''Cave Kids'' (also known as ''Cave Kids Adventures'' or ''Cave Kids: Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm'') is an American

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produced by Hanna-Barbera, and a spin-off of ''

The Flintstones ''The Flintstones'' is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the activities of the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighb ...

''. The show aired in syndication on public television stations from September 29 to November 17, 1996, with reruns available until 1999.

Overview

The series follows the adventures of

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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 ''

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'' (another show that Bamm-Bamm's voice actresses, Cavanaugh and Daily worked on). Unlike the original 1960s ''Flintstones'' series and its spin-off incarnations featuring the kids and their parents in

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adventures, this show focused more on educational values and lessons for children, with each episode also concluding with an original song 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

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series spanning 16 issues from 1963 through 1967.

Voice cast

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** Taylor Gunther as Baby Pebbles * Christine Cavanaugh as Bamm-Bamm Rubble (singing voice provided by

E.G. Daily Elizabeth Ann Guttman, (born September 11, 1961) better known as E. G. Daily and Elizabeth Daily, is an American actress and singer. Daily is best known for her animation voice roles as Tommy Pickles on ''Rugrats'' and its spin-off ''All Grown ...

) * Frank Welker as Dino

Episodes

Merchandising

Album

A sing-along album, ''Cave Kids Sing-Along'', was released on cassette tape and CD by

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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. ;Track listing # "Cave Kids Theme" # "The Cave Kid Crawl" # "The Woman in the Moon" # "Little Is Just Right for Me" # "Sharing" # "Hand in Hand" # "Being a Friend"

Home media

On June 10, 1997,

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released three separate ''Cave Kids'' titles on

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: "Watch Us Grow", "At Play" and "Make New Friends", with each 44-minute cassette featuring two episodes and a music video.

References

External links

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