Yogi's Gang 2-Disc Box Set DVD

Yogi's Gang is the early-1970s Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning series that takes Yogi Bear and a sprawling roster of the studio's animal stars (Boo Boo, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, and many more) and puts them aboard the Ark, a flying boat from which they fight a different antagonist representing a social ill in each episode. The show aired on ABC and later NBC across the 1973 and 1974 seasons.

The format is morality-play comedy: each episode pairs a fresh personified-vice villain (Mr Bigot, the Greedy Genie, Mr Cheater, Mr Smog, the Envy Brothers) with the gang's flying-Ark mission to set things right. Episode titles like "Mr Prankster," "Gossipy Witch," "Lotta Litter," "Mr Hothead," and "Yogi's Ark Lark" telegraph the show's commitment to its moral-of-the-week structure. The animation has the unmistakable early-1970s Hanna-Barbera look, with bright colors, simple character lines, and the studio's signature ensemble warmth.

For early-1970s ABC Saturday morning programming, this was a piece of the era's wave of issue-aware kids' cartoons, sitting in the lineage of the studio's bigger ensemble experiments. Suited for fans of vintage Hanna-Barbera, viewers with affection for the era's particular brand of social-issue cartoons, and anyone curious about the lineage of multi-character cross-property storytelling that the studio loved to revisit.

Memorable installments include "Mr Bigot" (the opener), "The Greedy Genie" (an early classic), "Lotta Litter" (a thematic peak), "The Envy Brothers" (a fan-favorite double-villain swing), and "Yogi's Ark Lark" (the closer). This 2-DVD collection brings all 16 episodes of Yogi's Gang into one place, the complete Ark voyage in one set, ready for a long Saturday morning marathon.