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Miles Laboratories (now part of Bayer Corporation) and their One-A-Day vitamin brand was the alternate sponsor of the original Flintstones series during its first two seasons, and in the late 1960s, Miles introduced Flintstones Chewable Vitamins, fruit-flavored multivitamin tablets for children in the shape of the Flintstones characters, which ...
The Flintstones Christmas in Bedrock (1964 & 1993: Christmas Flintstone, A Flintstone Family Christmas): Released September 24, 1996; The Flintstones: Love Letters on the Rocks (1961–64: "Love Letters on the Rocks", "Dino & Juliet"): Released January 14, 1997; I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993): Released January 14, 1997
"Kirsten Flagstone" perhaps references operatic soprano Dorothy Kirsten (the original name for The Flintstones was "The Flagstones"), but more likely references Kirsten Flagstad. The Flintstones is underappreciated for its often sophisticated jabs at pop culture as the first prime time animated sitcom, decades before The Simpsons and Family Guy.
Fred Flintstone is the main character of the animated sitcom The Flintstones, which aired during prime-time on ABC during the original series' run from 1960 to 1966. [16] Fred is the husband of Wilma Flintstone and father of Pebbles Flintstone and together the family live in their homely cave in the town of Bedrock.
Additionally, the original series shows that Bedrock has a subway system. In the original series of "The Flintstones," the street where the Flintstones and the Rubbles live has been called several names, such as "Cobblestone Lane," "Cobblestone Road," "Stone Cave Road," "Grease Pit Terrace," "Gravelpit Terrace," and "Rocky Way."
"Meet the Flintstones", also worded as "(Meet) The Flintstones", is the theme song of the American 1960s animated television series The Flintstones.Composed in 1961 by Hoyt Curtin, Joseph Barbera and William Hanna, it is one of the most popular and best known of all theme songs, with its catchy lyrics "Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, they're the modern Stone Age family".
Vander Pyl was the voice of Wilma Flintstone, her best-known character, in the original Flintstones series. She told an interviewer in 1995 that she received $250 per episode for making The Flintstones, and in 1966, when the series ended, she rushed to accept $15,000 in lieu of residual payments from syndication.
The creation of the Great Gazoo is attributed to writer Joanna Lee, who wrote more than 20 episodes of The Flintstones. [4] He was based on Bill Moore, a design teacher from CalArts. [5] The first draft of the episode that introduced the Great Gazoo was originally entitled "The Wizard of Ogg" and Gazoo's original name was "Professor Ogg".