List of The Flintstones media

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This is a list of media and merchandise associated with The Flintstones.

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[edit] DVDs

Warner Home Video has released all 6 seasons of The Flintstones animated series on DVD in Region 1. Only the first 3 seasons have been released in Region 2, and it is unknown if or when the final 3 seasons will be brought to DVD. Also released by Warner Home Video is a feature-length film starring the Flintstones entitled The Man Called Flintstone. It is only available in Canada, as a US release was canceled due to Columbia Pictures claiming ownership of the film.

Animated Series - Seasons Sets

DVD Name Ep # Release Date Additional Information
Season 1 29 March 6, 2004
  • Two featurettes
  • Early TV promo spots
  • The original pilot episode "The Flagstones"
  • Openings are accurate but end credits are generic because original credits no longer exist.
Season 2 32 December 7, 2004
  • Commentary on "The Hit Songwriter", "The Beauty Contest", and "The Happy Household" by Jerry Eisenberg (Layout Artist), Earl Kress (Writer/ Animation Historian) and Scott Shaw (Cartoonist/ Hanna-Barbera Historian).
  • Carved in Stone: The Flintstones Phenomenon (RT 23:00 retrospective documentary)
  • Music Video: Songs of the Flintstones Album (the original TV voices - written by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera; starring Fred & Wilma Flintstone and Barney and Betty Rubble; music director - Hoyt Curtin TRT 20:00)
  • Production Sketches: How to Draw Fred Flintstone (RT 7:00 original archival piece)
  • Flintstone Art (RT 6:00 explore rare original pencil drawings)
  • TV Spot: And Now A Word from Our Sponsor (One-A-Day Vitamins [new spot] interstitial RT 1:00, Welch's Grape Jelly 4 x :15 interstitials, Kitchen Rich Cookies RT :30 interstitial, Carnation Evaporated Milk 2 x :15 interstitials - note: Spanish audio)
  • Openings are accurate but end credits are generic because original credits no longer exist.
Season 3 28 March 22, 2005
  • Bedrock Collectibles
  • First Families of The Stone Age
  • The Big Move episode is syndicated version not original. This is the only syndicated version on any of the DVDs.
  • Closing credits are accurate, but openings are only accurate until Pebbles was born. Even after the birth of Pebbles the original openings and closings still did not show her and the work whistle was still the noise of a bird, but the syndicated versions as well as this DVD show the Season 4 opening showing Pebbles and employing the horn sounding 5 oclock whistle beginning with episode 84, Carry On Nurse Fred.
Season 4 26 November 15, 2005
  • Audio Commentary: Historians and Animation Writers discuss Flintstones history in commentaries on Ann Margrock Presents episode and Little Bamm-Bamm episode.
  • Documentary: The Legendary Music of Hoyt Curtin: Discover the man who wrote the famous theme song, Hoyt Curtin.
  • Featurette: The Flintstones: Featurette on how The Flintstones was the first animated show to appear in a prime time slot.
  • Bonus collectible animation cel
  • End Credits are accurate but Show openings are only accurate on the first three episodes. Originally, when Bamm Bamm was added, the openings and closings still continued to only show the Flintstones with Pebbles. But in the DVD edition the opening is actually from season 5 showing the Flintstones and Rubbles with Pebbles and Bamm Bamm.
Season 5 26 March 7, 2006
  • Two original commercials and an interview bite with Joe Barbara and William Hanna about the creation of the Flintstones series, with introduction by a historian of animation, Earl Kress.
  • A Stone Age Parenting Guide: Humorous look at child rearing in the stone age.
  • Stone By Stone: Original production storyboards of a classic episode "The Gruesomes" running alongside the actual finished episode to learn how it all came together.
  • Openings and Closing credits are accurate.
Season 6 26 September 5, 2006
  • The Flintstones Meet Pop Culture: Stephen Baldwin hosts a look at the effect of pop culture on the show, and vice versa
  • The Great Gazoo: From A to Zetox
  • Openings have an incorrect audio version of Flintstones Meet The Flintstones. Originally the song had an echo effect on the final season but the version without the echo was still used on the DVD. Closing credits including the several episodes where Let the Sunshine In was substituted in the end credits is accurate.

Other Releases

  • The Flintstones (1994 live-action movie): Released March 1999
  • The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000 live-action prequel to 1994 film): Released September 26, 2000
  • "The Swimming Pool" episode was included on Cartoon Network's Cartoon Crack-Ups DVD: Released July 3, 2001.
  • The Flintstones: The Premiere: The Flintstone Flyer (1960): Released June 8 2004
  • The Man Called Flintstone (1966): Released in Canada April 2005 (US release canceled/postponed due to Columbia Pictures claiming ownership of the film)

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[edit] Comic books

[edit] VHS releases

Most of these titles are out of print. Original broadcast or release dates and episode titles (where applicable) are listed in parentheses.

  • The Flintstone Flyer (1960)
  • The First Episodes (1960) (Flintstone Flyer, Hot Lips Hannigan, The Swimming Pool, No Help Wanted)
  • The Best Of The Flintstones (Split Personality, Dress Rehearsal, Anne Margrock Presents, Stony Finger Caper)
  • The Flintstones: How the Flintstones Saved Christmas (1964)
  • The Flintstones: A Haunted House Is Not a Home (1964)
  • The Flintstones: Stone-Age Adventures (Flintstone Flyer, Split Personality, The Twitch, Anne Margrock Presents, Ladies' Night At The Lodge)
  • The Flintstones: Love Letters on the Rocks (1960)
  • The Flintstones: Samantha (1965)[1]
  • The Flintstones: Pebbles, Babe in Bedrock (Dress Rehearsal, Most Beautiful Baby In Bedrock)
  • The Flintstones: Bedrock 'n' Roll (The Girls' Night Out, The Twitch)
  • The Flintstones: Hooray for Hollyrock (Hollyrock Here I Come, Anne Margrock Presents)
  • Jealousy (1966)
  • Dripper (1966)
  • Rocky's Raiders (1966)
  • The Flintstones: Page Right Out of History (Dress Rehearsal (1963), "Wacky Inventions" compilation)
  • My Fair Freddie (1966)
  • No Biz Like Show Biz (1965)
  • The Flintstones: Fearless Fred Strikes Again (Buffalo Convention, Mother-In-Law's Visit)
  • The Flintstones: Hop Happy (1964)
  • The Flintstones: Ten Little Flintstones (1964)
  • The Flintstones: Dino's Two Tales (Dino Disappears, Dino Goes Hollyrock)
  • The Flintstones: Dino & Juliet (1964)
  • The Flintstones: Wacky Inventions
  • The Flintstones Meet The Great Gazoo (1965)
  • The Flintstones: Gravelberry Pie King (1966)
  • The Flintstones: Fred's Island (1966)
  • The Flintstones: Surfin Fred (1965)
  • Flintstones Adventures (The Girls' Night Out, Rock Vegas Story, Dino Disappears, Rip van Flintstone)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Barbera, Joseph R. (Executive Producer/Writer), Montgomery, Elizabeth (Samantha Stephens), York, Dick (Darrin Stephens), Corden, Henry (Fred Flintstone), Vander Pyl, Jean (Wilma Flintstone), Blanc, Mel (Barney Rubble), and Johnson, Gerry (Betty Rubble)Gaye Autterson (Betty ). (2006 (Original Air Date: )). The Flintstones – "Samantha" (DVD) [Television series]. USA: Warner Home Video.