The Great Grape Ape Show

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show_name = The Great Grape Ape Show


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runtime = 30 minutes (10 minutes per segment)
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director = Charles A. Nichols
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executive_producer = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
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voices = Bob Holt
Marty Ingels
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country = flagcountry|USA
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language = English
network = ABC
first_aired = September 6, 1975
last_aired = September 3, 1978
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num_episodes = 32
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imdb_id = 0181923|

"The Great Grape Ape Show" was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that was broadcast on ABC from 1975 to 1978.

ummary

The titular character is a 40 foot tall purple gorilla voiced by Bob Holt. His catchphrase is repeating his name twice ("Grape Ape, Grape Ape") after anything anyone says, usually as a form of agreement or acknowledgement of what was said. He travels the countryside with his canine pal (voiced by Marty Ingels), Beegle Beagle (whom he calls "Beegley Beagley"). Grape Ape's immense size tends to initially shock and frighten those unfamiliar with him, and his presence alone has often terrified people and animals, causing them to run off screaming invariably: "YEOW! It's a gorill-ill-ill-ill-la!".

Grape Ape and his friend Beegle Beagle usually move in a small yellow car driven by Beegle Beagle while Grape Ape is sitting on the roof. Given his size, his sneezes were equivalent to a hurricane; and when he cried, which was sometimes when he was homesick for his family, his tears could cause flooding in areas.

Episodes

: 1. "That Was No Idol, That Was My Ape" (prod. #79-2)/"The All-American Ape" (prod. #79-1) (first aired 9/6/75) : 2. "Movie Madness" (79-3)/"Trouble At Bad Rock" (79-4) (9/13/75) : 3. "Flying Saucery" (79-5)/"Thar's No Feud Like An Old Feud" (79-6) (9/20/75) : 4. "The Grape Race" (79-7)/"The Big Parade" (79-8) (9/27/75) : 5 "A Knight To Remember" (79-9)/"S.P.L.A.T"* (79-10) (10/4/75) : 6. "G.I. Ape" (79-11)/"The Purple Avenger" (79-12) (10/11/75) : 7. "Grapefinger" (79-13)/"Return To Balaboomba" (79-21) (10/18/75) : 8. "Amazon Ape" (79-15)/"Grape Marks The Spot" (79-16) (10/25/75) : 9. "The Invisible Ape" (79-18)/"Public Grape No. 1" (79-19) (11/1/75) : 10. "The Incredible Shrinking Grape" (79-17)/"What's A Nice Prince Like You Doin' In A Duck Like That?" (79-22) (11/8/75) : 11. "Who's New At The Zoo" (79-14)/"The Indian Grape Call" (79-24) (11/15/75) : 12. "A Grape Is Born" (79-23)/"The First Grape In Space" (79-25) (11/22/75) : 13. "S.P.L.A.T*'s Back" (Part 1) (79-20)/"S.P.L.A.T*'s Back" (Part 2) (79-26) (11/27/75**) : 14. "To Sleep Or Not To Sleep" (79-27)/"Olympic Grape" (79-28) (11/29/75) : 15. "Ali Beagle And The 40 Grapes" (79-29)/"Grape Five-O" (79-31) (12/6/75) : 16. "The Purple Avenger Strikes Again" (79-30)/"The Grape Connection" (79-32) (12/13/75)

^*Telecast at Noon (EST), Thursday afternoon, November 27, 1975, a Thanksgiving, as part of ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival.

Production credits

* Executive producers: WILLIAM HANNA and JOSEPH BARBERA
* Directed by: Charles A. Nichols.
* Creative producer: Iwao Takamoto
* Recording director: Gordon Hunt
* Assistant recording director: Maxine Hoppe
* Story: Tom Dagenais, Joel Kane, Jack Mendelsohn, Ray Parker, Duane Poole, Dick Robbins
* Storyboard direction: Don Sheppard, Paul Sommer, Tom Yakutis
* Voices: Joan Gerber, Virginia Gregg, Bob Hastings, Bob Holt, Marty Ingels, Allan Melvin, Don Messick, Alan Oppenheimer, Hal Smith, John Stephenson, Lurene Tuttle, Lennie Weinrib, Frank Welker, Paul Winchell
* Production design: Bob Singer
* Production supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
* Graphics: Iraj Paran
* Musical director: Hoyt Curtin
* Musical supervisor: Paul DeKorte
* Layout unit manager: Owen Fitzgerald
* Layout: Pete Alavardo, Dale Barnhart, Bob Givens, Alex Ignatiev, Bill Lignante, Dan Noonan, Tony Rivera, Terry Slade
* Animation supervisor: Jerry Hathcock
* Animation: Steve Clark, Izzy Ellis, Hugh Fraser, Bob Hathcock, Bill Hutton, Lou Kachivas, Tony Love, Don Patterson, Ed Parks, Morrie Reden, Ken Southworth, Bob Trochim, Russ Von Neida, Ken Walker
* Technical supervision: Frank Paiker
* Checking and scene planning: Evelyn Sherwood
* Ink and paint supervision: Billie Kerns
* Xerography: Robert "Tiger" West
* Background supervision: Fernando Montealegre
* Background: Fernando Arce, Bill Proctor, John Currin
* Sound direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty
* Supervising film editor: Larry Cowan
* Editors: Pat Foley, Joe Sandusky, James Yaras, Richard Allen, Terry Moore
* Negative consultant: William E. DeBoer
* Post production supervision: Joed Eaton
* Production manager: Jayne Barbera
* Camera: Curt Hall, Roy Wade, Ron Jackson, George Epperson
* A Hanna-Barbera Production
* © 1976 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.

Broadcast history

The show was originally broadcast as a segment of "The New Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape Show" during the 1975-76 season; for the 1976-77 season, the show became "The Tom and Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show", and in 1977-78, "The Great Grape Ape Show" became its own half-hour show on Sunday Mornings. Thirty-two 10-minute installments of "Grape Ape" were made; two were aired per 30-minute episode. Grape Ape also appeared as a member of "The Yogi Yahooeys" team on "Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics" and "Scooby's All-Stars" from 1977 to 1979. Grape Ape would often team up with Yakky Doodle.

In the 1980s, repeats of "The Great Grape Ape Show" were shown on USA Cartoon Express; they were later restored and run on Cartoon Network and can also be seen on Boomerang, often as part of the "Boomerang Zoo" package (the full half-hour version has yet to be seen on the network).

Other Appearances

* In the "Dexter's Laboratory" episode "Chubby Cheese," Grape Ape (voiced by Jeff Bennett) was among the animatronic Hanna-Barbera characters in the animatronic show as he closes out Chubby's song.

* Grape Ape and Beegle Beagle appeared in the "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" episode "Grape Juiced" with Grape Ape voiced by John Michael Higgins and Beegle Beagle voiced by Doug Preis. In that episode, Grape Ape is accused of using steroids at the recent Laff-A-Lympics. Later on in that episode, it was revealed that Grape Ape is the father of Gigi's child.

"The Great Grape Ape" in other languages

* Brazilian Portuguese: "João Grandão"
* Spanish: "Simiolón y Listolín"
* French: "Momo et Ursul"
* Italian: "Gorilla Lilla"
* Persian Farsi: گوریل انگوری

External links

* [http://www.tv.com/grape-ape/show/20201/summary.html Grape Ape at TV.com]
* [http://grapemumb.50megs.com/ Tom and Jerry's mid '70s co-stars]
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