The mice lament that they’ll be stuck in their mouse hole for a long time when there’s a yellow flash and a female rodent (with transparent wings) descends.
Jinks bashes the meece with a broom but, this being limited animation, the victims don’t squash and stretch when they’re hit the broom just comes down on them and they disappear for a few frames. The start consists of Pixie and Dixie being chased by Jinks past the same chair and cabinet countless times (if you count, it’s 20 and a bit, including the shot of Jinks alone) while Jack Shaindlin’s Toboggan Run whizzes along in the background. But I can’t find a cartoon earlier than this that Vander Pyl appeared on. The next season, H-B added the Quick Draw McGraw Show to its production schedule, and Julie Bennett came on board as Sagebrush Sal (in Masking For Trouble, released April 11, 1960). In the first season of the Huck Hound show, there were a grand total of two female voices, one of which sound like they could belong to Ginny Tyler. Oh, and you also get what may have been Jean Vander Pyl’s first appearance in a Hanna-Barbera cartoon. And in between, you get a bit of a new take on a cartoon staple-the fairy tale. You can’t get more odd than what happens at the end. You can’t get more quintessentially Pixie and Dixie than the start of this cartoon. Plot: Pixie and Dixie’s fairy godmother mouse takes care of Jinks. Produced and Directed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.Ĭredits: Animation – Lew Marshall Layout – Dick Bickenbach Backgrounds – Dick Thomas Story – Warren Fosrer Story Director – Alex Lovy Titles – Art Goble Production Supervision – Howard Hanson.Ĭast: Pixie – Don Messick Dixie, Jinks – Daws Butler Fairy Godmother – Jean Vander Pyl.