ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times

DATE: Sunday, January 19, 1997               TAG: 9701200088
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL   PAGE: A-4  EDITION: METRO 
DATELINE: SPRINGFIELD, MO.

YABBA-DABBA-DON'T WATCH IF UNDER 18

A GLITCH caused explicit sex scenes to be broadcast during "The Flintstones.''

Viewers of ``The Flintstones'' got a little more yabba-dabba-do than they expected last week.

The local cable company broadcast explicit sex scenes from the Playboy Channel over the Cartoon Network for several minutes just before 1p.m. Thursday - while the audio continued to be the voices of Fred and Barney.

The glitch came on a day when bad weather had closed most southwest Missouri schools. A mother called TCI of Springfield Inc., which provides the Cartoon Network to 50,000 homes, to complain.

Ross Summers, the cable outlet's general manager, said the problem likely arose in testing the signal for the Playboy Channel.

- Associated Press

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