The Flintstones - The Complete First Season

I love the Flintstones. I still remembered most of the episodes on the first season from when I was a kid. I cant wait to get the second season.

What a pleasure to see these cartoons again. I grew up watching the Flintstones on tv. The good,clean humor is for people of all ages. The simple plots along with the fun music makes this cartoon the classic that it is. I also recommend the Jetsons for more family fun.

I received my DVD set last Friday, and within 30 minutes was watching the first episode. This was a true classic in it's time. It really is amazing that this is from 1960. It could be from last week. Well, with one major difference. 100% less crudeness. Compared to today's, and even "yesterday's" current animated shows, this one is heads and shoulders above it's competition. I watch this show with my young, under 10 kids, with no fear of them being offended, or grossed out.

I love the very start of this show, it's looseness, and care-free funny nature.

One thing, I notice already is it's old fashioned-ness. The show is supposed to be back in the 60's, when young men and women married young, and because "settled" at a young age. Fred seems "old" to me in today's terms. He seems settled, but he doesn't even have any kids yet, in this first season. Pebbles shows up later, around 3rd season.

If this were modern times, we would have seen Fred and Barney take a trek to a strip club, perhaps called: "Flint Brothers' O'Farrell Theater." Something racy like that.

I really love the sound effects. When Fred bowls, and runs toward the bowling alley, on his toes, we hear this adorable little scampering sound on a keyboard, to make the sound effect of his "toes running." The Flintstones is filled with these little treasure treats. I recommend it highly for any fan of good television, animated sorts, or clever humor.

Very nice.

MC White said: Two thumbs way up!!!

This show is great too! This is the very first DVD I ordered that my parents recognized. They remember the series on Saturday Mornings back in the 70's.

This was one of Hanna-Barbera's first cartoons, and I think that Alan (Voice of Fred), Jean (Voice Of Wilma and eventually Pebbles), Mel (Voice of Barney), and Bea (Voice of Barney's wife, my favorite character, Betty) all were perfect for their parts.

It was so exciting! We watched about 3 or 4 episodes a day. I love this show, and I look forward to when I have enough money to buy Season 2!

My Score: 8 out of 10 4.5 out of 5

After watching the first four seasons I can definitely say that my favorite is the original season. It is complete and utter fun. You can tell that the people doing it back in 1960 had a really good time (artists, voice actors, and writers).

In these episodes, the artist's lines are more loose and fun, the slapstick is actually very funny, and the action and situations are truly "cartoony", meaning impossible to duplicate in reality. This is the season that established so many things we love; Fred's angel and devil on his shoulders, practical and smart Wilma being the complete foil to bumbling wiseguy Fred, all the prehistoric animal "appliances" and household items, Barney and Fred's friendship through thick and thin, and veteran actors of the time doing assorted voice parts. How many times have I detected Floyd the Barber from another program of the '60s playing Fred's doctor, or Otis Campbell's voice coming from a minor character in Bedrock...

The sound effects alone are brilliant, as is the wonderful Hoyt Curtin's incidental scoring, of which he did endless amounts. I wish that all those background cues and melodies were available in a collection to buy.

In no other season after this one would you witness something as silly as Fred walking across his backyard, over the stone wall into the Rubbles' yard, while remaining perpendicular the whole time, as if the wall had its own gravity.

So if you buy just one season, I would recommend this one, the debut. Don't expect the theme song we all know from syndication; that comes in later seasons. But it's no big deal.