| The New Fred and Barney Show | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Animation Comedy |
| Directed by | Ray Patterson Oscar Dufau George Gordon |
| Voices of | Henry Corden Mel Blanc Jean Vander Pyl Gay Autterson |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 17 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions[1] |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Distribution |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | NBC |
| Original run | February 3 – October 20, 1979 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977-78) |
| Followed by | Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979) |
The New Fred and Barney Show is a 30-minute Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera as a 1979 series revival of The Flintstones from February 3 to October 20, 1979 on NBC. The series marked the first time Henry Corden performed the voice of Fred Flintstone for a regular series.
These new episodes were composed of the traditional Flintstones cast of characters such as Fred and Barney's children Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as toddlers, after having been depicted as teenagers on The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show on CBS in 1972; they returned to the form of teenagers on The Flintstone Comedy Show in 1980 on NBC. Some plots were familiar Flintstones stories while others consisted of new misadventures with witches and werewolves, as well as spoofs of late 1970s fads.
Seven new episodes combined with reruns of The New Fred and Barney Show were broadcast on the package program Fred and Barney Meet the Thing and later on Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo.
Contents |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sand Witch" | February 3, 1979 |
| Fred and Barney end up with a broken wheel in the middle of a haunted forest while on their way home, and find the nearest house possible to call for help, unaware that the kindly old lady living there is a man-eating witch. | ||
| 2 | "Haunted Inheritance" | February 10, 1979 |
| Fred learns that he is the beneficiary of the fortune of an aristocrat to whom he was kind when he was disguised as a quarry worker, but tension arises when he discovers that he isn't the only one and that the winner of the beneficiary competition gets it all. | ||
| 3 | "Roughin' It" | February 17, 1979 |
| Fred believes that "modern" technology is making life too easy and boring, and attempts to live life like an "old-fashioned" caveman, even though he is out of practice. | ||
| 4 | "C. B. Buddies" | February 24, 1979 |
| Fred and Barney each purchase a new C. B. system which enables them to talk to each other from their cars, but trouble appears when they power them up too much. | ||
| 5 | "Bedrock Rocks" | March 3, 1979 |
| Two members of a famous rock band, the Cavemen, come to Bedrock for a concert tour. After overhearing Mr. Slate's desire to have his wife see them for her birthday, Fred tries to fix the Cavemen up with the Slates, but when this fails, he and Barney try their hand at impersonating them. | ||
| 6 | "Blood Brothers" | March 10, 1979 |
| Fred and Barney save a couple from a car accident, who turn out to be a reformed Count Rockula and his new wife, "Poopsie". Though Fred and Barney are still terrified of him, Rockula places himself in their debt and does his best to befriend them and make them his "blood brothers". | ||
| 7 | "Barney's Chickens" | March 17, 1979 |
| A magician brainwashes Fred into believing he is a giant chicken, and Barney accidentally repeats the same process with Fred and several others until he realises that his only option is to track down the magician. | ||
| 8 | "The Butler Did it.....and did it better" | March 24, 1979 |
| Fred purchases a new robot butler, Rollo, and is initially satisfied until Rollo soon shows that he can do almost everything better than Fred. | ||
| 9 | "It's Not Their Bag" | March 31, 1979 |
| While playing golf, Fred and Barney accidentally find a bag of money stolen from the Bank of Bedrock, and must evade the two robbers responsible. | ||
| 10 | "Barney's Luck" | April 7, 1979 |
| 11 | "Stone Age Werewolf" | |
| 12 | "Fred and Barney Meet the Frankenstones" | September 15, 1979 |
| Frankenstone and his family move into Fred's neighbourhood. While Wilma and the Rubbles are ready to believe Frankenstone has turned over a new leaf, Fred still distrusts him. | ||
| 13 | "Physical Fitness Fred" | |
| 14 | "Moonlighters" | |
| 15 | "Fred Goes to the Houndasaurs" | |
| 16 | "The Bad Luck Genie" | |
| 17 | "Dinosaur Country Safari" | |