The Hillbilly Bears played on a social stereotype of the "hillbilly" with a gun-toting, mumbling father Paw Rugg. The series aired as a segment on The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show from October 2, 1965 to September 7, 1967. The voices and personas of Floral and Shag were nearly identical to Judy Jetson from The Jetsons respectively.