Well, technically the "Ant and the Aardvark" were theatrically released as a series of shorts by United Artists in the 1970s. They just decided to use them in television reruns as a backup on "The Pink Panther."
As for backups, well, I like "Fractured Fairy Tales" in "Bullwinkle."
I do, too. I have some from WinMX/PiePatch. [since then my computer files were replaced,m but this was three years ago.] Sorry to bump this, but some updates, like they're not already mentioned by me elsewhere:[Thanks to Carlin Music/APM, and Fibber Fox's blog posts mentioning the TRUTH about some of those composers---and Paul Mandell, and John Seely before his 2004 death in an interview*]
One interesting thing about one of these, "The Ugly Duckling", is interesting because like a few others it has underscore , the "Seely-Loose"/Capital score (actually subcontracted from Phillip Green, the "Weasel While You Work" toboggan tune, "Custard Pie Caper'"s retitled by Capitol "Coemdy Circus" (they did this a lot for their won and for other cues, they often accquired cues)-the REAL "Toboggan Run" is a Jack Shaindlin cue used on Yogi Bear trilogy.And CARLIN's retitled "CPC" in turn, in CAR 404:CLASSIC CARTOON FUN, "Circus Chase"! Ward's "Cinderella Returns" uses that cue in full and again a short take on it.
Speaking of Jack Shaindlin, his music is used briefly and near the end, some horror like cues which I guess are his when the title character goes back to Hollywood after a facelift [familiar, tablid readers?] on that ugly Duckling spoof, 1961, in Jay Ward's "Fractured Fairy Tales"[from "Rocky and Bullwinkle"] and it is familair form Hanna Barbera, notably "Quick Draw McGraw"'s title segments but also from at least one Huckleebrry Hound title with that sncikering Don Messick mutt "Nutts Over Mutts", a kind of melodrama piece as Fibber Fox's called it in his blog YOWP [entry: Augie Doggie: Crow Cronies] when Huckleberry's supposed "friend" [aka that snickering dog in "Nutts" pretends to be limping...
I've reconsidered that a PHIL GREEN piece, and ASCAP.COM even has a couple apt titles, such as "Pathos Bridge". Fractured Fairy Tales used that piece for the Ugly Duckling..odd hearing ANY score under the late Edward Everett Horton's narration. But Jack Shaindlin
s "Fireman" [incomplete title-Earl Kress identified it for Fibber Fox aka Yowp-see his blog][that's one of the hoofer themes "Quick Draw" used and the final bit in a 1959-60 "Yogi", and no, I did not see that Dan Ackroyd-Justin Timberlake flick, "Space Bear!"] , cue and a few obvious cues of his DO turn up in that favorite FF.Tale of mine. Oh, while I'm on the subject, Jack's cues are clearly heard at the end of another funny Fairy Tale, "Ridinghoods Anonymous" [one of MANY uses of Bill Scott for his Bullwinkle voice, known for the exploding baskets and the DAR-Daughters of the American Revolution and other such acronym membership buttons].
Also at least one "Aesop's Fable' with the un credited and also the late Charles Ruggles and Daws Butler about the Lion and the Mouse [by Jay Ward productions minus outsourcing, oddly the same case of other "background music emblazoned' Ward productions] used if I recall--Quick Draw music...the Phil Green "Bird in a Bonnett"[WB, with Granny, Sylvester and Tweety]/"Snooper and Blabber"/Gumby and Pokey in "Pigeon in a Plum Tree'-EMI London's "Dressed to Kill", alias Capitol USA's "EM-2 Comedy Walker"[they blessed MANY themes with these interchangeable descriptions!!] and nowadays in Carlin UK's CAR 404: CLASSIC CARTOON FUN's as "Chirpy Chappie" [veddy British!!].
"Clyde Crashcup" on the original Chipmunks was hilarios to see too, with the precise British professor drawing things come life with the "Jay Ward" (Spike Jones sound FX man Joe Siracusa who'd come up through UPA) like the famed "Uncle Waldo/Superchicken" clockwork SFX<also in Dick Tracy.
Also "Henry and Rodgy",an attempted Clokey series [it aired in 1961?-as part of the Gumby series--Clokey's website gumbyworld.com also has a long rare open title] which tried cool jazz [Sam Fox cues by crooner Andy Williams's musical director, BOB MERSEY!! "Courageous Cat" used those,too] then the more familiar John Seely Associates/Capitol Hi_Q Special products underscore that was used on about half a doezen to ten WB shorts and mentioned above as used in "Fractured Fairy Tales" and of course by Hanna Barbera and their parent Columbia (TV) and their sister Screen Gems and "My 3 Sons" and "Ozzie and Harriet".This "Henry and Rodgy" were a clay bear and clay bird come to life. Rodgy was the pessimist. Henry was a change-voice character...never having the same voice twice!
--"Who's What?"
--"Dragon Witch"
--"Treasure for henry"
(you know the last is the last since Henry acts different, there is the usual title overlay, and the more familiar cues--Geordie Hormel's "ZR-53"/"ZR-45"-BOTH in the title card- while, the first two have that blue background for the white titles, and the cool jazz music in the first two isn';t there.
BTW I mentioned Uncle Waldo, I've always loved the Hoppity Hooper show butt hat;s a headliner,so I'll leave it for a future topic.:p
Getting back to the actual topic, it's hard on the subject of 1964-1969's "Linus the Lionhearted" [BANISHED for COMMERCIALISM!!!]'s segments--Linus, Sugar Bear, Rory Raccoon and I.Claudiis Crow, SoHi the [racist] Asian boy, and Loveable Truly and the dogcatcher--they're all fun!
I'd put Mr.Peabody, with Bill Scott doing Clifton [pre-Steve Martin era "Cheaper by the Dozen" harried dad] Webb as the intelligent, erudite beagle and Walt Tetley as Sherman - oh, his PET BOY Sherman, a close second, while I'm at it.
And Aesop's Fables [mentioned above]. By the way, anyone notice among the above "[Rocky and] Bullwinkle"] child section narrators, that Edward Everett Horton, for "Fractured Fairy Tales", Bill Scott [channelling a then still alive ****on Webb] as Mister Peabody, and Charles Ruggles as Aesop, of whom only the first was credited, all sound the same, right down to same mannierisms and speech locutions?:D BTW Anyone know why Ruggles and Horton were used but not Clifton Webb, who stayed alive until 1966? And why Charlie Rugges, aka Aesop, was uncredited? Bill Scott,who was like Jay Ward too modest to assume more credit than the credits for their crazy cult classics already showed, I can understand, actually passing on credit, likewise Daws Butler with Ward AND sponsor General Mills being respectively arch competitors to that OTHER Butler employer, Hanna-Barbera and Kellogg's, but Ruggles not listed as Aesop? Of course Scott and Ward used the combo pseudonym to hide their presence for the same fear of being too self-aggrandizing when the executive producer credit was concerned, thus that silly Ponsonby Britt [whom a certain cartoonist uses on an unreleated animation forum].