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The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
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Photo of Bill Hanna (right) and Joseph Barbera (left) from a television special for the premiere of their new Secret Squirrel and Atom Ant television program.
Genre Comedy
Adventure
Written by Tony Benedict
Dalton Sandifer
Directed by William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Voices of Don Messick
Howard Morris
Janet Waldo
Henry Corden
Jean Vander Pyl
Paul Frees
Mel Blanc
John Stephenson
Composer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Ted Nichols
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 52
Production
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time 30 minutes
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor Screen Gems
Release
Original network NBC
Original release September 9, 1965 (1965-09-09) – September 7, 1967 (1967-09-07)

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show is an hour-long Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1965 to 1967 for NBC.

In fall 1965, the show aired as two independent half-hour programs. The Atom Ant Show featured the tiny superhero Atom Ant, with additional segments Precious Pupp and The Hillbilly Bears. The Secret Squirrel Show featured the master spy Secret Squirrel, backed up with Squiddly Diddly and Winsome Witch. In the winter, the shows combine into an hour-long format, The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show. For the series' final NBC run under the Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel title, the show was one half-hour long.

Segments

The program contained six segments:

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