A Laurel & Hardy Cartoon

A Laurel & Hardy Cartoon is a series of TV cartoons produced in the mid-1960s by Hanna-Barbera for syndication featuring caricatures of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Larry Harmon, the man who made Bozo the Clown a household name, had acquired the rights to the likenesses of the famous comedy duo from Stan and Eda Laurel, and Oliver Hardy's widow, Lucille, in 1961. Harmon's company, which had previously produced the Bozo animated cartoons and many of the made-for-TV Popeye cartoons under contract from King Features, began animating The Laurel and Hardy Comedy Show around the same time that producer David L. Wolper contracted with Hanna-Barbera to produce another series, after Laurel's death. A legal challenge followed, with Wolper and Harmon agreeing on a modus vivendi (a state of affairs where two opposing parties agree to differ), where Harmon gave permission to use the characters in exchange for distribution rights.
Harmon himself supplied the voice of Stan Laurel (1895–1965), with Jim MacGeorge voicing the rotund Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). 
The cartoons followed the same basic theme as the Laurel and Hardy shorts produced by Hal Roach beginning in 1926. Laurel, the whining, dim-witted half of the team, was constantly getting himself and Hardy, the temperamental, domineering half, into "another nice mess". Premiering in 1966, the 156 cartoons were distributed by Allworld Telefilm Sales, and usually seen during locally hosted children's shows.
Laurel and Hardy later appeared in an episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.
On 6 November 2012, France released a four-disc DVD set of the complete series; it included 68 episodes in English with French subtitles.https://www.amazon.fr/Coffret-Laurel-Hardy-dessins-animes/dp/B008R3JOF4/ref=sr_1_2?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1354072249&sr=1-2
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