The Flintstones - The Complete Third Season

Starring:Jean Vander Pyl, Bea Benaderet, Gerry Johnson, Don Messick
Director: Charles A. Nichols
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Product Type: DVD

Description

The Flintstones band wagon was rolling full logs ahead by its third year. They always had a solid fan base but now critics, who had surprisingly shortchanged the "cartoon show" two years prior, were won over. Many episodes pariodied current culture: The Twitch spoofed the Twist craze, Hawaiian Escapade poked fun at the TV series Hawaiian Eye and Dial "S" for Suspicion gloriously tweaked the plot of the movie Dial M for Murder into comic farace. The most famous of the 28 classic episodes in this Deluxe 4-Disc Set with Fabulous Extras is the nationally anticipated birth of Pebbles in Dress Rehearsal. If the Flintstones had DVD, they'd watch this blissful collection of "home movies" over and over. You certainly will.

Customer Reviews:

Good Memories.......2007-03-09

I'm glad they have a way for people to buy old cartoons that I grew up on. Good series.

Five stars for Season 3.......2007-01-12

My wife and I have always been fans of the Flintstones. This is a good season because it includes the birth of Pebbles. Highly recommended.

Great fun.......2007-01-12

These episodes are such fun to watch--especially with your children. Great nostalgia fix for parents.

Which season is best? Well..........2005-12-06

It's a tough call for me between the first and third seasons.

I found the first season memorable because it had many classic gags, I enjoyed the relative simplicity of the stories, and they seemed to have more focus on the "prehistoric" aspects. I've always loved the episode "The Flintstone Flyer", I even remember building a model of the Flyer from scratch when I was a kid. And although they've always denied a connection with the Honeymooners, at least a few of the stories seem like rehashed Honeymooners episodes.

The third season has more involved plots, the running theme of "Wilma's having a baby! Nope, not yet..." and a lot more parody. Would probably have more appeal to today's adults, though I find many of the stories too bizarre to be believable. (I can sorta buy the idea of a human-powered helicopter made out of wood, it fits in with the cartoon's physics... but the third-season "Foxy Grandma" episode involving an old woman bank-robber who throws dynamite sticks was just too much.)

The second season wasn't as strong, many of the plots seemed like repeats from the first season and it lost much of the prehistoric charm. And while I'll buy the complete fourth season just to round out the collection, those shows are typically my least favorite by far. They went much too far with the bizarre stories; I never liked The Great Gazoo or uber-strong Bamm-Bamm, and there was way too much emphasis on the kids doing totally unbelievable things.

What ultimately killed the original Flintstones series was a lack of consistency in writing and portrayal of the characters, few or no running threads throughout the show, and the tendency for cartoons back then (and even many ordinary shows) to become increasingly outlandish over time. They seemed to have lost their original focus on being a cartoon for adults, especially in the last season--though granted it was a fairly novel idea to have "real" human characters doing human things in a cartoon, so I'll cut them some slack.

The quality of the DVDs in this set are much the same as the others, although I did notice two or three episodes had noticeable (but not horrible) video noise, and a couple of episodes had lower-than-normal audio levels (just crank up the volume a bit for those). Probably just means they couldn't find original sources for some of them and had to resort to other means... I haven't checked out the extras, though on this set they used both sides of the last disc to hold episodes instead of using the flip side for extras.

Here's my take: if you're not that familiar with the Flintstones then start with the first season, it's the most firmly grounded of the four seasons. If you really like it, check out some of the others. The third-season episodes are some of the best, but there are a few stinkers.

Great addition to my collection.......2005-09-21

This is another great addition to my Flintstones collection , i enjoyed this box set very much . the company has also enclosed a cartoon cell which is really nice , cant wait to frame it. all fans will love this box set . cant wait for the fourth , fifth and sixth seanons.

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