The Flintstone Comedy Hour


The Flintstone Comedy Hour is an American animated television series and a spin-off of The Flintstones and The [Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show], produced by Hanna-Barbera, which aired on CBS 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 Fred and Barney, one short with the cast of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, 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 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 the sitcom All in the Family. This was the final spin-off to feature Alan Reed 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" and "The Bedrock Rockers" segments were later featured on the syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends in 1977–78. The program continued to air in rebroadcasts under The Flintstone Comedy Show title on USA Cartoon Express, Cartoon Network and Boomerang.
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 Pebbles Flintstone, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Moonrock Crater, Penny Pillar and Wiggy Rockstone. They performed two songs per episode which included:
  1. "Sunshine Man"
  2. "Summertime Girl"
  3. "Oh, How I Love You"
  4. "Keep in Time"
  5. "It Should Always Be Saturday"
  6. "Hop, Skip and a Jump"
  7. "Flying So High"
  8. "Yabba Dabba Doozie"
  9. "Shadow, Shadow"
  10. "Being with You"
  11. "Singing Song"
  12. "Song of the Seasons"
  13. "What's Your Sign?"
  14. "Sunny Sun Day"
  15. "Rock N Roll Circus"
  16. "I Love You, I Think I Love You"
The music was written by various Screen Gems staffers which, at the time, included David Gates penning the popular "Summertime Girl" and Tony Dancy 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 The [Ron Hicklin Singers], featuring Tom Bahler on lead, John Bahler, Jackie Ward and Stan Farber. This lineup recorded on hundreds of commercials, TV themes and The Partridge Family recordings. Bahler's lead vocals are also prominent in The Love Generation, who issued a few LPs in the late 1960s.

Episodes

Each episode contained two "Fred and Barney" segments with one "Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm" segment between them.
Four new episodes of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show were aired during the second half of The Flintstone Comedy Hour on September 9 and 16, but episodes were now shortened to two 11-minute segments in one 30-minute episode.
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