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| - Ken Spears is an American animation writer and producer. He and his partner, Joe Ruby, contributed to the creation of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and several Hanna-Barbera series of the 1970s. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
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- Kenneth Spears (born 1942) is a TV writer and animator. He is co-founder, with his partner Joe Ruby, of the production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Both men started out as editors at Hanna-Barbera Productions, working together on The Flintstones from 1960. Spears then worked on Hanna-Barbera's Jonny Quest (1964–65, created by Doug Wildey) and The Secret Squirrel Show. Ruby and Spears collaborated in writing for Hanna-Barbera's Space Ghost, The Herculoids and The Adventures of Gulliver, and followed this in 1968 by creating and writing the hugely popular Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cartoon series. After writing further animated shows for Hanna-Barbera such as Josie and the Pussycats, Harlem Globe Trotters and The Funky Phantom, Ruby and Spears created, wrote and produced The Houndcats, T
- Ken Spears is an American television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Joe Ruby of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Spears grew up in the Los Angeles area, and was a friend of the son of animation producer William Hanna. As an adult, Spears was hired at Hanna's company, Hanna-Barbera Productions, as a sound editor in 1959. He met Ruby in the editing department of Hanna-Barbera, and the two teamed up to become writers. Spears and Ruby wrote teleplays for several animated and live-action television programs, both freelance and as on-staff writers for Hanna-Barbera and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
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| - Ken Spears is an American television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Joe Ruby of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Spears grew up in the Los Angeles area, and was a friend of the son of animation producer William Hanna. As an adult, Spears was hired at Hanna's company, Hanna-Barbera Productions, as a sound editor in 1959. He met Ruby in the editing department of Hanna-Barbera, and the two teamed up to become writers. Spears and Ruby wrote teleplays for several animated and live-action television programs, both freelance and as on-staff writers for Hanna-Barbera and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. For Hanna-Barbera, Spears and Ruby created Scooby-Doo, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, and Jabberjaw, among other programs. At Depatie-Freleng, they created The Barkleys and The Houndcats. In the early 1970s, CBS president of children's programming Fred Silverman hired Spears and Ruby to supervise the production of CBS's Saturday morning cartoon lineup, a position they assumed at ABC when Silverman defected to that network. Wanting to create competition for Hanna-Barbera, ABC set Ruby and Spears up with their own studio in 1977, as a subsidiary of Filmways. Ruby-Spears Productions produced a number of animated series for Saturday morning, among them Fangface, The Plastic Man Comedy-Adventure Hour, Thundarr the Barbarian, Saturday Supercade, Mister T, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Superman, among others. Spears continues to work with Ruby on the production and development of animated series.
- Ken Spears is an American animation writer and producer. He and his partner, Joe Ruby, contributed to the creation of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and several Hanna-Barbera series of the 1970s. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
- Kenneth Spears (born 1942) is a TV writer and animator. He is co-founder, with his partner Joe Ruby, of the production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Both men started out as editors at Hanna-Barbera Productions, working together on The Flintstones from 1960. Spears then worked on Hanna-Barbera's Jonny Quest (1964–65, created by Doug Wildey) and The Secret Squirrel Show. Ruby and Spears collaborated in writing for Hanna-Barbera's Space Ghost, The Herculoids and The Adventures of Gulliver, and followed this in 1968 by creating and writing the hugely popular Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! cartoon series. After writing further animated shows for Hanna-Barbera such as Josie and the Pussycats, Harlem Globe Trotters and The Funky Phantom, Ruby and Spears created, wrote and produced The Houndcats, The Barkleys (starring Henry Corden) and Bailey's Comets (1973) for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. In 1974, Ruby and Spears ventured into live-action TV when they became story consultants for the Planet of the Apes TV series. This extended to developing Anthony Lawrence's story outline "The Deception" into a full script, for which they received co-writing credits. Following the cancellation of the Apes show, the duo created the animated series Jabberjaw and two live-action TV shows for Sid & Marty Krofft Productions - Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (1976) and Wonderbug (1976-77). In 1977 they founded their own Ruby-Spears Productions and returned to the world of animated TV shows. The firm's credits include the cartoon series Fangface, The Plastic Man Comedy/Adventure Show, Thundarr the Barbarian, Goldie Gold and Action Jack, Rubik the Amazing Cube, Mr. T, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Turbo Teen, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, The Centurions, Police Academy, Superman and Mega Man. Doug Wildey, supervising director and associate producer of the 1975 Return to the Planet of the Apes animated series produced by DePatie-Freleng, worked with the company between 1980 and 1986, serving as story director on Thundarr the Barbarian, Goldie Gold and Action Jack and Mr. T. In 1980, comic artist Jack Kirby also began working with Ruby-Spears Productions, designing characters and backgrounds for the same three series. Wildey and Kirby were both then creative consultants on Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos and The Centurions. During his time with Ruby-Spears, Kirby began drawing presentation boards for new animation projects. Among the presentations he proposed was a Planet of the Apes cartoon based on the 1974 TV series. Concept sketches by Kirby have been unearthed, one of which is of Virdon, Burke, (both looking rather different), a female astronaut (“blonde companion of astronauts”) and Toomak, a “human slave boy.” A second, much more unusual sketch seems to show an enormous gorilla with hands aloft; in one hand a male human astronaut; in the other a human female in what appears to be a super-hero outfit. In the background a human or ape figure carries a banner while riding a dragon-like flying reptile over a mountain. The images of the giant gorilla among mountains and, particularly, of the flying reptile are more reminiscent of 'Kygoor' and the 'Monster Bird' from Doug Wildey's Return to the Planet of the Apes. Ruby-Spears' Apes series was never developed, but in 2010 Ruby-Spears and Sid & Marty Krofft announced plans to revive some of the original characters Kirby had also designed during that time, in as many forms as possible.
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