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The Quick Draw McGraw Show is the third cartoon television production created by Hanna-Barbera, starring an anthropomorphic cartoon horse named Quick Draw McGraw following their success with Ruff and Reddy and The Huckleberry Hound Show. The show debuted in syndication in the fall of 1959, sponsored by Kellogg's. Voice actor Daws Butler performed the lead character, Quick Draw. The series featured 3 cartoons per episode, one each by Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey, father and son dog duo Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and cat and mouse detectives Snooper and Blabber.
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Michael Maltese crafted most of the episode stories. Screen Gems originally syndicated the series, followed later by Rhodes Productions, Taft H-B Program Sales, Worldvision Enterprises, then Turner Broadcasting, and now Warner Bros. Television (through their 1996 purchase of Turner). The series was previously aired on Cartoon Network until 2000 and currently, the show is aired on the Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang, the Canadian station Teletoon Retro and occasionally on the Infinity channel, broadcasting in the Middle East.
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Quick Draw would also assume the identity of the masked vigilante "El Kabong" (a parody of Zorro). His introduction went as follows - "Of all the heroes in legend and song. there's none as brave as El Kabong" - As El Kabong, Quick Draw would attack his foes by swooping down on a rope with the onomatopoeiac war cry "KABOOOOOONG!", or, at times, "OLAYYYYEEEE!" and hitting them on the head with an acoustic guitar which is always referred to as a "kabonger", producing a distinctive kabong sound and usually destroying the guitar in the process.
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All 45 of his cartoons that originally aired between 1959 and 1962 were written by Michael Maltese, known best for his work at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio.
The cartoon was one of six TV shows to win an Emmy Award in 1960.
In the Spanish-dubbed version as El Kabong was called "El Caba-Zorro" or "El Relámpago".
Quick Draw McGraw occasionally appeared in other Hanna-Barbera productions including 1973's Yogi's Gang, 1977-1978's Laff-a-Lympics, a celebrity roast honoring Fred Flintstone on the TV special Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978) and the 1979 TV special Casper's First Christmas and in an episode from the short lived 1978 series Yogi's Space Race.
On the cartoon's soundtrack, the "kabong" sound effect was produced by a foley artist striking the detuned open strings of a cheap acoustic guitar. (Without any of the obvious cartoon theatrics, this would also be reprised by several professional wrestlers, most notably Jeff Jarrett and The Honky Tonk Man, referred to then either under El Kabong's name or as the "Acoustic Equalizer").
Quick Draw's dog Snuffles made a special guest appearance on an episode of Johnny Bravo in which Johnny follows a woman who he mistakes for his mother. In the episode, Snuffles is assigned by the police to help find Johnny - provided, of course, he is given doggy snacks along the way.
During the closing sequence when Baba Louie falls off the stagecoach and the strongbox falls on his head, Quick Draw asks Baba if he is all right. Baba answers, in a low voice, "Sawright!". This was a direct reference to the ventriloquist Senor Wences, who while performing his act would open a box and ask a bodyless head if he was all right. The head would reply, in a low voice, "Sawright!", and Senor Wences would then slam the box shut, just like the strongbox slammed shut on Baba Louie after he answered Quick Draw. Senor Wences often appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in the 1950s, while the Quick Draw McGraw show was on.
Quick Draw was the mascot for Sugar Smacks in the early 1960s.
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