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| Genre | Comedy |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 18 |
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| Network | CBS |
| Release | September 9, 1972 (1972-09-09) – January 26, 1974 (1974-01-26) |
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The Flintstone Comedy Hour is an American animated television series and a spin-offofThe 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.[1][2]
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.[3] The show also featured Moonrock, Penny, Wiggy, "Bad-luck" Schleprock, Cindy and Fabian, and the Bronto Bunch (Bronto, Noodles, Stub and Zonk) from The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.[4][5]
Mikki 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" shorts and "The Bedrock Rockers" segments were later featured on the syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends in 1977–78.[6] The program continued to air in rebroadcasts under The Flintstone Comedy Show title on USA Cartoon Express, Cartoon Network and Boomerang.[7]
Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio.
The Bedrock Rockers were Pebbles Flintstone (keyboard), Bamm-Bamm Rubble (bass), Moonrock Crater (drums), Penny Pillar (tambourine) and Wiggy Rockstone (flute). They performed two songs per episode which included:
The music was written by various Screen Gems staffers which, at the time, included David Gates (ofBread) penning the popular "Summertime Girl" and Tony Dancy (of Tony's Tygers) 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 (he later penned the classic Michael Jackson song "She's Out of My Life"), 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.
Each episode contained two shorts featuring the traditional antics and adventures of Fred and Barney and one short featuring Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm with their friends Moonrock, Penny, Wiggy, Schleprock, Cindy and Fabian, and the Bronto Bunch (Bronto, Noodles, Stub and Zonk).
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| 1 | "Birdbrained / Squawkie Talkies / Bedrock 500" | September 9, 1972 (1972-09-09) | |
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| 2 | "The Flying Fools / Bedlam in Bedrock / The Stone Ranger Rides Again" | September 16, 1972 (1972-09-16) | |
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| 3 | "Cat Burglars / The Circus Show / Pizza-Puss" | September 23, 1972 (1972-09-23) | |
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| 4 | "Fred Skirts the Issue / Hair Scare / The Not So Desperate Hours" | September 30, 1972 (1972-09-30) | |
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| 5 | "Don't Fence Me In / The Spot Remover / Cake Walk" | October 7, 1972 (1972-10-07) | |
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| 6 | "The Loving Cup / Bedrock Surfers / Handicapped" | October 14, 1972 (1972-10-14) | |
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| 7 | "Something Fishy / Amusement Park / A Pound in Time" | October 21, 1972 (1972-10-21) | |
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| 8 | "Dummy Up / Bedrock Radio Rock Festival / Barney the Swami" | October 28, 1972 (1972-10-28) | |
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| 9 | "High Noon at Bedrock Pass / Cinderella / Training Pains" | November 4, 1972 (1972-11-04) | |
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| 10 | "Fred's Big Brag / Schleprock's Cousin / Fred's Promise" | November 11, 1972 (1972-11-11) | |
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| 11 | "The Big Breakup / Bedrock 300 / Candid Camerarock" | November 18, 1972 (1972-11-18) | |
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| 12 | "Feet First / The Hobby Show / The Reluctant Candidate" | November 25, 1972 (1972-11-25) | |
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| 13 | "Runaway Steaks / The Super Jumping Shoes / Citizen Flintstone" | December 2, 1972 (1972-12-02) | |
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| 14 | "The Big Splash / Bedrock Beauty and Grooming Center / Stage Flight" | December 9, 1972 (1972-12-09) | |
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| 15 | "Oil Fooled / Cave Buggy Race / Sherlock Flintstone" | December 16, 1972 (1972-12-16) | |
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| 16 | "Watch the Birdie / Schleprock / Mod Clod" | December 23, 1972 (1972-12-23) | |
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| 17 | "The Suitor Computer / Army Dazed" | December 30, 1972 (1972-12-30) | |
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| 18 | "Beauty and the Beast / The Galloping Gourmets" | January 6, 1973 (1973-01-06) | |
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