The Flintstones' New Neighbors series and its spin-offs. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio, one of the last productions to do so. The Flintstones and the Rubbles welcome a new strange family, The Frankenstones, to their Bedrock neighborhood. The Frankenstone family featured on this special was a different version of the Frankenstones from the episode "Fred and Barney Meet the Frankenstones" of "The New Fred and Barney Show" (1979). The new Frankenstone family members are: A friendship develops between the Flintstones and the Frankenstones, not unlike the rivalry that would
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