THE FLINTSTONES
The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that was broadcast from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, on ABC. The show was produced by Hanna-Barbera. The Flintstones was about a working-class Stone Age man’s life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. The show’s continuing popularity rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time (after The Simpsons). (More from Wikipedia)
The first single by the Piltdown Men was “Brontosaurus Stomp” b/w “Mac Donald’s Cave”, and the band had the good fortune to release the song just as America’s first prime-time animated television show, The Flintstones, was being launched, almost exactly 50 years ago today. “Brontosaurus Stomp” made it to #75 on the U. S. charts, and “Mac Donald’s Cave” did even better in Britain, reaching #14, despite having competition from a Top 20 version of “Ol’ Mac Donald” in a completely different style that was recorded by Frank Sinatra, of all people. While they had no more chart action on this side of the Atlantic, “Bubbles in the Tar” and “Goodnight, Mrs. Flintstone” were both Top 20 hits in the U.K.
(October 2010)
