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Yogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper is an animated television special produced by Hanna-Barbera, spun off from The Yogi Bear Show and its various sister shows. It was originally broadcast on CBS on December 21, 1982.

Synopsis[]

Ranger Smith meets Huckleberry Hound and friends

Huckleberry Hound and the gang arrive at Jellystone Park.

It is Christmas Eve in Jellystone Park, and Ranger Smith is in the ranger station, looking forward to relaxing for the winter now that the tourists have gone home and Yogi is hibernating. But before he can relax, he suddenly gets a visit from several of Yogi and Boo Boo's friends - Huckleberry Hound, Hokey Wolf, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, Super Snooper and Blabber Mouse. They explain that they have come from the city to visit Yogi and Boo Boo for Christmas, and they ask Smith to call Yogi and tell him they're here. Smith reluctantly calls Yogi on the phone, only to get an answering machine message saying that Yogi and Boo Boo have left their cave to visit their friends in the city for Christmas. Smith, figuring that Yogi and Boo Boo stowed away on one of the tourist buses, calls the city's authorities to grab the bears. Huck and the gang, figuring that Yogi and Boo Boo are in trouble now, head back to the city.

Yogi and Boo Boo meet Judy

Yogi and Boo Boo meet Judy Jones.

Meanwhile, Yogi and Boo Boo have arrived in the city and are looking for their friends. Suddenly, two of the sheriff's zookeepers show up and start chasing after them through the bus station and into a nearby department store. Just outside the store in question, a billionaire named J. Wellington Jones sends his seven-year-old daughter, Judy, inside to go pick out a Christmas present, despite that she'd prefer for him to come along and pick out the present himself, but he is too busy attending to business affairs. Yogi and Boo Boo manage to elude the zookeepers by disguising themselves as one of the store's Santas and an elf. Just then, Judy, thinking that Yogi is Santa himself, approaches them, saying that she only wants one thing for Christmas - for her father to spend Christmas with her. Despite not actually being Santa Claus, Yogi decides to try and help make Christmas a little merrier for Judy. Meanwhile, though, Mr. Jones has noticed his daughter's disappearance and asks the store security to find her. When one of the guards sees Judy with Yogi and Boo Boo, he gives chase after them, and the chief of security orders to have all the exits sealed, but the two bears and Judy manage to escape from the store in a snowmobile.

Yogi and friends with Judy

Soon, in the city park, Yogi comes upon a couple going out to have a picnic and gets them to hand over their picnic basket by telling them it is indeed too cold to have a picnic, but he is willing to try out the idea for them. Then, after "borrowing" some ornaments and putting them on a nearby tree, he, Boo Boo, and Judy have the couple's picnic food for lunch. Yogi admits to Judy that he isn't really Santa, but she says she already figured that out hours ago, and she won't tell them where she lives since she never has this much fun at home. Yogi and Boo Boo step inside a phone booth to discuss the problem of helping Judy get back to her home. Boo Boo suggests they could maybe find it in the phone book, but they find that there are way too many people with the surname "Jones" in the city. Luckily, at that point, Huckleberry and the gang show up. Since Judy still won't tell them where she lives, Yogi gets Huck, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw, Hokey, Snooper, and Blabber to help him and Boo Boo look for all the Joneses in the city and see if any of them know Judy, while Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy stay behind to keep an eye on her.

Magilla, Wally and Yakky's cameo

Magilla Gorilla, Wally Gator, and Yakky Doodle are unsuccessful in finding anyone who knows Judy.

While on the search, Snagglepuss runs into Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, who have somehow time-traveled from the past to raise money for the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes' Christmas party for some children back in Bedrock. Snagglepuss doesn't have any money to donate, but Fred gets him to ask a nearby woman for a donation. When he does so, she mistakenly thinks Snagglepuss is ferocious, and Fred and Barney pretend to subdue him, garnering a donation from the woman. Meanwhile, Quick Draw pays a visit to Mr. Jinks, but he says he doesn't know anyone with the Jones surname in his house. Right after Quick Draw leaves, Pixie and Dixie give Mr. Jinks their Christmas present for him - an angry bulldog. Yogi also gets Magilla Gorilla, Wally Gator, and Yakky Doodle to help in the search, but they also have no luck finding anyone who knows Judy.

Over at the police station, Snooper and Blabber are speaking with the chief of police, who informs them that they have an APB out for a guy in a Santa suit who is with a billionaire's daughter. Just then, one officer tells the chief that the bear they're looking for has been found in the park. Snooper and Blabber, realizing that Yogi is the guy the police are looking for, rush back to the park. Over at the Jones mansion, Ranger Smith, who saw a TV report about Yogi "kidnapping" Judy earlier, come to see Mr. Jones. Smith tries to tell Mr. Jones that Yogi is really a nice bear and won't hurt Judy, when suddenly the butler, Flaversham, informs his employer that the police have found Judy in the park.

YogisXmasCaperCast

At the park, Judy sadly observes how inseparable Augie and his father are and finally says she wants to go home to her dad. When Yogi asks why Judy is crying, Snooper tells him that he and Blabber found out she is the daughter of J. Wellington Jones. Suddenly, the police surround them and arrest Yogi, and Mr. Jones comes up, wanting to have a word with the bear who "stole" his daughter. Yogi tells Mr. Jones that he didn't kidnap Judy, but rather, she ran away because she was tired of her father never spending time with her. Mr. Jones finally realizes this, and tells the police chief to let Yogi go, since this mess wasn't his fault at all. Afterward, Yogi and the gang have a campfire out in the park with Judy and her father. Ranger Smith, after straightening things out with the police, tries to scold Yogi for everything that's happened today, but ultimately cannot bring himself to do so and instead wishes him a Merry Christmas. Smith then joins Yogi's group to sing "Jingle Bells" and wish Merry Christmas to the viewers.

Broadcast history[]

After its CBS premiere, the special was aired annually on the Disney Channel from 1989 to 1994, on Cartoon Network from 1995 to 2003, and on Boomerang from 2000 to 2013. It returned to Boomerang in 2020 and again in 2022.

Availability[]

The special was made available on home video for the first time when it was released on VHS as part of the Hanna-Barbera Super Stars video series in 1989. Two years later, it was then featured on Image Entertainment's Hanna-Barbera Christmas Laserdisc, which also included "Christmas Flintstone" and "A Jetson Christmas Carol". The VHS tape was reissued by Turner Home Entertainment in 1995.

The special was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on December 7, 2010, to tie in with the release of Warner Bros.' live-action Yogi Bear movie. The DVD also included the original Yogi Bear Show episode "Yogi's Birthday Party" as a bonus feature. The disc was also included as part of the 4 Kid Favorites: Holiday Family Fun Collection box set in 2013 and the Hanna-Barbera Holiday Triple Feature box set in 2017.

Cast[]

Fred and Barney in Yogis Xmas Caper

Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble's cameo.

Ending pan from Yogi's Caper
Voice actor/actress Character(s)
Daws Butler Yogi Bear
Huckleberry Hound
Quick Draw McGraw
Snagglepuss
Augie Doggie
Blabber Mouse
Dixie
Hokey Wolf
Mr. Jinks
Snooper
Wally Gator
Mel Blanc Barney Rubble
Bulldog
Security Guard #1
Henry Corden Fred Flintstone
Policeman
Security Guard #2
Georgi Irene Judy Jones
Allan Melvin Magilla Gorilla
Murray
Don Messick Boo Boo Bear
Ranger Smith
Pixie
Hal Smith J. Wellington Jones
Sergeant
Zookeeper #1
John Stephenson Doggie Daddy
Butler
Announcer
Janet Waldo Mrs. Jones
Murray's wife
Lady in the street
P.A. Voice at the bus depot
Jimmy Weldon Yakky Doodle
Zookeeper #2

See also[]

External links[]

Hanna-Barbera
Productions
Shorts and episodes The Night Before ChristmasGood Will to Men • "Christmas Flintstone" • "A Dickens of a Christmas" • "Baby's First Christmas" • "The Nutcracker Scoob" • "Insanity Claus" • "A Jetson Christmas Carol" • "Happy Howlidays" • "The Nativity" • "The Magic Sack of Mr. Nicholas" • "The Ghost of Christmas Paddington" • "Santanapped" • "Don Coyote and the Christmas Bell" • "George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular" • "Santa Klutz" • "A Cavekid Christmas" • "Dexter Vs. Santa's Claws" • "Twas the Night" • "Happy Baboon Holidays" • "Scary Christmas" • "Scroogey Doo" • "It's a Wacky Life" • "Dashing Thru the Snow" • "Signed, Sealed and Wacky" • "The Spirit of Frostnos"
Specials and movies A Christmas StorySilent Night, Holy NightA Flintstone ChristmasCasper's First ChristmasYogi's First ChristmasThe Smurfs' Christmas SpecialChristmas Comes to Pac-LandYogi Bear's All-Star Comedy Christmas CaperThe Little Troll PrinceThe Tom and Jerry Christmas Special'Tis the Season to Be SmurfyThe Town Santa ForgotA Flintstone Family ChristmasA Flintstones' Christmas CarolA Scooby-Doo! ChristmasTom and Jerry: A Nutcracker TaleScooby-Doo! Haunted HolidaysTom and Jerry: Santa's Little HelpersTom and Jerry: Snowman's Land
Albums
Merry ChristmasPebbles & Bamm-Bamm Singing Songs of ChristmasExciting Christmas Stories with Scooby-Doo and FriendsHanna-Barbera's Christmas Sing-A-LongA Christmas in BedrockA Flintstones Motown Christmas
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