63 Yogi Bear

First  watched  : Uncertain

As  far  as  I  can  make  out  Hanna  - Barbera's   Yogi  first  came  to  our  screens  on  31  March  1971  although  he  first  appeared  on  The  Huckleberry  Hound  Show  in  the  US  in  1958, getting  his  breakout  show  in  1961. Yogi  Bear  was  inspired  by  a  real-life  problem, the  threat  to  visitors   posed  by  real-life  bears  in  U.S.  National  Parks, exacerbated  by  tourist  feeding  of  the  animals.  However  Yogi , his  pal  Boo  Boo  and  love  interest  Cindy  were  all  sympathetic,  never  resorting  to  violence  when  raiding  picnics   and  their  chief  adversary  Head  Ranger  Smith  was  presented  as  a  humourless  killjoy.  Yogi's  character  was  based  on  Art  Carney  in  The  Honeymooners , an  American  sitcom  of  the  fifties.

Yogi  has  never  really  gone  away  with  the  inevitable  live  action / CGI  film  in  2010  which  was  almost-as-inevitably  panned.