The Soft Touchables
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| The Soft Touchables | |
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 Fred and Barney arrive at the Third National Bank. | |
| Production number | P-34[1] |
| Premiere date | October 27, 1961 |
| Starring | Alan Reed Mel Blanc Jean Vander Pyl Bea Benaderet Sandra Gould Daws Butler John Stephenson |
| Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
| Writer(s) | Sydney Zelinka Arthur Phillips |
| Director(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
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"The Soft Touchables" is the seventh episode of The Flintstones season two, and the thirty-fifth overall. It aired on October 27, 1961 on ABC. It was written by Sydney Zelinka and Arthur Phillips, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the series and the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Fred and Barney start a part-time detective agency, but their first client turns out to be a criminal.
Detailed summary
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Characters
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Production
Development
Filming
The cast was recorded on April 9, 1961.[1]
Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: October 27, 1961 on ABC
Behind the scenes
- The title is a spoof to the 1959 television crime series, The Untouchables.
- This was the first episode that Mel Blanc worked on after his near-fatal car accident, over two months before its airing.
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Critical reception
In other languages
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Home availability
- In the United States:
- December 7, 2004: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season on DVD.
- October 28, 2008: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Series (limited edition) on DVD.
- November 13, 2012: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Series (standard edition) on DVD.
- October 3, 2017: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
- February 13, 2018: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Series (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
- October 27, 2020: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Series on Blu-ray Disc.
- In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
References
- ^ a b Adams, T.R. (November 1994). The Flintstones: A Modern Stone Age Phenomenon, page 153. Turner Publishing. Retrieved December 9, 2021.
