| The New Casper Cartoon Show | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animation |
| Directed by | Seymour Reit |
| Voices of | Norma MacMillan Bradley Bolke Ginny Tyler Jack Mercer Bob Hastings Allen Swift Sid Raymond Jim MacGeorge Dayton Allen |
| Composer | Winston Sharples |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Alfred Harvey |
| Producers | Leon Harvey Robert Harvey |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production companies | Paramount Cartoon Studios Harvey Funnies |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | September 7, 1963 – February 29, 1964 |
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The New Casper Cartoon Show is a 1963–1964 animated television series that appeared on ABC's Saturday morning schedule, based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost. Casper's co-stars included his friends from the Harvey Comics stories: Wendy the Good Little Witch, the Ghostly Trio, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, and the ghost horse Nightmare.[1] The show premiered on October 5, 1963 and is one of the earliest Saturday morning cartoons.[2]
The show included a mix of 26 new Casper cartoons created for this show by Paramount Cartoon Studios, as well as a selection of 1959–62 cartoons from the aforementioned Paramount, which were mostly the later Modern Madcaps and Noveltoons which were repackaged as "Modern Madcaps". Most voices in the Casper episodes were performed by Norma MacMillan and Bradley Bolke.
All of the new material was created for the first season in 1963-1964, but the show continued airing in reruns on ABC for six seasons, ending on January 30, 1970.[2]
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. pp. 65–67. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ a b Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 188–191. ISBN 978-1476665993.