While all 27 episodes were made in digital ink and paint across three seasons, its opening credits were produced in traditional cel animation.

Yogi and his friends Boo-Boo Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy, and Snooper and Blabber are assigned by Top Cat to go on treasure hunts around the world with Ranger Smith serving as their field commander who also makes sure that Yogi does his part in the treasure hunts.

To make matters worse, the Crown Jewels of Bearzil have gone missing A female Martian, Dr. Mars, makes a special intergalactic guest appearance at the United Nations claiming the Earth will be destroyed... unless a treasure chest (which is really a time bomb), called "The Big Dipper Booty" (lost somewhere in Peru), is returned to her.

Yogi and friends are secret agents attempting to stop Dick Dastardly from discovering the Fountain of Youth and use its power to transform everyone on the planet into children.

Absent: Ranger Smith Hanna-Barbera Home Video released the episodes "The Curse of Tutti-Frutti" (which is retitled "Raiders of the Lost and Found") "To Bee or Not to Bee", "Heavens to Planetoid", "There's No Place Like Nome", "The Moaning Liza" (which is retitled "The Search for the Moaning Lisa") and "The Greed Monster" on individual VHS tapes in the Spring of 1990, to promote the opening of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera simulator movie ride at Universal Studios Florida.