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    Comedy Kids TV TV Shows - 1960s 3 Mins Read

    Flintstones, The

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    Fred and Wilma Flintstone lived on Cobblestone Lane in a prehistoric Stone Age town called Bedrock, next door to their best friends, Barney and Betty Rubble.

    Fred and Barn worked for Mr Slate at Rock Head & Quarry Cave Construction Company and “Stone Age” jokes abounded (for example, Wilma played a ‘Stoneway’ piano). Even celebrities weren’t above this treatment. Tony Curtis, for instance, twice voiced his prehistoric alter ego as (you guessed it) Stony Curtis.

    flintstones71Both the Flintstones and the Rubbles ultimately had children. Daughter Pebbles in the case of the Flintstones, and (adopted) son Bamm-Bamm to the Rubbles.

    The Flintstones (the family were originally to be called the Flagstones) was the first animated series made as a weekly half-hour comedy for Prime Time TV.

    Reviews of the opening episodes were largely critical (the New York Times dubbed it ‘an inked disaster’) but the show was awarded a Golden Globe and, by season two, had become an essential fixture in the American TV watcher’s schedule.

    Hanna-Barbera deliberately parodied popular live-action sitcoms – most specifically Jackie Gleason’s The Honeymooners. Accordingly, the series also found an adult audience who enjoyed it for its satire of suburban life.

    Guests on the show included some big stars who voiced caricatures of themselves, such as two visits by Tony Curtis (as “Stony Curtis”) and Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York as Samantha and Darrin from Bewitched.

    Among the most notable storylines was the appearance of The Great Gazoo (pictured below right), a being from the planet Zetox who had been exiled for inventing a weapon that could destroy the whole universe.

    Unfortunately, Gazoo could only be seen by Fred and Barney (and animals and kids).

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    Although the series only ran for six seasons, it has been aired almost continuously ever since.

    There have been a number of spin-off series designed for children – including Pebbles and Bamm Bamm (1971 – 1972 and 1975 – 1976), The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972 – 1974) and The Flintstone Kids (1986 – 1990). There have also been many made-for-TV specials, revivals and movies (most recently with real human actors).

    Henry Corden, the voice of Fred Flintstone for more than two decades, died in May 2005, aged 85. Corden took over as the lovable loudmouth when original voice Alan Reed died in 1977. Reed had been doing Flintstone since the character debuted in 1960.  Corden died of emphysema at AMI Encino Hospital.

    After a near-fatal car accident on 24 January 1961, Mel Blanc did the voices of Barney Rubble, Dino and other assorted characters for 65 episodes while flat on his back with a microphone hanging over his bed.

    Like so many classic 60s TV shows, The Flintstones was revived as a live-action movie in 1995. Almost inevitably, sitcom star John Goodman (Roseanne) was cast as Fred.

    Flintstones, meet the Flintstones
    They’re the modern stone-age family
    From the town of Bedrock
    They’re a page right out of history
    Let’s ride with the family down the street
    Through the courtesy of Fred’s two feet
    When you’re with the Flintstones
    Have a yabba-dabba-doo time
    A dabba-doo time
    You’ll have a gay old time 

    Fred Flintstone 
    Alan Reed (1)
    Henry Corden (2)
    Wilma Flintstone 

    Jean Vander Pyl
    Barney Rubble 

    Mel Blanc (1)
    Daws Butler (2)
    Betty Rubble 

    Bea Benaderet (1)
    Gerry Johnson (2)
    Pebbles Flintstone 

    Jean Vander Pyl
    Bamm Bamm Rubble 

    Don Messick
    George Slate 

    John Stephenson
    The Great Gazoo 

    Harvey Korman

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