Great Grape Ape Show

The Great Grape Ape Show is an American children's animated television series. It was created and produced by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera of Hanna-Barbera Productions, and aired on ABC for a single season from September-December, 1975. Each episode ran for thirty minutes with commercials and consisted of two 12-15 minute segments. There were sixteen episodes of the series produced in total, with a total of thirty-two vignettes. The Great Grape Ape Show centered on the character of Grape Ape - a forty-foot purple gorilla voiced by Bob Holt, who engaged in various misadventures with his canine pal Beagley, voiced by Marty Ingels.

Notes & Trivia

 * Episodes of The Great Grape Ape Show have been made available on the Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Vol. 2 DVD collection, which was released by Warner Home Video in Region 1 format on October 27th, 2009.


 * Episode 15.2, "Grape Five-O", takes its title from the crime drama series Hawaii Five-0.


 * On the "Gorilla Warfare" episode of The Flash, the character of Cisco Ramon compared villain Grodd to Grape Ape.