The package started on September 3, 1962,[1] and ended on August 26, 1963, and included the following unrelated short cartoon segments featuring talking animals characters: The package consisted of 52 episodes, each with three individual segments and no bridge animation.
In New York, WPIX-TV originally used the segments for a local series, Cartoon Zoo, featuring Milt Moss as host and "Zookeeper", with life-sized cutouts of the characters in "cages" as a backdrop.
The package was originally syndicated by Screen Gems, the television division at the time of Columbia Pictures.
Meanwhile, Touche Turtle and Lippy the Lion were part of another package of cartoons aired on The Family Channel.
Following the purchase of the Hanna-Barbera library by Turner Entertainment, these shorts eventually appeared on Cartoon Network and later Boomerang.