Fred Flintstone and Friends is a 30–minute weekday animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired in syndication beginning September 12, 1977. Packaged by Columbia Pictures Television during the 1977–1978 television season, the series was available for barter syndication through Claster Television through the mid-1980s. The show was a repackaging of six Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera animated series and was hosted by Fred Flintstone. It contained the following segments: The six series' episodes, originally broadcast in half-hour formats, were now serialized into... 2 or three-part 10–minute stories, all of which were introduced by Fred . The opening title sequence was a composite, using clips from the openings of the various series, along with a new title theme song. Like most 1970s-era Saturday morning cartoons created by Hanna Barbera, the show contained an abridged, inferior laugh track created by the studio.
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