Original title
Wally Gator
Released
9/3/1962
Origin country
US
Genre
Animation, Comedy, Family
Production companies
Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, NBC Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
52
Wally Gator is an anthropomorphic, happy-go-lucky alligator who wears a collar and a pork pie hat. Although his catchy theme song describes him as a "swingin' alligator of the swamp", his home is in the city zoo. Mr. Twiddle is the zookeeper who keeps a close watch on Wally because sometimes he escapes to check out what things are like in the outside world.
Wally's cigar smoke gets him in trouble.
Wally is taken from the zoo after some crooks mistaked him for another animal at the zoo they were looking for.
Mr. Twiddles gets a friend (another alligator) for Wally that isn't so friendly.
Wally crashes a masquerade party!
Mr. Twiddles gets a watchdog after Wally tries to leave the zoo.
Wally is stranded in the desert.
Wally gets stuck with stolen bank money and tries to find ways to get rid of it.
Wally heads for the Everglades, and eats the turnips of one of his rivals.
Wally Gator wants to get outside of the zoo, but first he has to get past Mr. Twiddles. Can Wally sneak past the crafty zoo keeper?
A bear takes the place in Wally's cage, the bad thing is the bear is not real nice.
Wally must sneak past the watchdog in order to get back to his home, after having some fun on the outside.
Twiddle brings Wally a wife-gator, unfortunately, she's bossy and demanding.
Wally must avoid a witch, or he will be witches' stew.
Making his getaway in a convict's uniform, Wally is trapped and forced to jump from the top floor of a building.
Wally is mistaken for an AWOL Navy Man!
Wally braves the attack of an Indian scout!
On the loose once again, Wally runs into an updated Red Riding Hood, complete with raids on Grandmother's refrigerator. Wally has to protect the girl from the inevitable big bad wolf.
Stowaway Wally is jettisoned over the North Pole where scientists discover him. Thinking him to be a prehistoric monster, they take Wally back to civilization.
While taking a pleasant stroll in the woods, Wally meets up with a very strange little boy who frightens him so much with his horrible stories.
An alligator watch dog in on Wally's tail.
Wally lets his conscience be his guide.
A robo-gator is loose in the zoo!
Twiddle, the zookeeper, buys a genuine Tasmanian Alarm Bird to assist him in keeping Wally from escaping. Wally tries every possible trick but he cannot avoid the bird.
A wealthy matron phones the police to report an alligator in her bathtub. The gator of course is Wally, who proceeds to drive everyone crazy.
Twiddle buys a motor scooter to aid him in making the zoo rounds. When Wally tries his hand at operating the scooter, chaos breaks loose in the zoo.
A stork accidentally drops a baby gorilla in Wally's pen and Wally has his hands full until the stork returns to rectify his mistake.
Wally takes an overdose of super vitamin pills and shoots up to a gigantic height. Everyone in the city panics when it is announced that a prehistoric monster is loose.
Wally thinks his destiny is to become a famous movie star so he heads to ""Squad's Drug Store"" because that is where ALL movie stars go to get discovered of course. Once ""discovered"", it's off to Hollywood for Wally to film a movie. However, Wally soon finds out that being a movie star is not all glory and glamor and decides Hollywood must do without him.
With the smell of magnolias in the air, Wally falls in love with a real Southern belle named Hominy. When Hominy's beau comes home, poor Wally is almost put into orbit.
Twiddle, the zoo keeper, talks Wally into taking better care of the lawn in front of his cage, but Wally and the new power mower don't quite understand each other.
Landing in the net of a mad professor, Wally is sent back into time where he in mistaken for a shrunken dragon by a do-good knight.
Wally is arrested for trying to break in to the zoo!
A notorious gangster buys an alligator disguise and hits the street at the same moment that Wally is making his escape from the zoo.
A baseball scout sees Wally throwing rocks in the zoo and signs him an a pitcher for a major league team. Wally sneaks out of the zoo with the scout and reports for training.
Wally escapes from the zoo by chasing a cluster of gas-filled balloons. He floats merrily over the countryside, creating an "Unidentified Flying Object" scare.
Wally escapes from the zoo by chasing a cluster of gas-filled balloons. He floats merrily over the countryside, creating an "Unidentified Flying Object" scare.
Wally sneaks away from the zoo and hides in a piece of luggage lying outside the zoo gate. He's in for a big surprise -- the suitcase belongs to zookeeper Twiddle.
It's a battle of con artists when Wally tangles with a fast-talking insurance agent. Seconds after buying the policy, Wally lands in the hospital.
Twiddle's new whistle tweets too much!
Twiddle brings Wally a birthday cake and the two reminisce about Wally's life in the zoo. When Twiddle recalls all the trouble Wally has given him, he gives him the cake -- right in his face.
Wally feigns sickness to get out of the zoo. Twiddle calls an ambulance and Wally is whisked away to a hospital where he is greeted by a mad doctor, Ben Cagey.
Wally's fairy Godmother grants his wish to become a wild west sheriff, but the gator gets his fill of the job and makes another wish to be whisked home.
Wally escapes from the zoo and accidentally wanders onto a rocket launching pad. Before he or anyone else knows it, he is on his way to the moon.
Wally discovers a gopher in his garden eating all of his treasured swamp turnips. He swears revenge and sets about trapping the pest.
Wally is trying to break into show business when he is approached by promoter Leo Lasagna. Wally falls for Leo's promises.
Wally is mistaken for a creature from Mars when he puts too much bubble bath into his Saturday night tub and floats over the countryside on a cloud of bubbles.
Wally slips on the ice, right into a big break!
Wally finds out about a movie being made about "The Creature from Planet Nix" and escapes from the zoo to be involved.
Mr. Beagle contacts Wally about the estate of his late Uncle By-You Bogs Gator, which leaves him the Grand Goober Island in the Everglades.
When Wally has a leaky pipe, he convinces Twiddle to let him fix it but ends up making a bigger mess and they have to call a plumber.
Wally escapes the zoo to try some outside food. He goes to the local restaurant, but he encounters a waiter who has little patience.
Another alligator tries to become the ""new"" alligator in the zoo by getting Wally thrown out.
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