Banana Splits Syndication Bumpers

Hanna-Barbera's "Banana Splits Adventure Hour" originally aired Saturday mornings on NBC-TV between 1968 and 1970. After the series' original run ended, the shows were re-edited into half-hours and syndicated to local TV stations. For the syndicated version, repeats of other Hanna-Barbera cartoons were added to fill out the package. For those showings, brief "bumper" segments were created using footage from the second season shows (1969-1970), with voice actor Paul Winchell dubbing Fleegle's voice to introduce the various cartoons. (Apart from the show opening and closing, footage from the second season was otherwise not included in the U.S. syndicated version of the show.) Here we have the "Tra La La Song" intro (this is the longest of the three versions used in the syndicated series), and the Banana Splits introducing Atom Ant, Precious Pupp, the Hillbilly Bears, Secret Squirrel (featuring Fleegle as The Great Fleegali), Squiddly Diddly, Winsome Witch and The Adventures Of Gulliver. The final clip is a commercial lead-in, which doesn't refer to any specific characters but was only used in the Gulliver episodes. (The syndicated series also included Hanna-Barbera's "New Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn," but no Banana Splits intro clips appeared in those episodes.) After Turner Entertainment purchased the Hanna-Barbera library in the early 1990s, the various cartoons formerly included in "omnibus" type syndicated packages were shown by Cartoon Network and Boomerang on their own, so these clips have not been shown since then.