappearing mountains, the CB Bears fall into a cavern and are chased by giant gophers created by Dr. The CB Bears drive out to End of the Trail, Arizona, where people are turning green and strange lights and sounds are emanating from the deserted Doomsday Mine. The CB Bears uncover a missing mansion in the midst of an alligator-infested lagoon. It's the Hair Bear Bunch! Daws Butler provided the same Phil Silvers-esque voice for both Hustle and Hair. Physically and personality-wise, Hustle, Boogie, and Bump resemble Hair Bear, Bubi Bear, and Square Bear, respectively, from the earlier cartoon Help!. Each of the bears' names are based on a 1970s disco dance, and the show's overall premise made reference to the CB radio craze of the mid-1970s (by this point waning in popularity). This show was "inspired" by the hit TV series Charlie's Angels (Bump wore a blonde hairstyle similar to Farrah Fawcett). A sultry-voiced female named Charlie (voiced by Susan Davis) contacts the bears on the truck's CB radio to give them their assignments. They travel the country solving mysteries in a tacky garbage truck called the Perfume Wagon (the CB term for a garbage truck). Hustle (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Phil Silvers), Boogie (voiced by Chuck McCann) and Bump (voiced by Henry Corden) are a trio of anthropomorphic bear detectives disguised as trash collectors. The CB Bears theme is also heard in the ending credits of The Skatebirds on CBS and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels on ABC. The show was also rebroadcast on Cartoon Network from 1995 to 1997. In syndication, CB Bears was shown in a shortened half-hour format with Blast-Off Buzzard and Posse Impossible Heyyy, It's the King! was also shown in a shortened half-hour format with Shake, Rattle & Roll and Undercover Elephant. On February 4, 1978, NBC repackaged the show as part of the two-hour The Go-Go Globetrotters, which also featured reruns of the Harlem Globetrotters series. Coyote and the Road Runner Posse Impossible was a cowboy show caricaturing John Wayne Shake, Rattle & Roll featured a trio of ghosts imitating comics Hugh Herbert, Lou Costello and Marty Allen and Undercover Elephant spoofed Mission: Impossible. Blast-Off Buzzard imitated Looney Tunes' Wile E. Similarly, Heyyy, It's the King was a takeoff on the 1974 hit Happy Days, with a royal lion based on Henry Winkler's famous Fonzie. The CB Bears segment was a spoof on the 1976 hit show Charlie's Angels, with a trio of ursine investigators given assignments by an unseen dispatcher. Each segment riffed on a popular television show or film. Īs with many Hanna-Barbera shows of the time, CB Bears was an anthology series with six regular segments: The CB Bears Blast-Off Buzzard Heyyy, It's the King Posse Impossible Shake, Rattle & Roll and Undercover Elephant. CB Bears is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC from September 10 to December 3, 1977.
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