The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
Genre	sitcom
Directed by	Charles A. Nichols (animation director) William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Voices of	Sally Struthers Jay North Mitzi McCall Gay Hartwig Carl Esser Lennie Weinrib
Theme music composer	Hoyt Curtin Ted Nichols
Composers	Hoyt Curtin (musical director) Ted Nichols (musical director) Elliot Lawrence (music composed and conducted by) Lanny Meyers (music arranged by)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Executive producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Producers	Iwao Takamoto (creative producer/production design) William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 11, 1971 (1971-09-11) – January 1, 1972 (1972-01-01)
Related
The Flintstones The Flintstone Comedy Hour

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is an Americananimated television series produced byHanna-Barbera Productions that originally aired for one season onCBSSaturday morning from September 11, 1971, to January 1, 1972. With an ensemble voice cast ofSally Struthers,Jay North,Mitzi McCall,Gay Hartwig, Carl Esser andLennie Weinrib, the show follows teenagePebbles Flintstone andBamm-Bamm Rubble as they encounter problems growing up in the fictional town ofBedrock.^[1]The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is the firstspin-off series ofThe Flintstones. For the 1972–73 season, the show was revamped asThe Flintstone Comedy Hour, with more time given to the originalFlintstones cast alongside both reruns and newly produced segments ofPebbles and Bamm-Bamm.^[2]

Similar to Hanna-Barbera'sJosie and the Pussycats, it usedcontemporary rock music to attract more viewers. The 16 episodes have since had reruns broadcast onBoomerang often surrounded by interstitial cartoons and shorts. Critical responses were mixed. It has since been released on DVD as part ofWarner Home Video's "Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection" on a two disc set.

Set in theStone Age, the series followsPebbles andBamm-Bamm as they face problems with growing up in the town ofBedrock.^[3] No longer toddlers, the two are now teenagers and begin dating each other. The show focuses on them attending Bedrock High School and also getting their first jobs.^[4] Together, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm form a musical band called the Bedrock Rockers, which was considered an attempt to be the "Stone Age" version ofthe Archies by one critic.^[5] UnlikeThe Flintstones, it centers on the children of the family, rather than parentsFred andWilma Flintstone, andBarney andBetty Rubble. These characters continue to appear in the series, albeit in reduced roles.

The series features the following seven main characters throughout its run:

• Sally Struthers asPebbles Flintstone, Fred and Wilma's daughter, Bamm-Bamm's best friend/girlfriend, Barney and Betty's honorary niece and a beautiful, social teenager.^[4] Enthusiastic, well-meaning and kind-hearted, she often tries to help someone in trouble, but usually ends up getting herself and her friends into even bigger trouble. Like her father, her catchphrase was "Yabba-dabba-doozy!", which was appropriate as most of her schemes were indeed doozies. Much likeThe Flintstones, Pebbles's "trademark"ponytail was held in place with a bone in the show.^[4] When Struthers left the series in order to fulfill a role on the American sitcomAll in the Family, actress Mickey Stevens took her place for "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show" segments onThe Flintstone Comedy Hour.^[3]
• Jay North asBamm-Bamm Rubble, Barney and Betty's muscular, adopted son, Fred and Wilma's adopted nephew and Pebbles' best friend/boyfriend.^[3][6] This marked North's second role as a voice actor for Hanna-Barbera (outside ofArabian Knights; he also voice acted in DePatie-Freleng'sHere Comes the Grump), having previously acted on series likeDennis the Menace,Wanted Dead or Alive andMy Three Sons.^[7]
• Mitzi McCall asPenny, the small intelligent friend of Pebbles who often worried about her weight.^[4]
• Gay Hartwig as:
  • Wiggy, anastrology enthusiast who spoke in an operatic voice.
  • Cindy, a spoiled primary antagonist who had a crush on Bamm-Bamm and nemesis of Pebbles.
  • Betty Rubble, Wilma's best friend/neighbor, Bamm-Bamm's adopted mother, Barney's wife and Pebbles' aunt.^[4]
• Carl Esser asFabian, the other spoiled antagonist of the series and a nemesis of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.^[4]
• Lennie Weinrib asMoonrock, one of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's friends who was intelligent and enjoyed inventing things, though they don't always work as intended.^[4] Weinrib was a frequent voice actor for Hanna-Barbera, previously fulfilling roles onThe Jetsons,Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!,^{[dubious –discuss]} andHelp!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!.^{[8][better source needed]}

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show was the first spin-off TV series derived fromThe Flintstones, following the theatrical filmThe Man Called Flintstone in 1966.^[9][10]Joe Ruby andKen Spears, creators ofScooby-Doo, Where are You!, served as story editors onPebbles and Bamm-Bamm, and several individuals wrote episodes for the series, including Joel Kane,Woody Kling, and Howard Morganstern. Executive produced byWilliam Hanna andJoseph Barbera,Charles A. Nichols served as the director andIwao Takamoto was the creative producer and key character designer. The main title theme and musical directors forThe Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show were made byHoyt Curtin andTed Nichols.Elliot Lawrence wrote songs for the series, with music arrangements byLanny Meyers. The songs were recorded by Regent Sound Studios.^[11]

Author Christopher P. Lehman wrote that the success ofThe Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show inspired Hanna-Barbera to createThe Flintstone Comedy Hour in 1972. It combined previously broadcast episodes alongside new cartoons and shorts.^[12] Serving as a continuation, the new series featured newly-producedvignette versions ofThe Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Show, as well as reruns from the 1971–72 season, during each of its sixteen episodes.The Flintstone Comedy Hour also included musical interludes performed by The Bedrock Rockers, similar to the original series.^[13][5]Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977), a later anthology series compiled for syndication, included reruns of segments from bothThe Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show andThe Flintstone Comedy Hour.^[3]

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show was one of the last shows to use Hanna-Barbera'slimited laugh track, as they stopped using a full laugh track provided byCharley Douglass by the fall of 1971.^[14]

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show was broadcast onCBS as part of their Saturday morning children's lineup between September 11, 1971, and January 1, 1972.^[15] Reruns of the series would later air again during 1975 and 1976.^[16]

The reruns ofThe Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show were incorporated into the 1972 hour-long showThe Flintstone Comedy Hour as the second half-hour of the show. When theComedy Hour first started airing, four newPebbles and Bamm-Bamm cartoons were produced for this position, but episodes were now shortened to two 11-minute segments in one 30-minute episode. After a few weeks, the new episodes stopped and the reruns of the original series began. Those new episodes were included inThe Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show DVD as bonus episodes. The noticeable difference is Mickey Stevens as Pebbles's voice in the new episodes, concurrent with Stevens's voice appearing as Pebbles anytime Pebbles is seen in the shorter cartoons that comprised the first half ofThe Flintstone Comedy Hour.

Boomerang has broadcastThe Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show on several occasions since its initial launch in 2000.^[17][18] Reruns on the network would occasionally air alongside interstitial cartoons, such asBarney Bear'sThe Unwelcome Guest orTex Avery'sHound Hunters for example.^[17][19] As part of theWarner Bros. Family Entertainment andWarner Bros. Television Distribution's "Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection", the complete series was made available on DVD as a two-disc set.^[20]

Author Derek Tait wrote in his book1970s Childhood: From Bell-Bottoms to Disco Dancing that the cartoon was one of the popular Hanna-Barbera productions of the 1970s.^[21] In a retrospective view of older cartoons, the staff atMeTV included the show on their list of "15 Forgotten Cartoons from the Early 1970s You Used to Love".^[22] Regarding the musical aspects, Tom and Sara Pendergast felt that bothThe Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show andJosie and the Pussycats incorporatedcontemporary rock music to attract a larger audience.^[23] OnThe Christian Science Monitor's list of "the five dumbest moments" ofThe Flintstones, writer Chris Gaylord listed the series at number two. He called it "the most curious" of the various spin-offs and wrote, "Mercifully, these misadventures at Bedrock High School only lasted one season".^[24]

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