Chucklewood Critters is an American line of
television specials and an animated TV series created by former
Hanna-Barbera animators, Bill Hutten and Tony Love, which centered on two
woodland animals:
Buttons, a young
bear cub, and
Rusty, a
fox cub. It started as a
Christmas special in 1983 called
The Christmas Tree Train, followed by eight more holiday/seasonal specials. In 1997 it was developed into a series entitled
The New Chucklewood Critters, which ran for two seasons.