93 Help!...it's the Hair Bear Bunch

First  watched : 1972

 Help ... it's  the  Hair  Bear  Bunch   was  a  lesser  cartoon  from  Hanna-Barbera  that  hasn't  been  repeated  much  perhaps  because  it  was  so  explicitly  linked  to  the  fashions  of  its  time.

The  Bunch  are  led  by  Hair  Bear  , a  cool  ( for  1972 ) character  with  a  blond  Afro, scarf  and  waistcoat.  In  personality  he's  pretty  similar  to  an  anarchic  Top  Cat  with  square  zoo  director  Mr  Peevly  as  his  Dibble. He  is  backed  up  by  Square  Bear, a  dozy  strong  man  and  the  tiny, incomprehensible   Bubi  Bear  who  appears  to  have  been  based  on  Stanley  Unwin. The  Bears  are  the  chief  mischief  makers  at  the  zoo  and  arrange  numerous  "escapes"  although  they  don't  want  to  permanently  leave  their  comfortable  berth  at  the  zoo  and  Peevly  sometimes  uses  the  threat  of  expulsion  to  the  woods  as  a  threat. Running  gags  include  the  bears having  a  bachelor  pad  at  the  back  of  their  cage  disguised  by  secret  panels  and  Square  Bear's  invisible  motorcycle

Just  16  episodes  were  made  and  though  I  remember  enjoying  it  at  the  time  little  of  it  has  stuck  in  the  memory.