''The Flintstone Comedy Hour'' is an American

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and a

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of ''

The Flintstones ''The Flintstones'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the activities of the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighb ...

'' and ''

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'' is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions that originally aired for one season on CBS Saturday morning from September 11, 1971, to January 1, 1972. With an ensemble voice ...

'', produced by

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, which aired on

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from September 9, 1972, to September 1, 1973. It was re-titled ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' for a second season of reruns as a half-hour show from September 8, 1973, to January 26, 1974.

Overview

The show's first half-hour featured two shorts with

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, one short with the cast of ''

'', short jokes, horoscopes, and two songs performed by the new Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm band called The Bedrock Rockers; the second half-hour featured four new episodes and reruns of ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show''. The show also featured Moonrock, Penny, Wiggy, "Bad-luck" Schleprock, Cindy and Fabian, and the Bronto Bunch (Bronto, Noodles, Stub and Zonk) from ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show''. Mikki Stevens replaced

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as the voice of Pebbles in four new episodes of ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'' and in brief in-between segments, Struthers at the time being fully committed to her role as

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on the sitcom ''

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as the voice of Fred Flintstone before Reed's death in 1977. For the 1973–74 television season, CBS dropped ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'' episodes and repackaged the first half-hour segments of ''The Flintstone Comedy Hour'' for a second season of reruns under the new title ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' from September 8, 1973, to January 26, 1974. The "Fred & Barney" shorts and "The Bedrock Rockers" segments were later featured on the syndicated weekday series ''

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'' in 1977–78. The program continued to air in rebroadcasts under ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' title on

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.The Big Cartoon Database - The Flintstone Comedy Hour
retrieved February 16, 2015 Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio.

The Bedrock Rockers

The Bedrock Rockers were

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(keyboard),

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(bass), Moonrock Crater (drums), Penny Pillar (tambourine) and Wiggy Rockstone (flute). They performed two songs per episode which included: # "Sunshine Man" # "Summertime Girl" # "Oh, How I Love You" # "Keep in Time" # "It Should Always Be Saturday" # "Hop, Skip and a Jump" # "Flying So High" # "Yabba Dabba Doozie" # "Shadow, Shadow" # "Being With You" # "Singing Song" # "Song of the Season" # "What's Your Sign?" # "Sunny Sun Day" # "Rock N Roll Circus" The music was written by various

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staffers which, at the time, included

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(later of

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) penning the popular "Summertime Girl" and Tony Dancy (of Tony's Tygers) writing "Being With You" with Craig Fairchild & Jackie Mills. Mills also wrote "Sunshine Man" with Leonard Pettit and "Yabba Dabba Doozie" with Tom Jenkins. The actual group on the recordings were known as

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, featuring

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on lead (he later penned the classic

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and Stan Farber. This lineup recorded on hundreds of commercials, TV themes and

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recordings. Bahler's lead vocals are also prominent in

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, who issued a few LPs in the late 1960s.

Episodes

Each episode contained two shorts featuring the traditional antics and adventures of Fred and Barney and one short featuring Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm with their friends Moonrock, Penny, Wiggy, Schleprock, Cindy and Fabian, and the Bronto Bunch (Bronto, Noodles, Stub and Zonk).

Voice cast

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Barney Rubble Barney Rubble is a fictional character who appears in the television animated series ''The Flintstones''. He is the diminutive, blond-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and adoptive father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. His best friend is his next d ...

, Dino, Zonk, Stub * Carl Esser as Fabian Fabquartz * Gay Hartwig as

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, Wiggy Rockstone, Cindy Curbstone *

Don Messick Donald Earle Messick (September 7, 1926 – October 24, 1997) was an American voice actor. He was best known for his performances in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. His best-remembered vocal creations include Scooby-Doo, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Hoppy in ...

as Schleprock *

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as Penny Pillar *

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* John Stephenson as Mr. Slate, Noodles * Mickey Stevens as

Jean Vander Pyl Jean Thurston Vander Pyl (October 11, 1919 – April 10, 1999) was an American voice actress. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best known as the voice of Wilma Flintstone for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon ''The Flintstones''. In a ...

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as Moonrock Crater, Bronto

Production credits

* Produced and Directed by:

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and

Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland Barbera ( ; ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist who co-founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera. Born to Italian im ...

* Associate Producer:

Alex Lovy Alexander Lovy (September 2, 1913 – February 14, 1992) was an American animator. He spent the majority of his career as an animator and director at Walter Lantz Productions. He was later a producer at Hanna-Barbera, and also supervised the cart ...

* Story: Dick Robbins, Tom Dagenais,

Jack Hanrahan Jack Hanrahan (January 16, 1933 – April 28, 2008) was an American comedy writer. Biography Born January 16, 1933, in Cleveland, Ohio, he began writing cartoons for the ''Cleveland Press''. After that, he moved on to Hollywood, California and ...

Len Janson Len Janson is an American writer and director whose career in animated cartoons and live-action motion pictures spanned several decades beginning in the 1960s. He began work as an in-betweener at the Walt Disney cartoon studio. By 1965 he had becom ...

Bob Ogle Robert Allen Ogle (May 28, 1926 – February 25, 1984), known as Bob Ogle, was an American voice actor, animator and writer. Most characters he voiced are performed in the style of Bill Thompson's character Wallace Wimple from ''Fibber McGee and ...

, Sheldon Mann,

Jack Mendelsohn Jack Mendelsohn (November 8, 1926 – January 25, 2017) was an American writer-artist who worked in animation, comic strips and comic books. An Emmy-nominated television comedy writer and story editor, he had numerous credits as a TV scripter, ...

, Charles Menville, Howard Morganstern * Story Direction: Jim Carmichael, Carl Fallberg, George Jorgensen, Jim Mueller, Steve Clark, Jan Green, Earl Klein, Bill Perez, Paul Sommer * Voices:

, Tom Bahler, Carl Esser, Gay Hartwig, Ron Hicklin,

, John Stephenson, Mickey Stevens,

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, Jean VanderPyl, Jackie Ward,

Len Weinrib Leonard Weinrib (April 29, 1935 – June 28, 2006) was an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show ''H.R. Pufnstuf'', Grimace in McDonaldland commercials, the title role in ...

* Animation Director: Charles A. Nichols * Production Design:

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* Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek * Assistant Animation Director:

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* Layout: Dick Bickenbach, Ed Benedict, Jaime Diaz, Jack Huber, Don Jurwich, Andrea Brown, David Hanan,

Willie Ito Willie Ito (born July 17, 1934) is an American animator. He worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios in the 1950s, moved to Warner Bros. Cartoons and Hanna-Barbera Productions as a character designer, and later returned to Disney. Biography Ito ...

, Don Sheppard * Animation: Jerry Hathcock, George Cannata, Hugh Fraser, Dick Lundy, Joan Orbison, Ray Patterson, David Tendlar, Lillian Evans, George Kreisl, Margaret Nichols, Don Patterson, Jay Sarbry, Carlo Vinci, Xenia * Backgrounds: Fernando Montealegre, Martin Forte, Tom Knowles, Eric Semones, Gino Guidice, Bob Schaefer, Jeannette Toews, Peter Van Elk * Titles: Iraj Paran * Musical Director:

Hoyt Curtin Hoyt Stoddard Curtin (September 9, 1922 – December 3, 2000) was an American composer and music producer, the primary musical director for the Hanna-Barbera animation studio from its beginnings with ''The Ruff & Reddy Show'' in 1957 until his ret ...

* Music Coordinator: Paul DeKorte * Music Composed and Conducted by:

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* Technical Supervisor: Frank Paiker * Ink and Paint Supervisor: Jayne Barbera * Xerography: Robert "Tiger" West * Sound Direction: Richard Olson, Bill Getty * Supervising Film Editor: Larry Cowan * Film Editors: Rich Allen, James Yaras * Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer * Post Production: Joed Eaton * Camera: Dick Blundell, Tom Barnes, Ralph Migliori, Roy Wade, George Epperson * A Hanna-Barbera Production * RCA Sound Recording * This picture has made the jurisdiction of I.A.T.S.E., affiliated with A.F.L.-C.L.O. * Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. ©MCMLXXII-MCMLXXVII.· All featured songs controlled by Screen Gems Columbia Music, Inc./Colgems Music Corp.

References

External links

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