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32-534: As with many Hanna-Barbera shows of the time, CB Bears was an anthology series with six regular segments: The CB Bears ; Blast-Off Buzzard ; Heyyy, It's the King! ; Posse Impossible ; Shake, Rattle & Roll ; and Undercover Elephant . Each segment riffed on a popular television show or film. The CB Bears segment was a spoof on the 1976 hit show Charlie's Angels , with a trio of ursine investigators given assignments by an unseen dispatcher. Similarly, Heyyy, It's

64-560: A Sesame Street sketch of a lecture about words beginning with "S" which happened to be the character's favorite letter of the alphabet. Weinrib again voiced the Man of Steel, and his alter-ego Clark Kent, for a 1972 episode of The Brady Kids , "Cindy's Super Friend". Weinrib voiced Davey Jones' Uncle Sedgwick, Hotel Desk Clerk and Shaggy's Great-Uncle Nathaniel on The New Scooby-Doo Movies . He voiced Cap'n Noah Smitty in Yogi's Ark Lark . He also

96-472: A Twilight Zone episode in 1963. He also appeared on single episodes of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. ("Winky Blintz" in "The Off-Broadway Affair", 1966) Happy Days ("Duke" in "Ritchie's Cup Runneth Over", 1974), and on two episodes of Adam-12 in 1973 and 1974 as Tony the police garage mechanic. He also guest starred in the 1974 Emergency! episode called "Firehouse Four" as Fred Gibson. Weinrib's directing career consists of three feature films, all in

128-580: A 1970s disco dance, and the show's overall premise made reference to the CB radio craze of the mid-1970s (by this point waning in popularity). Physically and personality-wise, Hustle, Boogie, and Bump resemble Hair Bear, Bubi Bear, and Square Bear, respectively, from the earlier cartoon Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch! ; Daws Butler provided the same Phil Silvers-esque voice for both Hustle and Hair. Blast-Off Buzzard (vocal effects provided by Daws Butler )

160-501: A collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology . Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express. Many popular old-time radio programs were anthology series. On some series, such as Inner Sanctum Mysteries , the only constant was the host, who introduced and concluded each dramatic presentation. One of

192-449: A compilation titled Scooby-Doo & Friends: Mostly Ghostly by Hanna-Barbera Home Video in 1990, "The Ghostly Ghoul is a Ghastly Guest", "Spooking the Spooks" and "Guess What's Coming to Dinner". The series has not yet been released on DVD as of 2023. Anthology series An anthology series is a written series, radio , television , film , or video game series that presents

224-796: A different story and a different set of characters in each different episode , season , segment, or short . These usually have a different cast in each episode, but several series in the past, such as Four Star Playhouse , employed a permanent troupe of character actors who would appear in a different drama each week. Some anthology series, such as Studio One , began on radio and then expanded to television. The word comes from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία ( anthología , "flower-gathering"), from ἀνθολογέω ( anthologéō , "I gather flowers"), from ἄνθος ( ánthos , "flower") + λέγω ( légō , "I gather, pick up, collect"), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60   BCE, originally as Στέφανος ( στέφανος ( stéphanos , "garland")) to describe

256-558: A hillbilly voice), Big Duke (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating John Wayne ) and Blubber (voiced by Chuck McCann ) jail notorious outlaws by out-bungling the rascals. In every segment, the Sheriff goes after some no-good polecat which ends with the bad guys behind bars. A prototype version of the posse was featured in the final episode of Hong Kong Phooey . Shake (voiced by Paul Winchell ), Rattle (voiced by Lennie Weinrib ), and Roll (voiced by Joe E. Ross ) are three ghosts who run

288-554: A new type of anthology format in the U.S. Each season, rather than each episode, is a standalone story. Several actors have appeared in the various seasons, but playing different roles—in an echo of the Four Star Playhouse format. The success of American Horror Story has spawned other season-long anthologies such as American Crime Story and True Detective . Anthology film series are rare compared to their TV and radio counterparts. There have been several attempts within

320-512: A weekly program from the second season until the end of its run in 1956. Ida Lupino was brought on board as the de facto fourth star, though unlike Powell, Boyer, and Niven, she owned no stock in the company. American television networks would sometimes run summer anthology series which consisted of unsold television pilots . Beginning in 1971, the long-run Masterpiece Theatre drama anthology series brought British productions to American television. In 2011, American Horror Story debuted

352-530: Is a buzzard in aviator gear and a de facto villain who chases Crazylegs, a wacky football helmet-wearing snake who outruns the buzzard. Their situation was very similar to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner . This is a non-speaking segment. A cool, Fonzie -patterned lion named King (voiced by Lennie Weinrib ) alongside his high school classmates Big H the Hippopotamus (voiced by Sheldon Allman ), Clyde

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384-497: The Golden Age of Television of the 1950s with series such as The United States Steel Hour and The Philco Television Playhouse . Dick Powell came up with an idea for an anthology series, Four Star Playhouse , with a rotation of established stars every week, four stars in all. The stars would own the studio and the program, as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had done successfully with Desilu studio. Powell had intended for

416-722: The Gorilla (voiced by Don Messick ), Skids the Alligator (voiced by Marvin Kaplan ), Yuka Yuka the Hyena (voiced by Lennie Weinrib ), and cheerleaders Sheena the Lioness (voiced by Ginny McSwain ) and Zelda the Ostrich (voiced by Susan Silo ) attempt schemes to get into the spotlight. The Sheriff of Saddlesore (voiced by Bill Woodson ) and his hopeless posse of cowboys : Stick (voiced by Daws Butler in

448-808: The Mouse (voiced by Bob Hastings ) work for Central Control and solve mysteries. Recurring gags of this segment included disguises worn by Undercover Elephant tending to give him away (since some were ordered from the back of a comic book), Loudmouse blowing his cover when staking out the villain, Undercover Elephant being unable to avoid the exploding messages (a-la Mission Impossible ) being sent to him by his Chief (voiced by Michael Bell ), and to resist peanuts . The segments indicate in colors by which characters starred in them: All thirteen episodes of Posse Impossible were released on VHS by Hanna-Barbera Home Video on November 25, 1988. In addition, three episodes of Shake, Rattle & Roll were released on VHS as part of

480-529: The beach party genre : Beach Ball for Paramount in 1965, and Wild Wild Winter and Out of Sight , both for Universal in 1966. Weinrib also co-wrote the 1963 joke book The Elephant Book . Weinrib retired from acting in the 1990s and moved to Santiago, Chile . For the Family Guy episode " Petarded ", Seth MacFarlane explained on the Season 4 DVD commentary he wanted to use Weinrib to voice Timer for

512-533: The " Time for Timer " ABC public service announcements in the early 1970s. A native of the Bronx , Weinrib got his start in show business working with Spike Jones , then later in The Billy Barnes Revue . He made guest appearances on The Dick Van Dyke Show , The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis , Burke's Law , The Munsters , Happy Days and Adam-12 . He charted nationally (Music Vendor, #132) with

544-575: The "Vehicle Voltron" series. He also voiced a secretary bird and king Leonidas the lion in the animated sequence of the Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks . Another Disney role Weinrib voiced was an evil sorcerer named Zorlok for an episode of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears . He also voices the school bully Lenny Warthog on the NBC series Kissyfur . He also lent his voice to Superman in 1970 for

576-597: The Haunted Inn, a hotel for ghosts and other supernatural creatures as they tend to their needs. Their workplace hijinks are sometimes disrupted by self-proclaimed "ghost exterminator" and nemesis Sidney Merciless (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer ) who wants to rid the world of ghosts. Shake, Rattle, and Roll also tend to have problems with the Ghost Mouse as their Poltercat helps in attempts to get rid of it. Undercover Elephant (voiced by Daws Butler ) and his sidekick Loudmouse

608-482: The King! was a takeoff on the 1974 hit Happy Days , with a royal lion based on Henry Winkler's famous Fonzie . Blast-Off Buzzard imitated Looney Tunes ' Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner ; Posse Impossible was a cowboy show caricaturing John Wayne ; Shake, Rattle & Roll featured a trio of ghosts imitating comics Hugh Herbert , Lou Costello and Marty Allen ; and Undercover Elephant spoofed Mission: Impossible . On February 4, 1978, NBC repackaged

640-655: The Super 7 , and Hong Kong Phooey . He was the voice for both Roland and Ratfink in that series of cartoon shorts. He also provided the voice of Timer in the 1970s " Time for Timer " series of educational spots shown on the ABC network . In Voltron: Defender of the Universe , he voiced both Hunk and the villain Prince Lotor in the "Lion Voltron series", as well as Captain Newley and Cliff in

672-474: The all-star Hanna-Barbera animated series Yo Yogi! . Weinrib appeared on The Dick Van Dyke Show three times, each time playing a similar character, a loud, over-the-top, insult-type comedian. This character was named "Jackie Brewster" ("Buddy Can You Spare a Job", 1961), "Danny Brewster" ("The Sam Pomerantz Scandals", 1963), and "Phil Franklin" ("The Impractical Joke", 1965). He also appeared in Miniature ,

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704-532: The comedy single "Prez Conference" in 1962. He also guest starred in an Emergency! episode called "Firehouse Four" as Fred Gibson, an overweight, accident-prone man. Woody Allen 's character in his 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite was named "Lenny Weinrib". He was most notable for his voice acting work. Starting with The Flintstones where he provided the dialogue for Jimmy Darrock , Weinrib provided numerous voices for such animated series as Inch High, Private Eye , The New Adventures of Batman , Tarzan and

736-473: The country solving mysteries in a tacky garbage truck called the Perfume Wagon (the CB term for a garbage truck). A sultry-voiced female named Charlie (voiced by Susan Davis) contacts the bears on the truck's CB radio to give them their assignments. This show was "inspired" by the hit TV series Charlie's Angels (Bump wore a blonde hairstyle similar to Farrah Fawcett ). Each of the bears' names are based on

768-610: The earliest such programs was The Collier Hour , broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1927 to 1932. As radio's first major dramatic anthology, it adapted stories and serials from Collier's Weekly in a calculated move to increase subscriptions and compete with The Saturday Evening Post . Airing on the Wednesday prior to each week's distribution of the magazine, the program soon moved to Sundays in order to avoid spoilers with dramatizations of stories simultaneously appearing in

800-523: The horror genre to have a franchise with an anthology format, such as with the Halloween franchise where the third film, Halloween III: Season of the Witch , was meant to be the beginning of a series of anthology horror films, but due to negative reception that plan was shelved. Anthology video games have been very rare since the 1980s. Lennie Weinrib Leonard Weinrib (April 29, 1935 – June 28, 2006)

832-495: The magazine. Radio anthology series provided for science fiction , horror , suspense, and mystery genres (all produced in the US, unless noted): The final episode of Suspense was broadcast on September 30, 1962, a date that has traditionally been seen as marking the end of the old-time radio era. However, genre series produced since 1962 include: In the history of television, live anthology dramas were especially popular during

864-437: The program to feature himself, Charles Boyer , Joel McCrea , and Rosalind Russell . When Russell and McCrea backed out, David Niven came on board as the third star. The fourth star was initially a guest star. CBS liked the idea, and Four Star Playhouse made its debut in fall of 1952. It ran on alternate weeks only during the first season, alternating with Amos 'n' Andy . It was successful enough to be renewed and became

896-479: The show as part of the two-hour The Go-Go Globetrotters , which also featured reruns of the Harlem Globetrotters series. This lasted until September 3. In syndication, CB Bears was shown in a shortened half-hour format with Blast-Off Buzzard and Posse Impossible ; Heyyy, It's the King! was also shown in a shortened half-hour format with Shake, Rattle & Roll and Undercover Elephant . The show

928-548: The title character in Magic Mongo . He did the voices for Moonrock and Sergeant Boulder on The Flintstone Comedy Show . in 1977, he voiced the title character on the CB Bears segment " Heyyy. it's the King ". In 1986, he was the original voice of Freddy Flintstone on The Flintstone Kids , before Scott Menville replaced him the following season. In 1991, he voiced Max the Mole on

960-532: Was also rebroadcast on Cartoon Network from 1995 to 1997. The CB Bears theme is also heard in the ending credits of The Skatebirds on CBS and Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels on ABC. Hustle (voiced by Daws Butler impersonating Phil Silvers ), Boogie (voiced by Chuck McCann ) and Bump (voiced by Henry Corden ) are a trio of anthropomorphic bear detectives disguised as trash collectors . They travel

992-510: Was an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show H.R. Pufnstuf , Grimace in McDonaldland commercials, the title role in Inch High, Private Eye , the original voice of Scrappy-Doo on Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo , Hunk and Prince Lotor on Voltron , and Bigmouth on The Smurfs . He also was the voice for Timer in

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1024-604: Was the original voice of Scrappy-Doo on the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo TV series before Don Messick took over the role. He voiced the title role in H.R. Pufnstuf throughout the show's entire run from 1969 through 1971, and also wrote every episode of the series. He also appeared as H.R. Pufnstuf as a guest on The Dating Game in Christmas 1972 and on one episode of the TV show CHiPs in 1977. On The Krofft Supershow , he played

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