![]() The voice of Chico was done by long time Filmation voice artist Ted Knight who also did the other male characters except for the role of the Indian Chief that was done by Joe Besser.Īlthough it was thought to be lost forever, Scheimer screened the short for an audience at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con. It was Pat Harrington Jr., Groucho’s friend. ‘Lou? I’ve got a perfect voice for you to play me.’ And I said, ‘Well, who is it, Groucho?’ He said, ‘You’re talking to him’. Schiemer seems to have been at least partially inspired by the commercial success of Cambria Studios’ syndicated cartoon show The New Three Stooges (1965) as well as the animated shows co-produced by Hanna-Barbera The Abbott and Costello Show (1967 although episodes were made as early as 1965) and The Laurel and Hardy Show (1966 although Larry Harmon had been working on the series since 1961).Īs Scheimer recalled, “One day I got a call from Groucho. ![]() The title was to reference the Marx Brothers’ film A Night at the Opera and the pilot was done as a Western that was sometimes referred to in early television as a “Horse Opera”. I believe that I designed the characters and I did all the layout.” Jay Burton, Mort Goode and Mike Maltese were the writers and Hal Sutherland directed the pilot short, A Day at the Horse Opera. The series was to consist of 156 seven-minute animated shortsĪs Lou Scheimer of Filmation recalled in his biography, “Groucho had signed on as the technical advisor. On February 14, 1966, the trade publication Broadcasting Magazine carried an advertisement from Filmation for a proposed series titled The New Marx Brothers Show. Like so many other projects, it never developed beyond the announcement. In 1961 during a period when college students were re-discovering the comedy team, Screen Gems announced they had plans for a Marx Brothers animated series to be produced by Hanna-Barbera. Groucho apparently enjoyed the shorts so much that he borrowed copies of the films to show at his house to visitors. On February 13, 1975, Disney Archivist Dave Smith invited the iconic comedian and his companion, Erin Fleming, to come to a screening room at the Burbank Disney Studio to view Mickey’s Polo Team (1936), Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938) and The Autograph Hound (1939). ![]() Mickey’s Polo TeamGroucho Marx used to joke, “There are more books about (Marx Brothers) films than there are films that we made.” While that is certainly true, Groucho was not taking into account the many animated shorts that featured him and his brothers or variations of them.Īmazingly, at the age of 85 years old, Groucho had never seen any animated cartoon with the Marx Brothers caricatures.
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