The Secret Squirrel Show 2-Disc Box Set DVD

The Secret Squirrel Show is the mid-1960s Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning series about a trench-coated squirrel spy and his fez-wearing partner Morocco Mole, who tackle a steady flow of espionage cases for their organization while squaring off against villains like Yellow Pinkie. The series aired on NBC across the 1965 and 1966 seasons and later resurfaced on Cartoon Network and Boomerang for generations of nostalgic viewers.

The format is short-form spy-comedy: each episode pairs a fresh international case (a sub swiper, a Scotland Yard caper, a Robin Hood riff, a robot rout) with the duo's running attempts to outwit their target, holding the show's signature blend of espionage-genre parody and Hanna-Barbera physical comedy as the engine. Episode titles like "Sub Swiper," "Yellow Pinkie," "Capt. Kidd's Not Kidding," "The Pink Sky Mobile," and "Ship Of Spies" telegraph the show's commitment to genre-pun storytelling. The animation has the unmistakable mid-1960s Hanna-Barbera look.

For mid-1960s NBC Saturday morning programming, this was a piece of the studio's deep run of spy-and-detective parodies, sitting alongside other secret-agent cartoons of the era. Suited for fans of vintage Hanna-Barbera, viewers with affection for the era's particular brand of mid-1960s espionage-comedy programming, and anyone curious about the lineage of small-animal-spy cartoons that the studio loved to revisit.

Memorable installments include "Sub Swiper" (the opener), "Scotland Yard Caper" (an early classic), "Yellow Pinkie" (a fan-favorite villain spotlight), "Wacky Secret Weapon" (a goofier swing), and "Ship Of Spies" (the closer). This 2-DVD collection brings 22 episodes of The Secret Squirrel Show into one place, the complete short-format spy-and-mole run in one set.