It's curious how you can remember a show "better" than what it really was. That's my feeling for Magilla Gorilla. In almost every episode, Magilla makes this annoying "hew, hew" sound. I don't know why anyone thought this was funny, but it's something that I could have done without. Some of the episodes are better than others. I was also disappointed that "Ogee" made so few appearances in the series. This is another aspect of the show that I thought I remembered differently. Jean Vander Pyl was better as Ogee than Allan Melvin was as Magilla. In fact, Ogee looked like an older version of Pebbles Flintstone. It would have also been nice if the other two cartoons hadn't always been the same for every episode. Ricochet Rabbit was pretty good, but Pumpkin Puss got old very fast. These were Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Virtually all of the voice actors here also appeared on the Flintstones, a much better show.
Review of The Magilla Gorilla Show
