Classic Television - Saturday Mornings

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour

Original channel

NBC

Original run

September 7, 1968 – September 5, 1970

Starring

Jeff Winkless (as Jeffrey Brock)

Ginner Whitcombe (as Fleegle 2008)

Terence H. Winkless (as Terence Henry)

Dan Winkless (as Daniel Owen)

James "Jimmy" Dove

Steve Kincannon

Voices of

Paul Winchell

Daws Butler

Allan Melvin

Don Messick

The Banana Splits Adventure Hour is an hour-long, packaged television variety program featuring The Banana Splits, a fictional rock band composed of four funny animal characters. The costumed hosts of the show were Fleegle (guitar, vocals), Bingo (drums, vocals), Drooper (bass, vocals) and Snorky (keyboards, effects). The series was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings, from September 7, 1968 to September 5, 1970.

The series costumes and sets were designed by Sid and Marty Krofft and the series' sponsor was Kellogg's Cereals. The series featured both live action and animated segments and is Hanna-Barbera’s first foray into mixing live action with animation.