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The Yogi Bear Show Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1961 - 1961
Episode 1
Oinks and Boinks/Major Operation/Out of Luck Duck
Mon, Jan 30, 196130 mins
Major Minor, the game hunter, has lost face and may be forced out of the Adventurer's Club unless he can do something startling -like catching the wily lion, Snagglepuss, who has eluded him for years. The Major approaches Snagglepuss in Snag's cage at the city zoo. He makes a deal: he will release Snag if the lion will consent to being recaptured. Snagglepuss consents and the Major is restored to his former eminence in the club.
Episode 2
Booby Trapped Bear/Feud for Thought/Hop, Duck and Listen
Sat, Feb 11, 196130 mins
Melvin Martin and Calvin Cloy, two mountaineers, ask for the hand of Susie Sal, the prettiest gal in the mountains. Since it's "proposal Sunday," Susie Sal gives the two mountain swains a task. To the first one who brings her a genuine mountain lion fur, she will give her hand in marriage. By coincidence Snagglepuss is taking his morning stroll and is set upon by the lovesick hunters. A chase ensues and ends with Snagglepuss proposing to and winning Susie Sal.
Episode 3
Gleesome Threesome/Live and Lion/Dog Flight
Sun, Feb 26, 196130 mins
Yakky, the duck, watches the game warden nail up a sign announcing the opening of the duck hunting season. When he begins to be peppered by shot, he hides in Snagglepuss' mailbox. Snagglepuss is delighted to find the duck, and prepares to put him in the stew pot. But the lion's soft heart overcomes him and he spends the afternoon teaching Yakky how to escape gunfire. Then the warden comes along with a new sign -- it says the mountain lion season is now open.
Episode 4
A Bear Pair/Fraidy Cat Lion/Easter Duck
Sat, Mar 4, 196130 mins
A mouse is annoying the family of Mr. and Mrs. Evil J. Evil, the scientists, and Snagglepuss is offered food and lodging if he will get rid of the pest. The trouble is that the Evil's little boy has been experimenting with the mouse, and the furry rodent is now six feet tall!
Episode 5
Spy Guy/Royal Ruckus/Foxy Duck
Fri, Mar 10, 196130 mins
The evil Count Down kidnaps the queen and Snagglepuss, true to his king, sets out to save her majesty. Things look bad when the Count prepares to duel Snagglepuss, but the queen herself steps in and saves him. As his reward for his devotion to his monarch, the queen decides, instead of a bear rug, she will make him her own personal mountain lion rug. Snagglepuss loudly complains about the queen's favorite new fashion, spike heels, but to no avail.
Episode 6
Do or Diet/The Roaring Lion/Railroaded Duck
Wed, Apr 12, 196130 mins
Snagglepuss, AWOL from a circus train, hears that 500 sheepskins are to be given college students. On the theory that where there are sheepskins there must be sheep to eat, he goes to collage. There, he joins a sports team because they are to play the "Rams". Snag helps win the school's first victory in 72 years and he gets the sheepskins as a reward. The circus truant officer appears so Snagglepuss rejoins the circus.
Episode 7
Bears and Bees/Paws for Applause/Duck Hunting
Mon, Apr 17, 196130 mins
Snagglepuss sees his dream of TV stardom realized the day he applies for a film job and is hired on the spot. It's because he's the only available actor who can play the part of a lion. Somebody at the casting office had sent elephants even though lions had been ordered. After being mauled by a Samson character getting flattened by a Jungle Man and lighting a match in the dynamite shed, Snagglepuss in not so sure about being famous. When he learns the cameras had run out of film and everything has to be shot over, he walks out for good.
Episode 8
Biggest Show-Off on Earth/Knights and Daze/Whistle-Stop and Go
Mon, May 1, 196130 mins
Legend has it that Snagglepuss the Lion-hearted was King Arthur's favorite knight. To gain a seat at the round table, Snagglepuss had gone on a quest to bring back the sword belonging to the evil Stormy Knight. Snagglepuss endured myriad trials and hardships and finally succeeded in gaining possession of the prized sword. When he returned, King Arthur asked to see the sword and Snagglepuss just happened to have it on him -- right where Stormy Knight had stuck it in him.
Episode 9
Genial Genie/The Gangsters All Here/Duck the Music
Wed, May 10, 196130 mins
Snagglepuss no sooner hears a police report that Muggsy, Public Enemy Number One, is at large when Muggsy and fellow ruffian McGoofy enter Snag's house. Snagglepuss hides in the closets, disguises himself as a lion rug and tries other ruses to avoid detection. The hoodlums leave in terror when they discover Snag is a lion.
Episode 10
Cub Scout Boo Boo/Having a Bowl/School Fool
Mon, Jun 19, 196130 mins
Snagglepuss finds a missing baby and goes to the address where the baby lives to collect the reward. But it is the lion-hating Major Minor's baby and the Major gets out his hunting rifle to "reward" Snagglepuss with a bullet. Snagglepuss has difficulty trying to avoid the Major because the baby knows all Snag's hiding places and leads the Major to them. Snag finally solves the problem by disguising himself as Santa and fooling the child.
Episode 11
Home Sweet Jellystone/Diaper Desperado/Oh Duckter
Sat, Jul 1, 196130 mins
Snagglepuss is pressed into service unwillingly as a baby-sitter for the violently active son of Big Hombre, the notorious bank robber. Conscientious Snagglepuss safely sees the youngster through a bull roping experience, an encounter with a careening dump cart and a cement mixer mix-up. Finally a telegram arrives telling Snag that Big Hombre is in prison and that Snag is to care for the child permanently.
Episode 12
Love-Bugged Bear/Arrow Error/It's a Duck's Life
Sat, Jun 10, 196130 mins
Snagglepuss dons a green outfit to emulate the great Robin Hood, about whom he has been reading. He decides to protect the little ducks from the hunters who infest the forest. The ducks don't understand and they turn Snag's bow and arrows on him. Later, Snag tries to succor an elephant in distress. In despair, Snag finally asks the zoo keeper to put him up in the zoo.
Episode 13
Bearface Disguise/Twice Shy/Happy Birthdaze
Thu, Jul 20, 196130 mins
Snagglepuss is in a cage while the Major lectures at the Adventurers' Club. Suddenly the Major's twin brother, Sir Clyde, arrives in the United States. Sir Clyde is a devotee of animal photography, despises hunters and goes around freeing poodles from leashes and birds from cages. Snagglepuss is alternately freed by one twin and recaptured by the other.
Episode 14
Slap Happy Birthday/Cloak and Stagger/Horse Collared
Wed, Aug 2, 196130 mins
Snagglepuss graduates from a mail-order musketeer school. He is tricked by the fun-loving musketeers into believing that a little fat man is a spy. Snag dunks the fat man repeatedly in the moat, chases him around, and too late learns that the fat man is the king.
Episode 15
A Bear Living/Remember Your Lions/Ha-Choo to You!
Thu, Aug 10, 196130 mins
Tired of having his only performing be at the business end of a whip, Snagglepuss tries to better his lot as a Shakespearean actor. The big game hunter, Major Minor, buys a front row seat to Snag's first show at starts shooting at the lion thespian. The manager will not permit this, so the Major disguises himself as Juliet and walks on stage. Then the Major and Snagglepuss decide to work up an act, only to start bickering over who gets top billing.
Episode 16
Disguise and Gals/Remember the Daze/Foxy Proxy
Wed, Aug 16, 196130 mins
Major Minor is singled out for adulation by the famous television show, This is Your Strife.". The Major is immediately embarrassed by the first surprise guest -- Snagglepuss, who lets it slip that the great hunter has never been able to capture him. In the resulting pandemonium, the major is sent to the moon in a rocket.