The Flintstones: Season 02 (1961)

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 ... Read More

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, Rovi Read Less

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