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Icons of Saturday Morning: A Squirrel, a very secret one at that…
Parody, tongue in cheek humor and gadgets galore with lots of action-A Hanna Barbera classic…… the spy business will never be the same
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By the mid Sixties H-B had conquered the weekday afternoon crowd and prime time with hits like The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and The Jetsons. So, what next-well the logical step the weekends. I mean who else could rescue those kids that lived for Saturday and Sunday. Those munchkins who had to let off some steam from working their brains all those hours “slaving” behind a desk practicing writing their alphabet in cursive for what probably seemed like an eternity. Not to fear it’s 1965 and Secret Squirrel is here.
Secret Squirrel was part of a slew of cartoons that helped launch Saturday Morning programming. With a real driving home of the notion that this was the kid’s domain. He actually debuted as part of a prime time special entitled The World of Atom Ant/ Secret Squirrel which was…
