The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show facts for kids

Quick facts for kids The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
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 Alan Reed Mel Blanc Jean Vander Pyl
Theme music composer	Hoyt Curtin Ted Nichols
Composer(s)	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(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	16
Production
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Producer(s)	Iwao Takamoto(creative producer/production design) William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 11, 1971 (1971-09-11) – January 1, 1972 (1972-01-01)
Chronology
Preceded by	The Flintstones
Followed by	The Flintstone Comedy Hour

The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that originally aired for one season on CBS Saturday morning from September 11, 1971, to January 1, 1972. With an ensemble voice cast of Sally Struthers, Jay North, Mitzi McCall, Gay Hartwig, Carl Esser and Lennie Weinrib, the show follows teenage Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble as they encounter problems growing up in the fictional town of Bedrock. The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is the first spin-off series of The Flintstones. For the 1972-73 season, the show was revamped as The Flintstone Comedy Hour, with more time given to the original Flintstones cast alongside both reruns and newly produced segments of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.

Similar to Hanna-Barbera's Josie and the Pussycats, it used contemporary rock music to attract more viewers. The 16 episodes have since had reruns broadcast on Boomerang often surrounded by interstitial cartoons and shorts. Critical response was mixed. It has since been released on DVD as part of Warner Home Video's "Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection" on a two disc set.

Overview

Set in the Stone Age, the series follows Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble as they face problems with growing up in the town of Bedrock. No longer toddlers, the two were now teenagers attending Bedrock High School and also getting their first jobs. Together, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm formed a musical band called the Bedrock Rockers, which was considered an attempt to be the "Stone Age" version of the Archies by one critic. Unlike The Flintstones, it centered on the children of the family, rather than parents Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and Barney and Betty Rubble. These characters would continue to appear in the series, albeit in reduced roles.

Cast and characters

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

• Sally Struthers as Pebbles Flintstone, Fred and Wilma's daughter and a beautiful, social teenager. 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 like The Flintstones, Pebbles' "trademark" ponytail was held in place with a bone in the show. When Struthers left the series in order to fulfill a role on the American sitcom All in the Family, actress Mickey Stevens took her place for "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show" segments on The Flintstone Comedy Hour.
• Jay North as Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Barney and Betty's muscular, adopted son. This marked North's second role as a voice actor for Hanna-Barbera (outside of Arabian Knights; he also voice acted in DePatie-Freleng's Here Comes the Grump), having previously acted on series like Dennis the Menace, Wanted Dead or Alive and My Three Sons.
• Mitzi McCall as Penny, the small intelligent friend of Pebbles who often worried about her weight.
• Gay Hartwig as both Wiggy and Cindy. Wiggy was an astrology enthusiast who spoke in an operatic voice and Cindy was a spoiled primary antagonist with an interest in Bamm-Bamm and nemesis of Pebbles.
• Carl Esser as Fabian, the other spoiled antagonist of the series and a nemesis of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.
• Lennie Weinrib as Moonrock, one of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's friends who was intelligent and enjoyed inventing things, though they don't always work as intended. Weinrib was a frequent voice actor for Hanna-Barbera, previously fulfilling roles on The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, and Help!... It's the Hair Bear Bunch!.
• Don Messick as "Bad Luck" Schleprock, a gloomy, depressed teenager and a friend of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. He is known for having exceptionally bad luck, so much so that his mere presence causes bad things to happen, but any trouble caused by Schleprock is never intentional.

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