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
The Hathaways Wesson. Some of the directing was handled by Richard Kinon. The series followed another short-lived ABC series, "Straightaway" starring John Ashley and Brian Kelly as race-car enthusiasts. It preceded the popular cartoon series "The Flintstones". Its principal competition was the Clint Eastwood western series "Rawhide" on CBS. Despite the lack of television success, "The Hathaways" produced a comic book of the chimpanzees in 1962. Latter-day television critics Castleman and Podrazik (1982) have called "The Hathaways" "possibly the worst series ever to air on network TV", criticizing the production, scripts, acting, the "utterly degrading" premise, and the overall "total worthlessness" of