When we were kids, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera ruled Saturday morning TV ... y and far-out featuring a band of hippie singing cats. Together they would travel in their own van avoid groupies.
And one of those cartoons is actually the Hanna-Barbera series ... chatty Dachshund with a fear of cats. Big Dog on the other hand was a more quiet and reserved pup, with the ability to scare ...
Barbera teamed up with animator and director William Hannah, 27, and together, they came up with a conflict between a dog and a fox. Along the way, that idea morphed into a cat and mouse.