The second season of the animated "prehistoric" sitcom The Flintstones gets under way with "The Hit Songwriters", the series' first utilization of a celebrity guest star (or, to be more precise, a caricatured celebrity supplying his/her own voice). The star in question is composer Hoagy Carmichael, who curiously appears under his own name rather ...
Master animator Chuck Jones has created this full length fantasy, his first since being name director of MGM's animation department. A young boy (Butch Patrick) is bored with his life in San Francisco and finds himself in a fantasy land where letters and numbers are at war with each other. He drives through the Phantom Tollbooth and into an ...
Several major changes were wrought upon The Flintstones as the animated series entered its third season. To begin with, the series was telecast in color for the first time with the episode titled "Invisible Barney" on September 28, 1962. Also, the opening credits sequence was refilmed, replacing the original action of Fred driving home, stopping ...
Although the animated stone-age satire The Flintstones began its fifth season in the same early-Thursday-evening timeslot that it had occupied during Season Four, the fierce competition from rival series The Munsters forced ABC to shuffle The Flintstones to Friday nights, switching slots with another Hanna-Barbera prime time effort Jonny Quest ...
With the addition of Fred and Wilma Flintstone's baby daughter Pebbles halfway through the third season of the animated stone-age spoof The Flintstones, the series' humor became less adult-oriented and more geared to children and teenagers. According, for its fourth season on ABC, the series moved from its familiar 8:30 PM Friday-night timeslot to ...
When the gentle woodcarver Geppetto (Christian Rub) builds a marionette to be his substitute son, a benevolent fairy brings the toy to life. The puppet, named Pinocchio (Dick Jones), is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish. But, even with the help of Jiminy (Cliff Edwards), a ...
Although the animated stone-age sitcom The Flintstones was inevitably showing signs of fatigue as the series entered its sixth and final season, there were still enough highlights and innovations to keep fans happy--and even to attract a few new devotees. The season opener, "No Biz Like Show Biz", finds infants Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm Bamm ...
When Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck find themselves selling books for the same company, a heated and hilarious competition breaks out between them. And when Bugs finds himself stuck telling stories to Yosemite Sam's son, the tales take the form of clips from classic cartoons from the Warner Brothers library. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
The animated stars of TV's The Flintstones make the leap to the big screen in this spoof of the spy genre. Because Fred Flintstone (voiced by Alan Reed Sr.) is the identical double of secret agent Rock Slag, he is enlisted by the Stone Age Secret Service to take over for Slag when the spy is injured. As a result, Fred, his wife Wilma (Jean vanDer ...
New bits of animation link together this compilation of Friz Freleng-directed Warner Bros. cartoons, which includes the Oscar-winning Knighty Knight Bugs. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
This is one of the better Warner Brother's anthologies and features some of Daffy and Friends' greatest adventures that are linked by a horror theme that has Daffy trying to set up his own ghost exorcism service with Porky and Bugs. Among the older cartoon shorts presented is a new short, The Duxorcist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Hanna-Barbera's Space Age clan made the leap to the big screen in this animated feature, in which George and the family are transferred to a remote space outpost. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Everyone's favorite wisecracking woodpecker comes out to play, and the results are sheer hilarity in this release of the Saturday morning cartoon classic that originally premiered in October of 1957. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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