The Flintstones (TV series)

The Flintstones is an American animated television series, which is seen as one of the most successful animation series of all time. The series is created by the duo Hanna-Barbera and turned six seasons, from 1960 to 1966, on the American television network ABC. Most of the characters are created by Ed Benedict.

The television series was, as well as the Dutch When luck was quite common, based on the sitcom The Honeymooners. The series is, with The Simpsons, one of the few animated television series which were broadcast during primetime. In Netherlands, the series was broadcast by, among other things, the NTS, the KRO and RTL4 and VRTin Flanders by the.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The series is set in the stone age, in the fictional town of Bedrock. In this life extinct animals as mammoths, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, Saber-toothed tigers and dodo's together with cavemen. This one went beyond that dinosaurs and pterosaurs were extinct a long time ago when the man appeared on Earth.
 * 2 Episodes
 * 3 Characters
 * 4 Production
 * 5 Roles
 * Renewed version 6
 * 7 spin-offs
 * comic magazine 7.1
 * 7.2 Series
 * 7.3 television specials
 * 7.4 television films
 * 7.5 Cinema movies
 * 8 Prices
 * 9 external links

The special feature of the series and a fixed source of humor, is that all sorts of aspects that were normal in the America of the 1960s, but completely unknown in theprehistoric times (think of television, car, record player, a bowling alley, a suburb), in the fictional world of the Flintstones for, albeit in stone form. To make matters a prehistoric appearance, are materials like stone, wood and animal skins used. For example, a car is powered with the feet, and the newspaper consists of a stone tablet on which letters are carved. Often makes the technology also use of animals: a mammoth is by his trunk off the water, the beak of a bird is the needle of a record player, aBrontosaurus serves as bus or excavators and a pterodactyl as airplane.

The stone age setting serves in the series also arranged as a source for frequently makes jokes. For example, many of the character names based on block names.

At the heart of the series are the Flintstone family and their neighbors the Rubbles. The Flintstones live at 323 Cobblestone Lane in Bedrock. The stories typically contain typical situations from American sitcoms of the 1950s and 1960s. ==Episodes[ Edit] == ==Characters[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The main character in the series is Fred Flintstone. He eats a lot, cries out often, bone and arrogant, but has a heart of gold. His wife is Wilma Flintstone. They live together with their "dog" Dino and their ' cat ' Baby Puss (which only in the start and end leader is seeing) in addition to their best friends, Barney and Betty Rubble. Fred works as 'bronto crane operator (bronto-crane worker) in a quarry for Mr. Slate. In a later season got the Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm Bamm two couples children, Rubble. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Originally the series going to be called The Flagstones . There was a short pilot episode created under this title in the hope to be able to sell the series to a network and sponsors. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-BarberaAutoBio_1-0" len="199" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  when the series was bought by ABC, the title was changed to Flintstones, possibly to avoid confusion with the Flagstons; characters from the comic strip Hi and Lois. Another working title that temporarily was suggested for the series was The Gladstones.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-DreamTeam_2-0" len="194" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [2] the series caught on, and was the first American animated television series that ran more than two seasons.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FLINSE_3-0" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although most Flintstones episodes of the stand-alone stories, the series had a number of storylines that span multiple episodes ran. The best known of these is the series of episodes surrounding the birth of Pebbles.This storyline began with the episode "The Surprise", which aired in the middle of the third season, and ran until the episode "Dress Rehearsal". A second well-known story line revolved around the adoption of Bamm-Bamm Rubble by the family because the Rubbles could get no children themselves. The Flintstones was one of the first animated series that touched on the concept of infertility .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series was initially aimed at an adult audience. The first two seasons were sponsored by the cigarette brand Winston, whereby the characters from The Flintstones were used for commercials for this cigarette brand.

<p lang="en" len="298" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series utilized a laugh band to indicate to funny situations as normally by default in many live-action sitcoms. ==Division Of Roles<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Renewed version<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2011, it was announced that Seth MacFarlane will go make a new version of The Flintstones for FOX. He would also record the voice of Fred. However, the plans were scrapped. ==Spin-offs<span class="mw-editsection" len="348" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Comic Magazine<span class="mw-editsection" len="355" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Series<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Television specials<span class="mw-editsection" len="357" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Television films<span class="mw-editsection" len="354" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Cinema Movies<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Prices<span class="mw-editsection" len="347" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">"The Flintstones" was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor". This lost the series to "The Jack Benny Show".
 * Fred Flintstone- Alan Reed
 * Wilma Flintstone - Jean Vander Pyl
 * Pebbles Flintstone – Jean Vander Pyl (1963-1966)
 * Barney Rubble/Dino- Mel Blanc
 * Betty Rubble- Bea Benaderet (seasons 1-4/1960-1964)
 * Betty Rubble- Gerry Johnson (seasons 5-6/1964-1966)
 * Bamm-Bamm Rubble/Hoppy/Arnold- Don Messick (1963-1966)
 * Mrs. Jean Vander Pyl and Bea Benaderet Slate-
 * The Great Gazoo- Harvey Korman
 * Mr. Slate- John Stephenson
 * The Flintstones, appeared monthly in the sixties and seventies of the last century.
 * The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971-72)
 * The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972-73)
 * Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977-78)
 * The New Fred and Barney Show (1979)
 * Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979)
 * Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979-80)
 * The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980-82)
 * The Flintstone Funnies (1982-84)
 * The Flintstone Kids (1986-88)
 * Dino: World Premiere Toons
 * Cave Kids: Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm (2000)
 * The Flintstones (2013)
 * 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 Final Fling (1980)
 * The Flintstones: Wind-up Wilma (1981)
 * The Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981)
 * The Flintstones ' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986)
 * The Flintstone Kids ' "Just Say No" Special (1988)
 * A Military Dabba Doo Celebration: 50 years of Hanna-Barbera (1989)
 * A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993)
 * The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
 * (I) Military-Dabba Do! (1993)
 * Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993)
 * A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
 * The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
 * The Man Called Flintstone (1966, released by Columbia Pictures)
 * the Flintstones (1994, live-action)
 * The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000, live-action)

<p lang="en" len="291" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2006, "The Flintstones" was nominated for a TV Land Awards in the category "Greatest TV Dance Craze: The Twitch".