Tue 19 Sep 2006
The Flintstones The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review
Posted by dorrie under Animated , Family Entertainment , Tv on DVD
The sixth and final season of The Flintstones is now available on DVD for the very first time. Although it was the last season, The Flinstones went out with a bang and some of the show’s most memorable episodes happened during season six. The season began with the episode “No Biz Like Show Biz.†Who could forget that episode? Fred’s life changes when Pebbles and Bam Bam become singing sensations after being discovered, lucky for Fred he is just having a bad dream. This isn’t the only bad dream Fred had during season six, in the episode “Rip Van Flintstone,†Fred falls asleep at his company picnic and awakens twenty years later finding that everything had changed. Pebbles and Bam Bam are married and Barney is very rich.
Season six is also the season that introduced one of the most controversial of the characters of the show—The Great Gazoo. Gazoo was a little green alien who had special powers. He only appeared to Fred and Barney. For the most part the Flinstone’s was a prehistoric reality based cartoon and the introduction of a talking alien “alienated†some die hard fans.
Other memorable season episodes include “The Return of Stoney Curtis,†and the very popular “Samantha†episode which featured the voices of “Bewitched†actors Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York.
The box set is great. I only have one complaint. The set includes 3 single side discs and one two sided disc. I would rather have all of the discs one style. Twenty six episodes total are included.
Special features include-
The Flintstones Meet Pop Culture: Stephen Baldwin (one of the voices of Barney Rubble hosts this look at the effect of pop culture on the show)
The Great Gazoo-From A to Zetox
Synposis-For those who leave no stone unturned, here’s the sixth and final season of the greatest archeological dig in cartoon history. And its 26 episodes are treasure well worth excavating!
Exploring every realm of popular parody, The Flintstones delighted kids but tickled adults even more with howlingly funny takeoffs of such “trendy” TV shows as Bewitched (with the voices of Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York in Samantha), award-winning movies (My Fair Freddy and The Treasure of Sierra Madrock) and kitschy spoofs of Hollywood royalty in Return of Stoney Curtis.
The show’s writers even had the foresight to project into the future, as in The Long Long Long Weekend, guest-starring the series’ newest character, space alien Gazoo.
< a href="http://www2.warnerbros.com/warnervideo/classiccartoons/flintstones6.html">Order From Warner Store
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