Horton Hears a Who! (TV special)

Horton Hears a Who! is a 1970 television half-hour-long special based on the Dr. Seuss book of the same name, Horton Hears a Who!. It was produced and directed by Chuck Jones - who previously produced the Seuss special MGM Television and first broadcast March 19, 1970 on CBS.

Horton

 * A person's a person, no matter how small.

Dialogue

 * Horton: But, this is incredible. What are you, anyhow?
 * Dr. Hoovey: Not 'what', sir. I'm a Who.
 * Horton: A Who? You're a Who?
 * Dr. Hoovey: Yes, a Who. Uh, W-H-O. Who. I live here in Who-ville.


 * [while Horton's clover is being carried away by Whizzer McWoff]
 * Horton: Dr. Hoovey? Dr. Hoovey, fasten your seat belt! Tie yourself down! Batten your hatches! Sandbag the whole town!
 * Dr. Hoovey: Batten our hatches? I don't understand! What is a seat belt? We're fresh out of sand.
 * Horton: Please grab hold! Hold tight! Or you'll all go kaput!
 * Dr. Hoovey: Good gracious, good heavens! More trouble afoot!

 Just tell us and we'll follow you! We'll save this town, we'll save this world! Just tell us what we have to do!
 * Tho Whos: [singing to Dr. Hoovey, who they now believe after they have been dropped from the sky] Just tell us what we have to do!
 * Dr. Hoovey: [spoken] What to do? I wish I knew!
 * Horton: Keep up your courage now! Never let it sink! Things are getting better! Much better! [brief pause] I think...


 * Horton: [after attempting to get the Whos to make themselves heard, which fails] Uh, you should've heard that, just as clear as a bell. Everything is going to be... perfectly swell.
 * Jane Kangaroo: Hmph, I heard nothing, and you didn't either, and as for my prodigy, he didn't...
 * Junior Kangaroo: ...Neither!

Voice cast

 * Hans Conried - Horton the Elephant / Dr. H. Hoovey / Narrator
 * Chuck Jones - Junior Kangaroo / Vlad Vladikoff (renamed "Whizzer McKwoff") / JoJo
 * June Foray - Jane Kangaroo / the Birds
 * The Mellomen - The Wickersham Brothers
 * The MGM Chorus - The Citizens of Whoville