Rankin/Bass-historian: Bill Hanna

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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Happy Bill Hanna's Birthday! 🎂

Monday, July 14, 2025

Happy Bill Hanna's birthday 🎂 #Monday #Billhanna

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Happy Bill Hanna's Birthday! 🎂

Friday, July 14, 2023

Happy Bill Hanna's Birthday! 🎂

Friday, September 23, 2022

Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Bill & Joe in the Screen Gems toy room!

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

My pal Jerry Eisenberg designed the characters for the 1968 Hanna-Barbera series The Banana Splits Adventure Hour! Jerry and I discussed former Rankin/Bass designer/Storyboarder Steve Nakagawa. Iwao Takamoto told me about Steve as well.

Don Sandburg (Producer of Bozo's Circus and Sandy The Clown) left Bozo's Circus to work on the 2nd season on The Banana Splits Adventure hour.

I actually saw a live performance of the Splits, when they appeared on WFLD TV in The 1970s at the Apollo Field House in Alsip, IL. The shows were re-edited and shown with a variety of cartoons through the 1970s. I think this is why it has never seen a dvd release yet, as the original one hour versions are tough to come by. There is one available on DVD on the set SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS 1970's Volume 2, but it looks to be from 16 mm (Still great to see with Kellogg's bumpers). I have a few dvds of The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park (the ABC Saturday Superstar Movie) and the dvd has a few of the half hour shows. I also transferred the one VHS release to DVD. Now they are getting a bizarre treatment in some low budget horror thing. I think the Banana Splits' initials say it all in regards to that....BS!

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Betty Rubble

Saturday, January 06, 2018

I have this great show on dvd!

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

The Banana Splits

Sunday, October 04, 2015

Hanna-Berbers cartoon fun!

Always enjoying Hanna-Barbera...Atom Ant is on his way!

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

THE FLINTSTONES 55 years later

55 years ago it premiered on ABC in prime time.

Monday, June 01, 2015

HANNA-BARBERA

Been watching tons of HANNA-BARBERA lately....and loving it!

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

NBC's THE WORLD OF SECRET SQUIRREL & ATOM ANT

I love watching my DVD of NBC's 1965 TV Special THE WORLD OF SECRET SQUIRREL & ATOM ANT! I love seeing the H-B building from that era and Bill and Joe with their characters! A Treasure trove of H-B! I hear they will be releasing both series this summer on DVD through WB on demand.