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

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preschool television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and a spin-off of ''

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''. The show was syndicated to public television stations by Warner Bros. Television from September 29 to November 17, 1996, with reruns available until 1999. It is also Hanna-Barbera's final television series produced before being acquired by

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. The show also aired reruns on

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and MeTV Toons.

Premise

The series follows the adventures of Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble as prehistoric

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ers with Dino, the Flintstone family's pet dinosaur, as their

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. While Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm speak in baby-talk

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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). 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

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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. Every other character from the television was completely absent. An earlier ''Cave Kids'' effort was published by

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, both as a Little Golden Books in 1963, and also as a Gold Key Comics series spanning 16 issues from 1963 through 1967.

Voice cast

* Aria Noelle Curzon as Pebbles Flintstone *

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as Bamm-Bamm Rubble (singing voice provided by E.G. Daily) * Frank Welker as Dino

Episodes

Merchandising

Album

A sing-along album, ''Cave Kids Sing-Along'', was released on

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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. ;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 videocassette: "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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