After debuting in skits on Chuck Jones' ABC series, Curiosity Shop, Johnny Hart's B. C. made its primetime debut in 1973 in this NBC special, B. C.: The First Thanksgiving, produced by frequent Jones collaborator Abe Levitow.
Daws Butler voices the title character, and does a Jack Benny mimic at the start, as B. C. discovers fire. From that point, it's a series of gags that could just as easily have been lifted from the strip itself. Singer-actress Joanie Sommers joins Butler and fellow voice vets Bob Holt and Don Messick in rounding out the cast.
No real plot, just a showcase for the strip. However, it'd take 8 years before these cave people would return to TV.
Rating: B-.
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