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YOGI's SPACE RACE - Race Through Oz / Space Station USA

Air Date/Released Saturday, October 28, 1978
Station/Studio NBC / Hanna-Barbera Prods.
Featuring Joe Besser (Solo)

YOGI's SPACE RACE (1978 - 1979) recycled Hanna-Barbera's WACKY RACES & LAFF-A-LYMPICS formats, and capitalized on the STAR WARS craze. Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Jabberjaw and several new characters launch into outer space to engage in inter-planetary races. The villain is Captain Good, the secret alter ego of evil Phantom Phink, who switches between identities as needed to win. Yogi's and Huck's Space Race teams moonlight as THE GALAXY GOOF-UPS (1978 - 1979), a bumbling interplanetary police force under the command of Captain Snerdley. When they're not enforcing space law, the Goof-Ups can be found at the Galaxy Disco.

Joe Besser is the voice of Scare Bear, Yogi's sidekick. Gary Owens, sponsor of The Three Stooges' 1983 star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame costars as the announcer and play-by-play commentator. Jabberjaw (Frank Welker) is a friendly great white shark, adapted on Curly Howard and Rodney Dangerfield.

YOGI's SPACE RACE: Space twisters unexpectedly transport the space racers across the galactic rainbow to the emerald planet of Oz. The race leads from the Munchkin village to the city of Oz, and Phantom Phink plots with the wicked space Witch of the West to win the race.
GALAXY GOOF-UPS: Missing for centuries, Space Station USA turns up on Command Central's sensors, and Snerdley assigns the Goof-Ups to retrieve the station and deliver it to the Galaxsonian Museum. But the Space Collector is determined to stop them, and add it to his personal museum.


13 episodes of each series were produced. Initially, both aired as segments of the 90-minute YOGI's SPACE RACE (with two additional H-B shows, THE BUFORD FILES and THE GALLOPING GHOST). After 8 weeks, GALAXY GOOF-UPS spun off into its own half-hour show, and SPACE RACE continued in a 1-hour format. In early 1979, SPACE RACE also became a stand-alone half-hour series.

Voice Cast: Joe Besser (Scare Bear), Gary Owens (Announcer), Daws Butler (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Sonny), Mel Blanc (Quack Up), Frank Welker (Jabberjaw, Buford Bloodhound, Capt. Good, Clean Cat, Nugget Nose, Phantom Phink, Sinister Sludge), Pat Paris (Rita), Marilyn Schreffler (Wendy, Wicked Witch of the West), John Stephenson (Capt. Snerdley, General Bullhorn, Space Collector), Don Messick, Ted Cassidy, Bob Hastings, Henry Corden, Lennie Weinrib

Crew: Bill Hanna, Joe Barbera (Executive Producers), Iwao Takamoto, Ray Patterson, Carl Urbano (Directors), Art Scott (Producer), Andy Heyward, Ray Parker, Jim Ryan, Herb Armstrong, George Atkins, Haskell Barkin, Jack Bonestell, Doug Booth, Chuck Couch, Mark Fink, Gary Greenfield, George Greer, Len Janson, Mark Jones, Glenn Leopold, Sam Rocca, Susan Stewart (Writers and Story Editors)
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