Well I'm the master rapper and I'm here to say, I love fruity pebbles in a major way, The Bedrock yellow, orange, purple, lime and red, but to get the fruity taste I gotta trick Fred -Barney Rubble
@@Bladez10 There's nothing balanced about crisp rice cereal bits made of polydextrose and covered with food coloring. But they certainly are delicious. 😋
It all makes perfect sense now! The Univers and all of it's secrets are clear! The Univers started HERE and has been lost with this episode until now! The missing number has been found!
I like how they still made this same exact episode in the official show while of course changing Betty Rubble's design to how we know her now. This was very interesting.
Plus Alan Reed cast as Fred and Mel Blanc as Barney. I do feel that getting Alan to do Fred was more appropriate being that Alan had the lungs and his voice tone and range and gruffy demeanor was better suited for Fred,and while Mel Blanc was great as Barney,I do think they could have kept Daws Butler for Barney and he would have been just as great because Daws did the Art Carney-esque voice perfectly,whom Barney was based on. Incidentally though for the first 5 episodes of season 2 Daws did voice Barney while Mel was recovering from a severe car accident. I don't think he sounded as good as Barney in those episodes though as he does in the pilot episode. It was like he was trying to do it the way Mel did but ended up sounding,to me,like an aged Yogi Bear with a cold. That may have been of course how the directors,Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera directed Daws to do Barney's voice for those episodes since Barney by then was technically Mel's character and Daws was only filling in for a few episodes until Mel was able to resume doing the part,so Daws didn't really have the liberty to voice Barney in his own style.
But on the other hand I think they did good casting Mel for Barney because,while Daws did a good Art Carney like impression of him,if they had kept it like that I don't think Barney would have become the innocent and warm natured character that we came to know and who grew on us and Mel gave Barney that persona,so I say they made a great pick for Barney with Mel. The Art Carney type might have been funny but basically just a dopey character that would lack the cheerful and bright personality that Mel gave Barney. Heck the show might not have lasted so long with a monotone Barney.
Reminds me of how the initial My Life as a Teenage Robot pilot was adapted almost word-for-word and shot-for-shot as the first episode, with but a considerable overhaul of the character designs.
Not any really radical changes to the characters or formula, just a stylish redraw for Betty to match Wilma. A lot of shows reshot their pilot proof episodes to save the cost of paying another writer $1000. Dick vanDyke Show reshot the Carl Reiner as Rob Petrey pilot with Rob, Laura Petrie and a much less grating kid...then showed it mid season. Hogans Heroes pilot was shot in B&W with a castmember that didn't sign a series contract because he thought the series was in bad taste. The Lt they smuggled into the camp as a guest actor was then cast as the American corporal and the episode was filmed in color. Doctor Who, an Unearthly Child 1st filming (pilot) was so technically bad that BBC said it had to be refilmed for the series. For 1963 Doctor Who....that must have been REALLY BAD.
That explains why I vaguely remembered this scene, there was already another episode made out of this except adjusting some designs. Thanks for mentioning it.
Produced in late 1959 as a "demonstration film", to sell to potential sponsors in early 1960. Daws Butler is "Fred" and "Barney"; June Foray is "Betty"; Jean VanderPyl is "Wilma" (she was the only one to continue in the series). Ken Muse animated this sequence; this was "reanimated" in "The Swimming Pool" episode.
thanks for the info because I knew the voice of Barney in this pilot was NOT Mel Blanc. who did the voice of Barney in the series. or Allen Reed who did the voice of Fred.
What I love is that Alan Reed did Fred's voice right up until he passed in 1977. Harry Corden took over the role but didn't sound anything like the OG Fred Flintstone. Fun fact: Harry Corden was on an episode of The Simpsons playing Fred Flintstone.
Ya know...I *loved* The Flintstones as kid (it was already a "classic" when I was a baby), but watching the original run as an adult I realize there's a whole dimension to the show that I couldn't have grasped with my tiny elementary-school mind. Such magic!! I wonder if the creators knew it would hold up 50+ years later...
@@bsquared4604 The show The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason was said to be the inspiration for the Flintstone's. I was born in the late 50s and remember watching this in the evenings. I've collected off and on Flintstones memorabilia over the yrs and have the whole complete box set ( 166 episode's ) that I still watch today at 64 yrs old. Always loved the Flintstone's but the humor at that time was really more geared for adult audiences. If you watch it today as an adult you can see this. There are things I pick up on now that I didn't when I was a child. And it also had good family values. The cast may have made wrong decision's but in the end they acknowledged it and apologized and made up.
@@Bitterstone3849 there was an episode of each show that was identical to the other: the kissing bandit episode. I remember seeing The Honeymooners version and instantly recognizing it as a Flintstones episode I had seen previously. It's been many years, but I remember the dialogue being almost identical.
Just as well we didn't catch the adult satire back in those days. Hanna-Barbera (whose 65th anniversary was this year) really only came about at the end of the Golden Age and made its name through what came to be known as the Dark Age. This was at a time when the craft of animation was perceived to be in very serious danger of extinction. If we were to take the word of the surviving Golden Age players, the original adult demographic was at worst not particularly impressed by what they were seeing. The rise of television in this era meant what for the old theatrical shorts would become the ultimate retirement home. Seeing as how they do have children, some animators quickly came to realize the role the small screen was going to play in the future of the craft. As proven by the immense success of The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show _(the_ #1 Saturday morning series for years!), the exposure of the works to these fresh new minds and eyes was instrumental in reversing the aforementioned danger. In too many cases to count, these new generations executed the perception of the animators' original vision in the seamless manner that might not have been seen possible in the original time. But more than that, it seriously preserved the memory of the classic live-action series on which works like these were based. The memory of The Honeymooners lives on.
This was the original pilot episode for The Flintstones, but was never shown with the original series. It was actually a 90-second "demo reel" designed to sell the series to potential advertisers in the winter of 1959.
I remember when the Flintstones first came on in the early 1960's. It was on prime time before becoming Saturday morning fare. It was an analog of the early sitcom "The Honeymooners".
In Germany it was in the time between 6 and 8 pm, where the public television network had a window for the local TV stations and commercials and in between "Familie Feuerstein" how it was called.
I remember when I was a kid watching this show, at the end Fred would bashing on the door and calling out to Wilma for ages, and one by one, all the house lights came on until the entire town was awake! 🤣
It definitely has an "early" feel to it. Wilma's voice sounds the same, but I guess they hadn't decided on the Fred voice, yet, and Barney sounds really different. Also, poor Betty is Non Descriptive Female Background Character A here.
I know Barmy had a few voice changes he sounded really different in the early seasons. The voice in this sounds closer to the original dopy voice that were all used to hearing.
I'm pretty sure that's Betty, but the creators either didn't like the original design, or it was actually a background character and the official Betty design hadn't been created yet. Designing characters and environments tend to change throughout production until they finally settled for one for the season.
Even in 2010, this had nothing of lost. When the Flintstones live action movie was released, Cartoon Network ran a mini marathon of the alleged original B/W first episodes (actually, they were the regular episodes without the chroma signal). Along with them, this pilot was also broadcast. Around the same time, infomercials for home video releases of Flintstone episodes with the pilot were also broadcast. Cartoon Network repeated the same Marathon with the pilot a year later for the anniversary of The Flintstones. I doubt there was someone who like the Flintstones who didn’t record the pilot the moment it was first broadcast, I did.
I noticed that in "The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas" that Mark Addy and Stephen Baldwin appear to be impersonating Jackie Gleason and Art Carney more than Fred and Barney.
The movie was fun. Goodman was a great selection to play Fred, and Moranis, while odd, was a creative idea to play Barney that turned out better than I expected it to. My one big issue with the movie was the irony of casting the arguably sexiest character of the show (Betty) to be played by the least attractive woman in all of Hollywood. It's only forgivable because it's a cartoon. Were it not for that, and the fact that Rosie did an otherwise pretty decent job with what was handed her (despite my issues with her real persona) it may have really impacted the favorability of the movie.
The "Flagstones" became the "Flintstones" after Mort Walker, cartoonist creator of the comic strip "Hi & Lois" (whose last name was Flagston) arranged a meeting between his legal staff & those of Hanna-Barbera; outcome was this: "Flagstones" became "Flintstones"
They had to change the name from the Flagstones to the Flintstones due to a copyright snafu with the writers of HI and Lois. (Their last name is Flagston)
@@jonnaking3054 WOW, are you kidding??? I NEVER came across that as a kid!!! I was only aware of Pebbles. I'd read when they were planning on having Fred and Wilma become parents, the writers first considered a son named Rocky, but they decided upon Pebbles instead. Frankly, I'm GLAD! Besides, there was already a Rocky cartoon character anyway, Rocket J. Squirrel! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
@@PJBovio one reason they decided to go with a girl was because they felt that a girl baby was better fit for Flintstones merchandise,like dolls and things like that and they felt that girl dolls would sell better than boy dolls.
@@JamesSmith-jq6om I'm glad it worked out that way. For the Flintstones to have had a boy would have been just another example of male character dominance and "superiority" in the cartoon industry. Pebbles have little girls something to be proud of.
The Flintstones was originally targeted to adults. I came on at 7pm and was sponsored by Winston cigarettes. There are videos still around that Fred and Barney are smoking and pitching the smokes.
While I like Daws Butler and June Foray, Alan Reed and Bea Benaderet were much better as Fred and Betty. I believe this was the first and only time June Foray was replaced by Bea Benaderet, usually it was the other way around. Bea was the original voice actress for Granny and Witch Hazel until she left for The Burns and Allen Show and June replaced her.
I was listening to an olde tyme radio detective show late one night in bed recently, and suddenly I bolted upright and shouted THAT'S FRED FLINTSTONE! Sure enough, the guest actor on the show was indeed Alan Reed.
Billy West can sound like that, and just about anything else, but he was only 7 years old at that time. Check out this clip of a WB tribute to The Honeymooners which is pretty much what The Flintstones was. czcams.com/video/ho26bcKhU6M/video.html
Joe Barbera was already using Daws- and his *many* voices- for H-B's syndicated cartoon series {"HUCKLEBERY HOUND", "QUICK DRAW McGRAW"}, and wanted a "fresh voice" for "Fred Flintstone". George O'Hanlon and Bill Thompson were originally chosen as "Fred" and "Barney", but their voice tracks were scrapped after a few preliminary recording sessions. Finally, Alan Reed and Mel Blanc assumed the roles, and production of the series began in April 1960.
@@Kirbythecuteball Nope. HB studios had this in their vault since then. They loaned it to the Cartoon Network in the 90's for a Flintstone marathon. I still have it recorded on VHS from 30 years ago. It's never been lost.
That's funny. My mom always said that my dad looked like John Astin (aka Gomez Adams), so I always kind of thought of John Astin as my father when I was a kid.
Betty has coal black eyes and no lipstick, Fred sounds nothing like himself, and Barney sounds like a fusion of his deep nasally voice from the early episodes and his high goofy voice we know today.
Is that Daws Butler doing Fred's voice?? No wonder they got Alan Reed, Butler sounds too much like Ralph Kramden for comfort!! Alan Reed MADE Flintstone!!! He even used to visit children's hospitals dressed in a caveman costume, bless that WONDERFUL man!!! 😍😍😍😍
Note that in this pilot, none of the characters have their trademark Hanna Barbara necklace, tie or collar that was used to hide the limited animation of the head while leaving the body stationary.
You know, I could've swore I once saw this cartoon short that basically served as a demo for Scooby-Doo. The one thing I remember about it was that Velma was the monster (for some reason) and Shaggy was nowhere to be seen
The background music was the typical HB type of music found in their preFlintstones cartoons like Ruff n Ready, Pixie and Dixie, Huckleberry Hound and Yogi. This type of music was not used in the Flintstones
This Isn`t a lost episode since I recently watched it yesterday. But maybe 12 years ago it was. The only difference is the look and voice of Betty, the voice of Barney, and the voice of Fred.
I distinctly remember this from deep in my memories. Especially Wilma in the umbrella. But also the ricochet arrow and Barney craning his neck to watch it. I wonder if some of these were incorporated into the regular series production???
Who else had this randomly show up in their recommended?
Me.
Gallibon- me too...
yes.
Same here.
👋
And from this moment on, Barney dedicated his life to scamming Fred out of his food, including his beloved Fruity Pebbles.
Well I'm the master rapper and I'm here to say,
I love fruity pebbles in a major way,
The Bedrock yellow, orange, purple, lime and red,
but to get the fruity taste I gotta trick Fred
-Barney Rubble
Part of this balance breakfast.
@@Bladez10 There's nothing balanced about crisp rice cereal bits made of polydextrose and covered with food coloring. But they certainly are delicious. 😋
In one episode a alien robot Fred goes and raids Barney's fridge everyone thought Fred was just sleep walking because he was on a diet.
It all makes perfect sense now! The Univers and all of it's secrets are clear! The Univers started HERE and has been lost with this episode until now! The missing number has been found!
The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Top Cat, Jonny Quest...we had some great evening cartoons back in the day.
Not to mention The Bugs Bunny Show, The Alvin Show, Calvin & the Colonel.
Wally Gator quick draw McGraw atom ant pixie and Dixie jinx
Huckleberry hound snagglepuss Augie doggie
@@LindaMerchant-pm8vnThe Good ol’ days
And all in reruns throughout the 90s
I like how they still made this same exact episode in the official show while of course changing Betty Rubble's design to how we know her now. This was very interesting.
Plus Alan Reed cast as Fred and Mel Blanc as Barney. I do feel that getting Alan to do Fred was more appropriate being that Alan had the lungs and his voice tone and range and gruffy demeanor was better suited for Fred,and while Mel Blanc was great as Barney,I do think they could have kept Daws Butler for Barney and he would have been just as great because Daws did the Art Carney-esque voice perfectly,whom Barney was based on. Incidentally though for the first 5 episodes of season 2 Daws did voice Barney while Mel was recovering from a severe car accident. I don't think he sounded as good as Barney in those episodes though as he does in the pilot episode. It was like he was trying to do it the way Mel did but ended up sounding,to me,like an aged Yogi Bear with a cold. That may have been of course how the directors,Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera directed Daws to do Barney's voice for those episodes since Barney by then was technically Mel's character and Daws was only filling in for a few episodes until Mel was able to resume doing the part,so Daws didn't really have the liberty to voice Barney in his own style.
But on the other hand I think they did good casting Mel for Barney because,while Daws did a good Art Carney like impression of him,if they had kept it like that I don't think Barney would have become the innocent and warm natured character that we came to know and who grew on us and Mel gave Barney that persona,so I say they made a great pick for Barney with Mel. The Art Carney type might have been funny but basically just a dopey character that would lack the cheerful and bright personality that Mel gave Barney. Heck the show might not have lasted so long with a monotone Barney.
Reminds me of how the initial My Life as a Teenage Robot pilot was adapted almost word-for-word and shot-for-shot as the first episode, with but a considerable overhaul of the character designs.
Not any really radical changes to the characters or formula, just a stylish redraw for Betty to match Wilma.
A lot of shows reshot their pilot proof episodes to save the cost of paying another writer $1000.
Dick vanDyke Show reshot the Carl Reiner as Rob Petrey pilot with Rob, Laura Petrie and a much less grating kid...then showed it mid season.
Hogans Heroes pilot was shot in B&W with a castmember that didn't sign a series contract because he thought the series was in bad taste. The Lt they smuggled into the camp as a guest actor was then cast as the American corporal and the episode was filmed in color.
Doctor Who, an Unearthly Child 1st filming (pilot) was so technically bad that BBC said it had to be refilmed for the series. For 1963 Doctor Who....that must have been REALLY BAD.
That explains why I vaguely remembered this scene, there was already another episode made out of this except adjusting some designs. Thanks for mentioning it.
Produced in late 1959 as a "demonstration film", to sell to potential sponsors in early 1960. Daws Butler is "Fred" and "Barney"; June Foray is "Betty"; Jean VanderPyl is "Wilma" (she was the only one to continue in the series). Ken Muse animated this sequence; this was "reanimated" in "The Swimming Pool" episode.
thanks for the info because I knew the voice of Barney in this pilot was NOT Mel Blanc. who did the voice of Barney in the series.
or Allen Reed who did the voice of Fred.
+Astraldragon1 The Lost Pilot of "The Flintstones" was aired on Cartoon Network in 1994.
Question, does that make "The Swimming Pool" the real first episode?
Fun fact Ken Muse was born in the Tom and Jerry Cartoons in the 1940s
Just like when Sylvester James Pussycast was called Thomas in a Looney Tunes Short before being changed to Sylvester to avoid the lawsuit from MGM
Proto-Betty looks different compared to the Betty we knew since the very first Flintstones episode starting from Season 1!
The got rid of the extra hairs and harder to draw hairstyle. Too tough to draw and track when working fast in tv animation.
This is season one
@@andrewturk6562 No, this is the pilot.
Black Fred flagstone lol that's a surprise. I hope they didn't have to whitewash him to get greenlighted.
@@andrewturk6562Except that was a different version of the pilot.
What I love is that Alan Reed did Fred's voice right up until he passed in 1977. Harry Corden took over the role but didn't sound anything like the OG Fred Flintstone.
Fun fact: Harry Corden was on an episode of The Simpsons playing Fred Flintstone.
Dino & Juliet is the first episode in the series to feature Harry Corden as a voice actor.
It was never as good.
Didnt Corden also do Fred when he was in that Episode of Billy and Mandy?
In the case of this pilot, it's Daws Butler.
I hear, as opposed to the series, June Foray and Daws Butler.
Ya know...I *loved* The Flintstones as kid (it was already a "classic" when I was a baby), but watching the original run as an adult I realize there's a whole dimension to the show that I couldn't have grasped with my tiny elementary-school mind. Such magic!! I wonder if the creators knew it would hold up 50+ years later...
Yep!
It was primetime show when it first aired.
@@bsquared4604 The show The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason was said to be the inspiration for the Flintstone's. I was born in the late 50s and remember watching this in the evenings. I've collected off and on Flintstones memorabilia over the yrs and have the whole complete box set ( 166 episode's ) that I still watch today at 64 yrs old. Always loved the Flintstone's but the humor at that time was really more geared for adult audiences. If you watch it today as an adult you can see this. There are things I pick up on now that I didn't when I was a child. And it also had good family values. The cast may have made wrong decision's but in the end they acknowledged it and apologized and made up.
@@Bitterstone3849 there was an episode of each show that was identical to the other: the kissing bandit episode. I remember seeing The Honeymooners version and instantly recognizing it as a Flintstones episode I had seen previously. It's been many years, but I remember the dialogue being almost identical.
Just as well we didn't catch the adult satire back in those days.
Hanna-Barbera (whose 65th anniversary was this year) really only came about at the end of the Golden Age and made its name through what came to be known as the Dark Age. This was at a time when the craft of animation was perceived to be in very serious danger of extinction. If we were to take the word of the surviving Golden Age players, the original adult demographic was at worst not particularly impressed by what they were seeing.
The rise of television in this era meant what for the old theatrical shorts would become the ultimate retirement home. Seeing as how they do have children, some animators quickly came to realize the role the small screen was going to play in the future of the craft. As proven by the immense success of The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show _(the_ #1 Saturday morning series for years!), the exposure of the works to these fresh new minds and eyes was instrumental in reversing the aforementioned danger. In too many cases to count, these new generations executed the perception of the animators' original vision in the seamless manner that might not have been seen possible in the original time.
But more than that, it seriously preserved the memory of the classic live-action series on which works like these were based. The memory of The Honeymooners lives on.
After all these years. its still a perfect sketch.
Man that umbrella gag was brilliant. You could already sense the top notch writing from this short clip.
This was the original pilot episode for The Flintstones, but was never shown with the original series. It was actually a 90-second "demo reel" designed to sell the series to potential advertisers in the winter of 1959.
That was cool. The voice actress for Wilma kept her job on the series. Betty was really different looking too.
Betty looked and sounded icky!! Thank God the creators got smart and made a new, much prettier Betty with Bea Benadaret's terrific voice❣❣❣❣❣
@@PJBovio Bite your toungue! That was the great June Foray! czcams.com/video/LpZM4G3lFQA/video.html
@@christosvoskresye I LOVE June Foray, nothing to do with her - it's that drawing of Betty I'm objecting to! 👎
@@PJBovio Ah yes.. June Foray.. the voice of Rocky the Flying Squirrel!
@@dsmith9964 Betty sounded just like Rocky in this pilot - her "Rocky" voice! 😂😂😂😂
I remember when the Flintstones first came on in the early 1960's. It was on prime time before becoming Saturday morning fare. It was an analog of the early sitcom "The Honeymooners".
In Germany it was in the time between 6 and 8 pm, where the public television network had a window for the local TV stations and commercials and in between "Familie Feuerstein" how it was called.
I remember when I was a kid watching this show, at the end Fred would bashing on the door and calling out to Wilma for ages, and one by one, all the house lights came on until the entire town was awake! 🤣
It definitely has an "early" feel to it. Wilma's voice sounds the same, but I guess they hadn't decided on the Fred voice, yet, and Barney sounds really different. Also, poor Betty is Non Descriptive Female Background Character A here.
I know Barmy had a few voice changes he sounded really different in the early seasons. The voice in this sounds closer to the original dopy voice that were all used to hearing.
@@superstarthomas In this clip I think Betty is voiced by June Foray (Voice of Rocky from Rocky and Bullwinkle)
YES!
Interesting how even cartoons have different characters in pilot episodes.
I'm pretty sure that's Betty, but the creators either didn't like the original design, or it was actually a background character and the official Betty design hadn't been created yet. Designing characters and environments tend to change throughout production until they finally settled for one for the season.
I love how they incorporated this scene in an actual episode later on.
BARNEY! MY SANDWICH!
Thanks for sharing this great piece of Flintstone history!
"Barney boy, you're making it tough to be friends."
*Immediately proves him right by eating his sandwich.*
Interesting to see part of the development of a classic cartoon series.
Man I'm glade they changed Freds voice.
This was a good foundation but its good to see how the cartoon progressed. Im glad they stuck with the name Flintstones and refined their look.
Even in 2010, this had nothing of lost. When the Flintstones live action movie was released, Cartoon Network ran a mini marathon of the alleged original B/W first episodes (actually, they were the regular episodes without the chroma signal). Along with them, this pilot was also broadcast.
Around the same time, infomercials for home video releases of Flintstone episodes with the pilot were also broadcast.
Cartoon Network repeated the same Marathon with the pilot a year later for the anniversary of The Flintstones. I doubt there was someone who like the Flintstones who didn’t record the pilot the moment it was first broadcast, I did.
I noticed that in "The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas" that Mark Addy and Stephen Baldwin appear to be impersonating Jackie Gleason and Art Carney more than Fred and Barney.
The movie was fun. Goodman was a great selection to play Fred, and Moranis, while odd, was a creative idea to play Barney that turned out better than I expected it to.
My one big issue with the movie was the irony of casting the arguably sexiest character of the show (Betty) to be played by the least attractive woman in all of Hollywood. It's only forgivable because it's a cartoon. Were it not for that, and the fact that Rosie did an otherwise pretty decent job with what was handed her (despite my issues with her real persona) it may have really impacted the favorability of the movie.
The "Flagstones" became the "Flintstones" after Mort Walker, cartoonist creator of the comic strip "Hi & Lois" (whose last name was Flagston) arranged a meeting between his legal staff & those of Hanna-Barbera; outcome was this: "Flagstones" became "Flintstones"
"" arranged a meeting between his legal staff & those of Hanna-Barbera"" LOL
Nope. Flagstone was a bad name. Flintstone was more in line with cave men. I made the suggestion. They took it. It wasn't for legal reasons.
In 1974, cartoonist Mort Walker released a book called "Backstage At The Strips"; this is the source for my information.
@@lawrenceharrison3655 The FlintStones were invented during a time when all sorts of stories were being made up, so who knows whats factual.
I read that The Flintstones originally had a son but he was dropped before the show debuted. He did appear in some pre-show Flintstones books, though.
I think you can find some old story books that feature their son
They had to change the name from the Flagstones to the Flintstones due to a copyright snafu with the writers of HI and Lois.
(Their last name is Flagston)
@@jonnaking3054 WOW, are you kidding??? I NEVER came across that as a kid!!! I was only aware of Pebbles. I'd read when they were planning on having Fred and Wilma become parents, the writers first considered a son named Rocky, but they decided upon Pebbles instead. Frankly, I'm GLAD! Besides, there was already a Rocky cartoon character anyway, Rocket J. Squirrel! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
@@PJBovio one reason they decided to go with a girl was because they felt that a girl baby was better fit for Flintstones merchandise,like dolls and things like that and they felt that girl dolls would sell better than boy dolls.
@@JamesSmith-jq6om I'm glad it worked out that way. For the Flintstones to have had a boy would have been just another example of male character dominance and "superiority" in the cartoon industry. Pebbles have little girls something to be proud of.
Pure gold
That was pre-prehistoric times.
I love this show when I was little The Flintstones and I still watch the Flintstone and I got older
The Flintstones was originally targeted to adults. I came on at 7pm and was sponsored by Winston cigarettes. There are videos still around that Fred and Barney are smoking and pitching the smokes.
While I like Daws Butler and June Foray, Alan Reed and Bea Benaderet were much better as Fred and Betty. I believe this was the first and only time June Foray was replaced by Bea Benaderet, usually it was the other way around. Bea was the original voice actress for Granny and Witch Hazel until she left for The Burns and Allen Show and June replaced her.
Excellent knowledge of VO actors! I originally thought that June Foray was the OG witch hazel. Bea was the GOAT!
I was listening to an olde tyme radio detective show late one night in bed recently, and suddenly I bolted upright and shouted THAT'S FRED FLINTSTONE! Sure enough, the guest actor on the show was indeed Alan Reed.
@@GeraldM_inNC alan reed and bea did a lot of work in radio
i thought that was daws and bea
@@thewkovacs316 As Betty? No, in this clip, that's definitely June Foray. Almost sounds like Rocky the Squirrel as Betty. :D
The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Top Cat, Jonny Quest…we need more cartoons from Boomerang or Cartoon Network like this!
Wow ... A true classic !!!
....How is that mask supposed to protect Barney's eyes when there's clearly no glass and his nose is sticking three inches out from it? I love it.
trust the science.. flatten the curve.. 15 days to slow the spread
@@desktorp
Thank You!!!
Hidden adult gag.
@david esktorp
i love you and your white mamma does too.
Glass hadn't been invented yet
This is gold! Pure gold!
And thus, began the starting point of Barney taking Fred’s Pebbles cereals.
June Foray!
Actually, that was Bea Benaderet doing Betty.
@@jgregveneklasen2657She did so in the main series; Foray is doing the voice in this pilot.
I'm pretty sure that's Dawes Butler as Fred, but it almost sounds like Billy West, oddly enough.
lotusbandicoot Yes, it is Dawes Butler.
Billy West can sound like that, and just about anything else, but he was only 7 years old at that time. Check out this clip of a WB tribute to The Honeymooners which is pretty much what The Flintstones was. czcams.com/video/ho26bcKhU6M/video.html
Joe Barbera was already using Daws- and his *many* voices- for H-B's syndicated cartoon series {"HUCKLEBERY HOUND", "QUICK DRAW McGRAW"}, and wanted a "fresh voice" for "Fred Flintstone". George O'Hanlon and Bill Thompson were originally chosen as "Fred" and "Barney", but their voice tracks were scrapped after a few preliminary recording sessions. Finally, Alan Reed and Mel Blanc assumed the roles, and production of the series began in April 1960.
Yes it is Daws as Fred and barney
Lost Pilot? Nope. Never has been lost. New to some people. But has never been lost.
Since 1959
@@Kirbythecuteball Nope. HB studios had this in their vault since then. They loaned it to the Cartoon Network in the 90's for a Flintstone marathon. I still have it recorded on VHS from 30 years ago. It's never been lost.
I love how Fred actually stayed calm. *"Barney boy, you're making it tough to be friends"*
I can't imagine seeing a woman bring her husband food on a TV show nowadays.
my dad looked like Fred
i grew up thinking Fred was my dad
LOL
That's funny. My mom always said that my dad looked like John Astin (aka Gomez Adams), so I always kind of thought of John Astin as my father when I was a kid.
That’s adorable!!
This is a high quality rip.
I have a Dubbed version on a Cartoon Network DVD.
Betty has coal black eyes and no lipstick, Fred sounds nothing like himself, and Barney sounds like a fusion of his deep nasally voice from the early episodes and his high goofy voice we know today.
Is that Daws Butler doing Fred's voice?? No wonder they got Alan Reed, Butler sounds too much like Ralph Kramden for comfort!! Alan Reed MADE Flintstone!!! He even used to visit children's hospitals dressed in a caveman costume, bless that WONDERFUL man!!! 😍😍😍😍
Well, The Flintstones was based on The Honeymooners. That explains the early Fred with the thick Brooklyn accent.
The voice for Fred, sounds just like that of the burglar, from the Frieberg record, nutten for Christmas.
Pretty close to the final product. I loved The Flintstones when I was a kid. (Original series)
1959
I have a Hanna Barbera DVD and incluide this pilot.
Me too.
The Flagstones can be different by being a Iconic Video Game
You can't lose, either you'll spear 'em or they'll die laughin'! 😅😅😅
Note that in this pilot, none of the characters have their trademark Hanna Barbara necklace, tie or collar that was used to hide the limited animation of the head while leaving the body stationary.
Some scenes weren't completed, but it gives a good impression to convince a TV station to buy it.
This is amazing amazing absolutely amazing
I'd say that's a pretty good pitching of the series.
Don Messick, Jean Vander Pyl, June Foray & Mel Blanc. ❤
Fred with the Joe Rockhead voice.
Betty sounds like Rocky the Squirrel from Rocky and bullwinkle
I always thought of The Flintstones as a cartoon version of The Honeymooners.
I believe it was actually modeled after The Honeymooners.
You know, I could've swore I once saw this cartoon short that basically served as a demo for Scooby-Doo. The one thing I remember about it was that Velma was the monster (for some reason) and Shaggy was nowhere to be seen
So glad they revamped it
Thanks for posting it.
(insert GRAND DAD reference here)
The scene was used in episode 3 of the real series titled "The Swimming Pool"
That’s exactly how Barney got the Pebbles.
I feel like I had a comic book with this episode, it seems so familiar for some reason
Loved the series as a kid in reruns
The background music was the typical HB type of music found in their preFlintstones cartoons like Ruff n Ready, Pixie and Dixie, Huckleberry Hound and Yogi. This type of music was not used in the Flintstones
Well the lost pilot! THANKS!
Watching an alternate universe version of the Flintstones , this is proof of the multiverse .
The pilot of The Flintstones known as The Flagstones is from 1959
This is so cool
The grand dad pilot
Now that was pretty cool
Great Grand Dad.
Best show ever !
It's arguably way up there...😄 I find the series amusing to this day.
Really cool, thanks so much!
There's clearly no glass in Barney's water mask.Deeming it pointless.
... which is part of the genius of it.
Like the sound effects of the arrow hitting everything in its overall ending to pop fat Freddie’s floatation.lol.
I like how everyone is getting recommended this video now.
Im loving those light gray 5 o clock shadows on their faces. It really brings out the cavemen facial ruggedness...
I'm glad that Betty was redesigned for the series. She looks kind plain in this pilot, but she was kinda hot in the series.
All different voices but Wilma. Barney's changed during the series run, but the others all stayed the same.
I hated the Flintstones when I was young, but this was actually funny.
Just like what my grand dad used to watch.
The Honeymooners were an inspiration.....,.,,
Hannah and Barbara tapped into social trends.
I first saw this on DVD when we are at the school that one time.
Cool
The Flagstones (1959)
I learned about the Flagstones years ago, didn’t know there was actually footage around of it.
Betty wasn't really fleshed out at this point. You can tell they weren't sure what to do with her.
Fred Flintstone & Barney Rubble voiced by Daws Butler, Betty Rubble voiced by June Foray & Wilma Flintstone by Jean Vander Pyl
This Isn`t a lost episode since I recently watched it yesterday. But maybe 12 years ago it was. The only difference is the look and voice of Betty, the voice of Barney, and the voice of Fred.
Where did you find that three-minute clip? It was hilarious!!!!!!
Even the Bubble Guppies got a lost pilot, too.
RIP: Pilot Bubble Guppies
2006-2011
The Flintstones were played every day at lunch at my elementary school. Yabba Dabba Do!
Whoa no way! I've watched since "65" never new
It's amazing we evolved past this point, has bow and arrow calls it a spear.
Fred Flagstone 😂
i miss the good old days
I distinctly remember this from deep in my memories. Especially Wilma in the umbrella. But also the ricochet arrow and Barney craning his neck to watch it. I wonder if some of these were incorporated into the regular series production???
Yes.
Barney knew exactly what he was doing.