The Flintstone Kids

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The Flintstone Kids
Image:Flintstone Kids.jpg
Genre Animation
Directed by Art Davis
Don Lusk
Carl Urbano
Rudy Zamora
Voices of Scott Menville
Hamilton Camp
Elizabeth Lyn Fraser
B.J. Ward
Mel Blanc
Frank Welker
Narrated by Kenneth Mars
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
Language(s) English
No. of episodes 24
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Producer(s) Kay Wright
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run September 6, 1986 – September 3, 1988
Chronology
Preceded by The Flintstone Funnies (1982-84)
Followed by Dino: World Premiere Toons (1995)
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Flintstone Kids was a 60-minute animated television series spin-off of The Flintstones which followed the adventures of Fred, Barney, Wilma, and Betty as 8 to 10-year-olds with pet Dino. It aired from 1986 to 1988 on ABC, and was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It only starred characters which were seen in the original TV series, and the child personas of the known characters were particularly like their adult ones. The series contained a total of 75 episodes, with The Flintstone Kids comprised of 24 half-hour episodes.

There was also a comic book series from Star Comics (an imprint of Marvel Comics).

Aside from the 30-minute episodes of The Flintstone Kids, the series contained three more segments:

  • Flintstone Funnies
  • Captain Caveman and Son
  • Dino's Dilemmas

Contents

[edit] Episodes

[edit] The Flintstone Kids

The adventures of Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty as 8 to 10-year-olds.

[edit] Season 1 (1986-87)

  1. The Great Freddini
  2. Heroes For Hire
  3. The Bad News Brontos
  4. Dusty Disappears
  5. Poor Little Rich Girl
  6. The Rock Concert That Rocked Freddy
  7. Curse Of The Gemstone Diamond
  8. I Think That I Shall Never See Barney Rubble As A Tree
  9. The Fugitives
  10. Freddy's Rocky Road To Karate
  11. Barney's Moving Experience
  12. The Little Visitor
  13. Grandpa For Loan
  14. Freddy's First Crush

[edit] Season 2 (1987-88)

  1. The Flintstone Fake Ache
  2. Better Buddy Blues
  3. Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Betty
  4. Camper Scamper
  5. A Tiny Egg
  6. Haircutastrophe
  7. Freddy The 13th
  8. Little Rubble, Big Trouble
  9. Philo's D-Feat
  10. Rocky's Rocky Road

[edit] Flintstone Funnies

This segment featured Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty dreaming of exciting fantasy/adventures.

[edit] Season 1 (1986-87)

  1. Bedrock P.I.s
  2. Princess Wilma
  3. Frankenstone
  4. Rubble Without A Cause
  5. Indiana Flintstone
  6. Freddy in the Big House
  7. Sugar and Spies
  8. Monster from the Tar Pits
  9. Betty's Big Break
  10. Dino Goes Hollyrock
  11. Bedrock 'N' Roll
  12. The Twilight Stone
  13. Philo's Invention

[edit] Captain Caveman and Son

The adventures of Captain Caveman with his son, Cavey Jr.

[edit] Season 1 (1986-87)

  1. Freezy Does It
  2. Invasion of the Mommy Snatchers
  3. The Ditto Master
  4. I Was A Teenage Grown-Up
  5. Grime & Punishment
  6. A Tale of Too Silly
  7. To Baby or Not to Baby
  8. Day of the Villains
  9. Hero Today, Gone Tomorrow
  10. Curse of the Reverse
  11. Capt. Caveman's First Adventure
  12. Leave It To Mother
  13. Greet it and Weep

[edit] Season 2 (1987-88)

  1. Captain Knaveman
  2. Attack of the Fifty Foot Lizard
  3. The Cream-Pier Strikes Back
  4. Captain Caveman's Super Cold
  5. The Big Bedrock Bully Bash
  6. Captain Cavedog

[edit] Dino's Dilemmas

This segment featured the adventures and misadventures of The Flintstones' pet dinosaur Dino.

[edit] Season 1 (1986-87)

  1. Yard Wars
  2. Dreamchip's Car Wash
  3. Dressed Up Dino
  4. Fred's Mechanical Dog
  5. The Butcher Shoppe
  6. The Vet
  7. The Dino Diet
  8. What Price Fleadom
  9. The Terror Within
  10. Revenge of the Bullied
  11. The Chocolate Chip Catastrophe
  12. Watchdog Blues
  13. Captain Cavepuppy

[edit] Season 2 (1987-88)

  1. Killer Kitty
  2. Who's Faultin' Who?
  3. Bone Voyage
  4. World War Flea
  5. A Midnite Pet Peeve
  6. The Birthday Shuffle

[edit] Voices

[edit] Notes

  • This series is part of a popular fad in the 80's in which studios had begun to create shows featuring younger versions of established cartoon characters.
  • A PSA commercial for seat belt safety was created based on The Flintstone Kids, and ran for several years after the show concluded its run.[citation needed]
  • Bumper Robinson was the only child actor for both seasons of the series (aged 12-14). Only for season 2 was Scott Menville another child actor, from the age of 16 to the age of 17. Everyone else was a cast of adults.

[edit] Goofs

  • Rocky Ratrock's real first name is said to be Francis in Season 1, but in the Season 2 episode "Rocky's Rocky Road", Rocky's mother says his first name is Rockford.
  • Actually, Fred is the only Flintstone there, as Wilma is not married to Fred yet, and Pebbles was not born yet, but Dino might possibly be a Flintstone though.

[edit] Controversy and discontinuity

The series has "retconned" many aspects of the original show leading some fans to question its canonicity. In the original Flintstones series, conflicting accounts of Fred and Wilma's first meeting are given. In the episode "Love Letters On The Rocks" it is indicated that Wilma and Fred knew each other as teenagers and attended the same high school while a later episode, "Bachelor Daze", had them meet as young adults. Also in the original series, Dino first appeared in the episode "The Snorkasaurus Hunter" with a different color and the ability to talk (even though his character was in the opening credits of every episode prior), whereas this series has him as Fred's childhood pet.

There are many elements of the show that have been incorporated into subsequent Flintstone productions, leading to the conclusion that Hanna-Barbera is treating this series as canon. For example, one of the characters originating in this series, Philo Quartz, later appeared as an adult in A Flintstones Christmas Carol from 1994. Also, this was the first series in which Wilma's last name was expressly stated as Slaghoople whereas the original series had it as Pebble. This name change was also carried over.

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