Distributor:Warner Certificate: not rated | region 1 ntsc | 3 disc set
| 724
minutes| r1
ntsc Available to buy Extras: Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
With
the voices of Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc and Bean Benaderet.
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
More
stone age frivolity with season
three of one of TV’s greatest
ever animations, The
Flintstones, designed for a
family audience and loosely
based on The Hooneymooners, The
Flintstones deals with suburban
life and all it entails, Fred
Flinstone (voiced by Alan Reed)
worked at Rock Head and Quarry
Cave Construction Co (where he
operated a dinosaur crane)
whilst wife Wilma (Jean
Vanderpyl) was the perfect
housewife, their next door
neighbours were Fred’s best
friend Barney Rubble(the
legendary Mel Blanc) and his
wife Betty (Bea Benaderet)
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Parodying
the absurdities of modern day living certainly struck a chord with the
audience and by its third season The Flintstones was fast becoming one
of the most popular shows on TV, in fact the Flintstones was to the
sixties viewing audience what the Simpsons is to today’s – a clever
show for adults that uses animation to poke fun at pop culture so this
third series takes in the Twist dance craze, TV take offs (Hawaiian
Escape is heavily based on the popular series Hawaiian Eye) and movie
send ups (Dial S For Suspicion is a gloriously funny take on
Hitchcock’s Dial M For Murder) but mostly though the series concerns
itself with everyday suburban life, albeit with a stone age edge, for
example Fred has a great “you beaut” car but peddles it with his
feet, the gramophone is powered by a bird’s beak and the family
pet
is
a dinosaur. There is some spreading out of the situation with this third
season with the Flintstones getting themselves a baby daughter called
Pebbles in the episode Dress Rehearsal. Very entertaining most
episodes revolve around Fred either jumping to conclusions about
something (thinking Wilma is pregnant in The Little Stranger) or
starting out with good intentions that go pear shaped (trying to hire
singer Rock Roll for Wilma’s birthday in The Twitch).The show might be 40 years old but it still raises more than a
few laughs and from any comedy show you can’t ask for more than that.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
Extras
feature a guide to collecting all things Flintstone in Bedrock
Collectibles and a look at The Flintstone Wives in First Families of the
Stone Age.
