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The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC.

Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions (H-B), The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. This show played like a prehistoric Honeymooners
The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners debuted as a half-hour series on October 1 1955. Although initially a Nielsen Ratings success?it was the #2 show in the United States?it faced stiff competition from the popular Perry Como....
 and its popularity rested heavily on its consistently entertaining juxtaposition of modern-day concerns in the Stone Age
Stone Age

The Stone Age is a broad prehistory time period during which humans widely used Rock for toolmaking.Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone....
 setting.






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The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC.

Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions (H-B),
The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. This show played like a prehistoric Honeymooners
The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners debuted as a half-hour series on October 1 1955. Although initially a Nielsen Ratings success?it was the #2 show in the United States?it faced stiff competition from the popular Perry Como....
 and its popularity rested heavily on its consistently entertaining juxtaposition of modern-day concerns in the Stone Age
Stone Age

The Stone Age is a broad prehistory time period during which humans widely used Rock for toolmaking.Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone....
 setting.

The first prime-time animated series geared for adults, the show originally aired from 1960 to 1966 on the ABC network. Starting with the third season, it was also ABC's first series to be televised in color (the first two seasons, originally broadcast in black and white, are broadcast in color now either through colorization or through color copies of the episodes). While the show was originally co-produced and syndicated by Screen Gems
Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television, Inc. is an United States television production company/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment....
, Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television is the television production company and distribution arm of Warner Bros., itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Paramount Television, it serves as a television production company arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Chuck on NBC, Pushing Daisies on ABC, and...
 later acquired the rights to
The Flintstones after parent Time Warner
Time Warner

Time Warner Inc. is the world's third largest media and entertainment Conglomerate by market capitalization , headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City....
's purchase of Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is the company managing the collection of cable television television networks and properties started by Ted Turner from the mid-1970s to the late-1990s....
 and its properties, including H-B.

Screen Gems / Columbia Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television, Inc. is an United States television production company/distribution company. It is a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment....
 syndicated repeats of the program until 1981, when The Program Exchange
The Program Exchange

The Program Exchange is a television syndication of television programs. From 1987 to 2008, it was a division of Saatchi & Saatchi North America, an advertising agency ....
 picked up syndication on Columbia's behalf. In the mid 1990s, syndication moved to Turner Program Services
Turner Program Services

Turner Program Services is the former syndication arm of Turner Broadcasting. It served the same purpose as Turner Entertainment's distribution unit, with the exception that TPS was more involved in distributing television series rather than films....
, shortly after Turner's acquisition of H-B, and its acquisition of
The Flintstones from Columbia.

Overview

The show is set in the town of Bedrock
Bedrock (The Flintstones)

Bedrock is the fictional city prehistoric city, which is home to the characters of the animation television series, The Flintstones ....
 in the Stone Age
Stone Age

The Stone Age is a broad prehistory time period during which humans widely used Rock for toolmaking.Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone....
 era. The show is an allegory
Allegory

Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an allegory does not have to be expressed in language: it may be addressed to the eye, and is often found in realistic painting, sculpture or some other form of Mimesis, or representative art....
 to American society of the mid-20th century; in the Flintstones' fantasy
Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of Plot , Theme , and/or Setting . Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of technological and macabre themes, respectively, though there is a great deal of overlap between the three ....
 version of the past, dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoth
Mammoth

A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of the Elephantidae and close relatives of modern elephants....
s, and other long extinct animals co-exist with barefoot cavemen
Caveman

A caveman is a popular stock character based upon stereotyped concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans or homininans may have looked and behaved....
, who use technology very similar to that of the mid-20th century, although made entirely from pre-industrial materials and largely powered through the use of various animals. The characters drive cars made out of stone or wood and animal skins and powered by foot
Foot

The foot is an anatomical structure found in many animals. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion. In many animals with feet, the foot is a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg made up of one or more segments or bones, generally including claws or nails....
. One source of the show's humor was the ways animals were used for technology. For example, when the characters took photograph
Photograph

A photograph is an created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic imager such as a Charge-coupled device or a Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor chip....
s with an instant camera
Instant camera

The instant camera is a type of camera with instant film. The most famous are those made by the Polaroid Corporation. Polaroid no longer manufactures such cameras....
, the inside of the camera box would be shown to contain a bird carving the picture on a stone tablet with its bill. In a running gag
Running gag

A running gag is a literary device which often takes the form of an amusing joke or a Comedy reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling....
, the animals powering such technology would, breaking the fourth wall
Fourth wall

The fourth wall is an element of fiction. Originally, the term referred to the imaginary "wall" at the front of the stage in a proscenium theater, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the Play ....
, look directly into the camera at the audience, shrug, and remark, "It's a living," or some similar phrase. Other commonly seen gadgets in the series included:
  • a baby woolly mammoth being used as a vacuum cleaner
    Vacuum cleaner

    A vacuum cleaner is a device that uses an air pump to create a partial vacuum to suck up dust and dirt, usually from floors.Most homes with carpeted floors in developed countries possess a vacuum cleaner for cleaning....
  • An adult woolly mammoth would act as a shower by spraying water with its trunk
  • Lifts are raised and lowered by ropes around brontosaurs' necks
  • "automatic" windows are powered by monkeys that dwell on the outside windowsill
  • birds configured as "car horns" are activated by pulling on their tails
  • An electric razor is depicted as a clam shell housing a honey-bee vibrating it as the edges are rubbed against the character's face.
Travel to "Hollyrock," a parody of Hollywood, California, usually involved an "airplane" flight—the "plane" in this case often shown as a giant pterodactyl. (Other familiar place names are similarly contorted: San Antonio becomes Sand-and-Stony-o; the country to the south of Bedrock's land is called Mexirock; and so forth.)

Annmargrock
The Stone Age
Stone Age

The Stone Age is a broad prehistory time period during which humans widely used Rock for toolmaking.Stone tools were made from a variety of different kinds of stone....
 setting allowed for gags and pun
Pun

A pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for humour or rhetorical effect....
s involving rocks; the names of the various characters being "rock" puns. These included celebrities of the 1960s such as:
  • "Gary Granite" (Cary Grant
    Cary Grant

    Archibald Alec Leach , better known by his stage name, Cary Grant, was a British-born American actor. With his distinctive yet not quite placeable accent, he was noted as perhaps the foremost exemplar of the debonair leading man, handsome, virile, charismatic and charming....
    )
  • "Stony Curtis" (Tony Curtis
    Tony Curtis

    Tony Curtis is an United States film acting. He is best known for light comic roles, especially as a musician on the run from gangsters in Some Like It Hot with Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe....
    )
  • "Ed Sulleyrock/Sulleystone" (Ed Sullivan
    Ed Sullivan

    Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan was an United States entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a popular TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s....
    )
  • "Rock Quarry" (Rock Hudson
    Rock Hudson

    Rock Hudson was an United States film and television actor, recognised as a romantic leading man during the 1960s and 1970s. Hudson was voted 'Star of the Year', 'Favorite Leading Man', and similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time....
    )
  • "Ann-Margrock" (Ann-Margret
    Ann-Margret

    Ann-Margret is a Sweden-born American actress, singer and dancer. She has won the Golden Globe Award five times, and has been nominated for the Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy....
    )
  • "Alvin Brickrock" (Alfred Hitchcock
    Alfred Hitchcock

    Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
    )
  • "Perry Masonary/Masonite" (Perry Mason
    Perry Mason

    Perry Mason is a fictional character, a defense Lawyer who originally was the main character in numerous pieces of detective fiction authored by Erle Stanley Gardner....
    )
  • "Bronto Burger" (Hamilton Burger
    Hamilton Burger

    Hamilton Burger is the fictional Los Angeles, California district attorney who is the nemesis of Perry Mason in the long-running series of novels, films, and radio and television programs featuring the fictional legal defense attorney created by Erle Stanley Gardner....
    , Mason's courtroom adversary)
  • "Hollyrock Bowl"
  • "Jimmy Darrock" (James Darren
    James Darren

    James William Ercolani , best known as James Darren, is an United States television and film actor, television director, and singer....
    )
  • "Clark Gravel" (Clark Gable
    Clark Gable

    Clark Gable was an Cinema of the United States, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In , the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the AFI's 100 Years......
    )
  • "The Cartrocks" (The Cartwrights)

Closing credits

In the show's closing credits, Fred tries to put the cat (actually a saber-tooth tiger) out for the night. The cat runs back into the house through the window and locks the door on Fred. Then he starts yelling for his wife to come open the door: "Wilma! Come on, Wilma, open this door! Willllll-ma!" By the time the theme song "Meet the Flintstones" was used as background, Fred cut the yelling to: "Willllll-ma!"

Although the cat, Baby Puss, was seen in the closing credits of every episode, it was rarely actually seen in any of the storylines.

The endings seen on episodes currently in distribution are not the ones seen originally in the series' first airing. Videos exist of the original versions of the credits, where a short advertising sequence with the main characters is included as part of the ending. The ending credits, a plug for the show's then-sponsor Winston
Winston (cigarette)

Winston cigarettes are manufactured for or by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company or its newer incarnation as RJR Nabisco and/or its affiliates.The brand was introduced in 1954, and became the best-selling brand of cigarettes in the United States....
 cigarettes, shows a commercial where the announcer states: "
The Flintstones has been brought to you by Winston, America's best-selling, best-tasting filter cigarette", and Fred sings the brand's jingle
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should

"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" is an enduring advertising slogan that appeared in newspaper, magazine, radio, and television advertising campaign for Winston cigarettes from the brand's introduction in 1954 until 1972....
 as the Hanna-Barbera orchestra plays the jingle in the style usually used for the series' background music. Then the sequence of everyone going to sleep occurs, with a "Winston" sign flashing on and off outside of Bedrock.Then after Fred says "Wilma! Come on, Wilma, open this door! Willlllll-ma!", there is applause and then for its final title card it says "This has been an ABC Television Network presentation".

The television network notice (common for many shows on all networks at the time as a sort of station identification) was included in a 1995 laserdisc where the newly-rediscovered 1960 credits were first made available, but was later removed from TV distribution prints, as the show no longer airs on ABC (and is not considered appropriate for a cartoon to sponsor cigarettes). The final applause were erased in the process of cutting part of the music to remove the ABC notice. Also, they airbrushed the frames so that the Winston sign was erased. The color print of the ending has no advertising in it. Hanna-Barbera also produced short advertising scenes for their many sponsors, which appeared after the end of the episode and right before the credits, as well as commercial breaks

Unfortunately, the original credit lists for each episode of seasons 1 and 2 no longer are seen. This is due to years of substituting credits from seasons 3 and beyond. However, this is proved to not work, as tacking one episode's credits to a season's worth of episodes confused more than one viewer. A few years ago, Cartoon Network created closing credits which had all the persons working through the two seasons, regardless of some being absent from different episodes. Whether the original credit lists will be found (or even exist) remains in doubt.

Opening Credits

The opening credits of the show were not immune to censorship either. In the first two seasons, after Fred arrives at home, the camera zooms into one of the windows, showing Fred lighting a Winston and relaxing on a chair, reciting the jingle, with the TV in front of him having a picture of a box of them. In current distribution then, the scene was reanimated to the way it is today to hide the reference.

Curiously, late in 2008, Boomerang went through with restoring the original opening credits to the first episode (albeit with all advertising omitted).

The characters

The Flintstones live at 323 Cobblestone Lane in Bedrock. (However, in the season 2 episode, "The X-Ray Story," their address is given as "25 Stone Cave Road.")

The Flintstones

  • Fred Flintstone
    Fred Flintstone

    Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone is a fictional character who originated in the animated cartoon sitcom The Flintstones on American Broadcasting Company....
     - The main character of the show.
  • Wilma Flintstone
    Wilma Flintstone

    Wilma Pebbles Slaghoople Flintstone is a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones. She was the red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, mother of Pebbles Flintstone and a grandmother....
     (née Pebble, later Slaghoople) - (Fred's wife.)
  • Pebbles Flintstone
    Pebbles Flintstone

    Pebbles Flintstone is a fictional character, the red-haired daughter of Fred Flintstone and Wilma Flintstone. She is most famous in her infant form on the long-running animated series The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as...
     The Flintstones' infant daughter.
  • Dino
    Dino (The Flintstones)

    Dino is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series The Flintstones, and its spinoffs. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred Flintstone and Wilma Flintstone....
     - The Flintstones' pet
    PET

    The term pet typically refers to a pet.PET may also refer to:...
     dinosaur
    Dinosaur

    Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
    , who barks like a dog.
  • Baby Puss - The Flintstones' pet
    PET

    The term pet typically refers to a pet.PET may also refer to:...
     saber toothed cat.
  • Pearl Slaghoople
    Pearl Slaghoople

    Pearl Pebbles Slaghoople was a fictional character on the animated TV show The Flintstones. She was the mother of Wilma Pebbles Slaghoople Flinstone, who is married to Fred Flintstone In the original series, she portrayed Fred's stereotypical antagonistic mother-in-law, acting as a nagging irritant....
     - Wilma's mother.
  • Tex Hardrock - Fred's uncle on his mother's side.
  • Jemina Hardrock - Fred's uncle's sister
  • Eddy Alfaro- Fred's Butler
  • Zeke Flintstone - Fred's uncle that owned Sandstone Cemente, a pun on the California town, San Clemente, that was the site of Richard Nixon's "Western White House."


The Rubbles

  • Barney Rubble
    Barney Rubble

    Bernard "Barney" Rubble, a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones, is the diminutive blonde-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and adoptive father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble....
     - Fred's best friend and next door neighbor
  • Betty Rubble
    Betty Rubble

    Elizabeth 'Betty' Rubble is a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones, is the brunette wife of caveman Barney Rubble and adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm Rubble....
     (née Elizabeth Jean McBricker) - Barney's wife.
  • Bamm-Bamm Rubble
    Bamm-Bamm Rubble

    Bamm-Bamm Rubble is the adoption son of fictitious characters Barney Rubble and Betty Rubble. He is most famous in his infant form on the long-running animated series The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spinoff The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in two ma...
      - the Rubbles' abnormally strong adopted son.
  • Hoppy
    Hoppy (The Flintstones)

    Hoppy is a fictional character on theThe Flintstones television series. Hoppy is a pet hopparoo owned by the Rubble family. Hoppy debuts in the fifth season episode Hop Happy ....
     - The Rubbles' pet
    PET

    The term pet typically refers to a pet.PET may also refer to:...
     Hopparoo (a kangaroo/dinosaur combination creature)


Other characters

  • Mr. Slate
    Mr. Slate

    Sylvester Nate George Oscar Slate is a fictional character from Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones....
     - Fred Flintstone's hot tempered boss at the stone quarry.
  • Joe Rockhead - a friend of Fred's.
  • Arnold - the paper boy. A running gag is Fred being outsmarted by Arnold
  • Sam Slagheap - the Grand Poobah of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes.
  • The Great Gazoo
    The Great Gazoo

    The Great Gazoo is a character from The Flintstones animated series. He first appeared on the show on October 29, 1965. He has many similarities to Mr....
     - an alien
    Extraterrestrial life

    Extraterrestrial life is defined as life which does not originate from Earth. It is the subject of astrobiology and its existence remains hypothetical, because there is no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life which has been generally accepted by the mainstream scientific community....
     exiled to Earth
    Earth

    Earth is the third planet from the Sun. Earth is the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to as the World and Wiktionary:Terra.Note that by International Astronomical Union convention, the term "Terra" is used for naming extensive land masses, rather...
     who helps Fred and Barney, often against their will.
  • The Gruesomes
    The Gruesomes (fictional characters)

    The Gruesomes are a family of fictional characters who appeared on The Flintstones television series. They debuted in 1964 during the show's fifth season....
     - the Flintstone's strange next-door neighbors (inspired by the then-popular monster sitcoms
    The Addams Family
    The Addams Family (TV series)

    The Addams Family is an United States television series based on the characters in Charles Addams' The Addams Family. The 30-minute series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 installments on American Broadcasting Company from September 18, 1964 to April 8, 1966....
    and The Munsters
    The Munsters

    The Munsters was a 1960s United States television sitcom depicting the home life of a family of monsters. The show was a satire of both traditional monster movies and popular family entertainment of the era, such as Leave it to Beaver....
    )
  • Uncle Giggles - Fred's eccentric uncle who lived on nightmare hill. * Samantha and Darrin - One time neighbors of The Flintstones.


Opening teasers

Each episode of
The Flintstones opened with a short scene, lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes prior to the main titles. During the first three seasons, this was footage that took place later in the episode, usually from somewhere in the middle. Serving as a preview, the opening teaser did not clue viewers in on the actual plot.

Beginning with the fourth season, the majority of opening teasers were scenes specifically written to open the episode (examples include "Ann Margrock Presents," "Sleep On Sweet Fred"). This change was not consistent, as a handful of episodes still previewed footage that would be seen later in the episode ("Glue For Two" and "10 Little Flintstones"), while on five occasions, this "preview" footage was never seen during the remainder of the episode at all ("Daddy's Anonymous," "Peek A Boo Camera," "Once Upon A Coward," "Fred El Terrifico" and "'The Hatrocks,"
a.k.a. "Bedrock Hillbillies").

Voices

It has been noted that Fred Flintstone physically resembled voice actor Alan Reed
Alan Reed

Alan Reed was an United States actor and voice artist, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones and various spin-off series....
, and also Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason

Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , whose birth name was John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, was an American comedian, actor and musician.He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy styling, especially as delivered by his character Ralph Kramden on the sitcom The Honeymooners....
. The voice of Barney was provided by legendary voice actor Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc

Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was an United States voice acting and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio and television commercials, Blanc is best known for his work with Warner Bros....
, though five episodes during the second season employed Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler
Daws Butler

Daws Butler was a voice actor born in Toledo, Ohio, Ohio. He originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, and Huckleberry Hound....
 while Blanc was incapacitated by a near-fatal car accident. Blanc was able to return to the series much sooner than expected, by virtue of a temporary recording studio for the entire cast set up at Blanc's bedside.

Additional similarities with
The Honeymooners included the fact that Reed based Fred's voice upon Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason

Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr. , whose birth name was John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, was an American comedian, actor and musician.He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy styling, especially as delivered by his character Ralph Kramden on the sitcom The Honeymooners....
's interpretation of Ralph Kramden, while Blanc, after a season of using a nasal, high-pitched voice for Barney, eventually adopted a style of voice similar to that used by Art Carney
Art Carney

Arthur William Matthew ?Art? Carney was an Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor in film, Stage , television and radio programming....
 in his portrayal of Ed Norton. The first time that Art Carney voice was used was for a few seconds in "The Prowler" (the 3rd episode produced!). In a 1980s
Playboy
Playboy

Playboy is an American men's magazine, founded in Chicago, Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, with a presence in nearly every medium....
interview, Jackie Gleason said that Alan Reed had done voice-overs for Gleason in his early movies, and that he (Gleason) considered suing Hanna-Barbera for copying The Honeymooners but decided to let it pass.

Supposedly, Jackie Gleason intended to sue Hanna-Barbera for plagiarizing his program. According to Henry Corden, who took over as the voice of Fred Flintstone after the late Alan Reed and was a friend of Gleason’s, “Jackie’s lawyers told him that he could probably have The Flintstones pulled right off the air. But they also told him, “Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air? The guy who took away a show that so many kids love, and so many parents love, too?”

Henry Corden
Henry Corden

Henry Corden was a Canada-born United States actor and Voice acting best-known for taking over the role of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones after Alan Reed died in 1977....
 handled the voice responsibilities of Fred after Reed's death in 1977. Corden had previously provided Fred's singing voice in
The Man Called Flintstone
The Man Called Flintstone

The Man Called Flintstone is an United States animation musical film film produced by Hanna-Barbera and released in 1966 by Columbia Pictures....
and later on Flintstones' children's records. After 1999, Jeff Bergman
Jeff Bergman

Jeff Bergman is an United States voice actor who voices several modern day voices of various classic cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, The Jetsons, The Flintstones and many more....
 performed the voice of Fred. Since Mel Blanc's death in 1989, Barney has been voiced by both Frank Welker
Frank Welker

Franklin W. Welker is a veteran United States voice acting. He is responsible for a broad spectrum of character voices, and other vocal effects that have appeared over the last 40 years in American television and motion pictures....
 and Kevin Richardson
Kevin Richardson

Kevin Richardson is the name of:* Kevin Richardson , former member of the Backstreet Boys* Kevin Richardson , English former soccer player* Kevin Richardson , college running back...
. Various additional character voices were created by Hal Smith
Hal Smith

Hal Smith can refer to different people:* Hal Smith , American actor* Hal Smith , American baseball player -- catcher & third base* Hal Smith , in American baseball...
, Allan Melvin
Allan Melvin

Allan Melvin was an United States character actor who appeared in several television shows and may be best remembered for his roles as Characters of The Brady Bunch#Sam Franklin, Alice's boyfriend on The Brady Bunch, and Barney Hefner, Archie Bunker's best friend on All in the Family and Archie Bunker's Place....
, Janet Waldo
Janet Waldo

Janet Waldo is an American actress and voice artist with a career encompassing radio, television, animation and live-action films. Some sources say she was born on February 4, 1918 in Grandview, Washington....
, Daws Butler
Daws Butler

Daws Butler was a voice actor born in Toledo, Ohio, Ohio. He originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, and Huckleberry Hound....
, Howard Morris
Howard Morris

Howard "Howie" Morris was a Jewish United States comedian actor and Television director....
, among others.

Voice cast

  • Fred Flintstone
    Fred Flintstone

    Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone is a fictional character who originated in the animated cartoon sitcom The Flintstones on American Broadcasting Company....
     - Alan Reed
    Alan Reed

    Alan Reed was an United States actor and voice artist, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones and various spin-off series....
  • Wilma Flintstone
    Wilma Flintstone

    Wilma Pebbles Slaghoople Flintstone is a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones. She was the red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, mother of Pebbles Flintstone and a grandmother....
     - Jean Vander Pyl
    Jean Vander Pyl

    Jean Vander Pyl was an actress on radio, television and movies. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Flintstones....
  • Pebbles Flintstone
    Pebbles Flintstone

    Pebbles Flintstone is a fictional character, the red-haired daughter of Fred Flintstone and Wilma Flintstone. She is most famous in her infant form on the long-running animated series The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as...
     - Jean Vander Pyl
  • Barney Rubble
    Barney Rubble

    Bernard "Barney" Rubble, a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones, is the diminutive blonde-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and adoptive father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble....
    /Dino
    Dino (The Flintstones)

    Dino is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series The Flintstones, and its spinoffs. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred Flintstone and Wilma Flintstone....
     - Mel Blanc
    Mel Blanc

    Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was an United States voice acting and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio and television commercials, Blanc is best known for his work with Warner Bros....
  • Betty Rubble
    Betty Rubble

    Elizabeth 'Betty' Rubble is a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones, is the brunette wife of caveman Barney Rubble and adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm Rubble....
     - Bea Benaderet
    Bea Benaderet

    Bea Benaderet was an United States actress, born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. Sometimes credited as Bea Benadaret, she is best remembered for starring in the hit 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies as Jed Clampett's cousin Pearl Bodine , and as the original voice o...
     (seasons 1-4)
  • Betty Rubble
    Betty Rubble

    Elizabeth 'Betty' Rubble is a fictional character in the popular television animated series The Flintstones, is the brunette wife of caveman Barney Rubble and adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm Rubble....
     - Gerry Johnson
    Gerry Johnson

    Gerry Johnson was an American actress who provided the voice of Betty Rubble in seasons five and six of the United States of America cartoon series The Flintstones....
     (seasons 5-6)
  • Bamm-Bamm Rubble
    Bamm-Bamm Rubble

    Bamm-Bamm Rubble is the adoption son of fictitious characters Barney Rubble and Betty Rubble. He is most famous in his infant form on the long-running animated series The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spinoff The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in two ma...
    /Hoppy/Arnold - Don Messick
    Don Messick

    Donald "Don" Messick was one of the most prolific voice actors of the second half of the 20th century.Messick, a native of Buffalo, New York, voiced several classic cartoon characters, including Scooby-Doo, Ranger Smith and Boo Boo , Muttley, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Astro , Zorak, Godzooky, Dr....
  • Mrs. Slate - Jean Vander Pyl and Bea Benaderet
  • The Great Gazoo
    The Great Gazoo

    The Great Gazoo is a character from The Flintstones animated series. He first appeared on the show on October 29, 1965. He has many similarities to Mr....
     - Harvey Korman
    Harvey Korman

    Harvey Herschel Korman was an United States comedy actor who performed in television and film productions beginning in 1960. His big break was being a featured performer on The Danny Kaye Show, but he was probably best remembered for his performances on the sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show and in the comedy films of Mel Br...
  • Mr. Slate
    Mr. Slate

    Sylvester Nate George Oscar Slate is a fictional character from Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones....
     - John Stephenson
    John Stephenson

    John Stephenson may refer to:*John Stephenson , American voice actor*John Stephenson , American baseball catcher*John Stephenson , a 19th century Irish-American coachbuilder who created the street railway...


Production history

Originally, the series was to have been titled
The Flagstones, and a brief demonstration film was created to sell the idea of a "modern stone age family" to sponsors and the network. When the series itself was commissioned, the title was changed, possibly to avoid confusion with the Flagstons, characters in the comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 
Hi and Lois
Hi and Lois

Hi and Lois is a comic strip about a suburban family created by Mort Walker and drawn by Dik Browne. It debuted on October 18, 1954 and is distributed by King Features Syndicate....
. After spending a brief period in development as The Gladstones, Hanna-Barbera settled upon The Flintstones. Aside from the animation and fantasy setting, the show's scripts and format are typical of a 1950s American
United States

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 situation comedy
Situation comedy

A situation comedy, usually referred to as a sitcom, is a genre of comedy programs which originated in radio. Today, sitcoms are found almost exclusively on television as one of its dominant narrative forms....
, with the usual family issues resolved with a laugh at the end of each episode.

Although most
Flintstones episodes are standalone storylines, the series did have a few story arc
Story arc

A story arc is an extended or continuing narrative in episode storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and in some cases, films....
s. The most notable example was a series of episodes surrounding the birth of Pebbles
Pebbles Flintstone

Pebbles Flintstone is a fictional character, the red-haired daughter of Fred Flintstone and Wilma Flintstone. She is most famous in her infant form on the long-running animated series The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as...
. Beginning with the episode "The Surprise", aired midway through the third season, in which Wilma reveals her pregnancy
Pregnancy

Pregnancy is the carrying of one or more offspring, known as a fetus or embryo, inside the uterus of a female. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or Multiple birth....
 to Fred, the arc continued through the trials and tribulations leading up to Pebbles' birth, and then continued with several episodes showing Fred and Wilma adjusting to the world of parenthood. The Flintstones also became the first primetime animated series to last more than two seasons; this record wasn't surpassed by any other primetime animated tv series until The Simpsons aired their third season in 1992.

A postscript to the arc occurred in the third episode of the fourth season, in which the Rubbles, depressed over being unable to have children of their own (making
The Flintstones the first animated series in history to address the issue of infertility
Infertility

Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to fertilization. Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term....
, though subtly), adopt Bamm-Bamm. The 100th episode made (but the 90th to air),
Little Bamm-Bamm, established how Bamm-Bamm was adopted. About nine episodes were made before it but shown after which explains why Bamm-Bamm would not be seen again until episode 101 Daddy's Annonymous (Bamm-Bamm was in a teaser on episode 98 Kleptomaniac Pebbles). Another story arc, occurring in the final season, centered on Fred and Barney's dealings with The Great Gazoo (voiced by Harvey Korman
Harvey Korman

Harvey Herschel Korman was an United States comedy actor who performed in television and film productions beginning in 1960. His big break was being a featured performer on The Danny Kaye Show, but he was probably best remembered for his performances on the sketch comedy series The Carol Burnett Show and in the comedy films of Mel Br...
).

The series was initially aimed at adult audiences; the first season was sponsored by Winston cigarettes
Winston (cigarette)

Winston cigarettes are manufactured for or by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company or its newer incarnation as RJR Nabisco and/or its affiliates.The brand was introduced in 1954, and became the best-selling brand of cigarettes in the United States....
 and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston.

The Flintstones was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed, although Fred and Wilma are sometimes depicted as sleeping in separate beds. For comparison, the first live-action depiction of this in American TV history was in television's first-ever sitcom: 1947's Mary Kay and Johnny
Mary Kay and Johnny

Mary Kay and Johnny was the first situation comedy broadcast on Television network television in the United States, was the first television program to show a couple sharing a bed, and was the first television series to show a woman's pregnancy on television....
.

The show also contained a laugh track
Laugh track

A laugh track, laughter soundtrack, laughter track, LFN , canned laughter or a laughing audience is a separate soundtrack invented by Charles Douglass, with the artificial sound of audience laughter, made to be inserted into television comedy shows and sitcoms....
, common to most other sitcoms of the period. In the mid-1990s, when Turner Networks remastered the episodes, the original laugh track was removed. Currently, the shows airing on Boomerang
Boomerang (TV channel)

Boomerang is a 24-hour United States cable television television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System . The network debuted April 1, 2000....
 and the DVD releases have the original laugh track restored to
most episodes (a number of episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 still lack them). Some episodes, however, have a newer laugh track dubbed in, apparently replacing the old one. Because of this practice, the only episode to originally air without a laugh track ("Sheriff For a Day" in 1965) now has one.

Reception

In January 2009, IGN named
The Flintstones as the ninth best in its "Top 100 Animated TV Shows".

Films and subsequent TV series

Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a film based upon the series was created.
The Man Called Flintstone
The Man Called Flintstone

The Man Called Flintstone is an United States animation musical film film produced by Hanna-Barbera and released in 1966 by Columbia Pictures....
was a musical
Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which several songs sung by the fictional character are interwoven into the narrative. The songs are used to advance the plot or develop the film's characters....
 spy
SPY

SPY may refer to:* SPY , ticker symbol for Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts* Spy , a satirical monthly, trademarked all-caps* SPY , airport code for San P?dro, C?te d'Ivoire...
 caper that parodied James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 and other secret agents. The movie was released to theaters on August 3, 1966 by Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures

Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
. It was released on DVD in Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 in March 2005 and in United States
United States

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 in December 2008.

The show was revived in the 1970s with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm having grown into teenagers, and several different series and made-for-TV movies — including a series depicting Fred and Barney as police officers, another depicting the characters as children, and yet others featuring Fred and Barney encountering Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is an American comic book and related media company owned by Marvel Publishing, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Marvel counts among as its List of Marvel Comics characters such well-known properties as Captain America, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk , Iron Man, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and many others....
 superhero The Thing
Thing (comics)

The Thing is a fictional character, a founding member of the superhero team known as the Fantastic Four in the Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. He was created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee in The Fantastic Four #1 ....
 and comic strip
Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story.Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a comics artist or cartoonist, and many such strips are published on a recurring basis in newspapers and on the Internet....
 character The Shmoo
Shmoo

A shmoo is a fictional cartoon creature. Created by Al Capp , they first appeared in his classic comic strip Li'l Abner on August 31, 1948, and quickly became a postwar national craze in the USA....
 — have appeared over the years. The original show also was adapted into a hit live-action film
The Flintstones (film)

The Flintstones is a 1994 in film live action film directed by Brian Levant, and based on the prime time Hanna-Barbera animated television sitcom The Flintstones....
 in 1994, which was so popular that a prequel
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is a 2000 feature film based on Hanna-Barbera's animated television classic, The Flintstones, produced by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures....
, followed in 2000.

The Flintstones Show


The popularity of The Flintstones
The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
 spawned a staged production which opened at Universal Studios Hollywood
Universal Studios Hollywood

Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio in the Universal City, California community of unincorporated area Los Angeles County, California, California, United States, and is the original Universal Studios theme park....
 in 1994 (the year the live action film was released), developed by Universal and Hanna-Barbera Productions. It opened at the Panasonic
Panasonic

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 Theatre replacing the Star Trek
Star Trek

Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
 Show. The story consists with Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty heading for "Hollyrock".

According to FX Control Systems.com, the most extremely challenging stage effect for the show was the animated pterodactyl that transported Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty from “Bedrock” to “Hollyrock”. This technically demanding animated piece lifted four cast members off the stage and flew them out over the audience during a set change, after which they safely landed at their new destination.

The Universal Studios’ script called for Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty to board Pterodactyl World Airways and fly from “Bedrock” to “Hollyrock” over the heads of the audience. The project was technically challenging and presented many engineering hurdles. Further exacerbating the design was the need for full seismic analysis and a short schedule. Above all else was the absolute safety for the cast and audience during the Flintstones’ spectacular flight to "Hollyrock".

The show's Designer Mr. Valenze also designed and programmed the automated winch trolley that travels on a monorail mounted to the roof structure. On cue, the trolley positions itself over center stage and drops four cables and an electrical interface. Once attached to the animated pterodactyl, the trolley automatically pre-tensions and tests the cable attachments. The cast members board, wings start flapping, the on-board PLC performs a host of safety checks and the cast is off. The prop altitude and position are constantly monitored to assure proper clearance over the audience at all times. Then comes the hard part, landing four cast members at exact center stage, safely, softly and on cue.

The single-point failure proof design prevents the catastrophic failure of any single winch, lifting cable, connection or sensor from precipitating further failure or placing the cast or audience at risk of injury. The stage used in the Theatre also contained a Cat Walk with a stair case for the cast members to go into the audience to make them feel that they are apart of the show which makes it very entertaining.

Despite the attraction being somewhat successful among Tourists and Theme park fans, Universal closed the show on January 2, 1997 to make way for new shows such as Totally Nickelodeon (1997-2000) and The Rugrats
The Rugrats

The Rugrats were a Canadian children's musical group created by Ronney Abramson, Ron Garant and Fred Mollin. The group's debut, Rugrat Rock won the Juno Award for Children's Album of the Year category at the Juno Awards of 1984....
 Stage Show (2000-2002). Shrek 4D now performs in the Panasonic
Panasonic

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 Theatre. After The Rugrats Show closed, the Cat Walk Stage used for the Flintstones show was removed completely as the Shrek Attraction was made up with new advanced Technology. Since the Flintstones show has closed, it hasn't been featured in any of the other Universal Themeparks. It is currently unknown if Universal will ever bring the show back to Universal Studios Hollywood
Universal Studios Hollywood

Universal Studios Hollywood is a movie studio in the Universal City, California community of unincorporated area Los Angeles County, California, California, United States, and is the original Universal Studios theme park....
 or possibly open duplicate versions at Universal Studios Florida
Universal Studios Florida

Universal Studios Florida is an amusement park located in Orlando, Florida. Opened on June 7, 1990, the park's theme is the entertainment industry, in particular movies and television....
 and Universal Studios Japan
Universal Studios Japan

, located in Osaka, Japan is one of three Universal Studios Theme Parks, owned and operated by USJ Co., Ltd. . The park is similar to Universal Orlando Resort, since it contains many of the same rides....
 in the near future.

Broadcast history




* USA
**ABC (1960-1966)
**Television syndication
Television syndication

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 (1966-1997)
**NBC (1966-1970)
**Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (United States)

Cartoon Network is a cable television network created by Turner Broadcasting System which primarily shows Animation programming. The original American channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 with the Bugs Bunny short Rhapsody Rabbit being its first-ever aired program....
 (1992-2001)
**Boomerang (TV channel)
Boomerang (TV channel)

Boomerang is a 24-hour United States cable television television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System . The network debuted April 1, 2000....
 (2000-present)

* Bulgaria
Bulgaria

The state of Bulgaria , Scientific transliteration Balgarija, officially the Republic of Bulgaria has played a significant role in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe for over fourteen centuries....

**Kanal 1 (early 1990s)
**Nova Television
Nova Television

Nova Television is the first Bulgarian commercial television network launched on July 22, 1994. Since 2000, it was entirely owned by the Greece company ANT1 Group....
 (2008-Present)

* Poland
Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....

**Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (Europe)

Cartoon Network is a pan-European digital television channel created by Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner and dedicated to showing animated programming....
 (1998-2007)
**Boomerang
Boomerang

Boomerangs are curved pieces of wood used as weapons and sport equipment. Boomerangs come in many shapes and sizes depending on their geographic or tribal origins and intended function....
 (2005-Present)
**TVP2 (1990-2003)
**TV Puls
TV Puls

TV Puls is a Poland commercial television channel, which started broadcasting in March 2001. Until recently, the station's programming was largely devoted to Catholic issues, as the majority of the company's stock was owned by the Franciscan Order....
 (2008-Present)

* Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....

**CTV
CTV television network

CTV is a Canadian English language television network. It is Canada's largest privately owned network, the main television asset of CTVglobemedia, one of the country's largest media conglomerates....

**TQS
Tqs

TQS is a Canada French language privately-owned television network. The name is derived from the initials of its original name T?l?vision Quatre-Saisons....
 (1986-2000)
**TVA
TVA (TV network)

TVA is a Canada French language privately owned television network.TVA is based in Quebec and has affiliates only in Quebec, although the affiliates in Rivi?re-du-Loup and Carleton-sur-Mer, Quebec have rebroadcast transmitters in New Brunswick....
 (2004-present)
**Prise 2
Prise 2

Prise 2 is a Canadian French language Category 2 specialty channel digital cable specialty channel with programming featuring television series and films mainly from Quebec and the United States from 25 years ago....
 (2004-present)
**YTV
**Teletoon
Teletoon

Teletoon is a Canada cable television speciality channel that broadcasts animation programming. Teletoon is owned by Teletoon Canada Inc., a partnership between Astral Media and Corus Entertainment....

**Teletoon Retro
Teletoon Retro

Teletoon Retro is a Canada English language Category 2 specialty channel digital cable specialty channel based on the Teletoon programming block Teletoon Retro....

**TFO
TFO

TFO is a Canada French language educational public television network in the province of Ontario. It is the only French-language television network in Canada whose operations are based entirely outside of Quebec....



* Mexico
Mexico

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**Canal 5
**Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (Latin America)

Cartoon Network Latin America is a cable television channel and is an edition of the Time Warner-owned Cartoon Network for the Latin America region....


* United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....

**Boomerang (UK & Ireland) (2000-2007)
**Cartoon Network (UK & Ireland) (1993-2000)
**BBC One
BBC One

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 (1960s - early 1990s)
**BBC Two
BBC Two

BBC Two is the second major terrestrial television channel of the BBC, aimed at a wide range of subject matter and interests, and specialising in intelligent yet popular programme genres....
 (mid to late 1990s, 2008-present)
**ITV1
ITV1

ITV1 is the generic brand used by twelve franchises of the ITV television network in England, Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands....
 (2003)

* Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....

**Boomerang (Australian TV channel)
Boomerang (Australian TV channel)

For the original Boomerang channel, see Boomerang .Boomerang is a cable television and satellite television television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner and it's main flagship channel of Cartoon Network ....

**Network Ten
Network Ten

Network Ten, or Channel Ten, is one of Australia's three major commercial Television broadcasting in Australia. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Western Australia, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country....


* India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....

**Cartoon Network (India)
Cartoon Network (India)

Cartoon Network is a cable television and satellite television television channel created by Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner which primarily shows animated programming....


* Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....

**Channel 1 (Israel)
Channel 1 (Israel)

Channel 1 is the oldest television channel in Israel and one of only two terrestrial television in the country . Run by the Israel Broadcasting Authority, it started broadcasting on 2 May 1968, and is largely funded through a television licence, though there are some adverts....

**Cartoon Network (Europe)
Cartoon Network (Europe)

Cartoon Network is a pan-European digital television channel created by Turner Broadcasting, a unit of Time Warner and dedicated to showing animated programming....



*Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....

**Spacetoon
Spacetoon

Spacetoon is the first free-to-air animated series and channel in the Middle East broadcast from Dubai Media City....

**Middle East Television
Middle East Television

Middle East Television is a Christian-based satellite television broadcasting network located in Limassol, Cyprus. Programming on METV includes a mixture of Christian programming, plus non-religious entertainment programs like The Red Green Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Lone Ranger and National Football League Football....


* Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....

**TV3 (Norway)
TV3 (Norway)

TV3 Norway is a commercial television channel targeting Norway owned by Viasat, which is a part of the Sweden media group Modern Times Group. It was separated from the common Swedish-Norwegian feed in the early 1990s....


* The Netherlands
**RTL 4
RTL 4

RTL 4 is a commercial television station in the Netherlands. It is one of the biggest commercial television stations in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49....


* Peru
Peru

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**ATV (Andina de Televisión, canal 9)

* Germany
Germany

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**ARD
ARD (broadcaster)

ARD , is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in West Germany in 1950 to represent the common interests of the new, decentralized post-war broadcasting services — in particular, the introduction of a joint television network....

**ProSieben

* Serbia
Serbia

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**RTV BK Telecom
RTV BK Telecom

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* Italy
Italy

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** (RAI) (1963-1996)
**(Retequattro) (1998)
**Italia 1
Italia 1

Italia 1 is an Italy commercial television station on the Mediaset network.It is oriented especially at young people....
(today)

* Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....

**HRT
Croatian Radiotelevision

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* Turkey
Turkey

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**TRT
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation

The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation also known as TRT, , was founded in 1964, it is the national public broadcasting of Turkey....


* Venezuela
Venezuela

Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....

**RCTV
**Venevision
Venevisión

Venevisi?n, is one of Venezuela's largest television networks, which is owned and presided over by Gustavo Cisneros. Similar to Televisa in Mexico, Venevisi?n controls a large proportion of all show business activity in the country....


* Chile
Chile

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**TVN (1970s & 1980s)
**Canal 9 Television Nacional de Chile Señal 2 (1988-1989)
**Red Televisiva Megavision
Red Televisiva Megavisión

Red Televisiva Megavisi?n or simply MEGA, is the first private TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago, Chile on analog television channel 9 ....
 (1991-2002)
**RED Television (2002-2006)
**Telecanal
Telecanal

Telecanal is a Private company owned TV channel of Chile. It currently airs in Santiago, Chile in the 2 frequence of VHF. It mostly airs low budget entertainment TV shows and telenovelas....
 (2006-Today)

* China
China

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**CCTV-6
CCTV-6

CCTV-6 is the movie channel of the China Central Television Network in the People's Republic of China....



Production Credits


  • Produced and Directed: William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
  • Written by: Warren Foster, Michael Maltese, Arthur Phillips
  • Story Director: Dan Gordon, Alex Lovy, Art Davis
  • Associate Producer: Alan Dinehart
  • Voices: Alan Reed, Jean Vanderpyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, John Stephenson, Daws Butler, Don Messick, Jerry Mann, Hal Smith
  • Musical Diector: Hoyt Curtin
  • Animation: Kenneth Muse, Carlo Vinci, George Nicholas, Ed Love, Don Patterson, Dick Lundy, William Keil
  • Layout: Dick Bickenbach, Walt Clinton
  • Production Supervision: Howard Hanson
  • Backgrounds: Art Lozzi, Montealegre, Robert Gentle, Dick Thomas
  • Titles: Lawrence Goble
  • Camera: Roy Wade, Norman Stainback, Frank Paiker, Charles Flekal
  • Film Editing: Greg Watson, Warner Leighton, Donald A. Douglas, Joseph Ruby, Kenneth Muse
  • THE FLINTSTONES
    • © Copyright MCMLX Hanna-Barbera Productions
  • A HANNA-BARBERA PRODUCTION
  • A SCREEN GEMS FILM PRESENTATION
    • Television Subsidiary: Columbia Pictures Corporation


Flintstones series and spin-offs


Television series

  • The Flintstones
    The Flintstones

    The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on American Broadcasting Company.Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend....
    (1960-66)
  • The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
    The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show

    'The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show' is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series list of television spin-offs of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera, which ran for 16 half-hour episodes from September 11, 1971 to September 2, 1972 and four 10-minute episodes from September 9, 1972 to September 1, 1973 on CBS....
    (1971-72)
  • The Flintstone Comedy Hour
    The Flintstone Comedy Hour

    The Flintstone Comedy Hour is a one-hour Saturday morning cartoon anthology series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The program originally aired on CBS as an hour-long show from September 9, 1972 to September 1, 1973 on CBS....
    (1972-73)
  • The Flintstone Comedy Show
    The Flintstone Comedy Hour

    The Flintstone Comedy Hour is a one-hour Saturday morning cartoon anthology series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The program originally aired on CBS as an hour-long show from September 9, 1972 to September 1, 1973 on CBS....
    (1973-74)
  • Fred Flintstone and Friends
    Fred Flintstone and Friends

    Fred Flintstone and Friends was a 30-minute Weekday cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired in Broadcast syndication beginning September 12, 1977....
    (1977-78)
  • The New Fred and Barney Show
    The New Fred and Barney Show

    The New Fred and Barney Show was a 30-minute Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera as a 1979 series revival of The Flintstones from February 3, 1979 to October 20, 1979 on NBC....
    (1979)
  • Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
    Fred and Barney Meet the Thing

    Fred and Barney Meet the Thing was a 60-minute Saturday morning cartoon package show produced by Hanna-Barbera from September 8, 1979 to December 1, 1979 on NBC....
    (1979)
  • Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
    Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo

    Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo was a 90-minute Saturday morning cartoon package show produced by Hanna-Barbera from December 8, 1979 to November 15, 1980 on NBC....
    (1979-80)
  • The Flintstone Comedy Show
    The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980)

    The Flintstone Comedy Show was a 90-minute Saturday morning animated series revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera from November 22, 1980 to September 11, 1982 on NBC....
    (1980-82)
  • The Flintstone Funnies
    The Flintstone Funnies

    The Flintstone Funnies was a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series by Hanna-Barbera Productions from September 18, 1982 to September 8, 1984 on NBC....
    (1982-84)
  • The Flintstone Kids
    The Flintstone Kids

    The Flintstone Kids was a 30-minute animated television series spin-off of The Flintstones which followed the adventures of Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Wilma Flintstone, and Betty Rubble as 8 to 10-year-olds with their pet Dino ....
    (1986-88)
  • Dino: World Premiere Toons
    Dino: World Premiere Toons

    Dino, the pet dinosaur of Fred Flintstone and Wilma Flintstone from the animated television series The Flintstones, was featured in two 7-minute short cartoons directed by Joseph Barbera and produced by Cartoon Network Studios in 1995....
    - featuring "Stay Out!" (1995) and "The Great Egg-Scape" (1997)
  • Cave Kids: Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm
    Cave Kids

    Cave Kids was a 30-minute short-lived animated series list of television spin-offs of The Flintstones featuring Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble....
    (1996)


Theatrical animated feature

  • The Man Called Flintstone
    The Man Called Flintstone

    The Man Called Flintstone is an United States animation musical film film produced by Hanna-Barbera and released in 1966 by Columbia Pictures....
    (1966, released by Columbia Pictures
    Columbia Pictures

    Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. is an United States film production company and distribution company. It was one of the so-called studio system among the eight major film studios of Hollywood Cinema of the United States#Golden Age of Hollywood....
    )


Television specials

  • A Flintstone Christmas
    A Flintstone Christmas

    A Flintstone Christmas was a 60-minute Christmas in the media featuring The Flintstones. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and aired on NBC on December 7, 1977....
    (1977)
  • The Flintstones: Little Big League
    The Flintstones: Little Big League

    The Flintstones' Little Big League was a 60-minute animated Television special featuring Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and aired on NBC on April 6, 1978....
    (1978)
  • The Flintstones' New Neighbors
    The Flintstones' New Neighbors

    The Flintstones' New Neighbors was a 30-minute episode that was part of "The Flintstone Special" limited-run prime time television series revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC on September 26, 1980....
    (1980)
  • The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone
    The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone

    The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone was a 60-minute Television special featuring Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. It was produced in 1979 in television by Hanna-Barbera Productions and aired on October 30, 1980 on NBC....
    (1980)
  • The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling
    The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling

    Fred's Final Fling was a 30-minute episode that was part of "The Flintstone Special" limited-run prime time television series revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC on November 7, 1980....
    (1980)
  • The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma
    The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma

    Wind-Up Wilma was a 30-minute episode that was part of "The Flintstone Special" limited-run prime time television series revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC on October 4, 1981....
    (1981)
  • The Flintstones: Jogging Fever
    The Flintstones: Jogging Fever

    Jogging Fever was a 30-minute episode that was part of "The Flintstone Special" limited-run prime time television series revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC on October 11, 1981....
    (1981)
  • The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration
    The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration

    The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration was a 60-minute CBS Live-action/animated film television special produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions commemorating the 25th anniversary of television's first primetime animated series, The Flintstones, which aired on May 20, 1986....
    (1986)
  • The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special (1988)
  • A Flintstone Family Christmas
    A Flintstone Family Christmas

    A Flintstone Family Christmas was a 30-minute Christmas special for television first aired on American Broadcasting Company on November 21, 1993....
    (1993)


Television movies

  • The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
    The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones

    The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones is an animated TV movie, featuring the first meeting between the characters from two Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows, The Flintstones and The Jetsons ....
    (1987)
  • I Yabba-Dabba Do!
    I Yabba-Dabba Do!

    I Yabba-Dabba Do! is a made-for-TV movie based on the original sitcom, The Flintstones. It originally aired on American Broadcasting Company on February 7, 1993....
    (1993)
  • Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby
    Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby

    Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby is an animated TV movie based on the primetime series, The Flintstones, It first aired on American Broadcasting Company December 5, 1993 and is a sequel to I Yabba-Dabba Do!, and a predecessor to A Flintstone Family Christmas....
    (1993)
  • A Flintstones Christmas Carol
    A Flintstones Christmas Carol

    A Flintstones Christmas Carol is a made-for-TV holiday-themed animated movie based on the original 1960s series classic, The Flintstones produced by Hanna Barbera and premiered in syndication on November 21, 1994....
    (1994)
  • The Flintstones: On the Rocks
    The Flintstones: On the Rocks

    The Flintstones: On the Rocks is an animated TV movie based on the popular animated franchise The Flintstones, which aired in 2001 on Cartoon Network....
    (2001)


Live action films

  • The Flintstones
    The Flintstones (film)

    The Flintstones is a 1994 in film live action film directed by Brian Levant, and based on the prime time Hanna-Barbera animated television sitcom The Flintstones....
    (1994)
  • The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas

    The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is a 2000 feature film based on Hanna-Barbera's animated television classic, The Flintstones, produced by Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures....
    (2000)


Other media

For a list of DVDs, video games, comic books, and VHS releases, see List of The Flintstones media
List of The Flintstones media

This is a list of media and merchandise associated with The Flintstones....
.
This American Life Radio Play about Barney running over Dino in Fred's driveway http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1222

May 13, 1986 ABC broadcast The Joe Piscopo
Joe Piscopo

Joseph Charles John "Joe" Piscopo is an United States comedian and actor best known for his work on Saturday Night Live....
 New Jersey Special
which included a skit called Flintstones: The Lost Episodes with Piscopo as Fred and Danny Devito
Danny DeVito

Daniel Michael "Danny-Fanny" DeVito, Jr. is an United States actor, film director and film producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the popular American Broadcasting Company and NBC television television program Taxi ....
 as Barney; besides appropriate costuming they wore plastic wigs shaped like the hairstyles on the show. An onscreen credit at the end of the skit indicated it was done with the authorization of Hanna-Barbara.

Popular culture


In the 1960s the series had strong ties to a sponsor, Winston cigarettes
Winston (cigarette)

Winston cigarettes are manufactured for or by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company or its newer incarnation as RJR Nabisco and/or its affiliates.The brand was introduced in 1954, and became the best-selling brand of cigarettes in the United States....
, with the characters shown smoking the product during commercial breaks. This approach was not unusual for television at that time, either with tobacco or any other product. In one memorable advertisement, Fred and Barney relaxed while their wives did housework, smoking Winstons and reciting Winston's jingle, "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should

"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" is an enduring advertising slogan that appeared in newspaper, magazine, radio, and television advertising campaign for Winston cigarettes from the brand's introduction in 1954 until 1972....
!" In 1963, Winston pulled their sponsorship from the show when Wilma became pregnant; after that point, the main sponsor was Welch's
Welch's

Welch Foods Inc. is an United States company, headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts. It is owned by the National Grape Cooperative Association, a Agricultural cooperative of grape growers....
 Grape Juice
Grape juice

Grape juice is a juice obtained from crushing grapes. The juice is often fermentation and made into wine, brandy, or vinegar. In the wine industry grape juice which contains 7-23 percent of pulp, skins, stems and seeds, is often referred to as "must"....
. This is probably because of a shift from adult to family audiences.

Welch's advertised their product with animated commercials featuring the cartoon cast and they were often pictured in print ads and on grape juice containers. In a few episodes, Pebbles is given grape juice as a treat.

The characters from the series were used in an industrial film designed to promote the 1967 beer
Beer

Beer is the world's oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and Fermentation of starches, mainly derived from cereal?the most common of which is malted barley, although wheat, maize , and rice are widely used....
 advertising campaigns for Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch

Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. is the largest brewing company in the United States and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev. It holds a 48.8% share of beer sales by volume in the United States....
. This film was released to the Anheuser-Busch distributors, and it was not seen by the general public until years later when bootleg copies began to circulate.

The series spawned three breakfast cereal
Breakfast cereal

A breakfast cereal is a Fast moving consumer goods food product intended to be consumed as part of a breakfast. It is usually eaten cold as a ready-to-eat meal and mixed with a liquid, such as milk or water, though occasionally Nut and fruit are also added....
s: Fruity Pebbles
Fruity Pebbles

Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles are brands of breakfast cereal introduced by Post Cereals in 1969, featuring characters from the animated series The Flintstones....
 and Cocoa Pebbles, and the discontinued Dino Pebbles (later revived as "Marshmallow Mania Pebbles").

An enduring license has been a line of children's multivitamin
Multivitamin

A multivitamin is a preparation intended to supplement a human diet with vitamins, dietary minerals and other nutritional elements. Such preparations are available in the form of tablets, capsules, pastilles, powders, liquids and injectable formulations....
s called "Flintstones Complete
Flintstones Chewable Vitamins

Flintstones Chewable Vitamins are supplemental multivitamins for children based on the animated cartoon sitcom The Flintstones. They were introduced in 1968 by Miles Laboratories and taste faintly like candy....
" (more popularly known as Flintstones Vitamins); the first seasons of the series were, in part, sponsored by Miles Laboratories
Miles Laboratories

Miles Laboratories was founded as the Dr. Miles Medical Company in Elkhart, Indiana, Indiana, in 1884 by Dr. Franklin Miles, a specialist in the treatment of eye and ear disorders, with an interest in the connection of the nervous system to overall health....
. Miles' corporate successor, Bayer Corporation, continues to market Flintstones vitamins.

More recently, the Flintstones have been seen in commercials for GEICO
GEICO

The Government Employees Insurance Company, usually known by the acronym GEICO, is an American auto insurance company. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and, as of 2007, provided coverage for more than 10 million motor cars, trucks and other motor vehicles owned by more than 9 million insurance contract holders....
 automotive insurance and Midas auto repair shops.

Fred Flintstone's exclamation 'Yabba Dabba Dooo!', shouted in the opening credits as well as any time Fred became happy or excited, is widely known and repeated.

The Screaming Blue Messiahs
The Screaming Blue Messiahs

The Screaming Blue Messiahs were a band formed in 1983 in London by Bill Carter, Chris Thompson and Kenny Harris . The three had played together previously as The Small Brothers, and Thompson and Carter had formed part of Motor Boys Motor, together with Tony Moon on vocals, recording several tracks under that name on 24 August 1981 for John...
 had a song called I Wanna Be a Flintstone on their album Bikini Red. It was later rereleased on the soundtrack album of the 1994 live action film The Flintstones
The Flintstones (film)

The Flintstones is a 1994 in film live action film directed by Brian Levant, and based on the prime time Hanna-Barbera animated television sitcom The Flintstones....
.

"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian and satire. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts....
 paid homage to the Flintstones in "Bedrock Anthem", a combined parody of "Under the Bridge" and "Give it Away", both by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
, that even featured Flintstones voices and sound effects. It also was rereleased on the soundtrack album of the 1994 live action film The Flintstones.

In one episonde of Alvin and the Chipmunks when the 90s Chipmnks enter the 50s Chipmunks house Alvin asks "Who painted this place? The Flintstones?!?!?!"

See also

  • List of The Flintstones episodes
    List of The Flintstones episodes

    This is the list of episodes for the original The Flintstones series, which aired from 1960 to 1966. As of September 2006, all six seasons have been released to DVD in North America....
  • Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue
    Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue

    Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue was a 60-minute live-action and animated television special produced by Hanna-Barbera in association with deFaria Productions which aired on CBS in December 1977....
     - Hanna-Barbera characters honor Fred in an all-star celebrity roast for his birthday (1977)
  • The Jetsons
    The Jetsons

    The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera. The original incarnation of the series aired on Sunday nights on American Broadcasting Company from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963....
  • The Roman Holidays
    The Roman Holidays

    The Roman Holidays is a Hanna-Barbera animated television series that was broadcast in 1972 on NBC. It ran for 13 episodes before being cancelled....
  • The Simpsons
    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
  • "Weird" Al Yankovic - "Bedrock Anthem"


External links

  • - Official site for Flintstone Halloween costumes.
  • - Fansite
  • - Written by Kevin McCorry.