Ruff and Reddy was a modest success.įrom the late 1950s to the early 1990s, Hanna-Barbera produced a huge volume of cartoons, mostly funny-animal fare, but also including adventure and mystery shows. The series' appealing heroes and clever storylines compensated for the artistic liabilities. After much negotiating, they sold Ruff and Reddy to NBC, but they could only get $2700 per half hour of cartoon (which were shown as features to live action host segments), meaning all the lavish detail afforded to Tom & Jerry had to be streamlined to the near bare bones. At the very start of their studio, they managed to secure financing for their earliest projects from Screen Gems, the TV distribution arm of Columbia Pictures. Bill and Joe had met again and decided to form their own studio. Bill Hanna joined a consortium headed by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson and formed Shield Productions to launch a revival of Jay and Alex's Crusader Rabbit.
Hanna and Barbera had won seven Oscars at MGM where they made Tom & Jerry cartoons for seventeen years after which the studio closed its animation unit. Their first series was The Ruff and Reddy Show (1957-1960), a "serialized" cartoon similar to Crusader Rabbit their second series, The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962), became popular enough to make them a household name. When MGM closed their animation department, Hanna and Barbera decided to start their own animation studio, producing cartoons for television. Hanna and Barbera originally worked (as a team) for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's animation department their most famous creation for that studio was Tom and Jerry.
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