History WesternAnimation / WheresHuddles

* FairForItsDay: The intro shows Ed, a quarterback, kicking a field goal, something only a kicker does... In the modern game. At the time (early 1970s), while football was moving towards kicking specialists, players who kicked along with regular positions were still common (example, during the show's run, George Blanda was the Oakland Raiders' placekicker and backup QB.)

* ArtisticLicenseSports: The intro shows Ed, a quarterback, kicking a field goal, something only a kicker does.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: Fumbles would be reused by H-B in 1974 for the halftime interstitials of NBC's NFL telecasts. (Now voiced by Allan Melvin), Fumbles would explain the basics of football to young viewers.[[note]]Hanna-Barbera had created the Peter Puck character to be used in a similar manner for NBC's [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] coverage around the same time[[/note]]

''Where’s Huddles?'' was a Hanna-Barbera animated sports sitcom which premiered on CBS on July 1, 1970 and ran for ten episodes as a prime-time summer replacement show for ''The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour'' until September 2, 1970. Repeats were shown on the network’s Sunday afternoon schedule in the summer of 1971. It was the first primetime animated series to debut since ''The Flintstones'' went off the air in 1966, though it wouldn't be until ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' premiered in 1989 that primetime animated shows would be popular again.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: Fumbles would be reused by H-B in 1974 for the halftime interstitials of NBC's NFL telecasts. Now voiced (by Allan Melvin), Fumbles would explain the basics of football to young viewers.[[note]]Hanna-Barbera had created the Peter Puck character to be used in a similar manner for NBC's [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague NHL]] coverage around the same time[[/note]]

The show centered on professional football quarterback named Ed Huddles (voiced by Cliff Norton) and his neighbor, the team’s center Bubba [=McCoy=] (voiced by Mel Blanc, using his Barney Rubble voice), who play for The Rhinos and go through the trials and tribulations of being sports stars and family men.

The show was similar to Hanna-Barbera's more successful series ''The Flintstones''[[note]]in very much the same way that Creator/SethMacFarlane's ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' are all alike[[/note]], using several of the same style plots and voice actors (Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, and Jean Van Der Pyl being the main three). Like ''The Flintstones'', and unlike many other animated series at the time, ''Where’s Huddles?'' had a laugh track, incorporated more adult themes and references than ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' did while simultaneously keeping it family-friendly[[note]]compare with the next primetime Hanna-Barbera cartoon, ''WesternAnimation/WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome'', which didn't tone down its adult themes and was made to be a cartoon for older audiences first[[/note]], had the voice actors in a more realistic fashion as compared to say a funny animal style speech. The show is also notable for the character, Freight Train, being the first regularly-seen African-American animated character on primetime.