| Genre: | Adventure Comedy Fantasy |
| Director: | Marija Miletic Daïl (art) |
| Producer: | Marija Miletic Daïl |
| Executive Producer: | Sherry Gunther |
| Voices: | Aria Noelle Curzon Christine Cavanaugh E.G. Daily Frank Welker |
| Composer: | Guy Moon |
| Theme Music Composer: | Bill Burnett |
| Opentheme: | "Cave Kids" |
| Endtheme: | "Cave Kids" (instrumental) |
| Runtime: | 22 minutes |
| Company: | Hanna-Barbera Cartoons |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Network: | Syndication |
| Num Seasons: | 1 |
| Num Episodes: | 8 |
Cave Kids (also known as Cave Kids Adventures or Cave Kids: Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm) is an American animated preschool television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons which is a spin-off of The Flintstones. The show aired on first run syndication[1] [2] from September 29 to November 17, 1996, with reruns available until 1999.[3]
The series follows the adventures of Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble as prehistoric pre-schoolers with Dino, the Flintstone family's pet dinosaur, as their babysitter. While Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm spoke in baby-talk gibberish to adults, they could communicate normally with each other, a la Rugrats (another show that Bamm-Bamm's voice actresses, Cavanaugh and Daily worked on).[4] Unlike the original 1960s Flintstones series and its spin-off incarnations featuring the kids and their parents in slapstick comedy adventures, this show focused more on educational values and lessons for children, with each episode also concluding with a music video relating to the episode's theme using often-altered footage from the episode. Another thing worth noting is that Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and Dino were the only established characters to appear in the show and everyone else was completely absent.
An earlier Cave Kids effort was published by Golden Press, both as a Little Golden Books in 1963, and also as a Gold Key Comics series spanning 16 issues from 1963 through 1967.[5]
A sing-along album, Cave Kids Sing-Along, was released on cassette tape and CD by Kid Rhino on February 4, 1997. The album featured seven songs performed by Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, including five from the series. The package also contained a full-color booklet with lyrics to all the songs.
On June 10, 1997, Warner Home Video released three separate Cave Kids titles on videocassette: "Watch Us Grow", "At Play" and "Make New Friends", with each 44-minute cassette featuring two episodes and a music video.
| VHS Title | Ep# | Release Date | Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watch Us Grow | 2 | June 10, 1997 |
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| At Play | 2 | June 10, 1997 |
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| Make New Friends | 2 | June 10, 1997 |
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