Doug Crane, whose animation skills graced cartoons ranging from Hanna-Barbera family fare to MTV’s Beavis & Butt-head, died on Dec. 17 of cancer.He was 85. The death was confirmed by his ...

Filmation's 1966 'Superman' series laid the foundation for animated superhero shows, ... They even managed to rope in George Rowley from Hanna-Barbera for the first half of the day.

By the ’80s, most of the other studios including Hanna-Barbera were relying on overseas studios to handle the actual animation, with only the layouts and other basic drawings being done in-house.

Although there were other animation studios around, notably Filmation and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, none of them could compete with Hanna-Barbera's roster of characters. Among the studio's most ...

In light of what Filmation would do to Jerry Lewis a few years later, let’s consider ourselves lucky the brothers Marx weren’t subjected to their cheapjack production methods. What Do You Think?