US TV

I remembered what one* was I going to do last week: I can’t imagine why it slipped out of my mind.

It was, of course, Help!… It’s the Hair Bear Bunch!  

Possessing one of the longest, oddest names of any TV programme, Help!… It’s the Hair Bear Bunch! was a show of its times – the swinging, free love, hippies and playboys 70s. Produced by Hanna-Barbera in 1971, it featured three bears who live in a zoo: the giant-afroed Hair Bear, Square Bear and Bubi Bear. However, unbeknownst to the zoo keeper, their cave is really a convertible bachelor pad, and the pacifist sleuth of bears spends all its time trying to escape from the zoo to get to parties. This they do with the aid of their invisible motorcycle.

Huh. How 70s is that.

It got cancelled pretty quickly and obviously hasn’t lasted, being so much a product of its time. It probably only lingers on as a memory for anyone who watched Multi-Coloured Swap Shop on Saturday mornings in the UK.

Anyway, here are the titles. The theme’s pretty catchy though.

* By which I mean ‘old title sequence that probably isn’t that weird but which makes Rob a little bit nostalgic’. I know what I’m doing next week, too. How’s that for planning?