The Flintstone Comedy Hour
Description:
The Flintstone Comedy Hour is a one-hour Saturday morning animated anthology series that aired on CBS from 1972 to 1973. The program was a spin-off of both the original The Flintstones and The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show series, blending new segments with reruns and focusing on a more youthful, 1970s "groovy" theme.
The show combined various segment types to fill its hour-long runtime:
New Fred & Barney segments: Short, classic-style gags and vignettes featuring the original main characters.
Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm and the gang: This built on The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, depicting the teenage characters and their friends (including Schleprock, Moonrock, Penny, and Wiggy).
Musical performances: A key feature was the "Bedrock Rockers" band, formed by Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, and Moonrock. These segments included psychedelic-style music videos set to original songs.
Reruns: The second half-hour of the show was dedicated to re-airing episodes of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show.
Style and Tone. The series embraced the pop culture of the early 1970s, with a distinct "groovy" and "hippie" mood, including contemporary music styles and "Laugh-In" type segways. The stories were sitcom-style, revolving around the misadventures of the main characters in the comical Stone Age setting of Bedrock.