The MeTV Toons has had to drop Rocky & Bullwinkle from their schedule at the request of its distributor. It may be back, it may not…but last I looked, they're still running 24/7 on a sub-channel of the Xumo Play channel and perhaps others. If you love Moose and Squirrel and can't live without them, it's still possible to buy the complete run of the series on DVD for thirty bucks. That strikes me as an offer not to be missed.
Coming to MeTV Toons in a week or so is a new series called House of Hanna-Barbera which consists of short cartoons from a number of early H-B shows like Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Pixie & Dixie, Hokey Wolf, Touché Turtle, Wally Gator, Snagglepuss, Yakky Doodle, Hillbilly Bears, Squiddly Diddly, Lippy and Hardy, Atom Ant, Secret Squirrel, Magilla Gorilla and others. I think some of those cartoons are pretty funny.
They don't seem to be running anything from the Quick Draw McGraw show, which I thought might have been the best of all the H-B shows that featured three short cartoons each week. That series has never been released on home video because it used a different music library than other H-B shows and the music is either not clearable or not clearable at a reasonable price. So maybe that's why MeTV Toons isn't running them…or maybe, because they were never put out on home video, clean, restored copies of those cartoons are not available. When someone asks why such-and-such a show isn't streaming these days, the answer is usually music clearances or the unavailability of good copies.
Oh — and the new H-B show on MeTV Toons also includes Loopy DeLoop cartoons. This was a series of shorts that was never seen on TV. They were theatrical shorts and, in my opinion, a lot less funny than what the studio was concurrently doing for television. I once asked Joe Barbera about them and all I got out of the man was "Don't bring up painful memories." It's a shame that the Quick Draw McGraw cartoons aren't on TV but Loopy's are.