List of The Flintstones Episodes - Pilot (1959)

Pilot (1959)

# Title Original airdate
Pilot "The Flagstones" May 1994 (on Cartoon Network)

First released on The Flintstones: The Collector's Edition' on VHS in 1994, it made its first television air in May 1994, it aired on Cartoon Network, and on Boomerang in November 2006. It was released on DVD in 2001 and again in 2004.

Note: This was the original pilot episode for 'The Flintstones', but was never shown with the original series. It was actually a 90 second "demo reel" (with grease pencil marks still visible on the film), designed to sell the series to potential advertisers in the winter of 1960, depicting a scene from what would eventually become the episode "The Swimming Pool". Daws Butler provided the voices of Fred and Barney (he would reprise the role of Barney in Season 2 episodes 1, 2, 5, 6 and 9 when Mel Blanc was unavailable to provide the voice at that time), June Foray was Betty (her appearance was somewhat redesigned for the actual series), and Jean Vander Pyl was Wilma (the only actor from the pilot to regularly reprise their role for the actual series). The pilot was re-voiced for the Cartoon Crackups DVD release for unknown reasons with Henry Corden as Fred, Frank Welker as Barney, Tress MacNeille as Wilma, and Betty Jean Ward as Betty. All other releases of the pilot use the original voice track.

Kenneth Muse was the animator.

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