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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience 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 Item Dimensions: Label: Turner Home Ent Languages: Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent MPN: DH2273D Number Of Items: 4 Publisher: Turner Home Ent Region Code: 1 Release Date: March 16, 2004 Running Time: 737 minutes Studio: Turner Home Ent Theatrical Release Date: September 30, 1960 Editorial Review: Product Description: 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!"Running Time: 737 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY UPC: 014764227320 Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Just what I expected.Brought back great memories! They don't make cartoons like this anymore. The new ones can't compete. Rating: - Cartoons!!!!!!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! Rating: - The Flintstones Season 1A 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. Rating:  - Where's the Yabba?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. Rating: - AwesomeI love the Flintstones. I still remembered most of the episodes on the first season from when I was a kid. I cant wait to get the second season. |
