List of The Flintstones media

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

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, Dress Rehearsal, Ladies' Night At The Lodge, Anne Margrock Presents)
  • 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)
  • The Flintstones: Jealousy (1966)
  • The Flintstones: Dripper (1966)
  • The Flintstones: Rocky's Raiders (1966)
  • The Flintstones: Page Right Out of History (Dress Rehearsal (1963), "Wacky Inventions" compilation)
  • The Flintstones: My Fair Freddie (1966)
  • The Flintstones: 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)

Laserdisc release

  • The Flintstones: First Fourteen Episodes Complete and Uncut: In 1997, Cartoon Network, along with John Kricfalusi released a 4-disc laserdisc set compiling the first 14 episodes of the series as they originally aired. Bonus features with the set included the Flagstones pilot, 15 integrated commercials (including Winston cigarette ads and Welch's grape jelly, among others), early character designs and layouts, and a feature on early Flintstones toys. Also included was a 24-page booklet which featured trivia and facts from John K. and Earl Kress about all the 14 episodes and prominent animators and voice actors who worked on the series.

DVD releases

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 Region 4, 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 was initially available in Canada only, as a US release was canceled due to Columbia Pictures claiming ownership of the film. However, the ownership issues had been resolved and a DVD release in the US happened on December 2, 2008. The Christmas special A Flintstones Christmas Carol was released on October 2, 2007, and includes as a bonus, the episode Christmas Flintstone from Season 5 of the original series.

Animated Series - Seasons Sets

The Flintstones: The Complete First Season
Set details Special features
  • Studio: Warner Bros.
  • Episodes: 28
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Audio: English, French & Spanish (Dolby Digital Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish (R1)
  • "All About The Flintstones" featurette
  • "Wacky Inventions" featurette
  • Early TV promo spots
  • The original pilot episode "The Flagstones"
  • Openings are accurate but end credits are from the syndicated runs because original credits (which credit ABC) no longer exist.
Release dates
United StatesCanada North America March 16, 2004.

Re-released July 24, 2012 as part of Cartoon Network's 20th Anniversary

United Kingdom United Kingdom November 7, 2005
Australia Australia March 2, 2005
The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season
Set details Special features
  • Studio: Warner Bros.
  • Episodes: 32
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Audio: English, French & Spanish (Dolby Digital Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish (R1)
  • Audio 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
  • Music Video: Songs of the Flintstones Album
  • Production Sketches: How to Draw Fred Flintstone
  • Flintstone Art: Explore rare original pencil drawings
  • TV Spot: And Now A Word from Our Sponsor featurette
  • Openings are accurate but end credits are from the syndicated runs because original credits (which credit ABC) no longer exist.
Release dates
United StatesCanada North America December 7, 2004
United Kingdom United Kingdom January 1, 2007
Australia Australia July 12, 2005
The Flintstones: The Complete Third Season
Set details Special features
  • Studio: Warner Bros.
  • Episodes: 28
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Audio: English, French & Spanish (Dolby Digital Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish (R1)
  • 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.
Release dates
United StatesCanada North America March 22, 2005
United Kingdom United Kingdom September 5, 2005
Australia Australia October 19, 2005
The Flintstones: The Complete Fourth Season
Set details Special features
  • Studio: Warner Bros.
  • Episodes: 26
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Audio: English (Dolby Digital Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Audio Commentary: Historians and Animation Writers discuss Flintstones history in commentaries on 'Ann Margrock Presents' episode and 'Little Bamm-Bamm' episode.
  • The Legendary Music of Hoyt Curtin: Discover the man who wrote the famous theme song, Hoyt Curtin.
  • 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.
Release date
United StatesCanada North America November 15, 2005
The Flintstones: The Complete Fifth Season
Set details Special features
  • Studio: Warner Bros.
  • Episodes: 26
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Audio: English & French (Dolby Digital Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • 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.
Release date
United StatesCanada North America March 7, 2006
The Flintstones: The Complete Sixth Season
Set details Special features
  • Studio: Warner Bros.
  • Episodes: 26
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Audio: English, French & Spanish (Dolby Digital Mono)
  • Subtitles: English French Spanish
  • 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.
Release date
United StatesCanada North America September 5, 2006
The Flintstones: The Complete Series
Set details Special features
  • Studio: Warner Bros.
  • Episodes: 166
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Audio: English, French & Spanish (Dolby Digital Mono)
  • Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
  • Limited edition, collectors box features all 6 seasons with over 4.5 hrs of bonus features
  • This boxset was only released in the US, it is available in Canada as an import. You can also get it in Australia, through Atomic Movies [1] plus, seasons 4, 5 & 6 by import.
Release date
United States United States October 28, 2008

Other DVD Releases

Comic

Comic strips

  • The Flintstones comic strip began October 2, 1961.[2] Illustrated by Gene Hazelton and Roger Armstrong, and distributed by the McNaught Syndicate, it ran from 1961 to 1988.

Comic books

  • Western Publishing put out a title The Flintstones, first by Dell Comics for 5 issues in 1961-62, then by Gold Key Comics for 54 issues in 1962-701
    • also Gold Key's 2 issues Flintstones Bigger and Boulder in 1962 and 19662
    • and Gold Key's 4 issues of Top Comics The Flintstones in 1967
    • Western also published the Flintstones at the New York World's Fair through Warren Publishing in 1964
  • Permabooks did The Flintstones featuring Pebbles in 19633
  • City Magazines published 1 issue of the digest-sized Flintstones Mini-Comic in 19654
  • Charlton Comics put out various Flintstones comics from 1970-1977:
    • The Flintstones for 50 issues in 1970-77
    • Pebbles & Bamm Bamm for 36 issues in 1972-76
    • Barney and Betty Rubble for 23 issues in 1973-76
    • Dino for 20 issues in 1973-77
    • The Great Gazoo for 20 issues in 1973-77
  • Brown Watson published 1 annual The Flintstones Annual in 1976
  • Marvel Comics did 9 issues of Hanna Barbera's The Flintstones in 1977-795
    • and also The Flintstones Christmas Party # 1 in 1977
  • Blackthorne Publishing put out 4 issues of Flintstones 3-D in 1987-19886 7
  • Harvey Comics had several titles that ran from 1992-94:
    • The Flintstones Big Book, 2 issues in 1992
    • Flintstones Giant Size, 3 issues in 1992-1993
    • The Flintstones Doublevision, 1 issue in 1994 note
  • Archie Comics put out a title The Flintstones for 22 issues in 1995-97
  • DC Comics published a combo title (The Flintstones and the Jetsons) for 21 issues from 1997–99
  • Marvel also published 11 issues of The Flintstone Kids, depicting the characters as children, from 1987-1989

Notes:
1 The 5 Dell issues are numbered 2-6, the Flintstones first Dell appearance was in Dell Giants # 48, 1961. The 54 Gold Key issues are numbered 7-60
2 Both issues are identical, and a reprint of Gold Key's earlier series
3 The Flintstones featuring Pebbles is part comic and part paperback. It's the first appearance of Pebbles outside the TV series
4 The Flintstones Mini-Comic was a supplement to an issue of Huckleberry Hound Weekly
5 Marvel'sHanna Barbera's The Flintstones features the first non-underground comic-work of Scott Shaw![3]
6 The Flintstones 3-D were part of the Blackthorne 3-D series, issues 19, 22, 36 and 42
7 Issue 4 adapted the TV series episode that introduced Pebbles to comic books for the first time[4]

Video games


References

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  2. "1961 Timeline, October 2: The Flintstones spins off into newspapers in a new comic strip illustrated by Gene Hazelton and Roger Armstrong." American Comic Book Chronicles: 1960-64 by John Wells, TwoMorrows Publishing, 2012, Page 43.
  3. The Flintstones (Marvel) at atomicavenue.com Retrieved 16.August 2013
  4. Flintstones 3-D at atomicavenue.com Retrieved 16.August 2013