The Flintstones (1960)
The Flintstones (1960)
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This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Alan Reed
Fred Flintstone (voice)
Jean Vander Pyl
Wilma Flintstone (voice)
Bea Benaderet
Betty Rubble (voice)
Mel Blanc
Barney Rubble (voice)
Gerry Johnson
Betty Rubble (voice)
Joseph Barbera
Creator / Producer / Director / Writer
William Hanna
Creator / Producer / Director
Michael Maltese
Writer
Barry Blitzer
Writer
Alex Lovy
Producer
R.S. Allen
Writer
Doug Young
Cop
Warren Foster
Writer
Joanna Lee
Writer
Harvey Bullock
Writer
Tony Benedict
Writer
Arthur Phillips
Writer
Larry Markes
Writer
Rance Howard
Writer
Don Messick
Bamm-Bamm Rubble (voice) / Bamm-Bamm Rubble (voice) / Bank Teller (voice) / Arnold / Doctor (voice)
Harvey Korman
The Great Gazoo (voice)
Daws Butler
Barney Rubble (voice)
Herb Vigran
Cop (voice)
John Stephenson
Mr. Slate (voice) / Joe Rockhead / Andre / Barker / Man #1 (voice)
Verna Felton
Pearl Slaghoople (voice)
Bernard Fox
Hal Smith
Henry Corden
Frank Nelson
Howard McNear
Paul Frees
Dick Beals
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 30, 1960
StatusEnded
Seasons6
Episodes166
Running Time25m
Content RatingTV-G
Genres
Wiki.
The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows 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 first animated series with a prime-time slot on television.The show follows the lives of Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their pet dinosaur, Dino, and they later on have a baby girl named Pebbles. Barney and Betty Rubble are their neighbors and best friends, and later on adopt a super-strong baby boy named Bamm-Bamm and acquire a pet hopparoo (kangaroo) called Hoppy.
Producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who had earned seven Academy Awards for Tom and Jerry, and their staff faced a challenge in developing a thirty-minute animated program with one storyline that fit the parameters of family-based domestic situation comedies of the era. After considering several settings and selecting the Stone Age, one of several inspirations was The Honeymooners. It was inspired by The Bickersons and Laurel and Hardy, and Hanna praised it as one of the finest comedies on television. The show's animation required a balance of visual with verbal storytelling that the studio created and others imitated.The enduring popularity of The Flintstones mainly comes from its juxtaposition of modern, everyday concerns with the Stone Age setting. The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time, after The Simpsons.