the flintstones

The Flintstones
Genre	Sitcom
Format	Animated series
Created by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Voices of	Alan Reed Jean Vander Pyl Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet Gerry Johnson Don Messick John Stephenson
Theme music composer	Hoyt Curtin[1]
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	6
No. of episodes	166 (List of episodes)
Production
Producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Running time	Various
Production company(s)	Hanna–Barbera Productions
Distributor	Screen Gems (original) Warner Bros. Television Distribution (current)
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC Cartoon Network Boomerang[2]
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	September 30, 1960 – April 1, 1966
Chronology
Followed by	The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show

The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that was broadcast from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, on ABC. The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The Flintstones was about a working-class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend.
The show's continuing popularity rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting.^[3][4] The Flintstones was the most financially successful network animated franchise for three decades, until The Simpsons debuted.^[5]

Overview

The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock. (In some of the earlier episodes, it was also referred to as "Rockville".) In this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and other long-extinct animals co-exist with cavemen. Like their mid-20th century counterparts, these cavemen listen to records, live in split-level homes, and eat out at restaurants, yet their technology is made entirely from pre-industrial materials and largely powered through the use of animals. For example, the cars are made out of stone, wood, and animal skins, and powered by the passengers' feet (as in the theme song, "Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet").
The original pilot episode clip was called The Flagstones (which first appeared in 1959 as a 90-second promotion to draw advertisers to the show) and was later reincorporated into the show's first episode (third episode in original air date order). The show's name was changed to The Flintstones shortly thereafter.