In the mid-1960s, Hanna-Barbera produced this series of TV cartoons for syndication, featuring caricatures of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Larry Harmon, the man who made Bozo the Clown a household name, had acquired the rights to the likenesses of the famous comedy duo from Stan and Eda Laurel, and Oliver Hardy's widow, Lucille, in 1961. Harmon's company, which had previously produced the Bozo animated cartoons and many of the made-for-TV Popeye cartoons under contract from King Features, began animating The Laurel and Hardy Comedy Show around the same time that producer David L. Wolper contracted with Hanna-Barbera to produce another series, after Laurel's death. A legal challenge followed, with Wolper and Harmon agreeing on a modus vivendi (a state of affairs where two opposing parties