Precious Pupp is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that aired as a segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show from October 2, 1965, to September 7, 1967.
Plot
The cartoon featured a large mangy dog named Precious Pupp, voiced by
Don Messick, and his owner Granny Sweet, voiced by
Janet Waldo. Granny was a kindly woman with a passion for motorcycles, completely oblivious to the fact that her beloved, affectionate pet was something of a neighborhood terror. He had a habit of slipping behind a victim quietly – sometimes in defense of their home, sometimes just for the fun of it – and jolting him with a ferocious series of barks... but never where or when Granny could catch him in the act.
Unlike many cartoon animals, Precious did not speak. His usual vocalism was an asthmatic-sounding, "wheezing" laugh used even more famously by Muttley, a Hanna-Barbera character introduced three years later. He usually outsmarted his enemies, most notably Bruiser, the neighborhood bulldog, but he also usually outsmarted his oblivious owner, too.
Twenty-six episodes were produced.
List of episodes
Season 1 (1965–66)
Season 2 (1966)
Voices
Home video
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Worldvision Home Video released Precious Pupp on VHS tape in the 1980s, which has long since been out of print.
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The episode "Precious Jewels" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's Vol. 1.
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The episode "Bowling Pinned" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960's Vol. 2.
Precious Pupp in other languages
Later appearances
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Granny Sweet later made an appearance in the Yo Yogi! episodes "Super Duper Snag" and "Bearly Working", voiced by Kath Soucie.
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Precious Pupp and Granny Sweet appeared in Jellystone!
with Granny Sweet voiced by Grace Helbig.
External links
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Precious Pupp at Don Markstein's Toonopedia.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Archived from the original on September 4, 2015.
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Episode index at the Big Cartoon DataBase