The wraparounds featured the adventures of a musical quartet, meant to be reminiscent of the Beatles and the Monkees, consisting of Fleegle, a beagle; Bingo, a gorilla; Drooper, a lion and Snorky, an elephant. Fleegle, would often assume the role as leader of the Banana Splits. The characters were played by actors in fleecy costumes similar to later Krofft series 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 United States, The Banana Splits Adventure Hour featured the first appearances of the animated segments The Arabian Knights, The Three Musketeers, Micro Ventures, and The Adventures of Gulliver, as well as The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn which combined live-action with animation. It also contained the live-action segment Danger Island, a cliffhanger serial starring a young Jan-Michael Vincent as Lincoln "Link" Simmons. Danger Island was directed by future Superman director Richard Donner and was meant to be a live action equivalent to Jonny Quest, another Hanna-Barbera property.
After the cancellation of the original series, the characters were revived in the TV special The Banana Splits in Hocus Pocus Park, which first aired as an hour-long installment of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie on Saturday, November 25, 1972. Unlike the television show, The Splits spent most of the film in animated form.
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answered by Spongebob 4
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siiiiiizzeee of an elephant ...awesome tv
all for one and bugger the rest!,
ive no idea what the other one was as we had to go shopping with my mum after the three musketeers so i never got to see the end of the banana splits
2006-10-05 14:21:16
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answered by elite 3
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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Oh i loved that show i called my 2 goldfish Fleegle and Drooper after two of the splits. i was only 9 years old.
Arabian nights was fantastic and i can remember that donkey didn't he used to say, rose ann ka bar or something like that and then the donkey kicked, ha ha thanks for the memories...tra la lah, la la la lah, tra la lah, la la la lah.........
2006-10-05 13:48:54
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answered by chris w. 7
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They used to show the live action/animated Tom Sawyer adventures.
Gulliver cartoons... and DANGER ISLAND, also come to mind "Uh Oh Chongo!"
2006-10-05 13:30:25
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answered by baseballfan 4
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