Boomerang, Cartoon Network’s commercial-free home of classic animation, is avoiding the St. Patrick’s Day pinch by running a marathon of six Flintstones episodes featuring little, green spaceman The Great Gazoo. The fan-favorite installments will air on Saturday, March 17, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., repeating that night from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Voiced by comic legend Harvey Korman (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show) The Great Gazoo, first visited Bedrock from the planet Zetox during the 1965-66 season. Banished by his leader, Gazaam, for inventing a button capable of destroying the universe, the diminutive extra-terrestrial must prove his capacity for compassion and wisdom by serving the humans who rescue him from his grounded spaceship. But when his arrogant and mischievous nature gets in the way of his god deeds, he ends up just causing trouble for Fred and Barney.
The marathon will kick off with ‘The Great Gazoo,’ the episopde that introduces the character, followed by ‘The Stonefinger Caper,’ ‘Seeing Doubles,’ ‘Two Men on a Dinosaur,’ ‘Curtain Call at Bedrock’ and ‘Boss for a Day.’
The Flintstones debuted in primetime on ABC on Sept. 30, 1960, becoming the first animated situation comedy on television, and the first animated series to go beyond the seven-minute cartoon format. The Hanna-Barbera show ran for six years with 166 episodes, and spawned multiple series spin-offs throughout the years.
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