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The Flintstones: Season 02
Running Time: 30 min.

The second season of the animated "prehistoric" sitcom The Flintstones gets under way with "The Hit Songwriters", the series' first utilization of a celebrity guest star (or, to be more precise, a caricatured celebrity supplying his/her own voice). The star in question is composer Hoagy Carmichael, who curiously appears under his own name rather than a Stone Age-style variation a la "Ann Margrock" or "Stoney Curtis." Carmichael also provides an original song for the proceedings: "&Yabba Dabba Doo", inspired by Fred Flintstone's frequent bellow of joy. Almost as memorable is the "&Rockenschpeel Jingle" sung by Wilma Flintstone ("Make your hobby hubby/Keep your hubby happy/If he's a little chubby/He's a happy pappy/With ROCKENSCHPEEL!" in the later second-season installment "The Happy Household." If Barney Rubble sounds a bit strange in some of the episodes, it is because voice artist Mel Blanc had been incapacitated for several months after a near-fatal car accident. In some instances, Hal Smith (best known as town drunk Otis Campbell on The Andy Griffith Show), substitutes for Blanc; in others, Barney's voice is provided by Hanna-Barbera stalwart Daws Butler. Among the season's best episodes are "Alvin Brickrock Presents", a deliciously macabre takeoff of Alfred Hitchcock's TV anthology; "The Rock Quarry Story", featuring a famous movie star who sounds just like Gary Cooper (courtesy of the versatile John Stephenson); "The X-Ray Story", wherein a doctor's misdiagnosis leads to a unforgettable 24-hour revelry for poor Fred Flintstone; and "Wilma's Vanishing Money", which apparently went over so well with audiences that it was remade as a live-action installment of The Danny Thomas Show two years later--then re-remade as an episode of the 1970 Hanna-Barbera cartoon prime-timer Where's Huddles! Still being filmed in color but networkcast in black-and-white, The Flintstones managed to close out its second season as America's 21st highest rated TV show, in a dead heat with The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The Flintstones: Season 02 Cast and Crew:

Alan Reed, Sr. - (Fred Flintstone)

Mel Blanc - (Barney Rubble)

Jean Vander Pyl - (Wilma Flintstone)

Bea Benaderet - (Betty Rubble)

Production Credits:
Ed Benedict (Character Design)
Iwao Takamoto (Character Design)
Hoyt Curtin (Composer (Music Score))
Joseph Barbera (Producer)
William Hanna (Producer)


The Flintstones: Season 02 Episodes:
The Flintstones: The Hit Song Writers
The Flintstones: Droop-a-long Flintstone
The Flintstones: The Missing Bus
The Flintstones: Alvin Brickrock Presents
The Flintstones: The Rock Quarry Story
The Flintstones: The Soft Touchables
The Flintstones: Flintstone of Prinstone
The Flintstones: The Little White Lie
The Flintstones: Social Climbers
The Flintstones: The Beauty Contest
The Flintstones: The Masquerade Ball
The Flintstones: The Picnic
The Flintstones: The House Guest
The Flintstones: The X-Ray Story
The Flintstones: The Gambler
The Flintstones: A Star Is Almost Born
The Flintstones: The Entertainer
The Flintstones: Wilma's Vanishing Money
The Flintstones: Feudin' and Fussin'
The Flintstones: Impractical Joker
The Flintstones: Operation Barney
The Flintstones: The Happy Household
The Flintstones: Fred Strikes Out
The Flintstones: This Is Your Lifesaver
The Flintstones: Trouble-In-Law
The Flintstones: The Mailman Cometh
The Flintstones: The Rock Vegas Caper
The Flintstones: Divided We Sail
The Flintstones: Kleptomania Caper
The Flintstones: Latin Lover
The Flintstones: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

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