The DVD set does not include the original Magilla Gorilla Show main/end title sequences and the cartoons are not restored, drawing heavy criticism from fans.Ī "Diamond Collection" of the complete series was released on June 6, 2017. Warner Home Video released the Classic Collection of the Magilla Gorilla Show consisting of 31 episodes of Magilla Gorilla, together with the 23 Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long and 23 Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse shorts in a boxed DVD collection on August 15, 2006. The episode "Come Blow Your Dough" was released as part of the "A Sample of Boomerang" tape, from Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang. Allan Melvin – Magilla Gorilla, Punkin' Puss.Out of the 31 Magilla Gorilla segments in total, only 20 of them were aired. During the run, both Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse or Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long segments were not aired during the four-day period which was replaced by another Magilla Gorilla segment to fill the schedule instead, with both opening theme and closing theme/credits intact throughout every segment. The show made a return on Novemfor four days until November 30, 2020, on a Boomerang Thanksgiving weekend containing episodes of various classic Hanna-Barbera shows. Boomerang continued to air The Magilla Gorilla Show until July 22, 2012. Cartoon Network's run lasted until 2004 due to its sister station Boomerang at the time airing the show since Boomerang's early years. Back in America, the show was then returned on cable-only USA Network later on during the decade, and Cartoon Network began running the series when it launched years later on October 1, 1992. Both channels reran The Magilla Gorilla Show for a short period of time. Apparently in the United Kingdom, Yorkshire Television reran the series in the early 1980's and in Australia, Nine Network reran the show during the mid-1980s. At the time, no local station in America has aired them since then. Chicago's WFLD once carried The Magilla Gorilla Show during the early-1980s in their morning schedule, and one of the longest-running stations to air The Magilla Gorilla Show, New York City's WPIX, continued to rerun The Magilla Gorilla Show for more than a decade until 1984. After the reruns were mostly canceled in America, Only a few stations continued their portion to rerun The Magilla Gorilla Show. In Canada and Australia, the show continued its reruns until 1969. During 1965, new episodes and reruns of the earlier episodes then began airing on ABC's Saturday Morning schedule until its last run on December 30, 1967. Overlands and overseas, the show aired on CBC Television in Canada at the time since its debut and in Australia, The Magilla Gorilla Show didn't air in Australia until April 6, 1965, when Network TEN ran the entire series. For its original run until 1965 in syndication, some of the major markets in cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Dallas aired The Magilla Gorilla Show on independent stations, such as WPIX, KCOP, KTVU, WGN, WTTV, and KTVT. When The Magilla Gorilla Show first aired on television, the show was not broadcast on the same day of the week or the same time, in every city's affiliation. The show made its first premiere on January 15, 1964, on first-run syndication. Punkin' Puss' weapon of choice is a shotgun. In a send up of the feuding Hatfields and McCoys, an orange hillbilly cat named Punkin' Puss (voiced by Allan Melvin) is constantly chasing a hard-to-catch hillbilly mouse named Mushmouse (voiced by Howard Morris). During the four-day broadcast, neither Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse nor Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-long were aired. After an eight-year wait, The Magilla Gorilla Show returned on Boomerang for four days during November 26 until Novemincluding the opening and closing themes and titles. The show aired on Boomerang until July 22, 2012. After a year on airing its original runs, repeats of all 31 episodes were aired between 19 during ABC-TV's Saturday morning schedule and on Sunday mornings the following season. Like many of Hanna-Barbera's animal characters, Magilla Gorilla was dressed in human accessories, sporting a bow tie, shorts held up by suspenders, and an undersized derby hat. Prior to the show's launch, the show made an interview on their "upcoming" series in between the middle-and-late December 1963 on first-run syndication entitled Here Comes A Star. In syndication, the main and supporting characters from the Peter Potamus show were also added. The show had other recurring characters, including Punkin' Puss & Mushmouse, and Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long. The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for Screen Gems, and was originally sponsored in syndication by Ideal Toys from 1964 through 1967. The Magilla Gorilla Show is an American animated television series starring Magilla Gorilla.
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