Larry Kenney for his voice work as Lion-O on the 1980s Rankin-Bass cartoon "ThunderCats", and Karate Kat, a martial arts blackbelt cat featured as part of "The Comic Strip". He was also the voice of Bluegrass in "SilverHawks" and Dolph in "TigerSharks". Kenney also did voice work for several breakfast cereal characters, including Count Chocula and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird. In recent years, he has reprised this role for humorous "ThunderCats" references on the animated series "Family Guy". Warner Bros announced that a new ThunderCats animated series is in the works, set to air in 2011 on Cartoon Network. Kenney will return
The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series through Taft-HB Program Sales, and later through Worldvision Enterprises. Over time, the studio regained control of many of its earlier productions and distributed them through Worldvision. The elements of "The New Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Series" were split up, with "Wally Gator" airing as a segment on "Magilla Gorilla and Friends" on USA Network's "Cartoon Express" from 1987 through 1991. Meanwhile, "Touche Turtle" and "Lippy the Lion" were part of another package of cartoons aired on The Family Channel. Following the purchase of the Hanna-Barbera library by Turner Entertainment, these shorts eventually appeared on Cartoon Network and later Boomerang. The cartoons were