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- Joseph Ruby (born 1939) is a TV writer and animator. He is co-founder, with his partner Ken Spears, of the production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Both men started out as editors at Hanna-Barbera Productions, working together on The Flintstones from 1960. Ruby then worked on Hanna-Barbera's The Yogi Bear Show and The Jetsons, before becoming music editor on Lost In Space (1965-67) and The Time Tunnel. 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, w
- Joe Ruby is an American animator, television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Ken Spears of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Ruby studied art and began his career in animation at Walt Disney Productions in the inbetweening department, later moving over to editing. He served in the Army and later worked for a short time in live-action television editing before moving to Hanna-Barbera Productions, where he met Ken Spears. The two teamed up to become writers, penning 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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| - Joe Ruby is an American animator, television editor, writer, and producer; the co-founder with Ken Spears of television animation production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Ruby studied art and began his career in animation at Walt Disney Productions in the inbetweening department, later moving over to editing. He served in the Army and later worked for a short time in live-action television editing before moving to Hanna-Barbera Productions, where he met Ken Spears. The two teamed up to become writers, penning 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, Ruby and Spears 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 Ruby and Spears 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. Ruby continues to work with Spears on the production and development of animated series.
- Joseph Ruby (born 1939) is a TV writer and animator. He is co-founder, with his partner Ken Spears, of the production company Ruby-Spears Productions. Both men started out as editors at Hanna-Barbera Productions, working together on The Flintstones from 1960. Ruby then worked on Hanna-Barbera's The Yogi Bear Show and The Jetsons, before becoming music editor on Lost In Space (1965-67) and The Time Tunnel. 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.
- Joe Ruby is an American animation writer and producer. Along with his partner Ken Spears, he 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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