Hanna-Barbera


 * See the article Hanna-Barbera at Smurfs Wiki.

Hanna-Barbera Productions was the studio company created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera that was responsible for the creation of the Smurfs cartoon show that aired on Saturday mornings on NBC from 1981 to 1990. It is now part of Time-Warner Communications and now also exists as Cartoon Network Studios.

Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories
The studio existed in the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series universe as the creators of the Smurfs cartoon show, following the same history as in the real universe, although unknown to them a good deal of the stories from the cartoon show were adaptations of real-life events that were recorded in the memory crystal that was passed on to Peyo when he was a child.