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The Flintstone Comedy Show (not to be confused with the shortened, re-titled 1973 version of CBS's The Flintstone Comedy Hour) is a 90-minute Saturday morning animated series revival and a spin-off of the original series, The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera and aired from November 22, 1980 to October 24, 1981, and is the fifth incarnation of the Flintstones franchise. Outside North America, the show was released under title of Flintstone Frolics.

Overview[]

The series featured new characters (The Frankenstones, Cavemouse) as well as older characters (Penny, Wiggy, Moonrock and Schleprock of 1971's The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and 1972's The Flintstone Comedy Hour on CBS, Al Capp's the Shmoo from his show The New Shmoo which also aired on NBC in 1979, Captain Caveman from his own series on ABC in 1977 which lasted 3 seasons).

A series of gags, educational spots, games, how-to-draw and a dance-of-the-week were featured in-between the six segments every week. In 1982, reruns of the show were repackaged for two seasons under the title, The Flintstone Funnies. Reruns of Dino and Cavemouse aired on the Disney Channel adaption of Wake, Rattle, and Roll.

Episodes[]

Main article: The Flintstone Comedy Show episode list

Segments[]

Main article: List of segments#The Flintstone Comedy Show

The show contained six segments:

  • The Flintstone Family Adventures: This segment featured the traditional antics and adventures of the Flintstones and The Rubbles.
  • Bedrock Cops: Fred and Barney as part-time police officers assisted by the Shmoo as a trainee under the direction of Sgt. Boulder. The trio fought crime in the city of Bedrock, most of the time chasing after Rockjaw, The Frankenstones' pet monster.
  • Pebbles, Dino and Bamm-Bamm: This was a Flintstones-themed adaptation of the "mystery-solving teens and a pet" format popularized by Scooby-Doo and its various spin-offs in the 1970s. In this series, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (both in the teenage form originally introduced in The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show) with pet dinosaur Dino solve mysteries in the city of Bedrock. They would sometimes be accompanied by pals Penny, Wiggy, Moonrock.
  • Captain Caveman: This series of shorts serves as a prequel to the earlier series, focusing on Captain Caveman's time in Bedrock before he was frozen in ice. Captain Caveman (under his "secret identity" of Chester the office boy), Betty and Wilma work for Lou Granite at The Daily Granite. To disguise himself as Chester, Captain Caveman wore a pair of glasses and a tie (similar to the Clark Kent persona used by Superman). Despite the simplicity of his disguise, he required a coat rack and an elaborate transformation sequence to become Captain Caveman.
  • Dino and Cavemouse: The segment featured The Flintstones’ pet dinosaur Dino pitted against a pesky little cavemouse in chase sequences similar to Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts. These sequences were supervised by legendary animation director Tex Avery. Two segments aired per episode.
  • The Frankenstones: This segment featured the Flintstones' neighbors, The Frankenstones: Frank, his wife Hidea, their kooky daughter Atrocia and Freaky, their teenage son who is friends with fellow teenager Pebbles Flintstone.

Voices[]

Additional Voices[]

  • René Auberjonois
  • Joe Baker
  • Buster Jones
  • Frank Nelson
  • Beverly Sanders
  • Marilyn Schreffler (Season 2)
  • Lurene Tuttle
  • Paul Winchell

Production Credits[]

Executive Producers:
William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producers:
Alex Lovy
Carl Urbano
Directors:
Ray Patterson
George Gordon
Rudy Zamora
Story Supervisor:
Ray Parker
Story Editors:
Tex Avery
Doug Booth
Chuck Couch
Chuck Menville
Ray Parker
Duane Poole
Dick Robbins
Cliff Roberts
Tom Swale
Story:
Gene Ayres
Haskell Barkin
Anthony Bonaduce
Celia Bonaduce
Doug Booth
John Bradford
Don Christensen
Nancy Clements
Tom Dagenais
Don Dougherty
Diane Duane
Carl Fallberg
Donald F. Glut
Ralph Goodman
Gary Greenfield
Dale Hale
Orville Hampton
Len Janson
Jack Kinney
Dale Kirby
Earl Kress
Glenn Leopold
Chuck Menville
Jack Mendelsohn
Ron Michaelson
Charles Mulholland
Bob Ogle
Ray Parker
Ria Parody
Vip Partch
Duane Poole
Paul Pumpian
Lane Raichert
Dick Robbins
Reed Robbins
Misty Stewart
Tom Swale
Warren Taylor
Ernest Terrazas
Len Udes
Tom Yakutis
Story Direction:
Tom Dagenais
Bob Dranko
Carl Fallberg
John Freeman
Gary Goldstein
Dale Hale
Gary Hoffman
Cullen Houghtaling
Chris Jenkyns
Emilie Kong
Larry Latham
Lew Marshall
Hal Mason
Bill Perez
Don Ruch
George Singer
Tom Yakutis
Recording Directors
Gordon Hunt
Alex Lovy
Assistant to the Recording Director:
Ginny McSwain
Voices:
René Auberjonois
Gay Autterson
Joe Baker
Mel Blanc
Henry Corden
Buster Jones
Ruta Lee
Ken Mars
Mitzi McCall
Don Messick
Charles Nelson Reilly
Paul Reubens
Zelda Rubinstein
Beverly Sanders
Marilyn Schreffler
John Stephenson
Russi Taylor
Lurene Tuttle
Jean Vander Pyl
Lennie Weinrib
Frank Welker
Paul Winchell
Graphics:
Iraj Paran
Tom Wogatzke
Title Design:
Bill Perez
Musical Director:
Hoyt Curtin
Musical Supervisor:
Paul DeKorte
Design Supervisor:
Bob Singer
Character Design:
Dick Bickenbach
Jaime Diaz
Jim Franzen
Dave Hanan
Willie Ito
Scott Shaw
Layout Supervisor:
Don Morgan
Key Layout:
John Tucker
Layout:
Kurt Anderson
Ed Benedict
Dick Bickenbach
Brad Case
Jaime Diaz
Owen Fitzgerald
Drew Gentle
Dave Hanan
Dave Hilberman
Mike Hodgson
Ken Landau
Jack Manning
Hal Mason
Judy Niver
Rosemary O'Connor
Dave O'Day
Mike O'Mara
Lee Orr
Rebecca Price
Glenn Schmitz
Mike Sekowsky
Gary Terry
Dean Thompson
Sherry Wheeler
Roy Wilson
Animation Supervisors:
Bob Hathcock
Jay Sarbry
Animators:
Donald Albrecht
Robert Alvarez
Frank Andrina
Ed Barge
Warren Batchelder
Carol Beers
Oliver Callahan
Lars Calonius
Rudy Cataldi
Daniel De La Vega
Ed DeMattia
Joan Drake
Judith Drake
Thomas Farish
Michael Felber
Hugh Fraser
Fred Grable
Jeffery Hale
Terry Harrison
Fred Hellmich
Barrie Helmer
Samuel Kai
Kenneth Kessel
Bob Kirk
Rick Leon
Mircea Manta
Catherine Margerin
Bob Matz
Lenny Meyer
Ken Muse
Constantin Mustatea
Bob Nesler
Wilbert Noble
Marcy Page
Margaret Parkes
Don Patterson
David Pettigrew
Barney Posner
Morey Reden
Joanna Romersa
Mitchell Rose
Joel Seibel
Kunio Shimamura
Ken Southworth
Leo Sullivan
Dave Tendlar
Dick Thompson
Linn Trochim
Robert Trochim
Richard Trueblood
Bonita Versh
Assistant Animation Supervisors:
John Boersema
Sandi Hathcock
Background Supervisor: Al Gmuer
Backgrounds:
Lorraine Andrina
Fernando Arce
Susan Broadhurst
Dario Campanile
Gil DiCicco
Dennis Durrell
Flamarion Ferreira
Martin Forte
Andrea Freeman
Bob Gentle
James Hegedus
Eric Heschong
Jim Hickey
Paro Hozumi
Mike Humphries
Brian Karwan
Phil Lewis
Jeffrey Long
Michele Moen
Michael Morgan
Bill Proctor
Andy Phillipson
Phil Phillipson
Jeff Richards
Jeff Riche
Ron Roesch
Dennis Venizelos
Xerography:
Dan Forster
Gary Fishbaugh
Star Wirth
Ink and Paint Supervison:
Margaret Hale
Pamela Heiter
Alison Victory
Checking and Scene Planning:
Jackie Banks
James Finch
Debra Smith
Technical Supervisors:
Jerry Mills
Robert Mills
Camera:
Allen Childs
Candace Edwards
Curt Hall
Robert Jacobs
Raymond Lee
Spencer McDonald
Ralph Migliori
Joe Ponticelle
Sherry Popovich
Terry Smith
Warren Taylor
Neil Viker
Roy Wade
Sound Director:
Joe Citarella
Richard Olson
Supervising Film Editor:
Larry C. Cowan
Dubbing Supervisor:
Pat Foley
Effects Editors:
Michael Bradley
Cecil Broughton
Sue Brown
Horta Editoral
Katherine MacKenzie
Joseph Reitano
Kerry Wiliams
Music Editors:
Daniels McLean
Terry Moore
Joe Sandusky
Robert Talboy
Show Editor:
Gil Iverson
Negative Consultant:
William E. DeBoer
Post Production Supervisor:
Joed Eaton
Production Manager:
Jeffrey Kahan
Production Assistant:
Valerie Gifford
Executives in Charge of Production:
Jayne Barbera
Margaret Loesch

Gallery[]

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Home Media[]

In the 1980s, two videocassette editions of The Flintstone Comedy Show were released:

Currently, The Flintstone Comedy Show is streaming on the Boomerang streaming service as Flintstone Frolics.

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