'' is an
American Animated Television Series produced by
Hanna-Barbera Productions .
As one of the most successful sitcoms ever, and inspired by the to
1966 , on the
ABC network. It was also ABC's first series to be televised in color. While the show was originally syndicated by
Screen Gems (until
1981 , then
DFS Program Exchange from, and then
Turner Program Services ),
Warner Bros. Television has the current rights (through parent
Time Warner's purchase).
The show is set in the town of
Bedrock in the
Stone Age era. The show is an
Allegory to American society of the mid-to-late
20th Century ; in the Flintstones'
Fantasy version of the prehistoric past,
Dinosaur s,
Saber-toothed Tiger s,
Woolly Mammoth s, and other long extinct animals co-exist with
Barefoot Cavemen , who use technology equivalent to that of the 20th century, largely through the use of various animals. The characters drive
Automobile s made out of stone or wood and animal skins and powered by
Foot . Although the series was set in the Stone Age, that never stopped the show's creators from producing a
Christmas episode during the original series' run, as well as several more Christmas specials in the
Decade s that followed.
One source of the show's humor was the ways animals were used for technology. For example, when the characters took becomes Sand-and-Stony-o; the country to the south of Bedrock's land is called Mexirock; and so forth.) Elevators are raised and lowered by ropes around brontosaurs' necks; "automatic" windows are powered by monkeys that dwell on the outside windowsill; birds configured as "car horns" are activated by pulling on their tails. An electric razor is depicted as a clam shell housing a bumble-bee vibrating it as the edges are rubbed against the character's face. &
Elizabeth Montgomery ) from
Bewitched as both cartoon characters and voice actors.
]]Being set in the
Stone Age allowed for endless gags and
Pun s that involved rocks in one way or another, including the names of the various characters being "rock" puns; some such names included celebrities of the 1960s such as "Cary Granite" (
Cary Grant ), "Stony Curtis" (
Tony Curtis ), "Ed Sulleystone" (
Ed Sullivan )", "Rock Hudstone" (
Rock Hudson ), and "Ann-Margrock" (
Ann-Margret ). Other celebrity/puns on ''The Flintstones'' were "Alvin Brickrock" (
Alfred Hitchcock ); "Perry Masonite" (
Perry Mason ); and a new neighbor lady "Sam" (Samantha of ''
Bewitched '').
In the show's closing credits, Fred tries to put the "cat" (actually a , was seen in the closing credits of every episode, it was rarely actually seen in any of the storylines. This
Running Gag of having the lead character of the series ending up being helpless during the end credits in every episode due to the hijinks of a family pet would later be repeated by Hanna-Barbera in the series ''
The Jetsons '' in which George Jetson ends up being caught on a
Treadmill that ends up spinning out of control. He also (as does Fred in this series) cries out for his wife, by asking her to stop the mechanism with the line, "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!"
- - The main character of the show.
- ( Née Pebble, later Slaghoople) - Fred's ever-patient wife.
- The Flintstones' infant daughter.
- - The Flintstones' Pet Dinosaur , which barked like a dog.
- - The Flintstones' Pet sabertoothed cat.
- - Fred's best friend and next door neighbor
- (née Elizabeth Jean McBricker) - Barney's wife.
- - the Rubbles' abnormally strong adopted son.
- - The Rubbles' Pet Kangaroo
- - Fred Flintstone's boss at the Stone Quarry .
- - the Flintstone's strange next-door neighbors (inspired by the then-popular monster sitcoms '' The Addams Family '' and '' The Munsters '')
- - an Alien exiled to Earth who helps Fred and Barney, often against their will. (possibly based on the Superman character '' Mister Mxyzptlk )''
The series drew directly from '' and his ever-patient wife
Wilma Flintstone , modeled after the Kramdens, and their friendly neighbors
Barney Rubble and wife
Betty Rubble modeled after the Nortons. Several of the characters' relationships also resembled those of ''The Honeymooners'', most notably being Fred's rivalry with Wilma's mother being identical to Ralph and Alice's mother.
''The Flintstones'' opened with a short scene lasting from a few seconds to a couple minutes before the opening song. During the first three seasons this was merely a teaser with footage that took place from within the episode (usually from somewhere in the middle). While this was merely a preview, this opening did not clue viewers in on the actual plot.
Beginning with the fourth season, the opening teaser was actually an opening scene more often than not (examples include ''Ann Margrock Presents'', ''Sleep On Sweet Fred''). But some episodes still had previews for teasers (''Glue For Two'' and ''10 Little Flintstones'' for example). On five episodes though the opening teaser was a scene that was supposed to be in the middle of the episode but during the actual body of the episode this short scene is skipped. These episodes were ''Daddy's Annonymous'', ''Peek A Boo Camera'', ''Once Upon A Coward'', ''Fred El Terifico'' and ''The Hatrocks'' (a.k.a. ''Bedrock Hillbillies'').
It has been noted that Fred Flintstone physically resembled voice actor
Alan Reed ,and also
Jackie Gleason . The voice of Barney was provided by legendary voice actor
Mel Blanc , though five episodes in the second season used actor
Daws Butler while Blanc was recovering from a near-fatal car accident. Blanc was able to return to the series, his lines were recorded from his house where he was recuperating.
Additional similarities with ''The Honeymooners'' included the fact that Reed based Fred's voice upon
Jackie Gleason 's interpretation of
Ralph Kramden , while Blanc, after a season of using a nasal, high-pitched voice for Barney, eventually adopted a style of voice similar to that used by
Art Carney in his portrayal of Ed Norton. In a 1980s
Playboy interview, Jackie Gleason said that Alan Reed had done voice-overs for Gleason in his early movies, and that he (Gleason) considered suing Hanna-Barbera for copying ''The Honeymooners'' but decided to let it pass.
Henry Corden handled the voice responsibilities of Fred after Reed's death in 1977. Corden had previously provided Fred's singing voice in ''
The Man Called Flintstone '' and later on Flintstones' children's records. After
1999 ,
Jeff Bergman performed the voice of Fred. Since Mel Blanc's death in
1989 , Barney has been voiced by both
Frank Welker and Bergman. Various other voices included
Hal Smith ,
Allan Melvin ,
Janet Waldo ,
Daws Butler ,
Howard Morris , and others.
Originally, the series was to have been titled ''The Flagstones'', and a brief demonstration film was created to sell the idea of a "modern stone age family" to sponsors and the network. When the series itself was commissioned, the title 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'', Hanna-Barbera settled upon ''The Flintstones''. Aside from the animation and fantasy setting, the show's scripts and format are typical of a 1950s
American Situation Comedy , with the usual family issues resolved with a laugh at the end of each episode.
Although most ''Flintstones'' episodes are standalone storylines, the series did have a few
Story Arc s. The most notable example was a series of episodes surrounding the birth of
Pebbles . Beginning with the episode "The Surprise", aired midway through the third season, in which Wilma reveals her
Pregnancy to Fred, the arc continued through the trials and tribulations leading up to Pebbles' birth, and then continued with several episodes showing Fred and Wilma adjusting to the world of parenthood.
A postscript to the arc occurred in the third episode of the fourth season, in which the Rubbles, depressed over being unable to have children of their own (making ''The Flintstones'' the first animated series in history to address the issue of
Infertility , though subtly), adopt Bamm-Bamm. The 100th episode made (but the 90th to air), ''Little Bamm Bamm'', established how Bamm Bamm was adopted. About nine episodes were made before it but shown after which explains why Bamm Bamm would not be seen again until episode 101 ''Daddy's Annonymous'' (Bamm Bamm was in a teaser on episode 98 ''Kleptomaniac Pebbes''). Another story arc, occurring in the final season, centered on Fred and Barney's dealings with The Great Gazoo (voiced by
Harvey Korman ).
The series was initially aimed at adult audiences; the first season was sponsored by
Winston Cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston.
The show also contained a
Laugh Track , common to most other sitcoms of the period. In the mid-1990s, when Turner Networks remastered the episodes, the original laugh track was removed. Currently, the shows airing on
Boomerang and the DVD releases have the original laugh track restored to ''most'' episodes (a number of shows from Seasons 1 and 2 still lack them). Some episodes, however, have a newer laugh track dubbed in, apparently replacing the old one. Because of this practice, the only episode to originally air ''without'' a laugh track ("Sheriff For a Day" in 1965) now has one.
Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a theatrical film based upon the series was released. ''
The Man Called Flintstone '' was a
Musical Spy caper that parodied
James Bond and other secret agents. The movie was released on DVD in
Canada in March 2005 but not in the
United States .
The show was revived in the
1970s with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm having grown into teenagers, and several different series and made-for-TV movies — including a series depicting Fred and Barney as police officers, another depicting the characters as children, and yet others featuring Fred and Barney encountering
Marvel Comics superhero
The Thing and
Comic Strip character
The Shmoo — have appeared over the years. The original show also was adapted into a hit
Live-action Film in 1994, which was so popular that a sequel (or rather, a prequel), ''
The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas '', followed in 2000.
as "Ann Margrock" was one of many famous names who lent their likenesses and voices to the series.]]
''The Flintstones'' was one of the more musical animated TV series, with many episodes featuring original, slightly rewritten, or actual popular recordings of the day, performed either by Fred, Barney, or a special guest star. In the first season Fred knew how to sing. One of the first song performances in the series was the old spiritual "
When The Saints Go Marching In " performed by Fred in the first season episode "Hot Lips Hannigan" in a vocal style strongly reminiscent of
Jazz crooner
Mel Tormé . A later episode, in which Fred takes on the persona of
Teen Idol "Hye Fye" sees him performing "Listen to the Rockin' Bird" — a rewrite of the standard "Listen to the Mockingbird". Again, Fred's voice sounds so much like Torme's that it was speculated the singer provided the voice, although it is actually Reed singing these two songs. Also in the first season while Alan mostly created Fred's speaking voice in an unnaturally loud tone, on occasion he used his natural tone to voice Fred (episode 5 "Split Personality" for example).
In the second season, Fred was stripped of his singing ability (in the season premiere for Season 2 "Hit Song Writers" Fred could not carry a tune when he attempted to sing "Stardust"). Fred was from then on depicted as being
Tone Deaf , but a couple times sang a few tunes that had limited vocal range. Alan Reed himself sang several tunes in his loud tone in the coming years, including "Christmas is My Favorite Time of Year" and "Dino the Dinosaur" in the series' often-replayed
Christmas episode. Mel Blanc also performed a few vocals, including a version of "
Old Folks At Home ", while Jean Van Der Pyl and Bea Benadaret sang two versions of "The Car Hop Song," one performing as a pair of young girls auditioning for a job with Fred and Barney's new hamburger stand, and a second version in character as Wilma and Betty. The song bears a strong resemblance, both in the tune and in the subject matter, to the much-later "Be Our Guest" from ''Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast''.
Many of the original songs in the series were composed by
Hoyt Curtin , who also did most of the background music for the show (as well as
Ted Nichols ).
Many musical moments were provided by celebrity voice artists who lent both their vocal talents and their likenesses to characters.
Hoagy Carmichael was the one of the first, introducing the original song "Yabba Dabba Doo!" in the second season premiere episode, "The Hit Songwriters" (in the same episode, Fred - on one of his tone deaf days - mangles Carmichael's "Stardust").
Ann-Margret , appearing in a fourth season episode as "Ann-Margrock", performed her single "I Ain't Goin' to Be Your Fool No More" and the lullaby "The Littlest Lamb".
James Darren , appearing as "Jimmy Darrock" performed "The Surfin' Craze", while
The Beau Brummels (as "The Beau Brummelstones") performed "Laugh Laugh", a real-life hit for the group. In the final season, space-rockers,
The Wayouts appeared.
One of the most fondly remembered songs of the series was "The Bedrock Twitch", performed by staff voice actor
Daws Butler and later performed in the first live-action ''Flintstones'' film by
The B-52s (who renamed themselves the BC-52s for the occasion); presented as a parody of
The Twist in the original TV series, the lyrics actually make reference to the then-current dance craze, and also include a reference to the rock and roll standard, "
Rock Around The Clock ". One song written for the series became a standard and not always identified as originating with the ''Flintstones'' — the seemingly endless sing-along "Happy Anniversary" which is often performed at anniversary parties. The spiritual "
Open Up Your Heart (and Let The Sunshine In) ", adopted as the series closing theme during the final season, as popularized by the series although it did not originate on the show. The aforementioned "Littlest Lamb" also became a popular lullaby.
During 1961, the cast members recorded an album of songs, in character, aimed at children. One of these songs, "Meet the Flintstones", was later adopted as the series' theme song beginning with the third season. Hanna Barbera's own record label,
Hanna-Barbera Records also released several other Flintstones-related recordings, including the five-song
EP , ''Wilma Flintstone in Songs from
Bambi '' (CS 7041), an unusual crossover between Hanna-Barbera and
Disney .
In 1994, label of
Germany .
A later prime time animated series, ''The Simpsons'', carries on a number of ''Flintstones'' traditions, including the incorporation of music into its storylines.
The famous theme song "Meet the Flintstones" was not actually introduced until the third season (1962–1963), although early versions of the melody can be heard as background music in many episodes. (The famous "Meet the Flintstones" theme, in a much longer form, first appeared on a ''Flintstones'' record released in the early 1960s). The theme used for the first and second seasons, an instrumental called "Rise and Shine", was removed from all first and second season episodes in
Syndication from the 1960s through the early 1990s and replaced with the "Meet the Flintstones" opening, while a closing credits sequence taken from a later episode was substituted at the end. As a result, the closing credits for all first season episodes in syndication were incorrect for many years. New syndicated versions of the episodes in the 1990s restored the original first season credits and theme, albeit with cigarette and other advertising matter omitted. According to information provided on the
DVD release of the second season, this decision was made because at the time syndicated programs were often aired out of their original broadcast order, and it was felt having the show jump between the different opening credits sequences would confuse audiences. Nonetheless, a number of later ''Flintstones'' episodes in syndication used an alternate version of the closing credits in which Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are shown singing "Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sunshine In".
The first season of the original series, with the original opening credits, as well as "Rise and Shine" restored but not the cigarette ads, was released on DVD in March 2003; Season 2 was released in December 2004; season 3 in March 2005; Season 4 in November 2005; season 5 in March 2006; and season 6, the final season, in September 2006.
In the 1960s the series had strong ties to a sponsor,
Winston Cigarettes . In one memorable advertisement, Fred and Barney relaxed while their wives did housework, smoking Winstons and reciting Winston's popular and famous jingle "
Winston Tastes Good Like A Cigarette Should !" In
1963 , Winston pulled their sponsorship from the show when Wilma became pregnant; after that point, the main sponsor was
Welch's Grape Juice . hawking Winston cigarettes, on a period black and white TV set.]]
Welch's advertised their product with animated commercials featuring the cartoon cast and they were often pictured in print ads and on grape juice containers. They were popular in many American homes in the 60s and 70s as drinking utensils (particularly if there were children in the family). Pebbles was frequently seen referred to in the series as drinking grape juice (or Pebbles "gape juice" as she called it) in her bottle. Most famously, Welch's featured cartoon drawings of the Flintstones on their grape jelly glass jars off and on for over a decade in possibly the longest-running television tie-in endorsement ever. It also became a
Pop Culture item of a sort; Flintstone jelly glass jars have been referred in everything from
Jodie Foster 's opening monologue on a 1970s episode of ''
Saturday Night Live '' to a line in
George Jones '
1989 Country Music hit "Yabba Dabba Doo, The King is Gone (And So Are You)."
The series spawned three and
Cocoa Pebbles , and the discontinued
Dino Pebbles (later revived as "
Marshmallow Mania Pebbles "). Commercials for these cereals featured a gimmick in the form of Barney (who seems much smarter in the commercials than in the show itself) tricking Fred out of his cereal, usually by way of disguising himself as something completely different. Eventually, Fred catches on and gives chase after Barney as the ad ends. Early ads used the closing tagline, "Yabba-dabba-delicious!", but the phrase was removed during the 1990s.
An enduring license has been a line of children's
Multivitamin s called "
Flintstones Complete " (more popularly known as Flintstones Vitamins); the first seasons of the series were, in part, sponsored by
Miles Laboratories . There has been a "Did You Know?" quiz circulating on the Internet for a number of years that asks which of the four main characters is ''not'' in Flintstone Vitamins. The answer, at one time, was Betty Rubble, who the Vitamin makers felt resembled Wilma too closely for a distinctive shape. However, since 1995 there has been a Betty vitamin after a media blitz wondering why she was curiously omitted. Actress
Rosie O'Donnell (who played Betty in ''
The Flintstones '' movie) was among the most vocal promoters of the idea for a Betty vitamin. The Flintstones' car, the "Flintmobile", which at one time was the fifth "character" in the vitamin cast, was removed to make room for Betty.
"Weird Al" Yankovic released a single and video entitled "
Bedrock Anthem " from his album ''
Alapalooza '' featuring many clips of ''The Flintstones'' animated TV show on the video. Also in ''
The Weird Al Show '' the episode ''
Talent Show '',
Hanna-Barbara made a short when ''
Weird Al '' was supposed to be in the show but he was cut after the first episode. The
Screaming Blue Messiahs scored a hit in the late 1980s with "I Wanna Be a Flintstone", a
Rockabilly song that incorporated sound samples from the series. The show and characters are also heavily referenced in the satirical remake of "
Anarchy In The U.K. " by comic heavy metal band
Green Jelly .
In
Planes, Trains, And Automobiles starring John Candy and Steve Martin, during a bus ride, John Candy leads the other passengers in a chorus of "Meet the Flintstones" to pass the time.
In
Red Dwarf , a popular
BBC Sci-Fi Comedy, The Cat and Lister are seen having discussion after having just watched the Flintstones, relating to the physical attractiveness of Wilma and Betty.
The Cat: "Well I would go with Betty, but I’d be thinking of Wilma."
Lister: "We’re crazy!" (pause) "She’ll never leave Fred and we know it!"
Most recently, The Flintstones have made an appearance in a
GEICO auto insurance commercial. It is revealed that the money Fred Flintstone saved by using GEICO was what he used to buy Wilma her omnipresent necklace.
Only the advent of ''
The Simpsons '' decades later brought cartoons back to American prime time network television with the kind of success ''The Flintstones'' enjoyed. And it was ''The Simpsons'' in
1997 that ultimately broke ''The Flintstones'' record as the longest-running prime time animated series. A number of episodes of ''The Simpsons'' made explicit or implicit references to ''The Flintstones''—for example, in one episode of ''The Simpsons'' ("
Marge Vs. The Monorail ") the starting sequence parodies the opening and theme song of ''The Flintstones'', in "
Homer's Night Out ",
Homer states to
Apu "sorry, buddy, you've got me confused with Fred Flintstone", and in episode ("
Treehouse Of Horror XII ") Homer and
Marge Simpson dress as Fred and Wilma Flintstone in the opening. Another episode ("
Lady Bouvier's Lover ") has
Mr. Burns greeting Homer, Marge and
Maggie as Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles. Homer subsequently says "Yabba Dabba Doo!" when Mr. Burns gives him a box of chocolates. Another episode, "
A Star Is Burns ", features a TV announcement "Coming up next, The Flintstones Meet
The Jetsons !", to which
Bart comments "Uh-oh, I smell another cheap cartoon crossover" (the joke being that Homer promptly enters and introduces him to visiting
Jay Sherman , from the short lived animated series ''
The Critic '').
One
Couch Gag , used in the episode "
Kamp Krusty ", even featured the Simpsons running in and finding the Flintstones (as they were originally animated) sitting on the Simpsons' couch.
- While ''The Flintstones'' is generally considered the first cartoon to air in prime time, it was preceded by '' CBS Cartoon Theater '', which aired reruns of Terrytoons theatrical shorts for 3 months in 1956, and was hosted by a young Dick Van Dyke . Following that series, '' The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show '', a cartoon based on an Academy Award -winning animated short, ran for a few months on Friday nights on CBS in 1958. Both shows, however, were designed to showcase theatrical cartoon shorts. ''The Flintstones'' remains the first animated series made up of all original programming to air prime time.
- Was the first ''animated'' show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed. (The first live-action depiction of this in American TV history was in television's first-ever 's '' Mary Kay And Johnny .'')http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marykay.htm
- Fred's regular place of employment has been identified by at least 18 different names.
- Fred's boss had numerous names and even faces, alternating between a short man dressed in purple and a taller completely bald man in glasses. Finally, the taller boss with the glasses became permanent, with the more well known name of Mr. Slate.
- A boy named Junior was included in the series' press release and in a Little Golden Book adventure (as well as on some advance merchandise related to the program), but never on the actual show.
- When the decision was made in 1962 that the Flintstones would have a baby, the child was going to be a boy named Fred Jr. Then they decided that a girl would make for better merchandising like dolls, etc.
- The Flintstones car, if indeed it is the same car from one episode to the next, is sometimes a two seater or four seater, a topped car or convertible, and left side steering or right side steering.
- The Flintstones' house changes size, design (including garage, which appears and disappears in various episodes), and furniture in nearly every episode. Some fans have tried to explain this away by suggesting that, as the houses are made out of large slates of rock, the inhabitants of Bedrock often rebuild and redesign their houses.
- It was never specifically stated what Barney's regular work was. He would get laid off occasionally, and worked various places, such as for a repossession firm, and in one episode he worked at a competing quarry, until a brief period of employment at the same quarry as Fred.
- Dino was originally introduced in the episode "The Snorkasaurus Hunter," in which Fred and Barney are hunting a talking purple dinosaur, which Wilma and Betty befriend and save from danger. Wilma then brings Dino home and he becomes a sort of servant for Wilma. In future episodes the story line was changed without explanation to make Dino a typical dog.
- In some later incarnations of the show, by which time the word "gay" (as in "We'll have a ''gay'' old time") was more closely associated with being Homosexual , the lyric was changed to "We'll have a ''great old'' (or "groovy") time". However, the first Flintstones movie in 1994 restored the word "gay" to the theme tune, as performed by the band the B-52s (as the BC-52s).
- Alan Reed and Bea Benaderet have a common link to another prime time TV series - '' Petticoat Junction ''. After ''The Flintstones''' cancellation, Reed continued to prosper by working in more secondary character or guest starring roles in live action series, including "Petticoat" and '' Batman ''. In Petticoat Junction, he plays "Bandit Lawson," a bank robber nabbed by Uncle Joe, in Episode #166, "Bad Day at Shady Rest". This program aired in the show's fifth season. Unfortunately, Reed could not work with his friend and former ''Flintstones'' castmate. Benaderet, starring as hotel matron Kate Bradley, fell ill around this time. She sadly succumbed to Lung Cancer later in the year. The episode's female lead is Rosemary DeCamp , brought in to play Aunt Helen as Benaderet's replacement.
- According to an old Cartoon Network promo for ''The Flintstones'', the line "Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet" is the most commonly forgotten line of ''The Flintstones'' theme song. This promo now occasionally is aired on Boomerang.
- The "Meet the Flintstones" theme is sung briefly at the close of the pilot of the sitcom '' Full House ''.
- In earlier seasons, Barney's eyes were portrayed as white circles with a black outline that gave them a "hollow O" shape. However, this attracted controversy among Flintstones viewers and was adjusted in later seasons to a full black circle that exhibited more definition
- The third season episode ''The Buffalo Convention'' (P-67) is taken from the Laurel And Hardy film '' Sons Of The Desert ''. The film's characters were a clear inspiration for ' The Honeymooners ''.
- '''' (1995) featuring "Stay Out!" and "The Great Egg-Scape"
- '''' (1996)
:''For a list of DVDs, video games, comic books, and VHS releases, see
List Of The Flintstones Media .
- of ''Flintstones'', was dubbed into Arabic between late 90's or early 2000s. Used both '' I Yabba-Dabba Do! '' and '' Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby '' as the 2 final Story Arcs of the show)
- Basque : ''Harriketarrak''
- Bulgarian : Семейство Флинтстоун ''Semeystvo Flinstoun'' (lit. "Flintstone Family")
- Catalan : ''Els Picapedra'' (adapted from Spanish ''Los Picapiedra'')
- Chinese : 聰明笨伯 (lit. "The intelligent fool") or 摩登原始人 ("The modern prehistoric man")
- Croatian : ''Obitelj Kremenko''
- Czech : ''Flintstonovi''
- Danish : ''Familien Flintstone'' (lit. "The Flintstone Family")
- Dutch : ''De Flintstones''
- Estonian : ''Ränirahnud'' (lit. "Silicon Boulders")
- Finnish : ''Kiviset ja Soraset'' (the names of the Flintstones and the Rubbles)
- '' (from ''pierre à feu'', lit. "stone for fire", i.e. Flint )
- '' (lit. "Flintstone Family")
- Greek : ''Φλινστοουνς''
- Hebrew : משפחת קדמוני ''Mishpakhat Kadmoni'' (lit. "Prehistoric Family", from ''adam kadmon'', meaning "prehistoric human")
- Hungarian : ''Frédi és Béni, a két kőkorszaki szaki'' (lit. "Fred and Barney, the Two Stone-Age Chums")
- Icelandic : ''Steinaldarmennirnir'' (lit. "The stone age people")
- Italian : ''Gli antenati'' (lit. "The ancestors") but they are also known as "I Flintstones" ("The Flintstones")
- Japanese : 原始家族フリントストーン ''Genshi Kazoku Furintosutōn'' ("Primitive Family Flintstone")
- family")
- Latvian : ''Flinstoni''
- Macedonian : Кременковци ''Kremenkovtsi'' (lit. "Flintstoners")
- Maltese : ''Il-Familja Flinstones''
- Norwegian : ''Familien Flintstones''
- Polish : ''Flintstonowie'' (when the series was broadcast for the first time on Polish TV in the late 70s/early 80s, it was titled ''Między nami jaskiniowcami'' which when translated from Polish means "Between us, cavemen" )
- ''
- Romanian : ''Familia Flintstone'' (lit. The Flintstone Family)
- Russian : Флинтстоуны ''Flintstouny''
- Serbian : Porodica Kremenko ''Породица Кременко'' (lit. "The Flintstone Family")
- Slovak : ''Flintstonovci''
- Slovene : ''Kremenčkovi''
- Spanish : ''Los Picapiedra'' ("The Stone Choppers")
- Swedish : ''Familjen Flinta''
- Turkish : ''Taş Devri'' (lit. "Stone Age")
