The Flintstone Primetime Specials

The Flintstone Primetime Specials (onscreen title: The Flintstone Special) is a four-episode limited-run prime time television revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which aired on NBC from September 26, 1980 to October 11, 1981.[1]

The Flintstone Primetime Specials
Also known asThe Flintstone Special
Directed byCarl Urbano
Oscar Dufau
Ray Patterson
Voices ofHenry Corden
Mel Blanc
Jean Vander Pyl
Gay Autterson
John Stephenson
Music byHoyt Curtin
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes4
Production
Executive producersWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
ProducerAlex Lovy
Running time30 minutes
Production companyHanna-Barbera Productions
Release
Original networkNBC
Original releaseSeptember 26, 1980 (1980-09-26) –
October 11, 1981 (1981-10-11)

List of animated specials
Nº Title Director Airdate
1"The Flintstones' New Neighbors"Carl UrbanoSeptember 26, 1980 (1980-09-26)
The Flintstones and the Rubbles welcome a new strange family, The Frankenstones, to their Bedrock neighborhood.
2"The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling"Oscar Dufau and Ray PattersonNovember 7, 1980 (1980-11-07)
Fred believes he only has 24 hours to live (due to a mix-up at the doctor's office with his X-rays) and tries to enjoy life as much as possible.
3"The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma"Carl UrbanoOctober 4, 1981 (1981-10-04)
Wilma is a celebrity when she gets a shot at the big leagues and becomes a pitcher for the Bedrock Dodgers.
4"The Flintstones: Jogging Fever"Ray PattersonOctober 11, 1981 (1981-10-11)
After failing his annual physical, Fred enters the Rockstone Marathon to prove to everyone, including his boss Mr. Slate, that he is in shape.

Voice cast

Production

The Flintstones' New Neighbors and Jogging Fever were animated at Filman, an animation studio in Madrid, Spain (headed by Carlos Alfonso and Juan Pina) who did a lot of animation work for Hanna-Barbera between the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. Among their credits were such series as Yogi's Space Race, Buford and the Galloping Ghost, The Little Rascals, Paw Paws, The Smurfs and The Jetsons (1980s revival) as well as the specials The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White and Yogi's First Christmas. This would explain why, artistically, the backgrounds in some of these specials look very much like pencil and charcoal drawings, very different from the original series and its spin-offs.

All specials utilized an inferior laugh track created by the studio, the last production to do so.

Home media

On October 9, 2012, Warner Archive released all four specials on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classics Collection in a release entitled The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 2.

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 260–262. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.


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