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- The Flintstones, American animated television sitcom that aired on ABC from September 30, 1960, to September 2, 1966. The show is notable for being the first original animated series to air in prime time and for its appeal to adults as well as children.
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The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network adult animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997. [6] In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time, after The Simpsons. [7]
The Flintstones: Created by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna. With Jean Vander Pyl, Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet. The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
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The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock and follows the activities of the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles (who are also their best friends). (In some of the earlier episodes, it was also referred to as "Rockville"). In this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, woolly mammot...
The idea of The Flintstones started after Hanna-Barbera produced The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw. Although these programs were successful, they did not have the same wide audience appeal as their previous theatrical cartoon series Tom and Jerry, which entertained both children and the adults who accompanied them. However, since...
The first three seasons of The Flintstones aired Friday nights at 8:30 Eastern time on ABC, with the first two seasons in black-and-white. Beginning with the third season in 1962, ABC televised the Flintstonesin color, one of the first programs in color on that network. Season four and part of season five aired Thursdays at 7:30. The rest of the se...
The night after The Flintstones premiered, Variety magazine called it "a pen and ink disaster", and the series was among many that debuted in a "vast wasteland" of a 1960–61 television season considered one of the worst in television history up to that point. As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative...
Fred Flintstone – Alan ReedWilma Flintstone/Pebbles Flintstone – Jean Vander PylBarney Rubble – Mel Blanc; Daws Butler(season 2; episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9 only)Betty Rubble – Bea Benaderet (seasons 1–4); Gerry Johnson(seasons 5–6)- Garin Pirnia
- ORIGINALLY, THE FLINTSTONES WERE THE FLAGSTONES. Joe Barbera thought about calling the show The Gladstones, then decided on The Flagstones until he realized there was a comic strip with the same name.
- BARNEY AND FRED WERE DRAWN TO RESEMBLE CAVE PEOPLE. Ed Benedict was one of The Flintstones’s designers. He told Hogan’s Alley that he sketched the characters to look like “cave people wearing long beards, with scraggly, unkempt hair and in slightly distorted, hunched-over shapes.”
- ALAN REED INVENTED “YABBA DABBA DOO.” Flintstones source WebRockOnline says the origin of Fred’s iconic “Yabba dabba doo” catchphrase came from Alan Reed, who voiced Fred, and reportedly used the line during a recording session.
- THE FLINTSTONES DIDN’T COPY THE HONEYMOONERS. It’s true that Fred was based on Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners character Ralph Kramden, but Joe Barbera made him different.
The Flintstones was an American animated television sitcom that aired on ABC from September 30, 1960, to September 2, 1966. The show is notable for being the first original animated series to air in prime time and for its appeal to adults as well as children.
About. “Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, they’re a modern stone-age family.”. Thus opens the catchy theme of the primetime series that boldly went where no animated show had gone before, into the record books as the first adult-targeted cartoon and longest-running series of its genre.
The Flintstones is an American animated prehistoric sitcom television series created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. It was produced by their studio, Hanna-Barbera, for ABC in prime time. It ran from 1960 to 1966, airing 166 episodes that spanned six seasons.
