Micro Ventures

{{Infobox television

| genre = Educational

| runtime = 4 minutes

| executive_producer = William Hanna
Joseph Barbera

| voices = Don Messick
Patsy Garrett
Tommy Cook

| country = United States

| language = English

| network = NBC

| company = Hanna-Barbera Productions

| first_aired = {{start date|1968|11|9}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1968|12|21}}

| num_episodes = 4

}}

Micro Ventures is an animated series created by Hanna-Barbera Productions which originally aired as a four-minute segment on The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.{{cite book |last1=Erickson |first1=Hal |title=Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 |date=2005 |edition=2nd |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=978-1476665993 |pages=109–111}} It ran for only four episodes from November 9, 1968 to December 21, 1968 on NBC.

Summary

In each episode, Professor Carter and his two teenage kids, Mike and Jill, use a shrinking machine (the micro-reducer) to shrink themselves and their dune buggy to miniature size to explore and experience the world from the perspective of an insect.

Voices

Episodes

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| Title = The Tiny Sea

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|11|9}}

| EpisodeNumber = 1

| ShortSummary =Professor Carter, Mike and Jill change to micro-size near a pond so that they can get a closer look at a bullfrog, except a predacious hawk is tailing them.

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| Title = The Dangerous Desert

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|11|23}}

| EpisodeNumber = 2

| ShortSummary =Professor Carter, Mike and Jill change to micro-size by the wreckage of a rocket in order to locate a minuscule microchip, but a Gila monster stands in their way.

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| Title = The Backyard Jungle

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|12|7}}

| EpisodeNumber = 3

| ShortSummary =Professor Carter, Mike and Jill change to micro-size in their backyard to help Jill with her entomology project. There is much danger on the journey, especially from a cat.

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| Title = Exploring an Ant Colony

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1968|12|21}}

| EpisodeNumber = 4

| ShortSummary =Professor Carter, Mike and Jill change to micro-size to observe an ant colony. Then an Amazon ant attack on the colony occurs.

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