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The first cartoon show that Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera produced out of their then-new studio in 1957 was The Ruff and Reddy Show. It was on NBC Saturday mornings starting in December of that year…and I'm pretty sure that five-year-old me was watching that debut episode and all that followed. It had clever stories, good voice work and animation that was a few notches below the quality of the animation in this cereal commercial. Ruff was the cat with a voice by Don Messick. Reddy was the dog with almost the same voice Daws Butler used for the star of Hanna-Barbera's second series, Huckleberry Hound