Squiddly Diddly is an anthropomorphic animated squid

Squid

Squid are cephalopods of the order Teuthida, which comprises around 300 species. Like all other cephalopods, squid have a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and arms. Squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms arranged in pairs and two, usually longer, tentacles...

 created by Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated North American television animation during the second half of the 20th century...

, who was featured in his own cartoon segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show

The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show was an hour-long Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from 1965 to 1967 for NBC.-Production:...

beginning in 1965.

Fictional character biography

The round-headed, sailor-hatted Squiddly, more octopus

Octopus

The octopus is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms, and like other cephalopods they are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms...

 than squid in appearance, lives in an aquatic park known as Bubbleland. Squiddly Diddly is an aspiring musician who makes many attempts to escape and attain musical stardom but is constantly foiled by Bubbleland's administrator Chief Winchley. In some episodes Squiddly Diddly manages to escape but chooses to return to Bubbleland, considering the outside world to be too harsh. The cartoons sometimes show people applauding Squiddly Diddly's musical talents but often depict terrified people who mistakenly believe that octopuses are hostile.

Season 1 (1965-1966)

№	Title	First aired:	Synopsis
1	"Way Out Squiddly"	1965·Oct·02
2	"Show Biz Squid"	1965·Oct·09
3	"The Canvas Back Squid"	1965·Oct·16
4	"Nervous Service"	1965·Oct·23
5	"Westward Ha!"	1965·Oct·30
6	"Sea Grunt"	1965·Nov·06
7	"Chief Cook and Bottle Washer"	1965·Nov·13
8	"Squid on the Skids"	1965·Nov·20
9	"Double Trouble"	1965·Nov·27
10	"Squid Kid"	1965·Dec·04
11	"Booty and the Beast"	1965·Dec·11
12	"Clowning Around"	1965·Dec·18
13	"Surprise Prize"	1965·Dec·25
14	"Naughty Astronaut"	1966·Jan·01
15	"The Ghost Is Clear"	1966·Jan·08	Squiddly Diddly babysits a young ghost Ghost In traditional belief and fiction, a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear, in visible form or other manifestation, to the living. Descriptions of the apparition of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes, to...  named Wilbur.
16	"Lucky Ducky"	1966·Jan·15
17	"Foxy Seal"	1966·Jan·22
18	"Squiddly Double Diddly"	1966·Jan·29
19	"Hollywood Folly"	1966·Feb·05
20	"One Black Knight"	1966·Feb·12

Season 2 (1966)

№	Title	First aired:	Synopsis
21	"Yo Ho Ho"	1966·Sep·10
22	"Phoney Fish"	1966·Sep·17	Two criminals named Knuckles and Tiny pose as Snorkle Fish in order rob the Bubbleland Box Office.
23	"Gnatman"	1966·Sep·24	Squiddly Diddly and Chief Winchley each pose as the superhero Gnatman in order to fight crime.
24	"Robot Squid"	1966·Oct·01
25	"Jewel Finger"	1966·Oct·08
26	"Baby Squidder"	1966·Oct·15

Voice cast

• Paul Frees
  Paul Frees
  Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago...
  
   - Squiddly Diddly
• John Stephenson
  John Stephenson (actor)
  John Stephenson is an American actor and voice actor. He has also been credited as John Stevenson...
  
   - Chief Winchley

Squiddly Diddly in other languages

• Brazilian Portuguese
  Brazilian Portuguese
  Brazilian Portuguese is a group of Portuguese dialects written and spoken by most of the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a few million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan and Paraguay....
  
  : Lula Lelé
• Spanish
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
  : El pulpo Manotas
• French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  : Diddly la pieuvre
• Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
  : Inky de inktvis
• Italian
  Italian language
  Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
  
  : Squiddly Diddly
• German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  : Squiddly Diddly
• Japanese
  Japanese language
  is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
  
  : Tako no Roku chan

External links

• Squiddly Diddly at the Big Cartoon DataBase
  Big Cartoon DataBase
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• Squiddly Diddly - Cartoon Network
  Cartoon Network
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  Department of Cartoons (Archive)