The Flintstones - The Complete First Season
by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
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Actor: Alan Reed, Bea Benaderet, Frank Nelson, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel BlancDirector: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Joseph Barbera
Writer: Arthur Phillips
Writer: Bill Idelson
Writer: George O'Hanlon
Writer: Herbert Finn
Writer: Jack Raymond
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 737 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-16
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
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Movie Review: Disturbing Creationist propoganda!
Summary: 1 Stars
As I child, I loved this show. Yet again, as a child, I swallowed everything the church fed me as well. But when I grew up, I decided to view this show again, and was shocked at the content.
This cartoon promotes the Christian science Creationism, which declares that the Earth is 6000 years old and humans lived with dinosaurs. And lo and behold, there is Dino, living with the cavemen. It makes me sick to think that once upon a time, all our children were watching this smut. And believe me, all the Creationist preachers probably watched this show daily in the 1960's.
If you want your children to believe this lie, go on ahead and purchase this. But I know my kids are never going to have a gay old time in Bedrock.
Summary of The Flintstones - The Complete First Season
The Flintstones was pitched to the network as an animated version of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners. Now the honeymoon never has to end with this 4-disc set of the 28 episodes of the entire (pre)historic first season, full of terrific extras and trivia that will make fans shout "Yabba dabba doo!"Meet The Flintstones in this prehistoric Hanna-Barbera production. Primetime's first animated series was also the longest running until The Simpsons came along. Not so coincidentally, the two shows aren't all that different--even if the former emerged in the sixties, the latter in the eighties. Fred (Alan Reed), patriarch of the cave-dwelling clan, may be marginally more intelligent than the similarly blue collar Homer, but most storylines still revolve around his more dunderheaded moves. Fortunately, wife Wilma (Jean Vander Pyl) and Barney (Mel Blanc) and Betty Rubble (Bea Benaderet), their neighbors, are usually able to set things right. That was also true for Ralph Cramden of The Honeymooners, a direct influence (Reed even sounds like Jackie Gleason). But Ralph didn't have a pet dinosaur and he did live in the Modern Age--if you can call the fifties "modern"--rather than the Stone Age.
This long-awaited DVD set includes all 28 episodes of the first season, including the lost Flagstones pilot. Notable segments include "Hot Lips Hannigan"--one of several riffs on beatnik culture--in which Fred, aka "The Velvet Smog," sings and Barney beats the traps and "The Creature From the Tar Pits," in which Fred fills in as Gary Granite's stunt double in a Bedrock-set horror flick.
The Flintstones's first season introduced two timeless couples from another time. Its success led to a theatrical release, two live-action features, and countless specials and spin-offs. New viewers may be surprised to find that Dino doesn't make his official entrance until episode 18 ("The Snorkasaurus Story"), that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm aren't in the first season at all, and that the famous theme won't hit the airwaves until the third (replacing instrumental "Rise and Shine"). Those quirky quotes, however, were in effect from the start: "Wiiilmaaaaaaa!," "Droll, very droll" and, especially, "Yabba-dabba-doo!!!" --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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