Hollywood Studio Magazine (April 1971)

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ISSOS ROSCOE BLVD. <// Sa>i I)/(‘^o l yccH uy • SEPULVEDA Pretty Nancy Wible Only off-Camera Voice Actress Nancy Wible, who provides the voice of a sassy cartoon character named "Granny", is more than just a "regular" on this Hanna-Barbera sports-comedy series, "The Harlem Globetrotters" every Saturday morning on CBS-TV. She's a whole bunch of voices, and a pretty face as well, with an impressive TV background as singer, actress, character actress, comedienne and ventriloquist. She is also, coincidentally, the mother of two teenage daughters. As a ventriloquist with her own children's show on ABC-TV a few years ago, she created "Candy's Playhouse" and co-starred with Candy, a "talking" doll. The daily show, during its tenure, became one of the highest rated daytime programs on network TV. And it was during this period she embarked on learning to master dialects and perfect a long range of "character voices" — babies, children, animals, groups, crowds, and other vocal "tricks". She is now the master of nine dialects — English, Chinese, Irish, U.S. southern, Scotch, western U.S., French, Spanish, German — and others on request. Her current stint with Hanna Barbara led Hanna himself into a discussion of Saturday morning programming and the changes it has undergone in recent years. "Today," he pointed out, "Saturday mornings permit a wide assortment of shows, with informative entertainment sharing time with top rock music live shows and combinations of live and animated shows. "Hanna-Barbera is assisting CBS-TV news with its first entry into Saturday morning TV with a series of informative entertainment shorts — "In the Know" — which is hosted by the characters of Josie and the? ussycats," one of the many Saturday a.m. shows produced by our studio," he said. "This is quite a change from three seasons back, especially the introduction of informative shorts. "The great success of 'Sesame Street' helped create a warm reception among the networks for informing while entertaining. " 'Captain Kangaroo' also pioneered in introducing educational aspects to children's programming for the past 14 years, but the latter was a rare example," he said. "Saturday morning today is indeed a different Saturday morning of three or four years ago," said Hanna. "And as it continues to change, so will it change the cartoon entertainment of the world." *** 4