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January 1964 - December 1965,
syndicated
January 1966 - September 1967,
ABC
Hanna-Barbera Productions
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he fastest lawman in the West,
Sheriff "ping ping ping" Ricochet Rabbit and his deputy
Droop-a-long Coyote kept the peace in the small town of
Hoop-n-Holler. Ricochet got his name from his habit of
bouncing off objects while chasing bad guys. With the speed to
outrun bullets, Ricochet created a gale of wind that pulled
everything after him when he took off at top speed. Deputy
Droop-a-long, who moved at a considerably slower pace, learned
to grab hold of something solid or be deposited in a heap with
other loose objects caught in Ricochet’s wake.
Not relying on speed alone to
round up the rustlers and bring down the bandits, Ricochet's
trick bullets had the quality of being able to circle around or
track his target - or to stop mid-air in front of something,
then pop open and produce whatever object was needed to finish
the job; like a pin to puncture a hot air balloon, a cork to
plug a robber's gun or a mallet to strike his opponent on the
head. Obviously using a different brand of bullet, most of
Droop-a-long's projectiles struggled to exit his gun, then just
dropped to the ground.
Ricochet
Rabbit & Droop-a-long
was one of three segments on the half-hour
Magilla Gorilla Show,
before being switched in its second season to air as a segment
on Peter Potamus and his
Magic Flying Balloon (later called The Peter Potamus
Show when it was picked up by ABC). Though Ricochet
Rabbit aired for a third season on The Peter Potamus Show,
only repeats from its first two seasons were shown, as no new
episodes were produced. |
