Category Archives: TV Series

Title: The Flintstone Comedy Hour
Year: 1972–1973
English dubbing: Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jay North, Jean Vander Pyl, John Stephenson, Lennie Weinrib, Don Messick, Mitzi McCall, Sally Stevens, Jackie Ward, Tom Bähler, Ron Hicklin, Gay Autterson, Carl Esser, Mickey Stevens
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Viewing method: Five selected episodes

Why in Database: Another series from the Flintstones universe. Only one season and 18 episodes. The Flintstones universe is full of turtle elements, we describe this series based on the selected five episodes. In all of the episodes below, Bamm-Bamm appears wearing a turtle shell as a hat. Besides that, we found other turtle elements, like:
01 – Birdbrained / Squawkie Talkies / Bedrock 500 – Turtles appear as musical instruments, turtle shell is used as a motorcycle sidecar.
02 – Flying Fools / Bedlam in Bedrock / The Stone Ranger Rides Again – Turtles appear as musical instruments, a turtle shell is used as a motorcycle sidecar and as a water bowl.
04 – Fred Skirts the Issue / Hair Scare / The Not So Desperate Hours – Turtles appear as musical instruments, turtle shell is used as a pram and a baby cradle.
07 – Something Fishy / Amusement Park / A Pound in Time – Turtles appear as musical instruments, turtle shell is used as a gong.
08 – Dummy Up / Bedrock Radio Rock Festival / Barney the Swami – Turtles appear as musical instruments.

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Title: The Flintstone Comedy Show
Year: 1980–1981
English dubbing: Mel Blanc, Henry Corden, Jean Vander Pyl, Russi Taylor, Michael Sheehan, Gay Autterson, Frank Welker, Paul Reubens, Ruta Lee, Zelda Rubinstein, Charles Nelson Reilly, John Stephenson, Lennie Weinrib, Don Messick, Mitzi McCall, Billie Hayes, Dena Dietrich
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Viewing method: The first five episodes

Why in Database: Another series from the Flintstones universe, it consists of 2 seasons and 18 episodes. The Flintstones universe is full of turtle elements, so we describe this series based on the first five episodes of the first season.

Turtle elements appear already in the opening/openings (each episode consists of many different segments and stories), for example turtle shells used as helmets or as a gong in the lights.
S01E01 – R.V. Fever/Fred Goes Ape/The Ghost Sitters/Clownfoot/Mouse Cleaning/Quiet Please!/Birthday Boy – Turtle shell as a hat, as a frying pan, as a basket-trailer in a police bike, and as a normal small trailer in another scene.
S01E02 – Sands of the Saharastone/Off the Beaten Track/Secret of Scary Valley/The Masquerader/Camp-Out Mouse/Piece O’Cake/Potion Problem – Turtle shell as hat, as pan, as basket-trailer on the police bike, as a bowl that Dino use to cover a mouse, and as the main part of Captain Caveman’s vehicle. The real turtle (throwing off his shell) appears as the drive for air conditioning.
S01E03 – Gold Fever/A Bad Case of Rockjaw/The Witch of the Wardrobe/The Animal Master/Beach Party/Ghost Mouse/A Night on the Town – Turtle Shell hat and basket trailer in a police motorbike, a real live turtle is shown as a dishwasher.
S01E04 – Bogged Down/Follow That Dogosaurus/Monster Madness/The Mole/Disco Dino/Going Ape/Out of Their League – Turtle shell as a hat and as a basket-trailer on a police bike.
S01E05 – Be Patient, Fred/Mountain Frustration/The Show Must Go On/Rollerman/Finger Lick’n Bad/Wet Paint/Clone for a Day – Turtle shell as hat.

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Title: The Flintstone Kids
Year: 1986-1990
English dubbing: Jim Cummings, Peter Cullen, Tress MacNeille, Rob Paulsen, Howard Morris, Richard Erdman, Arte Johnson, Avery Schreiber, Hamilton Camp, George O’Hanlon, Takayo Fischer, B.J. Ward, Pat Fraley, Rick Dees
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Viewing method: The first five episodes

Why in Database: Another series from the Flintstones universe, it consists of 2 seasons and 36 episodes, but as The Flintstones universe is full of turtle elements, we describe this series basing on the first five episodes of the first season.

Some episodes have only one history, other have several segments. Turtle elements appears in the opening, below we focus only on those that can be seen in the main part of the episode.

S01E01 – The Great Freddini – A real turtle is used as a blackboard eraser at school and also as a musical instrument.
S01E02 – Frankenstone / Yard Wars / Freezy Does It – Turtle shells are used as protective helmets, and a real turtle is also part of an invention created to freeze the world.
S01E03 – Heroes for Hire – The turtle shell is used as a school bell and as protective helmets.
S01E04 – Indiana Flintstone / Dreamchip’s Cur Wash / Invasion of the Mommy Snatchers – Turtle shells are used as a chandelier shade, a hard hat and the centerpiece of a baby stroller.
S01E05 – The Bad News Brontos – Very typical, turtle shells as protective helmets, one is even used by a bird.

The high presence of turtle themes in the above five episodes strongly suggests that the rest of the series have many turtle elements as well.

Author: XYuriTT

Title: The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
Year: 1971-1972
English dubbing: Sally Struthers, Jay North, Jean Vander Pyl, Alan Reed, Lennie Weinrib, Don Messick, Mitzi McCall, Carl Esser, Gay Hartweg, Mel Blanc
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Viewing method: The first five episodes

Why in Database: The second series from the Flintstones universe, it consists of only 1 season with 16 episodes, but as The Flintstones universe is full of turtle elements, we describe this series based on the first five episodes.

First of all, Bamm-Bamm wears a turtle shell as a hat, this theme appears in all five episodes! The motif of turtles as music instruments also appears in the opening credits, and this is of course showed before each episode. Other themes are listed below:
01 – Gridiron Girl Trouble – Turtle shell appears as school bell,
02 – Putty in Her Hands – A real turtle appears as a wrench used on the wheel of the car. The front of the characters car appears to be made of turtle shell. The shell is also used as an element of traffic lights, as a gong for a sound signal.
03 – Frog for a Day – No turtle elements other than Bamm-Bamma’s hat.
04 – The Golden Voice – The turtle shell appears as a side attachment to the bike, and someone besides Bamm-Bamm also wears the shell as a hat. Real live turtles appear as musical instruments.
05 – Daddy’s Little Helper – Turtle shell is used as part of wheelbarrows.

The omnipresence of turtle themes in the above five episodes strongly suggests that the rest of the series is very turtle as well.

Author: XYuriTT

Title: The Flintstones
Year: 1960–1966
English dubbing: Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl, Bea Benaderet, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Gerry Johnson, Hal Smith, Doug Young, Howard Morris
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Viewing method: The first five episodes

Why in Database: The first series from the Flintstones universe, it consists of 6 seasons and 166 episodes, but as The Flintstones universe is full of turtle elements, we describe this series based on the first five episodes of the first season. In this five eps, we found turtle elements in two. In episode two (Hot Lips Hannigan) a turtle appears as part of Barney’s drums, in episode three (The Swimming Pool) Barney plays on two turtles, like on a drums.

This allows you to guess that there are also many turtle elements in rest of the episodes and seasons.

Author: XYuriTT