Talk about product placement in television shows. I was enjoying the recently released
Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960's and I noticed something familiar during the
Quick Draw McGraw cartoon,
"Dynamite Fright".

Quick Draw's bloodhound,
Snuffles, has a role in this cartoon and has an addiction to the dog biscuits his master gives him. Quick Draw offers Snuffles the box as a reward and I thought the design of the package looked awfully familiar.

I had recently picked up a copy of
Ad Boy: Vintage Advertising with Character and flipped through the pages. There was the package of
T-Bone Form Dog Biscuits from
1962.

I suppose that
Gro-Pup was a sponsor of the early
Hanna-Barbera series?


For more classic cartoons on DVD, pick up a copy of
Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960's, available from
Warner Home Video. If you like retro artwork and vintage advertising, you should also pick up a copy of
Ad Boy: Vintage Advertising with Character, available from
Ten Speed Press.