Fred Flintstone and Friends - Overview

Overview

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 many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained an inferior laugh track created by the studio.

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.