The Hillbilly Bears is a made-for-TV cartoon that William Hanna and Joseph Barbera produced for their company, Hanna-Barbera. It ran from 1965 to 1966 as a segment under The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show, with a total of 26 episodes airing on NBC. Each episode followed a hillbilly family of bears, the Ruggs, with father Paw Rugg, mother Maw Rugg, son Shag Rugg and daughter Floral Rugg.
When we started creating characters for our YouTube channel, Ruggs were in a later lineup we did for modeling, we made them as they were part of HB's history, I did no modeling work for the characters.
The first Hillbilly Bears story we produced for the channel, titled "What's Up Pop," which wasn't written by me. We likely don't have the original storyboard anymore. The plot followed Maw letting Shag play outside. The second story, titled "The Life of a Hillbilly," which also wasn't written by me, involved Shag talking about hillbilly life. In the final story, "A Day with Paw," which I also didn't write, had Shag having some fun with Paw..
We are still in the process of writing more Hillbilly Bears stories, as well as other Hanna-Barbera stories that you may see in the future. However, we haven't written a Hillbilly Bears story in a while as of 2023, but I hope we can create more in the near future.
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