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The Flintstones
Title card used during seasons 1 and ii
Genre	Blithe sitcom
Created past	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Adult by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Voices of	Alan Reed Jean Vander Pyl Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet (1960–64) Gerry Johnson (1964–66) Don Messick John Stephenson Verna Felton Doug Young June Foray Howard Morris
Theme music composer	Hoyt Curtin[1]
Opening theme	"Rise and Polish" (instrumental) (kickoff two seasons and the first two episodes of season three) "Meet the Flintstones" (remainder of the show's run)
Ending theme	"Rise and Shine" (instrumental) (first two seasons and the offset two episodes of season three) "Encounter the Flintstones" (remainder of the show's run) "Open Upwards Your Center (and Let the Sunshine In)" (some episodes in season six)
Composers	Hoyt Curtin Ted Nichols (season half-dozen)
State of origin	United states of america
Original language	English language
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	166 (list of episodes)
Product
Producers	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Editors	Kenneth Spears Donald A. Douglas Joseph Ruby Warner Leighton Greg Watson
Running time	25 minutes
Production company	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Distributor	Screen Gems
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	NTSC
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 30, 1960 (1960-09-30) – April i, 1966 (1966-04-01)
Chronology
Followed by	The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
Related shows	Cave Kids (spin-off)

The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the activities of the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles. It was originally broadcast on ABC from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, and was the commencement animated series to concur a prime-fourth dimension slot on tv.^[2]

The evidence follows the lives of Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their pets Dino and Infant Puss, eventually seeing the addition of baby Pebbles Flintstone. Besides featured are relatives Pearl Slaghoople and Uncle Tex Hardrock. The Rubbles are close characters to the Flintstones, including Fred's all-time friend, Barney Rubble, and his family, Betty Rubble, Bamm-Bamm Rubble and their pet, Hoppy.

Producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera gained inspiration for the prove's concept and music from popular cartoons of that time, including The Bugs Bunny Testify and Tom and Jerry.

The standing popularity of The Flintstones rests heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Rock Age setting.^{[three] [4]} The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997.^[5] In 2013, Television receiver Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV drawing of all fourth dimension (later on The Simpsons).^[vi]

Overview [edit]

The show is set in a comical version of the Stone Historic period, only has added features and technologies that resemble mid-20th-century suburban America. The plots deliberately resemble the sitcoms of the era, with the caveman Flintstone and Rubble families getting into minor conflicts feature of modern life.^[7] The show is set in the Stone Age town of Boulder (pop. ii,500). Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures are portrayed as co-existing with cavemen, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths.

Animation historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that the series draws its humor in part from artistic uses of anachronisms. The main ane is the placing of a "modern", 20th-century society in prehistory. This club takes inspiration from the suburban sprawl adult in the first two decades of the postwar flow. This society has modern home appliances, but they piece of work past employing animals.^[8] They have automobiles, but they inappreciably resemble the cars of the 20th century. These cars are large wooden and rock structures and burn no fuel. They are powered by people who run while inside them. This delineation is inconsistent, however. On some occasions, the cars are known to have engines (with appropriate sound effects), requiring ignition keys and gasoline. Fred might pull into a gas station and say, "Fill 'er upwards with Ethel", which is pumped through the trunk of a woolly mammoth marked "ETHEL". Whether the car runs past human foot or by gas varies according to the needs of the story. Finally, the stone houses of this guild are cookie-cutter homes positioned into neighborhoods typical of mid-20th-century American suburbs.^[nine]

Characters [edit]

The Flintstones [edit]

• Fred Flint – The main graphic symbol of the series and the hubby and father in the championship family, Fred is an accident-prone operator of a bronto-crane (a Brontosaurus used as an excavating machine) at the Slate Rock and Gravel Company who is overweight and likes to eat copious amounts of marginally healthy or unhealthy nutrient. He is quick to anger (usually over trivial matters) but is a very loving husband and father. He is as well good at bowling and is a member of the fictional "Loyal Guild of Water Buffaloes" Order No. 26 (originally called the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs in Flavour 1), a men-but club paralleling existent-life fraternities such as the Loyal Lodge of Moose. His famous catchphrase is "Yabba Dabba Doo!".
• Wilma Flintstone – Fred's wife and Pebbles'due south mother, she is more intelligent and level-headed than her husband, though she oftentimes has a habit of spending money (with Betty's and her catchphrase being "Da-da-da duh da-da CHARGE it!!"). She often is a foil to Fred's poor behavior, just is a very loyal wife to him. She is also a very jealous woman, who is easily angered if even a hint exists of another adult female (specially a pretty one) having anything to do with Fred.
• Pebbles Flintstone – The Flintstones' infant girl, is built-in near the terminate of the third season. She unremarkably wears a os in her hair holding upwards her ponytail, and a light green and blackness colored shirt with turquoise and black diaper. She (much like her family) does not wear shoes or pants.
• Dino (pronounced "dee-no") – The Flintstones' pet dinosaur, acts like a dog. A running gag in the series involves Fred coming domicile from work and Dino getting excited and knocking him down and licking his face repeatedly.
• Infant Puss – The Flintstones' pet saber-toothed cat is rarely seen in the actual series, but is always seen throwing Fred out of the firm during the end credits, causing Fred to pound repeatedly on the front door and yell "Wilma!", waking the whole neighborhood in the process.

Relatives of the Flintstones [edit]

• Pearl Slaghoople – Wilma'south hard-to-please mother, Fred's mother-in-law, and Pebbles's grandmother, she is constantly disapproving of Fred and his behavior. She did not have a last name in her first appearances in flavor two and three. They briefly reconciled in the episode "Mother-in-law'due south Visit", which originally aired on February one, 1963, until she establish out that she became Fred's "nice fat dove" when he suckered her out of coin that he needed to buy a babe crib for Pebbles. They are reconciled again at the stop of the 1993 Television receiver movie I Yabba Dabba Practice. Their disastrous starting time meeting was recounted in flashback in the episode "Bachelor Shock", which originally aired on March 5, 1964. In the episode, her concluding proper name was identified equally "Mrs. Slaghoople."
• Uncle Tex Hardrock – Fred'south maternal uncle and a member of the Texarock Rangers, he constantly holds Fred'due south future inheritance over his head.

The Rubbles [edit]

• Barney Rubble – The secondary main graphic symbol and Fred's best friend and side by side-door neighbor, he is about six inches shorter and also overweight; his occupation is, throughout nigh of the serial, unknown, though subsequently episodes draw him working in the same quarry as Fred. He shares many of Fred's interests, such as bowling and golf, and is also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes. Though Fred and Barney oft go into feuds with one another (usually due to Fred's short temper), their deep fraternal bond remains very evident.
• Betty Rubble – Barney's wife and Wilma'southward best friend, like Wilma she has a habit of spending money and also is highly jealous of other pretty women being around her hubby.
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble – The Rubbles' abnormally strong adopted son, they adopt him during the quaternary season; his proper noun comes from the only phrase he ever speaks as a infant: "Bamm, Bamm!"
• Hoppy – The Rubbles' pet hopparoo (a kangaroo/dinosaur combination creature), they purchase him at the beginning of the fifth season. When he first arrives, Dino and Fred mistake him for a giant mouse and are frightened of him, merely they eventually get best friends subsequently Hoppy gets help when they are in an accident. He babysits the kids equally he takes them around in his pouch, which as well serves equally a shopping cart for Betty.

Other characters [edit]

Over 100 other characters appeared throughout the program.^[ten] Below are those who have made more than than 1 appearance:

• Mr. George Slate – Fred and Barney's hot-tempered boss at the gravel pit, he fires Fred on several occasions throughout the series, only to give him his chore back by the end of the episode. A running gag is Slate'southward ever-changing first proper name, which was revealed to be Sylvester, Seymour, Nate, Oscar, and George as the series progressed. In the episode "The Long, Long, Long Weekend", which originally aired on January 21, 1966, he is shown as existence the founder of "Slate Stone and Gravel Visitor"; still in business two million years later, the visitor is operated by his descendant, "George Slate the Eighty-thousandth". In the early Flintstones episodes, the more than recognized "Mr. Slate" graphic symbol was known equally "Mr. Rockhead" and was a supervisor of Fred. Mr. Slate was a short character. During the course of the cartoon, the 2 men switched identities and the shorter grapheme faded away.
• Arnold – The Flintstones' paperboy, Fred absolutely despises him, mainly because Arnold is oft able to best and outsmart Fred at a number of tasks and also because he oftentimes ("unintentionally") throws the paper in Fred's confront. Arnold'due south parents are mentioned in the series, but his female parent Doris, a friend of Wilma and Betty (every bit evidenced in the episode "The Little Stranger", which originally aired on Nov 2, 1962), is referenced in proper name merely, never really appearing onscreen. Arnold's male parent, however, did appear in the episode "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", which originally aired on April 27, 1962, though his name is never mentioned.
• Joe Rockhead – A mutual friend of Fred and Barney, Fred usually mentions doing something (such equally going to a baseball game) with Joe when Fred and Barney take some kind of falling out. Joe was, at some betoken, the fire chief of the Boulder Volunteer Burn Section equally shown on the episode "Arthur Quarry's Trip the light fantastic toe Class", which originally aired on January 13, 1961. His appearance varied throughout the run of the serial, just his appearance in the episode "The Picnic", which originally aired on December 15, 1961, was the one most ordinarily used.
• The Keen Gazoo – An alien exiled to Earth, he helps Fred and Barney, often against their will. The Dandy Gazoo is really from the time to come, and is quite dismayed when he realizes he has been sent back to "the Rock Historic period". He can be seen simply by Fred, Barney, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, other small children, Dino, and Hoppy. Gazoo appeared in the final season only.
• Sam Slagheap – The Chiliad Poobah of the H2o Buffalo Club.
• The Gruesomes – A creepy but friendly family unit, they move in next door to the Flintstones in later seasons.
  • Weirdly Gruesome – The patriarch of the Gruesome family unit who works every bit a reality-show host.
  • Creepella Gruesome – Weirdly's tall wife.
  • Goblin "Gobby" Gruesome – Weirdly and Creepella'southward son.
  • Uncle Ghastly – The towering uncle of Gobby from Creepella'southward side of the family, he is mostly shown every bit a large furry hand coming out of a well or a wall. His shadow was also seen in their debut episode.
  • Occy – The Gruesome family's pet octopus.
  • Schneider – Gobby'south pet giant spider.
• The Hatrocks – A family of hillbillies. They originally feuded with the Flintstones' Arkanstone branch in the fashion of the Hatfield–McCoy feud. Fred and Barney reignite a feud with them in "The Bedrock Hillbillies" when Fred inherits San Cemente from the late Zeke Flint where the dispute was over who made the portrait of Fred'south great-great-uncle Zeke. The Hatrocks afterward returned in "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes", where they bunk with the Flintstones during their trip to Bedrock World's Off-white and their antics start to annoy them. It is also revealed that the Hatrocks dislike problems music. The Flintstones, the Rubbles, and the Gruesomes were able to bulldoze them away past performing the Four Insects song "She Said Yeah Yeah Yeah". When they establish that the Bedrock Globe's Fair was having the Four Insects performing, the Hatrocks fled dorsum to Arkanstone.
  • Jethro Hatrock – The patriarch of the Hatrock Family unit. He had brown hair in "The Hatrocks and the Flintstones" and taupe-gray pilus in "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes".
  • Gravella Hatrock – Jethro's wife.
  • Zack Hatrock – Jethro and Gravella's oldest son.
  • Slab Hatrock – The youngest son of Jethro and Gravella.
  • Granny Hatrock – The mother of Jethro and grandmother of Zack and Slab.
  • Benji Hatrock – Jethro's son-in-law.
  • Percy – The Hatrock's pet dogasaurus.

Voice cast [edit]

• Alan Reed – Fred Flintstone, Uncle Ghastly
• Jean Vander Pyl – Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles Flint
• Mel Blanc – Barney Rubble, Dino, Zack Hatrock
• Daws Butler – Barney Rubble (season 2; episodes 1, ii, five, half-dozen, and 9 only)
• Bea Benaderet – Betty Rubble (seasons one–four), Gravella Hatrock
• Gerry Johnson – Betty Rubble (seasons five–half dozen), Granny Hatrock (in "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes")
• Don Messick – Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Hoppy, Arnold, Gobby Gruesome
• John Stephenson – Mr. Slate, Joe Rockhead, Sam Slagheap
• Verna Felton – Wilma's mother* (seasons two and iii and unnamed)
• Janet Waldo – Pearl Slaghoople (Wilma's female parent, *given a last proper noun late in season four)
• Harvey Korman – The Great Gazoo

Guest stars [edit]

• Hoagy Carmichael - Himself (in "The Hitting Songwriters")
• Tony Curtis - Stony Curtis (in "The Render of Stony Curtis")
• Ann-Margret - Ann-Margrock (in "Ann-Margrock Presents")
• Elizabeth Montgomery - Samantha (in "Samantha")
• Jimmy O'Neill - Himself (in "Shinrock-A-Go-Go")
• Willard Waterman (in "The Long Long Weekend")
• Dick York - Darrin (in "Samantha")

Boosted vocalization cast [edit]

• Henry Corden
• Walker Edmiston
• June Foray – Granny Hatrock (in "The Bedrock Hillbillies")
• Sandra Gould
• Naomi Lewis – Creepella Gruesome
• Howard McNear - Doctor, appeared in three episodes
• Allan Melvin
• Howard Morris – Weirdly Gruesome, Schneider, Jethro Hatrock, Slab Hatrock, Percy
• Hal Smith
• Ginny Tyler
• Paula Winslowe
• Doug Young – Benji Hatrock

Voice-actor details [edit]

Fred Flintstone physically resembles both the first voice thespian who played him, Alan Reed, and Jackie Gleason, whose serial, The Honeymooners, inspired The Flintstones.^[11] The vocalization of Barney Rubble was provided by voice actor Mel Blanc, except for five episodes during the second season (the first, second, fifth, 6th, and ninth); Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler filled in and provided the voice of Barney while Blanc was incapacitated by a near-fatal automobile accident.^{[12] [xiii]} Blanc was able to return to the serial much sooner than expected, past virtue of a temporary recording studio for the unabridged cast set up at Blanc's bedside.^[14] Blanc's portrayal of Barney inverse considerably after the blow. In the earliest episodes, Blanc had used a much higher pitch and portrayed Barney as a smart-aleck. Later on his recovery from the accident, Blanc used a deeper voice, quite similar to the voice of the Abominable Snowman he performed in other cartoons, and was shown as somewhat dopier than earlier.

Reed based Fred's vocalism upon Gleason's Honeymooners interpretation of Ralph Kramden, while Blanc, afterwards a flavor of using a nasal, high-pitched vocalization for Barney, eventually adopted a style of voice similar to that used by Art Carney in his portrayal of Ed Norton. The first time the Art Carney-like voice was used was for a few seconds in "The Prowler" (the third episode produced).

In a 1986 Playboy interview, Gleason said Alan Reed had done vox-overs for Gleason in his early movies and that he had considered suing Hanna-Barbera for copying The Honeymooners, just decided to allow it pass.^[15] According to Henry Corden, a voice actor and a friend of Gleason's, "Jackie's lawyers told him he could probably have The Flintstones pulled right off the air. But they likewise told him, 'Do you lot want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air? The guy who took away a show so many kids beloved and so many parents love, likewise?'"^[16]

Henry Corden'southward phonation became Fred'due south afterward Reed'due south death in 1977, starting with A Flint Christmas.^[17] Corden had previously provided Fred'southward singing vocalization in The Man Called Flintstone ^[eighteen] and afterwards The Flintstones children'due south records. Since 2000, Jeff Bergman, James Arnold Taylor, and Scott Innes (performing both Fred and Barney for Toshiba commercials) accept performed the vocalisation of Fred. Since Mel Blanc's death in 1989, Barney has been voiced by Jeff Bergman, Frank Welker, and Kevin Michael Richardson. Various boosted character voices were created by Hal Smith, Allan Melvin, Janet Waldo, Daws Butler, and Howard Morris, amid others.

Episodes [edit]

Music [edit]

The opening- and closing-credits theme during the kickoff two seasons was called "Rise and Shine", a lively instrumental underscore accompanying Fred on his drive home from piece of work. The tune resembled "The Bugs Bunny Overture (This Is It!)", the theme song of The Bugs Bunny Show, also airing on ABC at the time, and may have been the reason the theme was changed in the 3rd season.^[19] Starting in flavor three, episode three ("Barney the Invisible"), the opening- and endmost-credits theme was the familiar vocal "Meet the Flintstones". This version was recorded with a 22-slice big band conducted by composer Hoyt Curtin and performed by the Randy Van Horne Singers. The melody is derived from role of the 'B' department of Beethoven's Pianoforte Sonata No. 17 Movement two, composed in 1801/02.^[20] The "Run across the Flintstones" opening was later added to the offset two seasons for syndication. The musical underscores were credited to Hoyt Curtin for the show's outset 5 seasons; Ted Nichols took over in 1965 for the concluding season.^[19] Many early episodes used the underscores composed for Top True cat and The Jetsons. Episodes of the last two seasons used the underscore of Jonny Quest for the more adventurous stories.

History and product [edit]

The idea of The Flintstones started after Hanna-Barbera produced The Blueberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw Show. Although these programs were successful, they did not have the same wide audition appeal every bit their previous theatrical cartoon series Tom and Jerry, which entertained both children and the adults who accompanied them. Since children did not demand their parents' supervision to lookout man television, though, Hanna-Barbera's output became labeled "kids only". Barbera and Hanna wanted to recapture the developed audition with an animated situation one-act.^[21]

Barbera and Hanna considered making the 2 families hillbillies (a hillbilly theme was later incorporated into ii Flintstones episodes, "The Boulder Hillbillies" and "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes"), ancient Romans (Hanna-Barbera eventually created The Roman Holidays), pilgrims, or American Indians before deciding on a Stone Age setting. According to Barbera, they settled on that because "yous could take anything that was current, and convert it to stone-age".^[22] Under the working championship The Flagstones, a treatment was written by Harry Winkler. The family originally consisted of Fred, Wilma, and their son, Fred, Jr. A brief sit-in picture was likewise created to sell the idea of a "modern stone-age family unit" to sponsors and the network.^{[23] : iii} It was a difficult sell, and required eight weeks of daily presentations to networks and ad agencies.^[seven] June Foray and Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler voiced the characters for the sit-in film, but Foray was dropped without warning before production began; Foray was upset well-nigh the rejection and refused to work with Hanna-Barbera for many years afterward, despite Barbera's efforts to offer her other work.^[24] Animator Kenneth Muse, who worked on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, also worked on the early seasons of The Flintstones.

William Hanna admitted that "At that time, The Honeymooners was the most popular show on the air, and for my beak, the funniest. The characters, I idea, were terrific. Now, that influenced greatly what nosotros did with The Flintstones ... The Honeymooners was there, and nosotros used that as a kind of footing for the concept."^{[ citation needed ]} Joseph Barbera disavowed these claims in a dissever interview, though, stating, "I don't think mentioning The Honeymooners when I sold the prove, only if people want to compare The Flintstones to The Honeymooners, then dandy. It'south a total compliment. The Honeymooners was one of the greatest shows ever written."^[25] Jackie Gleason, creator of The Honeymooners, considered suing Hanna-Barbera Productions, just decided that he did not want to be known as "the guy who yanked Fred Flint off the air".^{[26] [27]} Another influence was noted during Hanna-Barbera's tenure at MGM, where they were in a friendly competition with boyfriend cartoon director Tex Avery. In 1955, Avery directed a cartoon entitled The Offset Bad Man (narrated by cowboy legend Tex Ritter). The cartoon concerned the rowdy antics of a bank robber in stone-historic period Dallas. Many of the sight gags from that series antedated like situations used past Hanna-Barbera in the Flintstones serial by many years. Many students of American blitheness point to this cartoon as a progenitive seed of the Flintstones.

The concept was also antedated past the "Stone Age Cartoons" serial of 12 animated cartoons released from January to September 1940 past Fleischer Studios. These cartoons testify stone-age people doing modern things with archaic ways. Ane example is "Granite Hotel" including characters such as a newsboy, phone operator, hotel clerk, and a spoof of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.

Barbera explained that selling the show to a network and sponsors was not an easy task.

Hither we were with a brand new thing that had never been done before, an animated prime-time television testify. Then we developed two storyboards; one was they had a helicopter of some kind and they went to the opera or any, and the other was Fred Flint and Barney Rubble fighting over a swimming puddle. So I go back to New York with a portfolio and ii one-half-hour boards. And no-1 would fifty-fifty believe that y'all'd cartel to advise a affair similar that, I mean they looked at you and they'd remember yous're crazy. But slowly the give-and-take got out, and I used the presentation which took nigh an hour and a half. I would go to the other 2 boards and tell them what they did, and practise all the voices and the sounds and and then-on, and I'd stagger dorsum to the hotel and I'd collapse. The phone would band like crazy, like ane fourth dimension I did Bristol-Myers, the whole company was there. When I got through I'd go dorsum to the hotel the phone would ring and say "the president wasn't at that meeting, could you come back and do information technology for him." And then I had many of those, i time I had two agencies, they'd fill the room I mean God nigh xl people, and I did this whole prove. I got to know where the laughs were, and where to hit information technology, nothing; dead, expressionless, dead. So one of the people at Screen Gems said "This is the worst, those guys...." he was so angry at them. What information technology was, was that there were two agencies in that location, and neither i was going to permit the other one know they were enjoying it. Just I pitched it for eight directly weeks and nobody bought information technology. And so after sitting in New York just wearing out, you know really wearing out. Pitch, pitch, pitch, sometimes five a solar day. So finally on the very last day I pitched information technology to ABC, which was a young daring network willing to endeavor new things, and bought the show in 15 minutes. Thank goodness, because this was the very last day and if they hadn't bought it, I would have taken everything down, put information technology in the archives and never pitched information technology once again. Sometimes I wake upwards in a common cold-sweat thinking this is how close you go to disaster.^[22]

When the series went into product, the working title The Flagstones was changed, maybe to avoid confusion with the Flagstons, characters in the comic strip Hello and Lois. After spending a brief period in development as The Gladstones (GLadstone being a Los Angeles telephone exchange at the time),^[28] Hanna-Barbera settled upon The Flintstones, and the thought of the Flintstones having a child from the start was discarded, with Fred and Wilma starting out as a childless couple. However, some early Flintstones trade, such as a 1961 Little Golden Book, included "Fred Jr".^[29]

Despite the animation and fantasy setting, the series was initially aimed at adult audiences, which was reflected in the one-act writing, that as noted, resembled the average primetime sitcoms of the era, with the usual family unit problems resolved with a laugh at the cease of each episode, besides every bit the inclusion of a laugh track. Hanna and Barbera hired many writers from the globe of alive-action, including two of Jackie Gleason's writers, Herbert Finn and Sydney Zelinka, every bit well as relative newcomer Joanna Lee, while still using traditional animation story men such as Warren Foster and Michael Maltese.

The Flintstones premiered on September xxx, 1960, at 8:30 pm Eastern time, and speedily became a striking. Information technology was the start American blithe 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 every bit sleeping in separate beds. For comparison, the start live-activeness depiction of this in American TV history was in television's outset-always sitcom: 1947's Mary Kay and Johnny. ^[30]

Fred and Wilma advertisement Winston cigarettes during the closing credits

The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black-and-white television commercials for Winston^[31] (dictated past the custom, at that fourth dimension, that the star(s) of a TV serial oft "pitched" their sponsor's production in an "integrated commercial" at the end of the episode).^[32]

During the third flavor, Hanna and Barbera decided that Fred and Wilma should have a infant. Originally, Hanna and Barbera intended for the Flintstone family to have a boy, but the head of the marketing section convinced them to change it to a girl since "daughter dolls sell a lot better than boy dolls".^[21] Although most Flintstones episodes were stand-lone storylines, Hanna-Barbera created a story arc surrounding the birth of Pebbles. Beginning with the episode "The Surprise", aired midway through the third season (Jan 25, 1963), in which Wilma reveals her pregnancy to Fred, the arc continued through the fourth dimension leading upwardly to Pebbles's birth in the episode "Clothes Rehearsal" (February 22, 1963), and then continued with several episodes showing Fred and Wilma adjusting to the globe of parenthood. Effectually this time, Winston pulled out their sponsorship and Welch's (grape juice and grape jellies) became the primary sponsor, as the show'south audition began to shift younger. The integrated commercials for Welch's products feature Pebbles request for grape juice in her toddler dialect, and Fred explaining to Pebbles Welch'due south unique process for making the jelly, compared to the contest. Welch'south also produced a line of grape jelly packaged in jars that were reusable equally drinking spectacles, with painted scenes featuring the Flintstones and characters from the show. In Commonwealth of australia, the Nine Network ran a "Proper noun the Flintstones' baby" competition during the 'pregnancy' episodes—few Australian viewers were expected to have a U.S. connexion giving them data about past Flint episodes. An American won the contest and received an all-expenses-paid trip to tour Hanna-Barbera Studios. Another arc occurred in the fourth season, in which the Rubbles, depressed over existence unable to have children of their own (making The Flintstones the get-go animated series in history to address the issue of infertility, though subtly), adopt Bamm-Bamm. The 100th episode made (but the 90th to air), "Petty Bamm-Bamm Rubble" (October 3, 1963), established how Bamm-Bamm was adopted. Nine episodes were produced before it, only aired later on, which explains why Bamm-Bamm was not seen again until episode 101, "Daddies Anonymous" (Bamm-Bamm was in a teaser on episode 98, "Kleptomaniac Pebbles"). Another story arc, occurring in the last season, centered on Fred and Barney'southward dealings with the Cracking Gazoo (voiced by Harvey Korman).

After Pebbles's birth, the tone and writing became more juvenile and ratings from the developed demographic began to decline. The last original episode was broadcast on April 1, 1966.^[33]

The first 3 seasons of The Flintstones aired Friday nights at 8:xxx Eastern time on ABC, with the kickoff two seasons in black-and-white. Beginning with the 3rd season in 1962, ABC televised the Flintstones in color, one of the first programs in color on that network.^[34] Flavor four and office of flavor 5 aired Thursdays at vii:30. The remainder of the series aired Fridays at 7:thirty.

In the U.South., as well being part of NBC Sat mornings from 1966 to 1970, the syndicated reruns of the series were offered to local stations until 1997, when Due east/I regulations and changing tastes in the industry led to the show's motion to cablevision television. From the fourth dimension of Ted Turner's buy of Hanna-Barbera in 1991, TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network aired the program. On April 1, 2000, the plan moved to Boomerang, where it aired until March six, 2022 (in its last years on the aqueduct, information technology had been relegated to a graveyard slot) and returned to the channel on July 30, 2018. Online, the serial was made available on the In2TV service first in 2006, then the online version of Kids' WB until that service was discontinued in 2015. As of 2017, total episodes are only available in the U.South. on Boomerang's subscription video-on-demand service, with select clips made bachelor on the official YouTube account tied to the revamped Kids' WB website. In 2019, MeTV caused rerun rights to the serial, returning the testify to broadcast boob tube for the first time in over 20 years.^[35] All seasons of this serial tin currently be streamed on HBO Max, a streaming service from AT&T's WarnerMedia and Tubi, a streaming service owned by Play a joke on Corporation.

Reception [edit]

The nighttime after The Flintstones premiered, Variety chosen it "a pen-and-ink disaster",^[36] and the series was among many that debuted in a "vast wasteland" of a 1960–61 boob tube season considered one of the worst in television set history up to that point.^[37] As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show'due south express animation and derivative plots.^[38] Animation historian Michael Barrier disliked the series, calling it a "dumb sitcom" and stated that "I tin readily understand why someone who equally a small kid enjoyed, say, The Flintstones might regard that show fondly today. I take a lot more trouble understanding why anyone would try to defend annihilation virtually it on artistic grounds."^[39]

Despite the mixed disquisitional reviews, The Flintstones has generally been considered a television classic and was rerun continuously for five decades later on its end. In 1961, The Flintstones became the kickoff animated series to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, but lost out to The Jack Benny Programme. In Jan 2009, IGN named The Flintstones equally the ninth-all-time in its "Top 100 Animated Telly Shows".^[40] The kickoff season of the series received an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on v reviews.^[41] Common Sense Media gave the serial a iii out of five stars, saying: "Even so a classic, but times have changed."^[42]

Nielsen ratings [edit]

Films and subsequent television series [edit]

Post-obit the bear witness'southward cancellation in 1966, a film based upon the series was created. The Human being Called Flintstone was a musical spy caper that parodied James Bond and other clandestine agents. The motion-picture show was released to theaters on Baronial 3, 1966, past Columbia Pictures.^[48] Information technology was released on DVD past Warner Home Video in Canada in March 2005 and in U.s.a. in December 2008.

The show was revived in the early 1970s with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm having grown into teenagers, and several dissimilar serial and made-for-Tv movies (broadcast mainly on Saturday mornings, with a few shown in primetime), including a series depicting Fred and Barney as constabulary officers, another depicting the characters equally children, and yet others featuring Fred and Barney encountering Curiosity Comics superhero The Affair and Al Capp'south comic strip character The Shmoo—accept appeared over the years. The original show also was adjusted into a live-action moving picture in 1994, and a prequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, which followed in 2000. Different its sis bear witness The Jetsons (the two shows appeared in a made-for-TV crossover movie in 1987), the revival programs were not widely syndicated or rerun alongside the original series.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Television serial [edit]

Original runs:

• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Evidence (1971–72) (one season)
• The Flint One-act 60 minutes (1972–73) (i flavor)
• The New Fred and Barney Show (1979) (1 season)
• The Flint Comedy Prove (1980–82) (two seasons)
• The Flintstone Kids (1986–88) (two seasons)
• What a Cartoon! – featuring Dino: Stay Out! (1995) and Dino: The Neat Egg-Scape (1997)
• Cave Kids (1996) (1 season)
• The Rubbles (2002–03) (shorts)
• Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs (2021)^{[49] [50]}
• Bedrock (TBA)^[51]

Compilation shows:

• The Flintstone Comedy Show (1973–74)
• Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977–78)
• Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979) (the only original content on this show was non related to the Flintstones)
• Fred and Barney Run into the Shmoo (1979–fourscore) (the only original content on this show was not related to the Flintstones)
• The Flint Funnies (1982–84)

Theatrical blithe feature [edit]

• The Man Called Flintstone (1966, released past Columbia Pictures)

Television set specials [edit]

• The Flintstones on Ice (1973)
• A Flintstone Christmas (1977)
• The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978)
• The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1979)
• The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980)
• The Flintstones: Fred's Concluding Fling (1980)
• The Flintstones: Current of air-Upward Wilma (1981)
• The Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981)
• The Flintstones' 25th Ceremony Commemoration (1986)
• The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special (1988)
• Hanna-Barbera'southward 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989)
• A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993)

Tv films [edit]

• The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
• I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993)
• Hollyrock-a-Adieu Baby (1993)
• A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
• The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)

Educational films [edit]

• The Flintstones: Library Skills Serial (Sound Filmstrip Kit, Xerox Films)
  • Barney Borrows a Volume (1976)
  • Barney Returns a Book (1976)
• Energy: A National Effect (1977)
• Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips
  • Bamm-Bamm: Bamm-Bamm Tackles a Term Paper (1978)
  • Bamm-Bamm: Data Please (1979)
  • The Flintstones: A Weighty Problem (1980)
  • The Flintstones: Burn Alert (1980)
  • The Flintstones: Fire Escape (1980)
  • The Flintstones' Driving Guide (1980)
• Learning Tree Filmstrip Set
  • Learning About Families with The Flintstones (1982)
  • Learning Almost Bones Needs with The Flintstones (1982)
• The Flintstones: Child Guidance Prove 'N Tell Picturesound Program (Record and Filmstrip)
  • Fred Learns to Share (1984)
  • Fred'due south Tall Tale (1984)

Live-action films [edit]

• The Flintstones (1994)
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

Direct-to-video films [edit]

• The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015)

Other media [edit]

Canceled Seth MacFarlane reboot [edit]

In 2011, it was appear Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane would be reviving The Flintstones for the Fob network, with the first episode airing in 2013.^[52] After Fox Amusement president Kevin Reilly read the pilot script and "liked it but didn't dear information technology", MacFarlane chose to abandon piece of work on the project rather than restarting it.^{[53] [54]}

Concept art of the serial was posted on background artist Andy Clark's website.^[55]

Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs [edit]

Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs is an American animated spider web television series spin-off of The Flintstones that premiered in 2020, the first to characteristic them since they appeared in the 2002 series The Rubbles, and produced by Warner Bros. Blitheness. Information technology was produced by Mark Marek and Marly Halpern-Graser.

Like Cave Kids, the show focuses on the lives of best friends Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, who are joined by Dino for many adventures in the Stone Historic period. The evidence was scheduled to be released as a part of the Boomerang IPTV subscription service.^[56] On August xix, 2021, it was announced the serial would instead be released on HBO Max on September thirty, 2021.^[57] The series was set to first air on Teletoon as a regular television series in Canada in September 2019, but ended up ambulation in September 2020.^{[58] [59]} The show started ambulation on February 3, 2020, on Boomerang UK.^{[60] [61]}

Upcoming animated film [edit]

In 2014, it was announced that Warner Bros. was developing an animated film with Chris Henchy, Will Ferrell, and Adam McKay, to write the script for the project. Ferrell and McKay would as well be executive producers.^[62] In 2018, it was confirmed that the projection is withal in development and produced by Warner Blitheness Group, but if the crew members would still exist involved is unknown.^[63]

Boulder [edit]

In 2019, information technology was reported that a new Flintstones reboot series, directed to an adult audition, is in development by Elizabeth Banks and her product company Brownstone Productions.^[64] In 2021, the series was now co-produced past Fox Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation along with Brownstone and received the title Bedrock. The new series takes place two decades after the original series with Fred Flint on the verge of retirement and a twenty-something Pebbles (voiced by Banks) trying to find her way in life equally the Stone Age comes to an end and the Bronze Age arrives.^[65]

Theme parks [edit]

Two sister Flintstones-themed entertainment parks exist in the Usa: Bedrock City in Custer, Southward Dakota. Information technology closed in 2022 when the new owner Mike Tennyson and Warner Brother could come to an agreement over changes. It was too expensive for the repairs and changes that Warner Brother wanted. So Tennyson closed the park. The unabridged site was bulldozed in April 2019. Another one near Williams, Arizona, is withal open for the summer of 2019, simply slated to shut by 2020. It price $v per person to make it. Both have been in operation for decades. ^[66]

Another existed until the 1990s at Carowinds in Charlotte, Northward Carolina. In Canada, Flint Park in Kelowna, British Columbia, opened in 1968 and airtight in 1998; it was notable for the "Forty Human foot Fred" billboard of Fred Flintstone which was a well-known Kelowna landmark.^{[67] [68]} Some other Flintstones park was located in Bridal Falls, British Columbia, which closed in 1990.^[69] Calaway Park outside Calgary, Alberta, also opened with a Flintstones theme and many of the buildings today have a caveman-similar design, though the park no longer licenses the characters. The Australia'south Wonderland and Canada's Wonderland theme parks, both featured Flintstones characters in their Hanna-Barbera-themed children'southward sections from 1985 until the mid-1990s. Kings Island (well-nigh Cincinnati) and Kings Dominion (nearly Richmond, Virginia) had a Hanna-Barbera land, in which many Hanna-Barbera characters were featured, including the Flintstones, in the early 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Bedrock is one of the themed lands in the indoor Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi park in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, mainly home to the Flintstones Bedrock River Adventure flume ride.

Live theater [edit]

A stage production opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1994 (the yr the live-action film was released), developed by Universal and Hanna-Barbera Productions, at the Panasonic Theater, replacing the Star Trek prove. The story consists of Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty heading for "Hollyrock". The show ran until January 2, 1997.

In popular culture [edit]

Miles Laboratories (now part of Bayer Corporation) and their One-A-Twenty-four hour period vitamin brand was the alternate sponsor of the original Flintstones series during its kickoff ii seasons, and in the late 1960s, Miles introduced Flintstones Chewable Vitamins, fruit-flavored multivitamin tablets for children in the shape of the Flintstones characters, which are still currently being sold.^[70]

The Simpsons referenced The Flintstones in several episodes. In the episode "Homer's Night Out", Homer'southward local convenience store clerk, Apu, remarks "You await familiar, sir. Are y'all on the television or something?", to which Homer replies "Deplorable, buddy, yous've got me dislocated with Fred Flintstone."^[71] During the couch gag of the opening credits of the episode "Kamp Krusty", the Simpson family arrive home to find the Flint family already sitting on their couch.^[72] The same burrow gag was reused in syndicated episodes of "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Evidence", when The Simpsons overtook The Flintstones as the longest-running animated serial.^[73] In "Lady Bouvier'south Lover", Homer's boss, Mr. Burns, appears at the family unit's business firm and says "Why, it's Fred Flintstone (referring to Homer) and his lovely wife, Wilma! (Marge) Oh, and this must be little Pebbles! (Maggie) Mind if I come up in? I brought chocolates." Homer responds by saying "Yabba-dabba-doo!"^[74] The opening of "Marge vs. the Monorail" depicts Homer leaving work in a similar way to Fred Flintstone in the opening of The Flintstones, during which he sings his own version of the latter's opening theme only to slam into a anecdote tree.

On September 30, 2010, Google temporarily replaced the logo on its search page with a custom graphic celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Flintstones ' first Boob tube broadcast.^[75]

See likewise [edit]

• List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions
• List of Hanna-Barbera characters
• Hanna-Barbera'due south All-Star Comedy Ice Revue, a 1978 special in which Hanna-Barbera characters honor Fred in an all-star celebrity roast for his altogether
• "Meet The Flintstones", a version of the testify's theme song that became a hit unmarried for The B-52'south
• The First Bad Homo, a 1955 animated curt flick by Tex Avery that partially influenced The Flintstones
• Alley Oop, a comic strip nearly a prehistoric family unit with commentary on American suburban life
• The Cavern Clan, a Brazilian comic strip about prehistoric life in the Stone Age
• Prehistoric Peeps, a 1890 cartoon strip depicting cavemen with modern sensibilities living with dinosaurs

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• Lehman, Christopher P. (2007), "The Cartoons of 1961–1962", American Blithe Cartoons of the Vietnam Era: A Written report of Social Commentary in Films and Television Programs, 1961–1973 , McFarland & Company, ISBN978-0786451425

Further reading [edit]

• "The Flintstones": The Official Guide to the Drawing Series, past Jerry Beck, Running Printing, 2011.

External links [edit]

• The Flintstones at IMDb
• The Flintstones at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Flintstones – Cartoon Network Department of Cartoons (Archive)
• Museum of Broadcast Communications: The Flintstones

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