The Flintstones' New Neighbors

The Flintstones' New Neighbors is a 1980 animated television special and the first of The Flintstone Special limited-run prime time revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The special premiered on NBC on September 26, 1980.^[1]

The Flintstones' New Neighbors was animated at Filman, an animation studio in Madrid, Spain (headed by Carlos Alfonso and Juan Pina) who did a lot of animation work for Hanna-Barbera between the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. This would explain why, artistically, the backgrounds in this special look very much like pencil and charcoal drawings, very different from the original series and its spin-offs.

Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio, one of the last productions to do so.

Summary

The Flintstones and the Rubbles welcome a new strange family, The Frankenstones, to their Bedrock neighborhood.

The Frankenstones

The Frankenstone family featured on this special was a different version of the Frankenstones from the episode "Fred & Barney Meet the Frankenstones" of The New Fred and Barney Show (1979).

The new Frankenstone family members are:

• Frank Frankenstone
• Oblivia Frankenstone, his wife
• Hidea Frankenstone, their daughter
• Stubby Frankenstone, their son

A friendship develops between the Flintstones and the Frankenstones, not unlike the rivalry that would be depicted later between Fred and Frank on The Flintstone Comedy Show. This version of the Frankenstones continued to appear throughout the run of the specials.

Voice cast

• Henry Corden as Fred Flintstone
• Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble
• Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles Flintstone
• Gay Autterson as Betty Rubble
• Don Messick as Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• John Stephenson as Frank Frankenstone
• Patricia Parris as Oblivia Frankenstone
• Jim MacGeorge as Stubby Frankenstone
• Julie McWhirter as Hidea Frankenstone
• Frank Welker as Creepy, Mother Pterodactyl

Award nomination

The Flintstones' New Neighbors was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Animated Programming at the 33rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1981.

Home media

The Flintstones' New Neighbors was included as a bonus episode on the 1989 VHS release of The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone.

On October 9, 2012, Warner Archive released The Flintstones' New Neighbors on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection, in a release entitled The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 2. It was a Manufacture-on-Demand release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.^[2]

References

External links

• The Flintstones' New Neighbors at IMDb

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The Flintstones

Characters

The Flintstones	Fred Flintstone Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone Dino
The Rubbles	Barney Rubble Betty Rubble Bamm-Bamm Rubble
Other characters	Captain Caveman The Frankenstones The Great Gazoo Shmoo

Television
series

• The Flintstones (1960–1966)
• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971–1972)
• The Flintstone Comedy Hour / The Flintstone Comedy Show (1972–1974)
• Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977–1978)
• The New Fred and Barney Show (1979)
• Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979)
• Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979–1980)
• The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980–1981)
• The Flintstone Funnies (1982–1984)
• The Flintstone Kids (1986–1988)
• Dino (part of What a Cartoon!)
  • Stay Out! (1995)
  • The Great Egg-Scape (1997)
• Cave Kids (1996)
• The Rubbles (2002)
• Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs (2021–2022)

Television specials
and DTV films

• The Flintstones on Ice (1973)
• Energy: A National Issue (1977)
• A Flintstone Christmas (1977)
• Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978)
• The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978)
• The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1979)
• The Flintstone Primetime Specials
  • The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980)
  • Fred's Final Fling (1980)
  • Wind-Up Wilma (1981)
  • Jogging Fever (1981)
• Yogi's First Christmas (1980)
• Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper (1982)
• The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986)
• The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
• The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special (1988)
• Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989)
• I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993)
• Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993)
• A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993)
• A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
• The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
• The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015)

Theatrical films

Animated	The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
Live-action	The Flintstones (1994) The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)

Video games

• Yabba Dabba Doo! (1986)
• The Flintstones (1988)
• The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy (1991)
• The Flintstones (1993)
• The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak (1994)
• The Treasure of Sierra Madrock (1994)
• The Flintstones (1994/1995)
• Bedrock Bowling (2000)

Comics

• List of comics book titles
• The Flintstones (2016)

Other media

• "Meet the Flintstones"
• Pinball
• The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (1990)

See also

• Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid like You Doing in a Place like This?
• Bedrock
• Bedrock City theme park
  • Arizona
  • British Columbia
  • South Dakota
• Flintstone House
• Flintstones Chewable Vitamins
• Pebbles (cereal)
• Hanna-Barbera
• The Jetsons
• The Honeymooners

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