Question about Hanna Barbera properties:What shows do Time Warner actually own?

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Aside from Scooby Doo, Flintstones, and other known properties, do TW in any chance own Gravedale High? Or does NBC?

Or.....

Ed Grimley
Shazzan
The TV rights to Pound Puppies?
Challenge of The Gobots
Monchhichis
Wildfire
Don Coyote
These were The Days
Young Robin Hood
Wheelie and The ChopperBunch
The Hagar The Horrible Show
The Addams Family Series
The Roman Holidays
Goober and The Ghost Caspers
Delvin
Inch High
Bill and Ted's First Season

Even some of us retired people wants to know who owns shows so TW can possibly put it on DVD.

If anybody know, please post.
 
I believe for the most part, Time Warner owns any show that Hanna Barbera or Ruby Spears produced - except for those shows that are tied to an existing property owned by a different company.

I found this out a number of years ago when TV Land ran a short-lived block of Saturday Morning cartoons owned by their parent company Viacom. Among them was the H-B produced Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, which belongs to Viacom since Happy Days is their property. They also ran the Filmation-produced Brady Kids and Star Trek Animated for the same reasons. I'd never thought about it before, but obviously it makes sense. So the Bill & Ted series is likewise owned by MGM.

Most of the other shows you listed there have run on Cartoon Network at one time or another, so its pretty safe to assume they're owned by WB. However, in some cases a DVD release may be held up due to different companies fighting over their share of the pie. Example: it took an unusually long time to get the classic Popeye cartoons released on DVD thanks to tough negotiations with Popeye's comic strip publisher. The same situation might also befall Hagar and possibly the Addams. And toy companies could easily hinder the DVD release of shows like Pound Puppies, Monchichis, and (especially?) GoBots.
 
Was on CN for a while, so I'd say yes.


I believe so, yes.


Don't remember it on there, but I do remember Droopy mentioning them in the Pulp Fiction parody promo, so probably.


I'm not too sure, I just hope not.


Did HB even make this?


Probably


Never heard of it.


Most likely


Do they?


Yes, I think so.


Didn't KFS make this?


The 90's most likely, not too sure about the 70's.


Pretty sure they do, they just don't show it.


Yes they do.


Yes.


One I'll never want to see agian, but yes.


I don't think so.

I'm doing this out of memory. Did I get any right, guys?
 
I don't see any reason why WB wouldn't own Gravedale, but TVShowsOnDVD says NBC (Universal) owns it, so who knows? Midnight Patrol was co-produced with a British company, but again I don't see why not.

PS: GoBots is H-B, so is Don Coyote, and Young Robin Hood was a Cinar(Cookie Jar)/H-B co-pro.
 
The t.v. rights for Go-Bots and Pound Puppies should belong to WB, but Tonka (or whatever company it is now) holds the licensing rights for both.

Back in the 80's, while HB made the Pound Puppies series, Tri-Star made the Pound Puppies & The Legend of Big Paw feature film with no input from HB whasoever, which explains why only the voices of Whopper and Bright eyes made it into the movie, not to mention the drastically different character designs.
 
All owned by the good folks at Hanna-Barbera.

It's kind of complicated. Hanna-Barbera's Austrailian unit got bought by their partner in the endeavor, Southern Star. Southern Star also owns the original Bernstein Bears, so it's possible that Southern Star also owns Wildfire.

Hasbro. They own the property. They own the show. Hasbro also owns the bigger Transformers property. Guess which one they'll show more?

Cookie Jar Entertainment (formerly Cinar) owns the series, which they animated and produced.

King Features. They own everything involving that franchise.

Although the characters aren't owned nor licensed by Hanna-Barbera (The Lady Colton owns the franchise and Paramount is the property's licensor), both series are owned by the studio.

Both seasons are owned by MGM.
 
John Timmons said:
Aside from Scooby Doo, Flintstones, and other known properties, do TW in any chance own Gravedale High? Or does NBC?

Or.....

Ed Grimley

That's Martin Short's creation, so he probably owns the rights to the show.

Shazzan

Another show in need of updating. TW owns this.

The TV rights to Pound Puppies?
Challenge of The Gobots

Tonka Toys, which may or may not have been another company absorbed by Hasbro, made both toys, so whomever the rights holder is has these.

Wildfire
Don Coyote
These were The Days
Young Robin Hood
Wheelie and The ChopperBunch

All H-B/TW properties.

The Hagar The Horrible Show

King Features

The Addams Family Series

Sony

The Roman Holidays

TW

Goober and The Ghost Caspers

Sony, because of Partridge Family tie-ins.

Delvin
Inch High

TW

Bill and Ted's First Season

Sony or TW.
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Time Warner owns Midnight Patrol, it was produced for the Funtastic World of Hanna Barbera back in the late 80's, along with Fantastic Max, Don Coyote and Young Robin Hood.
 
But Young Robin Hood is owned by Cookie Jar Entertainment. And, do Time Warner really owns Midnight Patrol? I've never saw it on Cartoon Network nor Boomerang, I think ,I'm still working on my ownership skills.:D
 
Why hasn't Cookie Jar given the green light for a DVD of the Young Robin Hood cartoon yet? All other Cookie Jar/Cinar produced shows - Bunch of Munsch, Country Mouse and City Mouse Adventures, Legend of White Fang, Stop the Smoggies, Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Paddington Bear, Little Lulu Show, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Caillou, Flight Squad, Zooboomafoo, Wimzie's House, Mona the Vampire, Big Garage, Hugo the Movie Star, Arthur, and Postcards from Buster - have DVD releases.

Doubtful if Cinar's Adventures of the Little Koala and/or Busy World of Richard Scarry will be released on DVD since both are Viacom/Paramount property.
 
Here's what who owns what.:cool:

Sony/TriStar/Columbia:
"Jeannie"
"Partridge"
"Goober" (well,it DOES include a few PARTRIDGES in a SCARE tree! :p )


Paramount:
"Charlotte's Web"
"Happy Days"
"Laverne and Shirley"

Archie:
"Josie and the Pussycats"

MGM/Orion:
"Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" (as someone else has said)
"Sinbad, Jr."

Globetrotters,LLC.(?):
"The Harlem Globetrotters"

Sepp SA:
"Smurfs"
"Snorks"

The Berenestein Family:
"The Berenstain Bears"

Larry Harmon Productions:
"Laurel and Hardy"

RKO Radio pictures/Jomar productions:
"The Adventures of Abbott and Costello" :cool:

Heatter-Quigley:
"The Wacky Races"
"The Adventures of Dastardly and Muttley in their Flying Machines"


Ironically, of course,Time Warner owns these pre-TW-accquisition-of-HB properties :p (in other words, already owned or produced years BEFORE the accquisition ESPECIALLY the SECOND!:p )
"Superman"
"The Dukes of Hazzard"(the live WB series was a bit like Quick Draw cartoons with HB effects)
"Tom and Jerry"
"Wonder Woman"
 
Minor corrections about your list, Steve:

Goober is 100% owned by Hanna-Barbera. The Partidge crossovers is not unlike the Jeannie crossover on The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

Although Archie Comics owns the characters and the rights to make any new productions featuring the characters, Josie and the Pussycats (the series) is 100% owned by Hanna-Barbera.

Strangely, CBS owned the series and assumed the rights to the show, thus the Paramount Television logo at the end of the show during its brief TV Land run many years ago.

Therefore, rights to this show is owned by CBS Paramount Television.

Hanna-Barbera owns North American rights to both shows as well as Foofur, the other Sepp SA co-pro.

Again, same deal with Josie, although the original party owns the characters, rights to THIS version of the franchise is owned by Southern Star Productions, as their logo was prominent in DiC's recent syndie run of the series a few years ago.

Don't forget The Perils of Penelope Pitstop.

But truth be told, I think Heatter-Quigley sold their stake in the characters to TimeWarner some time ago since their name is missing from the recent Wacky Races series and will likely be missing from next year's new series.

Yeah, you've heard it here first: New Wacky Races in 2008 courtesy of Warner Bros. Animation.

Turner Entertainment owns the characters and has a stake in all productions based on the characters.

But strangely, Turner doesn't own DiC's serie adaptation of the MGM Wizard of Oz, which Turner does own.

More clarification:

- Although the Ed Grimley character is owned by Martin Short (and the Count Floyd characer is owned by Joe Flatterly), The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley is owned by Hanna-Barbera, who distributed the series and co-produced the series with the late [colossal] pictures.

- The Adventures of The Little Koala is owned by Viacom.

- Midnight Patrol is owned by Entertainment Rights, the international London-based group that also owns the libraries and characters of Filmation, UPA, Harvey, Total Television, pre-Hobbit Rankin-Bass, Little Golden Books, and scattered others. Methinks ER bought Sleepy Kids PLC and this property in perpetuity.

- Tonka is owned by Hasbro Toys, as is every brand Tonka owned.

- Gravedale High was co-produced by Hanna-Barbera and NBC Productions and distributed by NBC Productions. Therefore, the series is owned by NBC Universal.
 
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