The Gruesomes (The Flintstones) Manor which is next door to the Flintstones. Trying to be neighborly, Fred and Barney agree to babysit Gobby, whose strange pets (including Schneider the spider and Occy the octopus) make for a tortuously eventful evening. After spending the evening at The Gruesomes' haunted mansion, Fred angrily tells Wilma that they are moving away from Bedrock. He then changes his mind when he sees Pebbles watching the "At Home With the Gruesomes" TV show. The family reappears in the episode "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes". The Hatrocks, who are hillbilly friends of Fred, come to visit but soon become an
Animation in the United States in the television era life, and he became as recognizable to the TV audience as his studio's cartoon characters. The first major animation studio to produce cartoons exclusively for television was Hanna-Barbera Productions. When MGM closed its cartoon studio in 1957, Hanna-Barbera began producing cartoons directly for television, finding an audience in the evening "family hour" time. The first animated series from Hanna-Barbera were NBC's "The Ruff & Reddy Show" and the first-run syndication entry "The Huckleberry Hound Show". However, the studio hit its stride in 1960s with ABC's "The Flintstones", the first half-hour animated sitcom. Like many of its immediate successors it was