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
Animated series The first animated television series was "Crusader Rabbit". Animated sitcoms first appeared in the 1960s, with "The Flintstones" (1960–1966), followed by "The Jetsons" (1962–1987). From 1972 to 1974, Hanna-Barbera produced "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home", an adult-oriented sitcom in the style of "All in the Family". The 1980s and 1990s was a renaissance of the cartoon children's television series and adult's television series. Various broadcast networks and media companies began creating television channels and formats designed specifically for airing cartoon series. Companies that already had these types of formats in place began to revamp their existing models during this