The Hillbilly Bears is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It aired as a segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show for two seasons, from 1965 to 1967. During the first half of the 1966-67 television season, The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show was split into two shows, and The Hillbilly Bears aired as part of The Atom Ant Show. The characters in the series were a family of four funny animal bears: Paw and Maw Rugg, their teenage daughter Floral, and their young son Shag. The Hillbilly Bears played on a social stereotype of the hillbilly, with a gun toting, mumbling father Paw Rugg who was always "feudin" with the neighbors the Hoppers. Paw Rugg's voice was a mumble, splattered with a few understandable words. Particularly in the first episodes, Paw's voice was incomprehensible; his speech improved with the later episodes. His wife Maw was a homemaker who appeared as the more levelheaded parent; their daughter Floral had lemon-colored fur, and she was the southern belle and most sophisticated member of the family while Shag was a troublemaker who looks up to his father.
The cartoon show features the voices of Henry Cordon as Paw Rugg. Jean Vander Pyl as Maw and Floral Rugg. And Don Messick as Shag Rugg.
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