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The Hillbilly Bears

1965 American TV series or program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Hillbilly Bears is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The series aired as a segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show from October 2, 1965 to September 7, 1967.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Hillbilly Bears” as 1965 American TV series or program. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hillbilly, Bears and American.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1967—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hillbilly, Bears and American providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Hillbilly Bears”, the useful work is to connect “1965 American TV series or program” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1965 and 1967.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Hillbilly Bears”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Hillbilly Bears primary sources, The Hillbilly Bears archive and Hillbilly research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Hillbilly Bears”?
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  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Hillbilly Bears” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.