The Roman Holidays

Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox television The Roman Holidays is a half-hour Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and broadcast on NBC from September 9 to December 2, 1972.<ref name=Woolery>Template:Cite book</ref> Reruns were later shown on the USA Cartoon Express during the 1980s, Cartoon Network during the 1990s and Boomerang during the 2000s.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

The show was an attempt by Hanna-Barbera to replicate the success of their 1960-1966 show The Flintstones, with another modern family living in heavily fictionalized Roman times.<ref name=Perlmutter>Template:Cite book</ref> Thirteen episodes were produced. An Ancient Roman setting was one of the ideas that Hanna-Barbera considered when creating The Flintstones.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Very similar in theme to both The Flintstones and The Jetsons, The Roman Holidays brought a look at the "marble age" life in Ancient Rome, as seen through the eyes of Augustus "Gus" Holiday and his family.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The opening shows a chariot traffic jam and a TV, showing football on Channel "IV".

Plot

The Holidays, a Roman family living at the Venus DeMilo Arms Apartments in A.D. 63, deal with a variety of modern-day problems. Gus Holiday works at the Forum Construction Company for his demanding boss, Mr. Tycoonius, who is constantly threatening to fire Gus if an assignment he is given goes awry. He lives with his wife, Laurie, the children Precocia and Happius (Happy), and pet lion, Brutus. Their neighbors are good friends: Herman, Henrietta and their daughter, Groovia, Happy's girlfriend. Their lives are embittered by their exasperated landlord, Mr. Evictus, who: tries to find proof of Brutus living with the Holidays, has a daughter, named Snobbia, and excites Gus's tagline "Evictus will evict us !".<ref name="Daytime">Template:Cite book</ref>

Cast

• Dave Willock as Gus Holiday, the father of the Holiday family, who is an architect at Forum Construction Company.
• Shirley Mitchell as Laurie Holiday, the mother.
• Dom DeLuise as Mr. Evictus, the landlord.
• Daws Butler as Brutus the Lion, the family pet.
• Pamelyn Ferdin as Precocia Holiday, the young daughter.
• Stanley Livingston as Happius "Hap" Holiday, the teenaged son.
• Harold Peary as Herman, the father of the neighboring family.
• Janet Waldo as Henrietta, the mother of the neighboring family.
• Judy Strangis as Groovia, the daughter of the neighboring family and Hap's girlfriend.
• Hal Smith as Mr. Tycoonius, Gus Holiday's boss.
• John Stephenson as additional voices.

Comics

Gold Key produced a comic book based on the series from November 1972 to August 1973. Only four issues were published. Pete Alvarado drew the first three; Jack Manning drew the final issue.<ref>The Roman Holidays at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on September 29, 2015.</ref>

Home media

The first episode, "Double Date", is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 1. On April 23, 2013, Warner Archive released The Roman Holidays: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection. This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Appearances in other media

Manatee versions of the characters Laurie and Precocia Holiday and Mr. Tycoonius appear as sirens in the Jellystone! episode "Balloon Kids". The rap song in the episode features a reference to the year the series was originally released (1972). Gus and Laurie Holliday and their lion Brutus appeared in a season three episode "Spy Thriller" as characters in a Secret Squirrel film.

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