Cave Kids


Cave Kids is an American animated preschool television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and a spin-off of The Flintstones. The show was syndicated to public television stations by Warner Bros. Television from September 29 to November 17, 1996, with reruns available until 1999. It is also Hanna-Barbera's final television series produced before being acquired by WarnerMedia#Time Warner and [Time Warner Entertainment |Time Warner]. The show also aired reruns on Boomerang and MeTV Toons.

Premise

The series follows the adventures of Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble as prehistoric pre-schoolers with Dino, the Flintstone family's pet dinosaur, as their babysitter. While Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm speak in baby-talk gibberish to adults, they could communicate normally with each other, a la Rugrats.
Unlike the original 1960s Flintstones series and its spin-off incarnations featuring the kids and their parents in slapstick comedy adventures, this show focused more on educational values and lessons for children, with each episode also concluding with a music video relating to the episode's theme, using often-altered footage from the episode. Another thing worth noting is that Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and Dino were the only established characters to appear in the show. Every other character from the television series was completely absent.
An earlier Cave Kids effort was published by Golden Press, both as a Little Golden Books in 1963, and also as a Gold Key Comics series spanning 16 issues from 1963 through 1967.

Voice cast

Merchandising

Album

A sing-along album, Cave Kids Sing-Along, was released on cassette tape and CD by Kid Rhino on February 4, 1997. The album featured seven songs performed by Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, including five from the series. The package also contained a full-color booklet with lyrics to all the songs.
;Track listing
  1. "Cave Kids Theme"
  2. "The Cave Kid Crawl"
  3. "The Woman in the Moon"
  4. "Little Is Just Right for Me"
  5. "Sharing"
  6. "Hand in Hand"
  7. "Being a Friend"

    Home media

On June 10, 1997, Warner Home Video released three separate Cave Kids titles on videocassette: "Watch Us Grow", "At Play" and "Make New Friends", with each 44-minute cassette featuring two episodes and a music video.
TitleRelease dateEpisodes
"Watch Us Grow"June 10, 1997
  • Kiss and Spell
  • Beanstalk Blues
"At Play"June 10, 1997
  • Sand Castle Surprise
  • Soap Bubble Dreams
    • "Make New Friends"June 10, 1997
  • China Challenge
  • Of Mice and Moon