Hey, remember that selling piece that Hanna-Barbera produced for a cartoon series called Duffy's Dozen? The one we discussed here yesterday? Well, it turns out that master cartoonist Scott Jeralds knows some more about it. That's his YouTube channel I found it on.
Scott says it was done around 1970 for CBS by "pretty much the same crew that worked on Josie and the Pussycats." So that may be the reason Jerry Eisenberg didn't remember anything about it. He may not have worked on it. I still think it looks like his work but Scott says it might be Bob Singer and Iwao Takamoto.
He also discussed it with Iwao years ago and apparently just as the crew had tried to make Josie and the Pussycats look like the artwork of Dan DeCarlo, who originated the characters and drew their comics, Duffy's Dozen was intended to look a lot like the art of Lee Holley, who did the popular comic strip, Ponytail. Obviously, there is a lineage between Mr. Duffy and his dozen and The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, which H-B produced for CBS in 1972 and which I discussed here.
And about the same time Mr. Chan went on, Hanna-Barbera sold an evening (not prime-time) series called Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. Beginning with the TV season that started in September of 1971, the three major networks lost a half-hour of programming time in the early evenings which was filled by syndicated programming. Wait Till Your Father Gets Home was done for the timeslots that became available then. If Duffy's Dozen was done in late 1970 or early 1971, it was probably also intended for that market as opposed to conventional network prime-time.
Thanks, Scott.