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A Banana Splits Adventure Hour, syndicated when A Banana Splits & Friends, was an American package television program featuring both survive action & animated segments, that ran on NBC Saturday mornings from 1968 to 1970. A series was by Hanna-Barbera Productions; the Banana Splits characters were created by Sid and Marty Krofft.

U.S. Format
the wraparounds featured a dangerous undertaking of a musical quartet, intended to become evocative of the Beatles and the Monkees, consisting of Fleegle, a beagle; Bingo, the gorilla; Drooper, a lion; and Snorky, an elephant. A characters were played by actors within brushed costumes similar to late Krofft series such as H.R. Pufnstuf.

A Splits' segments, including songs-of-the-week & comedy skits, served when wraparounds for a total of single segments.

Animated segments
A Arabian Knights The Three Musketeers The Hillbilly Bears Micro Ventures Secret Squirrel

Live action segment
Danger Island: A immature Jan-Michael Vincent played Lincoln 'Link' Simmons in that survive-action science fiction serial. It was directed by first Superman director Richard Donner.

Fallowing a cancellation of a original series, the characters were revived in the 1972 telefilm The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park. Unlike a tv show, a Splits spent virtually all of the film within alive form.

U.K. Format
A British versiin was shown on Saturday morning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, The Monkeys pop band and A Groovie Goolies cartoon show formed a portion of this.

Music
A Banana Splits' bubblegum pop rock and roll was provided by studio professionals, including Al Kooper ("You're the Lovin' End"), Barry White ("Doin' the Banana Split"), & Gene Pitney ("Two Ton Tessie"). A director was Mark Barkan, who likewise wrote a independent theme. At least terzetto singles, "The Tra La La Song", "Wait Till Tomorrow", & "Long Live Love", were discharged per Splits, along by owning an album, ''I personally're a Banana Splits.

A Californian punk band The Dickies released a sped-higher version of "The Tra La La Song" when a "Banana Splits (Tra La La Song)" which entered a UK charts in 1979.

Around 1983, "The Tra La La Song" was adapted by Bob Marley and the Wailers in the song "Buffalo Soldiers" on the album Confrontation'')

Trivia
A Banana Splits sleep in Hocus Pocus Park, in which a cuckoo clock universally review 6:55. Fleegle was a merely character that did non get into glasses. Snorky was a exclusively character that did non talk. He processed the honking healthy whose meaning was interpreted by more characters.

Cast
Fleegle: Paul Winchell Bingo: Daws Butler Drooper: Allan Melvin Snorky: Don Messick

The Banana Splits according to Wingnut
Lyrics, voice credits, and pictures of Banana Splits merchandise.

IMDb: The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968)
Cast, voice credits, and reviews.






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