Alice in Wonderland (or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?)

Infobox Television Film
name = Alice in Wonderland (or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?)


caption =
format = Animated TV-movie
runtime = 1 hour
creator =
director = Alex Lovy
producer = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
writer = Bill Dana
starring = "(See below)"
music = Charles Strouse
country = USA
network = ABC
released = March 30 1966
imdb_id = 0275070
amg_id =1:285843

"Alice in Wonderland (or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?)" is a one-hour animated TV-movie, written by Bill Dana (who also voiced the White Knight), produced by Hanna-Barbera, and broadcast on the ABC network on March 30, 1966.

This adaptation of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" differs from most others in a number of ways; e.g., Alice falls into a TV set instead of a rabbit hole. Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble appear in this movie as a two-headed caterpiller, and Hedda Hatter (a new character) is a female counterpart of the Mad Hatter.

Rexall and Coca-Cola sponsored this feature, and characters from the movie appeared in the Rexall commercials.

After the movie was broadcast, Hanna-Barbera Records put out a soundtrack album, which is currently out of print. Although Sammy Davis, Jr. supplied the voice of the Cheshire Cat in the movie, the song "What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" was performed on the album by Scatman Crothers, due to the fact that Davis was under exclusive contract to Reprise Records at the time.

Voices and characters

The following voice actors and celebrities provided the voices for the following characters:

* Mel Blanc: Barney Rubble
* Daws Butler: King of Hearts, March Hare
* Henry Corden: Fred Flintstone (singing voice)
* Bill Dana: White Knight
* Sammy Davis, Jr.: Cheshire Cat
* Doris Drew: Alice (singing voice)
* Zsa Zsa Gabor: Queen of Hearts
* Hedda Hopper: Hedda Hatter
* Harvey Korman: Mad Hatter
* Allan Melvin: Alice’s Father, Humphrey Dumpty
* Don Messick: Doormouse, Alice’s dog Fluff
* Howard Morris: White Rabbit
* Alan Reed: Fred Flintstone (speaking voice)
* Janet Waldo: Alice (speaking voice)

Musical numbers

* "What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" by Sammy Davis, Jr. (Scatman Crothers on the soundtrack album)
* "They’ll Never Split Us Apart" by Mel Blanc and Henry Corden

References

* [http://www.toontracker.com/alice/alice.htm Toon Tracker: "Hanna-Barbera’s Alice in Wonderland" (with video and audio clips)]

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