DVD : The Flintstones - The Complete First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781560398394
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Animated, NTSC
ISBN: 1560398396
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 16, 2004
Running Time: 737 minutes
Sales Rank: 7487
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1960
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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!"
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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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I have been a big fan of the Flintstones since watching their episodes first-run in the early 60's on ABC when I was a small child and have been an avid watcher since. Happily, this DVD set does not disappoint! Not only does it include all 28 episodes from the first season, but it also includes some vintage commercials that were run during that first season(ones that I vaguely remember), as well as the original, original pilot when it was still called "The Flagstones." The other extras are worth seeing as well, including the history of "The Flintstones."
Taking "The Honeymooners" premise and putting it in a stone-age setting, "The Flintstones" pokes fun at suburban life in the early 1960's. Even though one reviewer complained that they didn't remember Fred's behavior being so boorish, nor of him & Barney fighting so much or lying to their wives, just remember that this cartoon series was originally geared toward ADULTS (especially considering that three of their earliest sponsors were One-A-Day, Alka-Seltzer and Winston Cigarettes!). This also harkened back to an earlier time when life was simpler and people could laugh at themselves more easily. And, no, the "adult" plot lines did not affect me as a kid -- I just enjoyed watching the goofy-looking characters, clever sight gags, stone-age contraptions and slapstick humor!
Even though the drawings may look a bit cruder than those in the later seasons, the animation itself was more fluid and stylized, ... Read More
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Brought back great memories! They don't make cartoons like this anymore. The new ones can't compete.
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Its one of my favorite cartoons, besides the Jetsons. Its great being able to watch them in succession. I can't wait to get to the season where they sing the opening song!
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A thoroughly enjoyable experience. This was network tv's only successful animated series in prime time until "The Simpsons". Form the completely different opening sequence to the completely different closing sequence is a series that's a joy to watch for all ages. It's based on Jackie Gleason's immortal "The Honeymooners" series of a decade before. Original, witty & well acted, I would recommend this set to everyone.
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I have fond memories watching the Flinstones as a kid and thought it would be great to have my kids exposed to such. Barney & Fred seem to fight more than I remembered- do I want my kids watching that? They always make good in the end though. The biggest disappointment was the theme "From the Town of Bedrock..." is not sung in the first season- That's half the fun, the sing along!
Thus, go for the second season.
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starring: Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl, Bea Benaderet, John Stephenson
directed by: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9781560398394
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Animated, NTSC
ISBN: 1560398396
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 16, 2004
Running Time: 737 minutes
Sales Rank: 7487
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1960
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