CREATED BY THE TEAM OF BILL HANNA & JOSEPH BARBERA (THE TEAM WHO GAVE US TOM & JERRY), IT WAS BASED ON THE SHOW THE HONEYMOONERS WITH FRED BASED ON RALPH KRAMDEN & HIS FRIEND BARNEY BASED ON ED NORTON. THE SHOW RAN IN PRIME TIME FOR 5 YEARS & THEN MOVED TO THE AFTERNOONS FOR ANOTHER SEASON. ALAN REED PROVIDED THE VOICE FOR FRED FLINTSTONE & MEL BLANC VOICED HIS SOMEWHAT DIM-WITTED FRIEND BARNEY RUBBLE. THEY WERE MARRIED TO WILMA & BETTY RESPECTIVELY AND HAD CHILDREN NAMED PEBBLES & BAMM-BAMM. ALSO,THEY HAD PETS. DINO, A SNORKASAURUS (WHO SPOKE IN HIS FIRST APPEARANCE)& THE RUBBLES HAD HOPPY, A HOPASAURUS. FLINTSTONE PICTURES CLICK THUMBNAIL FOR LARGER PICTURE A COMPOSITE PICTURE I MADE FROM 2 OTHERS ALL NEW GRABS I MADE THE FLAGSTONES WERE A SHORT FILM PILOT FOR THE FLINTSTONES. IT BASICALLY WAS A SHORT SCENE FROM THE FIRST FLINTSTONES SHOW "THE POOL". SOME NOTABLE DIFFERENCES WERE THE VOICES. JUNE FORAY PROVIDED THE VOICE OF BETTY & DAWS BUTLER PROVIDED THE VOICES FOR BOTH FRED & BARNEY. ANOTHER DIFFERENCE WAS THE LOOK OF THE CHARACTERS. MOST NOTABLY, BETTY. BEFORE THE FLAGSTONES DEBUTED, THE VOICES WERE CHANGED & THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO THE FLINTSTONES. CLICK THUMBNAILS BELOW FOR RARE GLIMPSE OF THE FLAGSTONES.
THE FLINTSTONES WAS THE FIRST PRIME TIME CARTOON.
THEY LIVE IN THE TOWN OF BEDROCK. A "MODERN" STONE-AGE FAMILY.