The Flintstone Comedy Hour

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The Flintstone Comedy Hour
Genre	Animation
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Voices of	Alan Reed Mel Blanc Jean Vander Pyl Gay Hartwig Jay North Mickey Stevens
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	16
Production
Producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Camera setup	Dick Blundell, Tom Barnes, Ralph Migliori, Roy Wade, George Epperson
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 9, 1972 – September 1, 1973
Chronology
Preceded by	The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971-72)
Followed by	Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977-78)

The Flintstone Comedy Hour is a one-hour Saturday morning cartoon anthology series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The program originally aired on CBS as an hour-long show from September 9, 1972 to September 1, 1973 on CBS. The show's first half-hour included new segments with Fred and Barney, short gags, a dance-of-the-week and songs performed by the new Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm band called "The Bedrock Rockers", followed by four new episodes and reruns of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show in the second half-hour. The show also featured bad-luck Schleprock, Moonrock, Penny, Wiggy and the Bronto Bunch (Bronto, Noodles, Stub and Zonk) from The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show.

Mickey Stevens replaced Sally Struthers 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 Gloria Stivic on All in the Family.

For the 1973-74 season, CBS dropped The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show episodes and repackaged the first half-hour segments of The Flintstone Comedy Hour in reruns under the new title The Flintstone Comedy Show from September 8, 1973 to January 26, 1974; these segments were later featured on the syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends in 1977. The program continued to air in rebroadcasts under The Flintstone Comedy Show title on USA Cartoon Express, Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

Episodes

Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm

• Squawkie Talkies (September 9, 1972)
• The Suitor Computer (September 9, 1972)
• Beauty and the Beast (September 16, 1972)
• Bedlam in Bedrock (September 16, 1972)

Fred and Barney

• The Crush Documentary
• The White Hair
• Barney the Swami
• Candid Camerock
• Bird Brained
• Cat Burglars
• The Loving Cup
• The Baseball
• Don't Fence Me In
• Fred Skirts the Issue
• Something Fishy
• Dummy Up
• Flying Fools
• High Noon at Bedrock Pass
• Training Pain
• Fred's Promise

The Bedrock Rockers

The Bedrock Rockers were Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble and their friends Moonrock, Penny and Wiggy. They performed two songs per episode which included "And I Love You", "Sunshine Man", "Summertime Girl", "Yabba Dabba Doozy", "Being With You", "Singing Song", "What's Your Sign?", "Hop, Skip and a Jump", "Oh, How I Love You", "Sunny Sun Day", "Keep in Time", "Flying So High", "It Should Always Be A Saturday", "Shadow Shadow" and "Rock N Roll Circus." The music was written by various Screen Gems staffers, which at the time included David Gates (later of "Bread") penning the popular "Summertime Girl" and Tony Dancy (of Tony's Tygers) writing with Craig Fairchild & Jackie Mills on "Being With You". Mills would also write "Sunshine Man" with Leonard Pettit, and "Yaba Daba Doozy" with Tom Jenkins. The actual group on the recordings were known as the Ron Hicklin Singers (featuring Tom Bahler on lead, John Bahler, Jackie Ward and Stan Farber). This lineup would record on hundreds of commercials, TV themes, and the Partridge Family LPs. Bahler's lead vocals are also prominent with the group "Love Generation" who had a few LPs in the late '60s as well.

Voices

• Alan Reed - Fred Flintstone
• Mel Blanc - Barney Rubble, Dino, Zonk, Stub
• Carl Esser - Fabian
• Gay Hartwig - Betty Rubble, Wiggy, Cindy
• Don Messick - Schleprock
• Mitzi McCall - Penny
• Jay North - Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• John Stephenson - Mr. Slate, Noodles
• Mickey Stevens - Pebbles Flintstone
• Jean Vander Pyl - Wilma Flintstone
• Lennie Weinrib - Moonrock, Bronto

Production credits

• Produced and Directed by: Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
• Associate Producer: Alex Lovy
• Story: Dick Robbins, Tom Dagenais, Jack Hanrahan, Len Janson, Bob Ogle, Sheldon Mann, Jack Mendelsohn, 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: Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Tom Bahler, Carl Esser, Gay Hartwig, Ron Hicklin, Mitzi McCall, Don Messick, Jay North, John Stephenson, Mickey Stevens, Sally Stevens, Jean Vander Pyl, Jackie Ward, Lennie Weinrib
• Animation Director: Charles A. Nichols
• Production Design: Iwao Takamoto
• Production Supervisor: Victor O. Schipek
• Layout: Dick Bickenbach, Ed Benedict, Jaime Diaz, Jack Huber, Don Jurwich, Andrea Brown, David Hanan, Willie Ito, Don Sheppard
• Assistant Animation Director: Carl Urbano
• 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: F. Montealegre, Martin Forte, Tom Knowles, Eric Semones, Gino Guidice, Bob Schaefer, Jeannette Toews, Peter Van Elk
• Titles: Iraj Paran
• Musical Director: Hoyt Curtin
• Musical Supervisor: Paul DeKorte
• 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: Richard C. Allen, James Yaras
• Negative Consultant: William E. DeBoer
• Post Production Supervisor: Joed Eaton
• Camera: Dick Blundell,Tom Barnes, Ralph Migliori, Roy Wade, George Epperson
• A Hanna-Barbera Production

© 1972 Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.

All featured songs controlled by

Screen Gems Columbia Music, Inc. /

Colgems Music Corp.

DVD release

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm episodes ("Squawkie Talkies", "The Suitor Computer", "Beauty and the Beast", "Bedlam in Bedrock") were released as bonus episodes on the 2-disc DVD set The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show: The Complete Series by Warner Home Video on March 18, 2008. Note that these are simply the shows, they do not feature the musical selections of the Bedrock Rockers, which have not been released in any commercial form.

External links

• The Flintstone Comedy Hour at the Internet Movie Database
• The Flintstone Comedy Hour @ The Big Cartoon DataBase