77 Motor Mouse and Autocat and It's The Wolf

First  watched  : 1972

These  were  two  Hanna-Barbera  cartoons  unbundled  from  a  Banana  Splits  - type  package  called  Cattanooga  Cats,   to  fill  the  slot  vacated  by  Harlem  Globetrotters  on  a  Tuesday.

 Motor  Mouse  and  Autocat  was  basically  Tom  and  Jerry  on  wheels  and  has  left  zero  impression  on  me.  Even  watching  a  couple  of  episodes  on  You  Tube   has   failed   to  ring  any  bells.

It's  The  Wolf   was  more  memorable  if  little  more  original. It  concerned  the  efforts  of  a  scrawny  wolf  called  Mildew  ( very  camply  voiced  by  Paul  Lynde  )  to  capture  the  bumptious  Lambsy  with  his  annoying  catchphrase  "It's  the  Wool- uff  !  ". Lambsy's  protector  Bristle  Hound  liked  living  on  the  edge , usually  letting  Mildew  travel  some  distance  with  his  bounty  before  hauling  him  back  with  his  shepherd's  crook  and  tossing  him  into  the  distance. It  was  fun  and  apparently  the  most  popular  of  the  four  segments  of  Cattanooga  Cats   but  hasn't  yet  attracted  a  re-make  although  Mildew  re-appeared  on  Laff-A-Lympics  a  few  years  down  the  line.