The Quick Draw McGraw Show returns to free broadcast television on September 21 for the first time in decades, in a newly restored version, as MeTV Toons rolls out its fresh fall lineup.
“Along with Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw was one of the highlights of Hanna-Barbera‘s tremendous impact on made for TV cartoons,” said Neal Sabin, vice-chairman of Weigel Broadcasting Co. “Because of rights and materials issues, the show has not been available for broadcast and greater distribution in years. Warner Bros. Discovery painstakingly produced a stellar restoration of the series including opens, closes and of course the cartoon segments featuring not only Quick Draw, but Snooper and Blabber and Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy. This series has been the most requested and anticipated by our viewers, and we are thrilled to bring it to them on MeTV Toons.”
The restored series will air weekdays at 5:30pm ET/PT. Three other shows join the network the same day: Sonic the Hedgehog at 8am, Heathcliff at 4:30pm and Centurions at 4am. Three blocks are being added as well. Cartoon Carousel will run weekdays at 10am and gives an hour each week to a different rarely seen series, among them Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, Funky Phantom, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Droopy, Master Detective, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, Mumbly and Inch High Private Eye. Animation Antiques takes an hour on Sunday nights at 1:30am for animation from the 1930s and 1940s, including Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Popeye and Betty Boop.
Sunday nights also pick up Situation Animation at 11pm, running The Fonz & The Happy Days Gang, The New Adventures of Gilligan, Jeannie and The Addams Family, the first three of them new to the network. That block begins September 27. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will run Saturdays at 1:30pm.
The rest of the weekday changes fall in the afternoon and overnight. The Woody Woodpecker & Casper Hour will air at 2pm, and late night picks up Wait Till Your Father Gets Home at midnight, Taz-Mania at 12:30am, The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! at 4:30am, The Mask at 5am and Police Academy: The Animated Series at 5:30am.
The House of Hanna-Barbera, the block the network added in February 2025, holds its weekday slot from 11am to 1pm.
MeTV Toons carries classic animation exclusively, drawing on Warner Bros. Discovery’s library along with Woody Woodpecker, Casper, Betty Boop, Speed Racer and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The network runs on over-the-air broadcast stations and on DirecTV, streams on Philo, Frndly TV, Fubo and DirecTV Stream, and is now available on Xfinity.
Source: MeTV Toons
Dan Sarto is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Animation World Network.
