The Simpsons shorts the shorts were divided into three or four parts, but in the third season they were played as a single story. Tracey Ullman later filed a lawsuit, claiming that her show was the source of "The Simpsons"' success and therefore should receive a share of the show's profit. Eventually the courts ruled in favor of the network. The Simpsons shorts The Simpsons shorts are an American animated TV series of 48 one-minute shorts that ran on the variety television program "The Tracey Ullman Show" for three seasons, before the characters spun off into "The Simpsons", their own half-hour prime-time show.
The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series Reddy", "Huckleberry Hound" and "Yogi Bear" all of which had bridge animation between the cartoons.) available at the time. For example, WGN-Channel 9 in Chicago ran the three segments in a half-hour timeslot under the name "Wally Gator". In New York, WPIX-TV originally used the segments for a local series, "Cartoon Zoo", featuring Milt Moss as host and "Zookeeper", with life-sized cutouts of the characters in "cages" as a backdrop. The package was originally syndicated by Screen Gems, the TV division of Columbia Pictures. The Hanna-Barbera studio was later purchased by Taft Broadcasting Company, which distributed the studio's product first