Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?

"Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" originally aired a few days after my 7th birthday. I still remember Sammy Davis Junior's Cheshire Cat, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble's 2-headed caterpillar, Zsa Zsa Gabor's Queen of Hearts and Daws Butler's Phil Silver-esque sportscaster and W. C. Fields-ian King of Hearts. Pretty top-shelf work from the Hanna Barbera cartoon factory.

For 49 minutes, this 62-year-old man was a child again. Highly recommended for other children of the 60s. Even though it's almost July, I may fire up 1964's Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or 1966's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

I just wanted to share something.i really enjoyed the Toon tracker ABC Hanna Barbera Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice kid like you doing in a place like this"originally aired on March 30,1966 sponsored by Rexall drug store and Coca-cola company.The Rexall commercials were included with Alice and the white rabbit.Sadly the coca-cola commercials were omitted.Back on November 19,1967,the Debbie Reynolds special on ABC was cancelled and was replaced by Alice in Wonderland once again.I am actually trying to do a research of when the cartoon special was re-aired on November 19,1967 sponsored by McDonald's corporation.Would anyone have the version of when Alice falls through the TV set and lands on the ground where the announcer sponsored the show by McDonalds.I would love to see that extremely rare 5 minute version.Can anyone help me out?Please let me know.

"What's a nice girl like you

Doing in a place like this?

What's a nice girl like you

Doing in a place like this?

Oh, I've got a feeling,

You won't like it here.

The potato chips are soggy

And they water the beer.

So what's a nice girl like you

Doing in a place like this?"

And has since March 1966. This sounds like a Hanna-Barbera version of Alice, not only Janet Waldo as Alice, making her sound like Josie, b ut even Fred and Barney as the Caterpillar, and it is HB. BTW regarding a poster..I don't think Alice had boots, but otherwise neither here nor there. We all know how the classic Lewis Carroll story goes: Bumps her head, finds her way into the television set and therefor Wonderland..well, in H-B's world.

ALso there are both almost all the stock players of HB and some surprises like Hedda hopper...Bill Dana....Zsa Zsa Gabor..and esp.that cheshire cat Sammy Davis Jr.

Worth watching.

This reworking of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, an hour-long (with commercial breaks) TV special by the Hanna-Barbera animation studio, known for their limited animation in TV series such as "The Flintstones," is amusingly clever in parts. The Alice here is told she must finish reading the Alice books for school before she's allowed to watch TV. While interacting with her dog, Fluff, however, she becomes concussed--entering a dream state whereby she follows Fluff through the family TV screen, down the hole of the boob tube, to Wonderland where she meets the game-playing rabbit and other creatures based on Carroll's narratives. A sign informs Alice, "Welcome to Wonderland" and, humorously, "This place is all right in my book -Lewis Carroll."

Fred and Barney from "The Flintstones" appear as actors in the role of the Caterpillar, which almost seems like a joke on the frequency of motion-picture stars appearing in odd roles in Alice movies ever since Paramount's star-studded production in 1933, which disguised, among others, Cary Grant as the Mock Turtle, W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty and Gary Cooper as the White Knight. If that weren't cheeky enough, the program ends with Alice breaking the fourth wall to wink through the real TV screen at us, the viewers. Unfortunately, the show also replaces most of Carroll's witty nonsense with songs that, with one exception, are tedious. It imitates the 1951 Disney theatrically-released cartoon, too, by concluding with Alice being homesick. On the other hand, I enjoyed the "Humphrey" (as in Bogart) Dumpty, who's a "hardboiled" "bad egg" locked in jail. Best of all, however, is Sammy Davis Jr. lending his voice to a cool (Cheshire) cat and singing the one catchy tune here, "What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?"