What was the name of Hanna-Barbera's space-age counterpart to The Flintstones?
"adults, ""The Flintstones"" became the first animated prime-time show to be a hit. Fred Flintstone's signature exclamation """"yabba dabba doo"""" soon entered everyday usage, and the show boosted the studio to the top of the TV cartoon field. The company later produced a space-age version of ""The Flintstones"", known as ""The Jetsons"". Although both shows reappeared in the 1970s and 1980s, ""The Flintstones"" was far more popular. By the late 1960s, Hanna-Barbera Productions was the most successful television animation studio in the business. The Hanna-Barbera studio produced over 3000 animated half-hour television shows. Among the more than 100 cartoon series"
"have a caveman-like design, though the park does not license the characters. The Australia's Wonderland and Canada's Wonderland theme parks, both featured ""Flintstones"" characters in their Hanna-Barbera-themed children's sections from 1985 up until the mid-1990s. Kings Island near Cincinnati, Ohio, had a Hanna-Barbera land, in which many Hanna-Barbera characters were featured, including the Flintstones, in the 1980s and early 1990s. A stage production opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1994 (the year the live-action film was released), developed by Universal and Hanna-Barbera Productions. It opened at the Panasonic Theater, replacing the ""Star Trek"" show. The story consists of Fred, Wilma,"
"dog and cat. Despite a lukewarm response for their first theatrical venture, ""Loopy De Loop"", Hanna-Barbera soon established themselves with two successful television series: ""The Huckleberry Hound Show"" and ""The Yogi Bear Show"". A 1960 survey showed that half of the viewers of ""Huckleberry Hound"" were adults. This prompted the company to create a new animated series, ""The Flintstones"". A parody of ""The Honeymooners"", the new show followed a typical Stone Age family with home appliances, talking animals, and celebrity guests. With an audience of both children and adults, ""The Flintstones"" became the first animated prime-time show to be a"
"title were broadcast on ""The Flintstone Comedy Hour"", serving as a continuation of the show. Similar to Hanna-Barbera's ""Josie and the Pussycats"", it used contemporary rock music to attract more viewers. The 16 episodes have since had reruns broadcast on Boomerang often surrounded by interstitial cartoons and shorts. Critical response was mixed; although noted for its popularity, it was also described as one of the worst moments of the ""Flintstones"" franchise. It has since been released on DVD as part of Warner Home Video's ""Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection"" on a two disc set. Set in the prehistoric time period, the series"
"for the studio – joined the staff at this time along with Joe Ruby and Ken Spears as film editors and Iwao Takamoto as character designer. By 1959, H-B Enterprises was reincorporated as ""Hanna-Barbera Productions"" and started slowly becoming a leader in TV animation production from then on. A second syndicated cartoon show, ""The Quick Draw McGraw Show"" and its only theatrical short film series, ""Loopy De Loop"", followed in 1959. The smash hit ""The Flintstones"" premiered on ABC in prime time in 1960. Loosely based on the CBS series ""The Honeymooners"", it was set in a fictionalized stone age"
"The Flintstone Kids The Flintstone Kids is a Saturday morning animated series and a spin-off of ""The Flintstones"" produced by Hanna-Barbera; which aired from September 6, 1986 to May 21, 1988 on ABC and as part of the weekday/weekend morning programming block ""The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera"". The program follows the adventures of Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Wilma Slaghoople, Betty McBricker and Dino as children as they deal with their childhood with their friends Nate Slate, Philo Quartz, and Dreamchip Gemstone while also contending with their bully Rocky Ratrock and his group consisting of Tommy, Flab Slab, Janet Granite, and"
"Ruff & Reddy Show"", a series which detailed the friendship between a dog and cat. Despite a lukewarm response for their first theatrical venture, ""Loopy De Loop"", Hanna-Barbera soon established themselves with two successful television series: ""The Huckleberry Hound Show"" and ""The Yogi Bear Show"". A 1960 survey showed that half of the viewers of ""Huckleberry Hound"" were adults. This prompted the company to create a new animated series, ""The Flintstones"". A parody of ""The Honeymooners"", the new show followed a typical Stone Age family with home appliances, talking animals, and celebrity guests. With an audience of both children and"
"series, so the original dub was re-recorded and later released on a DVD version in the 2000s. The Flintstones The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting, and follows the activities of the titular family and their next-door neighbors (who are their best friends). It was originally broadcast from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, in a prime time slot, the first such instance for an animated series. The continuing popularity of ""The Flintstones"" rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the"
"died of lung cancer at her home in Dana Point, California. She was 79 years old. Vander Pyl was interred in Ascension Cemetery in Lake Forest, California. Jean Vander Pyl Jean Thurston Vander Pyl (October 11, 1919 – April 10, 1999) was an American actress and voice actress. Although her career spanned many decades, she is perhaps best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon ""The Flintstones"". In addition to Wilma Flintstone, she also provided the voices of Pebbles Flintstone, Rosie the robot maid on the animated series ""The Jetsons"", Goldie, Lola Glamour, Nurse LaRue and"
"their animation studio in 1957, Muse joined his former bosses at their new company, Hanna-Barbera. He was one of the most prolific animators working for Hanna-Barbera's classic period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. He animated many important shows and sequences, including all of the short pilot ""The Flagstones"", from which ""The Flintstones"" series was sold, as well as the original opening and closing titles of the series (the instrumental ""Rise and Shine"" titles, seen in the first two seasons, rather than the later, more familiar ""Meet the Flintstones"" titles). Muse also animated all of the first-produced episode of"
"Hanna-Barbera library. Well-known properties like ""Scooby-Doo"", ""Huckleberry Hound"", ""Yogi Bear"", ""Space Ghost"", ""The Smurfs"", and ""Jonny Quest"" shared space with lesser-known properties like ""Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch"", ""Inch High, Private Eye"", ""Dynomutt, Dog Wonder"", and countless others, as well as numerous spinoffs of ""The Flintstones"" such as ""The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show"". By the end of the 1980s, a more diverse lineup of cartoons aired on the ""Cartoon Express"", including ""G.I. Joe"", ""Transformers"", ""He-Man and the Masters of the Universe"", ""The Real Ghostbusters"", ""Jem"", ""Robotech"", and ""Alvin and the Chipmunks"". In October 1991, Turner Broadcasting purchased Hanna-Barbera and launched"
"""The Man Called Flintstone"" (1966) and in the television specials ""Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?"" (1966) and """" (1977). He continued providing Fred's voice in future ""Flintstones"" spin-off series and specials, as well as Cocoa Pebbles and Fruity Pebbles cereal commercials, until his death in 2005. The series is hosted by Fred Flintstone and featured a repackaging of the following six Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoons that were originally broadcast by the various networks from 1971 to 1975: The six series were repackaged from their original half-hour formats into multi-part"
"Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. (simply known as Hanna-Barbera and also referred to as H-B Enterprises, H-B Production Company and Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc.) was an American animation studio. It was founded in 1957 by former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors and ""Tom and Jerry"" creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, in partnership with film director George Sidney. For more than three decades in the mid-20th century, it was a prominent force in American television animation. The studio is known for creating a wide variety of popular animated characters and for 30 years, it produced a succession of cartoon shows, including ""The Flintstones"", ""The"
"as ""Bang, zoom, straight to the moon!"", ""One of these days ... one of these days ...,"" ""Homina, homina, homina,"" and ""Baby, you're the greatest"". In 1960, the Hanna-Barbera-produced animated sitcom ""The Flintstones"" debuted on ABC. Many critics and viewers noted the close resemblance of that show's premise and characters to that of ""The Honeymooners"". In various interviews over the years, co-creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera each stated that ""The Honeymooners"" was used as a basis for the concept of ""The Flintstones"". Mel Blanc, the voice of Barney Rubble, was asked to model Barney's voice after Ed Norton, but"
"on new Hanna-Barbera shows, including ""The Cartoon Cartoon Show"" series and hit silver screen versions of ""The Flintstones"" (1994) and ""Scooby-Doo"" (2002). Hanna died of esophageal cancer at his home in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California on March 22, 2001. He was 90 years old. After his death, Cartoon Network aired a 20-second segment with black dots tracing Hanna's portrait with the words ""We'll miss you – Cartoon Network"" fading in on the right-hand side. This same type of tribute was done for Chuck Jones in 2002 and Hanna's partner, Joseph Barbera in 2006, when each of them died. However,"
"The Flintstones The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting, and follows the activities of the titular family and their next-door neighbors (who are their best friends). It was originally broadcast from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, in a prime time slot, the first such instance for an animated series. The continuing popularity of ""The Flintstones"" rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting. ""The Flintstones"" was the most financially successful network animated franchise for three decades, until"
"this time absorbed Hanna-Barbera Productions on March 12, 2001, after being bought by Time Warner from Turner Broadcasting System since their merger on October 10, 1996. As is the standard for other classic Hanna-Barbera properties (""Yogi Bear"", ""The Flintstones"", ""Wacky Races"", etc.), the studio is still credited as the copyright owner, and Joseph Barbera, co-founder and co-chairman of the Hanna-Barbera studios, served as an executive producer alongside Sander Schwartz. Barbera's longtime partner William Hanna had died the year before. DongWoo Animation Co. Ltd and Lotto Animation contributed some of the animation for this series. The band Simple Plan is strongly"
"because, at this time, Marvel Comics owned the rights to several Hanna-Barbera franchises and were, in fact, publishing comic books based upon them; ""The Flintstones"" was one of these. For the 1979–80 season, the series was expanded to a 90-minute timeslot with the addition of ""The New Shmoo"" episodes and broadcast under the new title Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track, one of their last productions to do so. The first segment, a very loose adaptation of Marvel Comics' character the Thing, consisted of"
"season. The idea of ""The Flintstones"" started after Hanna-Barbera produced ""The Huckleberry Hound Show"" and ""The Quick Draw McGraw Show"". Although these programs were successful, they did not have the same wide audience appeal as their previous theatrical cartoon series ""Tom and Jerry"", which entertained both children and the adults who accompanied them. However, since children did not need their parents' supervision to watch television, Hanna-Barbera's output became labeled ""kids only"". Barbera and Hanna wanted to recapture the adult audience with an animated situation comedy. Barbera and Hanna experimented with hillbillies (a hillbilly theme was later incorporated into two ""Flintstones"""
"originally aired during prime time when the whole family would be watching television. ""The Flintstones"" was the first of several prime-time animated series from Hanna-Barbera, which included ""The Jetsons"", ""Top Cat"", and ""Jonny Quest"". But after the end of ""The Flintstones"" in 1966, Hanna-Barbera largely turned its efforts to the growing market for Saturday morning cartoons, outside of isolated series for first run syndication in the 1970s such as ""Wait Till Your Father Gets Home"". Hanna-Barbera was notorious for using common tropes in its series. Its original series of the late 1950s through mid-1960s all featured anthropomorphic animals, usually an"
"The Flintstones: On the Rocks The Flintstones: On the Rocks is a 2001 American animated made-for-television film featuring characters from ""The Flintstones"" franchise. It debuted on November 3, 2001 on Cartoon Network and was directed by Chris Savino and David Smith. It was dedicated to Hoyt Curtin, longtime Hanna-Barbera conductor and composer and William Hanna, creator of ""The Flintstones"" and founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions with partner Joseph Barbera. This film marks the final time that any original voice actors (namely John Stephenson as Mr. Slate) would appear in a Flintstones project. It is the only ""Flintstones"" production to be produced"
"Hanna-Barbera and directed by Joanna Romersa. The teleplay was written by Glenn Leopold, based on ""A Christmas Carol"" by Charles Dickens. The music was composed by Steve Bernstein. Jean Vander Pyl returned as the voice of Wilma Flintstone, a role she performed since first chosen by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera to voice the character in 1960. The special was animated in the Philippines by Fil-Cartoons, Inc. The special premiered on the American Broadcasting Company on November 21, 1994. It has been rebroadcast in later years, by Toon Disney, Boomerang and Canada's YTV. Turner Home Entertainment initially released ""A Flintstones"
"Flintstone"" came to theaters. ""Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles"" and ""Space Ghost"" also first aired. By December 1966, the litigation had been settled and the studio was finally acquired by Taft for $12 million. It would fold it into its corporate structure in 1967 and 1968, becoming its distributor. Hanna and Barbera stayed on to run the company while Screen Gems retained licensing and distribution rights to the previously Hanna-Barbera produced cartoons, along with the trademarks to the characters into the 1970s and 1980s. A number of new comedy and action cartoons followed in 1967, among them are ""The Space"
"1994, Rhino Records released a CD containing some of Hanna-Barbera's famous sound effects, titled simply as ""Hanna-Barbera Cartoon Sound FX"", and also included some answering-machine messages and birthday greetings and short stories starring Hanna-Barbera characters, and was hosted by Fred Flintstone. In 1996, it was reissued with the ""Pic-A-Nic Basket of Cartoon Classics"" CD set, which also contained three other CDs of Hanna-Barbera television themes, background music and songs from ""The Flintstones"". Here, the CD was relabeled as ""The Greatest Cartoon Sound Effects Ever"". In the 1980s, Hanna-Barbera slowly began to cease using their trademark sound effects. This was especially"
"Jean Vander Pyl Jean Thurston Vander Pyl (October 11, 1919 – April 10, 1999) was an American actress and voice actress. Although her career spanned many decades, she is perhaps best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon ""The Flintstones"". In addition to Wilma Flintstone, she also provided the voices of Pebbles Flintstone, Rosie the robot maid on the animated series ""The Jetsons"", Goldie, Lola Glamour, Nurse LaRue and other characters in ""Top Cat"", Winsome Witch on ""The Secret Squirrel Show"" and Ogee on ""The Magilla Gorilla Show"". Vander Pyl was born in Philadelphia to John"
"the home in the hands of his friends before leaving on his own trip. The film currently holds a 7.1/10 rating on IMDb. The Flintstones: On the Rocks The Flintstones: On the Rocks is a 2001 American animated made-for-television film featuring characters from ""The Flintstones"" franchise. It debuted on November 3, 2001 on Cartoon Network and was directed by Chris Savino and David Smith. It was dedicated to Hoyt Curtin, longtime Hanna-Barbera conductor and composer and William Hanna, creator of ""The Flintstones"" and founder of Hanna-Barbera Productions with partner Joseph Barbera. This film marks the final time that any original"
"based on ""The Flintstones"". Yogi's Woods was replaced in 1984 (see Kidzville), and Bedrock was replaced in 2003 (see Nickelodeon Central). Due to Cedar Fair's take over the park, many of the Hanna-Barbera references are expected to be removed in the near future. Until the end of the 2009 season, Hanna-Barbera Land has Aerofield, a ride with WWI style plans, Ghoster Coaster, Hanna-Barberry-Go-Round Carrousel, Scooby-Doo's Haunted Mansion, Jetson's Rocketport, Revolving Cages, and Swan Lake. Canada's Wonderland is the last of the parks to have a Hanna-Barbera Land. ""Happyland of Hanna-Barbera"" was found at the sister Paramount Parks of Carowinds, Kings"
"of Pebbles has varied widely, appearing as an adolescent in one spin-off and as an infant again in the next. Arranged roughly in chronological order, the Flintstones incarnations in which Pebbles has made appearances are as follows: In 1963, when Hanna-Barbera decided to add a baby to the show, their first choice was a boy. When Ideal Toy Company heard this, company executives approached Hanna-Barbera with a proposal to change the baby character to a girl for which the toymaker could create a doll, and Hanna-Barbera agreed. Pebbles, in her conventional toddler incarnation, is sometimes seen in the various Fruity"
"expiration of his exclusive contract with Warner Bros., Blanc continued working for WB, but also began providing voices for the TV cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera; his most famous roles during this time were Barney Rubble of ""The Flintstones"" and Cosmo Spacely of ""The Jetsons"". His other voice roles for Hanna-Barbera included Dino the Dinosaur, Secret Squirrel, Speed Buggy, and Captain Caveman, as well as voices for ""Wally Gator"" and ""The Perils of Penelope Pitstop."" Blanc also worked with former ""Looney Tunes"" director Chuck Jones, who by this time was directing shorts with his own company Sib Tower 12 (later MGM"
"one of the popular Hanna-Barbera productions of the 1970s. In a retrospective view of older cartoons, the staff at MeTV included the show on their list of ""15 Forgotten Cartoons from the Early 1970s You Used to Love"". Regarding the musical aspects, Tom and Sara Pendergast felt that both ""The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show"" and ""Josie and the Pussycats"" incorporated contemporary rock music to attract a larger audience. On ""The Christian Science Monitor""s list of ""the five dumbest moments"" of ""The Flintstones"", writer Chris Gaylord listed the series at number two. He called it ""the most curious"" of the various"
"The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera that originally aired for one season on CBS from September 11, 1971 to January 1, 1972. With an ensemble voice cast of Sally Struthers, Jay North, Mitzi McCall, Gay Hartwig, Carl Esser and Lennie Weinrib, the show follows teenage Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble as they encounter problems with growing up in the fictional town of Bedrock. ""The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show"" is the first spin-off series of ""The Flintstones"". After its cancellation in 1972, various segments sharing the same"
"""Granite Hotel"" including characters such as a newsboy, telephone operator, hotel clerk, and a spoof of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Barbera explained that selling the show to a network and sponsors was not an easy task. When the series went into production, the working title ""The Flagstones"" was changed, possibly to avoid confusion with the Flagstons, characters in the comic strip ""Hi and Lois"". After spending a brief period in development as ""The Gladstones"" (GLadstone being a Los Angeles telephone exchange at the time), Hanna-Barbera settled upon ""The Flintstones"", and the idea of the Flintstones having a child from"
"balls and dominoes, a 32-foot-long dancing skeleton, a phantom ghost ship and a spectacular three-ring circus. The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera Arena Show The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera Arena Show is a 1981 live-action/animated variety television special produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which premiered on NBC on June 25, 1981. The special, hosted by Michael Landon and his family, was broadcast from Perth Entertainment Center in Perth, Australia and featured costumed Hanna-Barbera characters such as Fred Flintstone, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Scooby-Doo and Top Cat on roller stakes. The show tells the story of the search for Dino, The Flintstones's pet"