1980 9:00 on NBC: The Flintstones Comedy Show (Flintstone Funnies)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

The Flintstones Comedy Show (not to be confused with the Flintstones Comedy HOUR of 1973) was on the air Saturday mornings from 9am till 10:30 (AN HOUR AND A HALF?!?!?) on your local NBC affiliate in 1980. This revival of the classic Hanna-Barbera stone-age family featured six different segments: The Flintstone Family Adventures (standard Flintstones stories featuring the Flinstones & the Rubbles doing late-70's/early-80's stuff), Bedrock Cops (Fred and Barney are now police officers assisted by the Shmoo as a trainee under the direction of Sgt. Boulder), Pebbles, Dino and Bamm-Bamm (Teenage Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm solving mysteries with Dino, in the tried-and-true HB Scooby-Doo formula), Captain Caveman (a prequel to the 1970's "Captain Cave-Man & The Teen-Angels" cartoon that showed Captain Caveman in his natural stone-age setting), Dino and Cavemouse (The Flintstones version of Tom & Jerry), and The Frankenstones (a hybrid of The Addams Family, The Munsters and The Flintstones).

My biggest complaint about this cartoon was that it seemed to be on ALL MORNING LONG. Flintstones were okay in small doses, but 90 MINUTES??? Three different half-hour time slots where I could have been seeing ANYTHING ELSE??? Nope, that's too much.

(Also aired in a much shorter 30-minute version at 8:00 in 1981/1982, and then as "The Flintstone Funnies" from 1982 till 1984 - check out the hilariously inept re-working of the intro!)

Comments

[volare.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this was inevitably when my brother and I inevitably started channel-flipping or just wandered off. Too much.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

ME TOO! I would switch back all the time just in case they had the "Thing" cartoon on in it for some reason (like they had done in the late 1970's) and I was/am a HUGE comic book nerd... but never found it :(

[volare.livejournal.com]

THING RING, DOOOOO YOUR THING!


Oh good, another one I wasn't hallucinating!!!!


(nevermind my boarded&bagged (after being well-read... mint condition my butt, I bought them to LOOK AT THEM not stash them away) heap of comics from 1983-on... lalalala nope no stack of big white boxes here carry on these are not the droids you're looking for....)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

My comic book collection costs me $53 a month because we do not have room for it in the house - I have my own storage unit dedicated to them :)

I collected all my life, then opened a comic book store in '92 where I ended us selling off most of my own original collection, then slowly replaced them all increased the collection size a dozen times over, specializing in 1970's and 1980's comics right before anyone thought they were actually worth anything :)

Dealers at conventions were always "Oh geez here comes the guy who I can unload all those old GI Joe and Transformers comics on! Here, take 'em! $10 a long-box! Get them out of my inventory!"