Banana Splits

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, syndicated as The Banana Splits and Friends, was a television program featuring both live action and animation, first broadcast in 1968. It featured the adventures of a musical quartet, meant to be reminiscent of the Beatles and the Monkees, consisting of Fleegle, a beagle; Bingo, a gorilla; Drooper, a lion; and Snorky, an elephant. The characters were played by actors in fleecy costumes: the voices were provided by such notable voice actors as Paul Winchell and Daws Butler. They lived in Hocus Pocus Park, where the cuckoo clock always read 6:55. "Tra-la-la Song" was their theme. Fleegle was the only character that did not wear glasses. The cartoon segments included The Arabian Knights, The Three Musketeers, The Hillbilly Bears, and Micro Venture. In a live action segment of the show known as Danger Island, a young Jan-Michael Vincent played Lincoln 'Link' Simmons. The serial was helmed by future Superman director Richard Donner. The series was created by Hanna-Barbera and Sid and Marty Krofft.

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