If you're around my age and enjoy the works of Hanna-Barbera, I'm willing to bet you began watching them through the same means I did: Cartoon Network, and its sister channel, Boomerang. Of course, these cartoons aired on many stations over the years, and two of those just so happen to be Cartoon Network's biggest competitors: Nickelodeon and the Disney Channel.
Starting with the House of Mouse, the Disney Channel seems to have aired many of the TV movies Hanna-Barbera produced for their series, instead of the shows themselves. The earliest one they played appears to be the 1987 film Yogi's Great Escape, which aired on the channel in January of 1995. Over the next several years, they played several more of the eighties TV movies, including The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones in 1997. Check out the promo for that airing right below!
Moving on, let's talk about the first network made by kids, and for kids, Nickelodeon! Nick's been around since the seventies, and since a lot of their pre-Nicktoons programming was acquisitions, it's not quite as surprising that they would have aired anything from the HB library. However, in their over forty years of operation, it appears that they've only aired one Hanna-Barbera cartoon: Yogi Bear. To be more specific, the show was aired as Nickelodeon's Most Wanted: Yogi Bear. Each episode featured four Yogi cartoons, totaling about a thirty-minute runtime. The series began airing in 1990, and was gone by the end of '93. Below is the opening to the series (I'd also like to shout out the site Nickandmore! for preserving when and where all of these films/shows aired).
Now, as I alluded to earlier, if you're an older Hanna-Barbera fan, this news probably isn't too shocking for you. Their library has aired on countless TV stations over the years, so obviously they'd air on two channels that relied heavily on animation. Still, I imagine this is a surprising revelation to younger fans. It definitely was for kid me when I came across these videos years back!
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