Fractured Flickers was a syndicated half-hour television comedy show produced by Jay Ward, who otherwise is known for animated cartoons. A single 26-episode season was produced and debuted midseason in January 1963, airing early Saturday evening. It continued in reruns for several years.

Host Hans Conried introduced short cartoon-length stories pieced together from (mostly) silent film footage overdubbed with newly written comedic dialog. The voices for these were provided by fellow Ward mainstays Paul Frees, June Foray, and Bill Scott. Conried and Frees also appeared together as sinister Russian intelligence officers in the movie "Jet Pilot" (1957), which starred John Wayne and Janet Leigh.

The show was at its funniest when desecrating early melodramas with "hip" reinterpretations, such as presenting Rudolph Valentino as an insurance salesman or Lon Chaney, Sr.'s The Hunchback of Notre Dame as a USC cheerleader.

Each episode also featured a celebrity guest whom Conried would interview at midpoint.

The "postmodernist" show now is as old as many of the films it used were at the time, inviting today's viewers to view its 1960s elements in a similarly ironic fashion.