For those who leave no stone unturned, here's the sixth and final season of the greatest archaeological dig in cartoon history: The Flintstones - The Complete 6th Season. 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 (with Tony Curtis lending his voice.) 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.
As we've
reported (thanks to the help of Earl Kress and his blog),
The Flintstones - The Complete 6th Season is coming to DVD. This morning we have the exact street date for you: this 4-DVD set of the last season of the original show arrives on
September 5th. For $44.98 SRP you get 26 episodes plus extras like a special featurette (hosted by Stephen Baldwin, who played "Barney Rubble" in
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas) about how pop culture was incorporated into
The Flintstones show and how it ultimately became a part of pop culture itself. It also includes "The Great Gazoo - From A to Zetox," the story of how the great Gazoo character was created.
We received this artwork after the story broke, and it's available in a separate news item as well:
