Moonlighters

Moonlighters

September 29, 1979 TV Episode The New Fred and Barney Show

Studio
Hanna-Barbera Studios

Synopsis

After their salaries get cut at the quarry, Fred and Barney try to find ways to suppliment their income by taking second jobs.

Characters

Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, Pebbles Flintstone, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Mr. Slate

Credits

Directing

Director
Ray Patterson, Oscar Dufau, George Gordon

Producing

Producer
Art Scott

Music

Music
Hoyt Curtin

Animation

Animator
Frank Andrina, Colin Baker, Ed Barge, Tom Barnes, Maxwell Becraft, Bob Bemiller, Oliver Callahan, David Chell, Roger Chiasson, Steve Clark, Richard Coleman, Jesse Cosio, Elaine Despins, Joan Drake, Marcia Fertig, Gail Finkeldei, Doug Flockhart, Hugh Fraser, Charles Gammage, Mark Glamack, Bob Goe, Julio Guerrero, Terry Harrison, Bob Hathcock, Fred Hellmich, Tony Hutten, Volus Jones, Rick Leon, Terri Loewy, William Lokey, Michael Longden, Ernesto Lopez, Ed Love, Tony Love, Charles Macrae, Mauro Maressa, Kenneth Muse, Constantin Mustatea, Sean Newton, Eduardo Olivares, Margaret Parkes, Simon Praamsma, Harry Rasmussen, Morey Reden, Mitch Rochon, Thomas Ruegger, Louis Scarborough, Mark Simon, Ken Southworth, Dave Tendlar, Dick Thompson, Carlo Vinci, John Walker
Layout Supervision
Don Morgan
Key Layout
Floyd Norman
Layouts
Pete Alvarado, Susan Crossley, Owen Fitzgerald, Gary Hoffman, Mark Kirkland, Jack Manning, Dan Noonan, Jose Rivera, Glenn Schmitz, Scott Shaw, Al Wilson
Animation Supervision
Bill Keil, Jay Sarbry, Bill Keil, Jay Sarbry
Assistant Animation Supervision
Mark Glamack, Mark Glamack
Animation
Frank Andrina, Colin Baker, Ed Barge, Tom Barnes, Maxwell Becraft, Bob Bemiller, Oliver Callahan, David Chell, Roger Chiasson, Steve Clark, Richard Coleman, Jesse Cosio, Elaine Despins, Joan Drake, Marcia Fertig, Gail Finkeldei, Doug Flockhart, Hugh Fraser, Charles Gammage, Mark Glamack, Bob Goe, Julio Guerrero, Terry Harrison, Bob Hathcock, Fred Hellmich, Tony Hutten, Volus Jones, Rick Leon, Terri Loewy, William Lokey, Michael Longden, Ernesto Lopez, Ed Love, Tony Love, Charles Macrae, Mauro Maressa, Kenneth Muse, Constantin Mustatea, Sean Newton, Eduardo Olivares, Margaret Parkes, Simon Praamsma, Harry Rasmussen, Morey Reden, Mitch Rochon, Thomas Ruegger, Louis Scarborough, Mark Simon, Ken Southworth, Dave Tendlar, Dick Thompson, Carlo Vinci, John Walker
Checking and Scene Planning
Cindy Smith
Xerography
Star Wirth

Editing

Editor
Gil Iverson
Supervising Film Editors
Larry C. Cowan, Pat Foley, Larry C. Cowan, Pat Foley
Show Editor
Gil Iverson

Sound

Sound Direction
Richard Olson, Bill Getty
Effects Editors
David Stone, Mark Mangini, Mark Green

Music Department

Music Editors
Joe Sandusky, Terry Moore
Musical Supervisor
Paul DeKorte, Paul DeKorte
Musical Director
Hoyt Curtin

Casting

Recording Director
Art Scott

Production Management

Production Manager
Jayne Barbera
Post Production Supervision
Joed Eaton

Crew

Story Direction
Jan Green, George Singer, Paul Sommer
Design Supervisor
Bob Singer
Negative Consultant
William E. DeBoer

Companies and other credits

  • Executive Producers: William_Hanna
  • Executive Producers: Joseph_Barbera
  • A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
  • © 1979 HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTIONS
  • INC

Production notes

For the first time in several years, Hanna-Barbera produced new 30-minute misadventures of the complete Flintstone and Rubble families in 1979's The New Fred and Barney Show. The early 70's The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show had kept the gang in the limelight, but the Archies-influenced musical shenanigans (featuring a teenage Pebbles and Bamm Bamm in a bubblegum pop group) bore little resemblance to the original Flintstones.

The New Fred and Barney Show put the Flintstone and Rubble offspring back where they began, as adorable babies. In fact, aside from the slightly altered animation and Fred's new voice (Alan Reed had passed away in 1977), The New Fred and Barney Show felt a lot more like the original Flintstones show than any other incarnation. Fred still dreamed up zany schemes, Barney still went along and Wilma and Betty still came to the rescue when the schemes backfired.

Even still, The New Fred and Barney Show was still clearly a child of the 70's. In addition to the Scooby-Doo-esque adventures with witches and werewolves, the show spoofed such contemporary fads as C.B. radio and the physical fitness craze.

Ten new episodes of The New Fred and Barney Show mixed with 13 classic Flintstones episodes to fill out the early 1979 show. That fall, the gang had a brand new companion segment, The Thing. The new Fred and Barney Meet The Thing show showcased seven brand-new Fred and Barney episodes, along with the adventures of rocky orange Fantastic Four strongman The Thing (with a very different origin story).

In December of that year, yet another classic character joined the show, forming the 90-minute Fred and Barney Meet The Shmoo. The unlikely cartoon threesome banded together through the end of 1980, when the entire show was overhauled into another 90-minute extravaganza, The Flintstones Comedy Show.

The layout artist identified as "Jose Rivera in the credits probably is Tony Rivera. The animators identified as "Tony Hutten" and "William Lokey" probably are Bill Hutten and Hicks Lokey, respectively.

When this show was originally on NBC from February to September 1979, was the ending Hanna-Barbera logo the "Rainbow Hanna-Barbera" (1978 version, smaller Hanna-Barbera logo as opposed to the original 1974 version in which said logo was larger).

When this show became part of the Fred and Barney Meet The Thing hour-long block starting September 22, 1979, were these particular credits combined with the production credits related to Hanna-Barbera's The Thing as a single sequence?