The Flintstone Comedy Show

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Not to be confused with The Flintstone Comedy Hour, which was later renamed The Flintstone Comedy Show.
The Flintstone Comedy Show
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Network NBC
Production company Hanna-Barbera
Distributor Worldvision Enterprises
Original release November 22, 1980May 21, 1981
Starring Henry Corden
Mel Blanc
Jean Vander Pyl
Gay Autterson
Russi Taylor
Michael Sheehan
Frank Welker
Mitzi McCall
Lennie Weinrib
Don Messick
Charles Neilson Reilly
Ruta Lee
Paul Reubens
Zelda Rubenstein
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Alex Lovy
Carl Urbano
Music composed by Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s) Tex Avery
Doug Booth
Chuck Couch
Chuck Menville
Ray Parker
Duane Poole
Dick Robbins
Cliff Roberts
Tom Swale
Director(s) Ray Patterson
George Gordon
Rudy Zamora
Gordon Hunt (voices)
Alex Lovy (voices)
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The Flintstone Comedy Show is an American animated comedy television series produced by Hanna-Barbera for NBC. It ran from 1980 to 1981, airing 18 episodes that spanned two seasons. It is a spin-off of The Flintstones, and the fifth incarnation of the Flintstones franchise. In Europe, it was renamed Flintstone Frolics.

The series consisted of six segments: a regular type of story of the Flintstones and Rubbles in The Flintstone Family Adventures; Fred and Barney join the police force in Bedrock Cops; best friends Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, with pet Dino, investigate haunted places in Bedrock in Pebbles, Dino and Bamm-Bamm; in Captain Caveman, Wilma and Betty become reporters at The Daily Granite, where prehistoric superhero, Captain Caveman, secretly works as an office boy; and finally the monster family, the Frankenstones, get their own show in The Frankenstones.

The designs of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm depicts them as younger-looking (while their friends are kept the same), making the series look like it was set before The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.

Shmoo, who was the title character of The New Shmoo, appears in the series, most notably as a costar in Bedrock Cops. The New Shmoo was, however, set in the present.

Captain Caveman was the star of the TV series Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, with the aforementioned Captain Caveman segments retconning the character as having been a citizen of Bedrock all along. He also appears in Flintstones prequel series, The Flintstone Kids.

Production

Development

Casting

Segments

  • The Flintstone Family Adventures
  • Bedrock Cops
  • Pebbles, Dino and Bamm-Bamm
  • Captain Caveman
  • The Frankenstones

Music

The music was composed and conducted by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as musical director. The musical supervisor was Paul DeKorte.

Episodes

Episode Original air date
1x01 November 22, 1980
1x02 November 29, 1980
1x03 December 6, 1980
1x04 December 13, 1980
1x05 January 20, 1980
1x06 December 27, 1980
1x07 January 3, 1981
1x08 January 10, 1981
1x09 January 17, 1981
1x10 January 24, 1981
1x11 January 24, 1981
2x01 September 12, 1981
2x02 September 19, 1981
2x03 September 26, 1981
2x04 October 3, 1981
2x05 October 10, 1981
2x06 October 17, 1981
2x07 October 24, 1981

Cast

References