"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - President Ronald Reagan.

Buy The Amazon Kindle Store Ebook Edition

Buy The Amazon Kindle Store Ebook Edition
Get the ebook edition here! (Click image.)

Thursday, September 30, 2010

"The Flintstones" Is Fifty



Wow! Fifty years?! It's hard to believe, but it's true!

Fifty years ago tonight, Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones TV series premiered on ABC on September 30, 1960 and "yabba-dabba-do!" became a fixture of pop-culture.

The animated cartoon series involving Fred and Wilma Flintstone with their next-door neighbors Betty and Barney Rubble was somewhat based on The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. Fred and Barney worked at a quarry in the town of Bedrock during "prehistoric" times. The show had sabre-tooth cats and dinosaurs. Fred and Wilma had a pet dinosaur named Dino.

If my memory serves, The Flintstones aired Friday nights around 9:00 PM on KABC-TV Channel 7 in Los Angeles. I remember it being Friday nights as it was my dad's bowling night, so that left my mom and me to fend for ourselves watching TV. I was six at the time.

The series ran as a first-run show until 1966. It is reportedly the first television series showing a married couple sleeping in the same bed.

Later, the Fred and Wilma had a daughter named Pebbles and Barney and Betty adopted a boy named Bam-Bam.

At one point, one of the sponsors of The Flintstones was Winston cigarettes. Commercials featuring Fred and Barney smoking Winstons were shown.

No comments:

Search This Blog