The Peter Potamus Show

The Peter Potamus Show is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera and first broadcast on September 16, 1964. (Early promotional materials for the series carried the title Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon, but that title never appeared on screen.)

Peter Potamus was a syndicated series divided into three segments; one of Peter Potamus and So-So, one of Breezly and Sneezly, and one of Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey. Peter Potamus was a companion series to Magilla Gorilla, and both series premiered in first-run syndication before being picked up by ABC-TV in January 1966. At that time, the Breezly and Sneezly segment was swapped with Ricochet Rabbit & Droop-a-Long, a segment on the Magilla Gorilla show. After the ABC run ended in 1967, cartoons from the Magilla Gorilla and Peter Potamus shows were syndicated together.

The original Peter Potamus series used to be seen on the cable TV channel Boomerang, often as part of its anthology series Boomerang Zoo. During the original run of the cartoon (1964), at the end of each episode, the closing song ended with the phrase: "And there he goes Peter Potamus, our ideal" (The Ideal toy company was the sponsor of the television series. A similarly subtle sponsor reference appeared in the Magilla Gorilla theme song lyrics: "He's really ideal").

Cast

Image	Character	USA	Mex	Bra	Fra	Ita	Por
	Peter Potamus	Daws Butler	Omar Jasso
			Armando Gutiérrez
	So-So	Don Messick	Jorge Arvizu		Guy Piérauld
	Breezly Bruin	Howard Morris	Jorge Arvizu
			Omar Jasso
	Sneezly Seal	Mel Blanc	Guillermo Bianchi
	Colonel Fuzzby	John Stephenson	Guillermo Bianchi
			Eduardo Alcaraz
	Yippee	Doug Young	AlejandroCiangherotti				Carlos Freixo
			Pedro D'Aguillón
	Yappee	Hal Smith
	Yahooey	Daws Butler	Guillermo Bianchi
	The King	Hal Smith	Jorge Arvizu				Pedro Pinheiro
	Narrator	N/A	Jorge Arvizu
			Omar Jasso
			Carlos David Ortigosa

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