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| - In 1967, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera approached the Krofft Brothers to design costumes for a television show which would feature animated and live-action segments, with the whole show hosted by a bubblegum pop group of anthropomorphic characters. The format of the show was loosely based on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The Banana Splits Adventure Hour premiered on NBC on September 7, 1968.
- The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (later renamed The Banana Splits and Friends Show) was an hour long, live action/animated variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four animal characters: Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1968, to September 5, 1970. The costumes and sets were designed by Sid and Marty Krofft and the series was sponsored by Kellogg's Cereals.
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| - In 1967, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera approached the Krofft Brothers to design costumes for a television show which would feature animated and live-action segments, with the whole show hosted by a bubblegum pop group of anthropomorphic characters. The format of the show was loosely based on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. The Banana Splits Adventure Hour premiered on NBC on September 7, 1968. In addition to sketches and songs with the Splits, the show contained a number of other segments. There was a live-action cliffhanger serial, Danger Island; the short-lived Micro Ventures, an animated series consisting of only four episodes; Arabian Knights, and The Three Musketeers. Actor Jan-Michael Vincent (billed as Michael Vincent) appeared in the live-action component Danger Island; all the live-action material filmed for the series' first season (including the Banana Splits and Danger Island segments) was directed by Richard Donner, later of Superman and Lethal Weapon fame. Each show represented a meeting of the "Banana Splits Club," and the wraparounds featured the adventures of the club members, who doubled as a musical quartet, meant to be reminiscent of the Beatles and the Monkees. The main characters were Fleegle, a dog; Bingo, an ape; Drooper, a lion; and Snorky (called "Snork" in the theme song lyrics), an elephant. Fleegle would assume the role as leader of the Banana Splits and preside at club meetings. The characters were played by actors in fleecy costumes similar to later Sid and Marty Krofft characters such as H.R. Pufnstuf. The Splits' segments, including songs-of-the-week and comedy skits, served as wraparounds for a number of individual segments. In the second season, The Three Musketeers segments were replaced with repeats of Yogi's Gang, a cartoon segment that previously appeared on The Atom Ant Show (1965 - 1989). The Banana Splits Adventure Hour was one of the first two Hanna-Barbera productions in 1968 in which William Hanna and Joseph Barbera received executive producer credits; the other being Yogi's Gang (Edward Rosen served as producer on both series). They would not, however, assume the title full-time for another five years.
- The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (later renamed The Banana Splits and Friends Show) was an hour long, live action/animated variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four animal characters: Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1968, to September 5, 1970. The costumes and sets were designed by Sid and Marty Krofft and the series was sponsored by Kellogg's Cereals. The series featured both live action and animated segments and was Hanna-Barbera’s first foray into mixing live action with animation. In 1992, the re-edited episodes that aired in syndication began airing on Cartoon Network and eventually Boomerang.
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