Hanna-Barbera was the first animation studio to successfully produce animated cartoons especially for television; until then, cartoons on television consisted primarily of rebroadcasts of theatrical cartoons. Other Hanna-Barbera works included a theatrical cartoon series, Loopy De Loop, for Columbia Pictures from 1959 to 1965; and the opening credits to the ABC/Screen Gems television show Bewitched. Later, H-B would use the Bew ...

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Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network Studios - The Beginning of Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons, Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy, Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound, Cartoon Network Studios - Notable Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios productions, Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1970s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1980s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1990s

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For a complete list of Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios productions, see List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network Studios. Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s. The Ruff & Reddy Show (1957) The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958) Quick Draw McGraw (1959) Loopy De Loop (Columbia Pictures short subjects, 1959 - 1965) The Flintstones and various spin-offs (1960) Top Cat (1961) The ...

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The Hanna-Barbera studio has been accused of contributing to the decrease in quality of animation and TV cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s. This relates to their being one of the first studios to do animated cartoons for television and dealing with constrained budgets. The perception of cartoons as a "kid's medium" made them a low priority for television executives. For example, one 22-minute (30 minutes with commercials) episode of Josie and the Pussycats in 1970 had the same budget--$45,000--as one 8-minute Tom and Jerry short from the late-1940s. Suc ...

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Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network Studios - Founding, Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons, Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy, Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound, Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1970s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1980s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1990s, Cartoon Network Studios - 2000s, Cartoon Network Studios - Closing logo history

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The Hanna-Barbera studio has been accused of contributing to the decrease in quality of animation and TV cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s. This relates to their being one of the first studios to do animated cartoons for television and dealing with constrained budgets. The perception of cartoons as a "kid's medium" made them a low priority for television executives. For example, one 22-minute (30 minutes with commercials) episode of Josie and the Pussycats in 1970 had the same budget--$45,000--as one 8-minute Tom and Jerry short from the late-1940s. Suc ...

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Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network Studios - Founding, Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons, Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy, Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound, Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1970s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1980s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1990s, Cartoon Network Studios - 2000s

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The Hanna-Barbera studio has been accused of contributing to the decrease in quality of animation and TV cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s. This relates to their being one of the first studios to do animated cartoons for television and dealing with constrained budgets. The perception of cartoons as a "kid's medium" made them a low priority for television executives. For example, one 22-minute (30 minutes with commercials) episode of Josie and the Pussycats in 1970 had the same budget--$45,000--as one 8-minute Tom and Jerry short from the late-1940s. Suc ...

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Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network Studios - The Beginning of Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons, Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy, Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound, Cartoon Network Studios - Notable Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios productions, Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1970s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1980s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1990s, Cartoon Network Studios - 2000s

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The Hanna-Barbera studio has been accused of contributing to the decrease in quality of animation and TV cartoons from the 1960s through the 1980s. This relates to their being one of the first studios to do animated cartoons for television and dealing with constrained budgets. The perception of cartoons as a "kid's medium" made them a low priority for television executives. For example, one 22-minute (30 minutes with commercials) episode of Josie and the Pussycats in 1970 had the same budget--$45,000--as one 8-minute Tom and Jerry short from the late-1940s. Suc ...

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Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network Studios - The Beginning of Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons, Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy, Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound, Cartoon Network Studios - Notable Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios productions, Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1970s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1980s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1990s

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William Hanna and Joseph Barbera first teamed together while working at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studio in 1939. Their first directorial project was a cartoon entitled Puss Gets the Boot (1940), which served as the genesis of the popular Tom and Jerry cartoon series. Hanna, Barbera, and MGM live-action director George Sidney formed H-B Enterprises in 1944 while continuing working for the studio, and used the side company to work on ancillary projects, including early tel ...

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Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network Studios - The Beginning of Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons, Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy, Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound, Cartoon Network Studios - Notable Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios productions, Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1970s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1980s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1990s, Cartoon Network Studios - 2000s

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William Hanna and Joseph Barbera first teamed together while working at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation studio in 1939. Their first directorial project was a cartoon entitled Puss Gets the Boot (1940), which served as the genesis of the popular Tom and Jerry cartoon series. Hanna, Barbera, and MGM live-action director George Sidney formed H-B Enterprises in 1944 while continuing working for the studio, and used the side company to work on ancillary projects, including early tel ...

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Cartoon Network Studios, Cartoon Network Studios - The Beginning of Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network Studios - Television cartoons, Cartoon Network Studios - Quality controversy, Cartoon Network Studios - The slow rise and fall and the Turner rebound, Cartoon Network Studios - Notable Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network Studios productions, Cartoon Network Studios - 1950s and 1960s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1970s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1980s, Cartoon Network Studios - 1990s

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While the mid-1980s spinoff series The Flintstone Kids depicts Barney as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Barney as a childhood friend of Wilma and Betty (vs. the original series' assertion that they first met as young adults). Still, the series' assertions that Barney had at least one younger brother, Dusty, was a childhood friend of Fred, and was the son of artist Flo Rubble and car dealer Robert "Honest Bob" Rubble might be taken as valid. The original series also suggested in one episode that Barney was the nephew of Fred's boss, Mr. Slate, though subsequent episodes and ...

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But by far his most popular character with his audience was blustery bus driver Ralph Kramden, who lived with his tart but tenderhearted wife, Alice, in a two-room Brooklyn walkup, one apartment beneath his best friend, sense-challenged sewer worker Ed Norton ("The first time I took the test for the sewer I flunked---I couldn't even float!") and his likewise tart wife, Trixie. Partially inspired by the earlier radio hit The Bickersons and largely drawn from Gleason's harsh Brooklyn childhood ("Every neighbourhood in Brooklyn had its R ...

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Wilma Flintstone (neé Slaghoople), a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones, is the red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone and mother of Pebbles Flintstone. Her best friends were her next door neighbors, Betty and Barney Rubble. Wilma lived in the fictional prehistoric city of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexisted with cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoyed "primitive" versions of modern convenience ...

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The show is set in a town called Bedrock in the Stone Age era, but with a society identical to that of the United States in the mid-to-late 20th century; in the Flintstones' fantasy version of the prehistoric past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, wooly mammoths and other long extinct animals coexist with cavemen, who use technology equivalent to that of the 20th century, largely through the use of various animals. The characters drive automobiles made out of stone or wood and animal skins and powered by gasoline, although foot power is requ ...

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The show is set in a town called Bedrock in the Stone Age era, but with a society identical to that of the United States in the mid-to-late 20th century. The setting is in a fantasy world where dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, wooly mammoths and other extinct animals coexist with cavemen, who use technology equivalent to that of the 20th century, largely through the use of various animals. The characters drive automobiles made out of stone or wood and animal skins and powered by gasoline, although foot power is required to start the v ...

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While the mid-1980s spinoff series The Flintstone Kids depicts Wilma as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Wilma as a childhood friend of Fred and Barney (the original series asserted that they met as young adults). Still, the series' depictions that Wilma had younger twin sisters and that her father—who apparently died by the time Wilma reached adulthood—ran a prehisto ...

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The Flintstones - Television series. The Flintstones (1960–1966) The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971–1972): features Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm as teens The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972–1973): new episodes of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm combined with new Fred and Barney segments, songs-of-the-week, and wraparounds. Rerun during the 1973–1974 second season as The Flintstones Show. The New Fred and Barney Show (1979): Saturday morning reviva ...

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Originally, the series was to have been titled The Flagstones, and a brief demonstration film was created to sell the idea of a "modern stone age family" to sponsors and the network. When the series itself was commissioned, the title was changed, possibly to avoid confusion with the Flagstons, characters in the popular comic strip, Hi and Lois. After spending a brief period in development as The Gladstones, Hanna-B ...

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