Yogi's Gang

Yogi's Gang is an American animated television series and the second incarnation of the Yogi Bear franchise, which aired 16 half-hour episodes on ABC from September 8, 1973, to December 29, 1973. The show began as Yogi's Ark Lark, a special TV movie on The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie in 1972. Fifteen original episodes were produced for broadcast on ABC, with the hour-long Yogi's Ark Lark thrown in as a split-in-half two-parter. The show confronted social and cultural issues like ecology and bigotry, with villains named Mr. Waste, Dr. Bigot, the Envy Brothers, Lotta Litter, the Greedy Genie and Mr. Cheater.

After a successful run on Saturday mornings, episodes of Yogi's Gang were serialized on the syndicated weekday series, Fred Flintstone and Friends in 1977–78. In the late 1980s, repeats were shown on USA Cartoon Express and later resurfaced on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and Boomerang. As of June 2024, the series is included as part of MeTV Toons' lineup.

Yogi's Gang is the only Yogi Bear show to have a laugh track.

Plot
Yogi, Quick Draw, Huck and the rest of the gang encounter a variety of villains such as Captain Swashbuckle Swipe, Smokestack Smog, Lotta Litter, the Envy Brothers, Mr. Hothead, Dr. Bigot, the Gossipy Witch of the West, J. Wantum Vandal, the Sheik of Selfishness, Commadore Phineas P. Fibber, I.M. Sloppy, Peter D. Cheater, Mr. Waste, Hilarious P. Prankster, and the Greedy Genie, who act as their friends, hosts and/or guests, but embody some of the most common human faults and vices. Yogi and crew would often put up with them which ends with the villains either being repelled or outdone by their actions.

Characters

 * Atom Ant
 * Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
 * The Hillbilly Bears
 * Hokey Wolf and Ding-A-Ling Wolf
 * Huckleberry Hound
 * Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har
 * Magilla Gorilla
 * Peter Potamus and So-So
 * Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks
 * Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse
 * Quick Draw McGraw & Baba Looey
 * Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long
 * Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole
 * Snagglepuss


 * Squiddly Diddly
 * Touché Turtle and Dum Dum
 * Wally Gator
 * Yakky Doodle
 * Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo Bear

Voices

 * Daws Butler – Yogi Bear, Augie Doggie, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Wally Gator, Peter Potamus, Baba Looey, Lippy the Lion, Hokey Wolf, Tantrum (in "Mr. Hothead")
 * Henry Corden – Paw Rugg, Dr. Bigot (in "Dr. Bigot"), Chief Ranger Short (in "The Gossipy Witch", "Lotta Litter"), Mr. Waste (in "Mr. Waste"), Tex Jackson (in "Mr. Hothead")
 * Allan Melvin – Magilla Gorilla, Haggling (in "Dr. Bigot"), Vic Vagabond (in "The Greedy Genie"), I.M. Sloppy/Mr. Neat (in "Mr. Sloppy")
 * Don Messick – Boo-Boo Bear, Squiddly Diddly, Touché Turtle, Atom Ant, Ranger Smith, Billy Bindlestiff (in "The Greedy Genie"), Messy (in "Mr. Sloppy") Mayans (in "The Sheik of Selfishness"), Mayor of Smog City (in "Mr. Smog"), Narrator (in "Captain Swipe"), Police Officer (in "Captain Swipe"), Temper (in "Mr. Hothead")
 * John Stephenson – Doggie Daddy, Hardy Har Har, Mr. Cheerful (in "Dr. Bigot"), Bickering (in "Dr. Bigot"), Greedy Genie (in "The Greedy Genie"), Butler (in "The Greedy Genie"), Hilarious P. Prankster (in "Mr. Prankster"), Ark-o-Beak Bird (in "Mr. Prankster"), Postal Pelican (in "Mr. Cheater"), Mr. Waste's Parrot (in "Mr. Waste"), Professor Woodstock (in "Lotta Litter"), P.T. Barnswallow (in "The Envy Brothers"), The Great Zucchini (in "The Envy Brothers"), Envy Brother #2 (in "The Envy Brothers", Captain Swashbuckle Swipe (in "Captain Swipe"), Fumbo Jumbo the Masked Avenger (in "Captain Swipe"), Mr. Hothead (in "Mr. Hothead")
 * Jean Vander Pyl – Maw Rugg

Additional voices

 * Josh Albee - Freddy (in "Mr. Vandal"), Jimmy
 * Julie Bennett – Cindy Bear
 * Tom Bosley – Commadore Phineas P. Fibber (in "Mr. Fibber")
 * Walker Edmiston –
 * Virginia Gregg – Gossipy Witch of the West (in "The Gossipy Witch")
 * Jim MacGeorge –
 * Rose Marie – Lotta Litter (in "Lotta Litter")
 * Hal Smith – Smiley the Hobo (in "The Greedy Genie"), J. Wanton Vandal (in "Mr. Vandal")
 * Lennie Weinrib – Smokestack Smog (in "Mr. Smog")
 * Jesse White – Peter D. Cheater (in "Mr. Cheater")
 * Paul Winchell – Sheik of Selfishness (in "The Sheik of Selfishness")

Home media
The episode "The Greedy Genie" was included on the DVD compilation Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 1 released from Warner Home Video on May 26, 2009. The "Mr. Bigot" episode is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Vol. 2. On February 19, 2013, Warner Archive released Yogi's Gang: The Complete Series on DVD in NTSC picture format with all region encoding, as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store, Walmart.com and Amazon.com. Yogi's Gang: The Complete Series is also available for download via iTunes Store and Google Play Store.