By Sylvia Gurinsky
Happy 50th, Flintstones!
The "Modern Stone-Age Family," produced by Hanna-Barbera, began airing on ABC Sept. 30, 1960. The original show was reportedly inspired by "The Honeymooners" and featured Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Barney and Betty Rubble living in stone houses with the modern (for 1960) conveniences of life, including animals as appliances and feet being used to get the stone car off to a running start. During the series, Fred and Wilma had baby Pebbles, while Barney and Betty adopted the very strong Bamm-Bamm.
Voice legend Mel Blanc (Barney), Alan Reed(Fred) , Jean Vander Pyl (Wilma) and Bea Benaderet (Betty until she went to CBS to play Kate Bradley in "Petticoat Junction") made the four principal characters their own. The original series ran until 1966. There have been various spinoffs, including one that featured Sally Struthers ("All In the Family's" Gloria Stivic) as a grown-up Pebbles.
Everybody sing along:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PPf3aaZmUw
See you next week. Until then, Happy Viewing!
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