Fred Flintstone and Friends

Fred Flintstone and Friends
Genre	Animation
Directed by	Charles A. Nichols William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Starring	Henry Corden (voice of Fred Flintstone)
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	95
Production
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Columbia Pictures Television
Distributor	Claster Television, Inc. Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Broadcast
Original channel	syndicated
Original run	September 12, 1977 – September 1, 1978
Chronology
Preceded by	The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972-73)
Followed by	The New Fred and Barney Show (1979)

Fred Flintstone and Friends is a 30–minute weekday animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired in syndication beginning September 12, 1977. Packaged by Columbia Pictures Television during the 1977–1978 television season, the series was available for barter syndication through Claster Television through the mid-1980s.

The show was a repackaging of six Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera animated series and was hosted by Fred Flintstone. It contained the following segments:

• The Flintstone Comedy Hour
• Goober and the Ghost Chasers
• Jeannie
• Partridge Family 2200 A.D. (re-titled The Partridge Family in Outer Space)
• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
• Yogi's Gang

The six series' episodes, originally broadcast in half-hour formats, were now serialized into 2 or three-part 10–minute stories, all of which were introduced by Fred (via voice-overs on brief bumper clips shown in-between segments).

The opening title sequence was a composite, using clips from the openings of the various series, along with a new title theme song. Like most 1970s-era Saturday morning cartoons created by Hanna Barbera, the show contained an abridged, inferior laugh track created by the studio.

For details on the Hanna-Barbera-created laugh track, see Hanna Barbera laugh track.

Henry Corden made his official debut as Fred's speaking voice on this series after Alan Reed (the original voice of Fred) had died in June 1977; Corden previously appeared as Fred's singing voice in the theatrical film, The Man Called Flintstone, and in the 1966 television special, Alice in Wonderland (or What’s a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?). Corden continued providing Fred's voice in future Flintstones TV series and specials, as well as Fruity Pebbles & Cocoa Pebbles cereal commercials, until his death in 2005.

Production credits

• Executive Producers: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
• Producer: Iwao Takamoto
• Director: Charles A. Nichols
• Music: Hoyt Curtin

External links

• Fred Flintstone and Friends at the Internet Movie Database
• Fred Flintstone and Friends at TV.com
• Fred Flintstone and Friends @ The Big Cartoon DataBase