{"id":10582,"date":"2006-12-19T09:58:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/12\/19\/bad-week-for-classic-animation.html"},"modified":"2006-12-19T09:58:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T16:58:36","slug":"bad_week_for_classic_anim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/12\/19\/bad_week_for_classic_anim.html","title":{"rendered":"Bad week for classic animation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Barbera<\/a> (of the Hanna-Barbera team) died Monday at 95<\/a>. With his partner, they created Tom & Jerry<\/em>, and the whole H-B line (Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby-Doo, Jonny Quest<\/em>, etc.).<\/p>\n

And it was just announced that Chris Hayward<\/a>, one of the writers for Bill Ward and the Rocky & Bullwinkle<\/em> team (as well as being one of the creators of The Munsters<\/em>, and a writer on numerous TV shows, including Barney Miller<\/em> and Get Smart<\/em>), died back in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Barbera (of the Hanna-Barbera team) died Monday at 95. With his partner, they created Tom & Jerry, and the whole H-B line (Flintstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby-Doo,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129582,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/31\/dc-conjures-some-new-comics-from-old-hanna-barbera-cartoons.html","url_meta":{"origin":10582,"position":0},"title":"DC conjures some new comics from old Hanna-Barbera cartoons","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 31-Jan-16 12:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the sort of thing that should get my panties in a twist, but, damn, if they can come up with something new and exciting and in-print for H-B properties -- Space Ghost, Jonny Quest, The Herculoids, Scooby-Doo, Wacky Racers, Flintstones -- then I'm willing to let them take\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51270,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/rip-john-stephenson.html","url_meta":{"origin":10582,"position":1},"title":"RIP, John Stephenson","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 26-May-15 11:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Stephenson was a widely-used voice artist for Hanna-Barbera during their golden years. 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