Thursday, June 01, 2006

Preston Blair and The Honeymooners



The Honeymooners inspired several animated cartoons. Bob McKimson did a couple with the characters as mice at Warner's in the '50's (The Honey-mousers; Cheese It, The Cat). Of course, The Honeymooners inspired The Flintstones. Preston Blair, who produced one episode of The Flintstones for Hanna-Barbera (episode P.38; anybody know the title?) later tried to interest the networks in an animated version of The Honeymooners using caricatures of the stars. Unfortunately, nothing ever came of it.

These drawings were originally printed in Cartoonist PROfiles #41, published in March, 1979.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Episode 38 (of the second season)

Entitled "Social Climers'

Plot: The Flintstones and the Rubbles attend an ambassador's ball.