Linus the Lionhearted

Linus the Lionhearted is an American animated series made by Ed Graham Productions in collaboration with General Foods, who owned Post Cereals at the time. The series focuses on Linus (the mascot of Crispy Critters, one of the cereals the series sponsored), a rather good-natured "King of the Beasts" who ruled from his personal barber's chair. Other main characters (with some exceptions) were also cereal mascots, such as Sugar Bear (of Sugar Crisp, now Golden Crisp), Lovable Truly (of Alpha-Bits), So-Hi (of Rice Krinkles) and Rory Raccoon (of Post Toasties).

United States
The series premiered on CBS on for the 1964-65 season. In the next television season, the series would move to ABC on. However, no new content was made during its time on ABC, and the series instead ran reruns, though this time in color.

The series would keep airing as a result of its popularity until, when a ruling was made by the FCC that forbade children's show characters from appearing in advertisements on the same program, which forced ABC to stop airing the show.

Afterwards, the series would be syndicated to various networks, with Viacom and ARP Films handling the distribution rights for the series during the 1970s.

Australia
The series aired in Australia on Network 10 at a 6:30 timeslot, supposedly during 1987.

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International versions

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