The Flintstones Season 1 Opening and Closing Credits and Theme Song
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- Hey everybody it's prime time animation week on TH-cam! To celebrate I'll be uploading the opening themes from a prime time animated television show each day this week.
Here is the opening and closing credits and theme song from season 1 of the hit show "The Flintstones." The Flintstones originally aired during prime time in 1960. It was not the very first prime time cartoon but it was the first successful one. In fact The Flintstones was the most financially successful prime time cartoon right up until the Simpsons began its run.
Hope you enjoy prime time animation week! Lots more to come, request your favorites!
Ever since I was a kid, I always wondered why Fred never thought of simply climbing through the window when he's locked out.
Yeah me too
He’s not that primal
Yeah, but I guess if you're willing to accept that they are watching TV thousands of years before it was invented, then the window thing is pretty small potatoes!
@@StevenWRodgers No, that's just the setting. Whereas Fred not going through the window is questionable internal logic.
Nah, he's way too stubborn to try that.
When I was 7 I used to watch this with my Grand Dad.
Lol, nice one!
@SuperNegativeP what?
69 likes lol
He always reminded me with mario
GRAND DAYAD
These end credits actually had to be reconstructed when Turner made the decision to restore them around 1995 or so. While the raw color animation footage had survived, it turned out that no color prints of any credits from the individual episodes could be found. So they had to take the raw footage, find a font as close to the original as possible, and retype everything in. In the process, they took the opportunity to right a few wrongs, such as Mel Blanc not having originally received screen credit for some forgotten reason.
Interesting. I did not know that.
Great info!!
Fragga Ranks
''Girls Highway''
Mel Blanc not receiving credit in the original closing sequences could be because he still had an exclusive contract with Warner Brothers at the time.
Why are Wilma’s lips missing in the closing credits?
It sucks how criminally obscure this theme is to non-Flintstones fans compared to the one everyone and their *NAN* know. I find myself hearing it in my head sometimes. It's quite a bop.
Yeah I agree
The Flintstones very quickly slipped away from its original concept as a primetime cartoon for adults, with cigarette sponsors and Honeymooner characters. The second-season's new theme song, with singalong lyrics, seemed to signal that. A little further down the road, Fred and Wilma had a baby, and then Betty and Barney adopted one. After that it was taken for granted that the cartoon was aimed mainly at kids.
People who imagine Flintstones was a kiddy cartoon. It wasn't, in Joe and Bill's conception. They had some heavy, noirish plots in there. Like the time Fred was falling for Ann Margrock and Dan Duryrock had to come by to straighten him out.
@@margotvsburns6854 the beginning of the 3rd season, NOT 2nd.....
@@margotvsburns6854 wow I had to correct you twice on here smh
I didn't realise until now how similar this opening is to the Simpsons, especially the end when Fred gets home
It’s been parodied
Matt Groening, and some of the original Simpsons animators, I'm sure, were old enough to have seen The Flintstones' original run when they were kids, and remembered it.
Oh, you're right!!! I didn't realized before.
@@omnibus4157 Matt Groening from what I’v heard met Joe and Bill
In a Simpsons season one commentary, they cited this opening as an inspiration
Im a 2000s kid and i have seen this on tv, its a miracle how ive seen it 40 years later since it premiered
Me to
I never saw it as a kid
Same bro.
Me too, this was always on boomerang, so blessed to have had that channel showcase all the older shows
I was born in the 2000s and I loved this show. It was childhood. I remember watching this on the old boomerang
Man, I miss watching this with my Grandad when I was 7 years old.
I used to play Mario bris immediately after.
I could have sworn that I saw Fred Flinstone watching me sleep once
GRAND DAD
"Mario Bris" .....
Those days when life was smooth and I loved this show
The good ending
To what exactly what I have a Memory of a goldfish
The memories and nostalgia of an entertaining and absolutely enjoyable animated cartoon!
I will always love the The Flintstones!
Watching this cartoon as a little kid growing up in the 1980s!
Thank you so much for this upload.
Interesting to see a lot of adults growing on this list
When The Flintstones first went into syndication they grafted the "Meet The Flintstones" opening and closing titles onto all the episodes. It was great to later see Cartoon Network and Boomerang air the early episodes with these original titles, which I like better. Maybe it was 1961, but I didn't think "Meet The Flintstones" became the theme until 1962.
Specifically, it was episode 3 of season 3, "Barney the Invisible," that we first heard the more familiar theme song.
It sounded too close to the Bugs Bunny Show theme
Thanks
@@ClassicTVMan1981X Let's not forget that they also cut the ending theme to remove the ABC logo that would come up at the end.
@@NSHG That is right; the same thing happened to the 1962-63 Jetsons episodes since 1964 when they went to CBS Saturday mornings.
Yabba dabba dooAGAGAGHGGHG
:D ⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫⚫
Happy 60th anniversary, Flintstones! (1960-2020) 🎊🎉🎂
This is the opening and closing I remembered from my childhood for the first two seasons!!
Damn not another comment
is toó late your childhood is destroyed by the glitch
I have MeTV and they just started airing The Flintstones for the first time on Network TV since 1997 and they are making it a big deal since September 30th was the first episode of the show
Me too just fliiped to it and saw the show on. Brings back memories of my childhood watching this, Scooby Doo, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, and many more
Been watching with my dad while cooking dinner.
Eu assistia os flintstones la no sbt
MeTV is now running this series 15 times a week, 2 episodes each weekday, 4 episodes each Sunday morning, and another episode followed by a HONEYMOONERS episode each Sunday night.
I love MeTV! Especially now that they put this classic show on.
1:43-1:56 "Wilma! Wilma!!! Come on, Wilma!!! Open this door!!! WIIIIIIILLLLLLLMMMMMMAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"
Zachary Noah
Wilma open up this god damn door
Wilma with no mouth drawn. Oops to the animation team.
There's no glass on the windows, why couldn't Fred just jump thru them is beyond my comprehension.
OOOOKAAAYYY!!!!
I honestly prefer this opening and closing more than the more famous one.
Vincent Franklin looks nice i agree.But still....
Well have a Gay old time!
Facts
agreed
Underrated. Liked the original theme song. Good melodies
The orchestation is just awesome.
I have very rarely seen this intro & outro before. All my life I've always seen the one with the vocals & the children even on early episodes made before Pebbles & Bambam were born.
I'm 35 and remember this opening and closing and was confused because I was use to the other theme
The first time I saw the intro and outro was on Cartoon Network. I thought at the time it was new.
Thank you for uploading a timeless classic! I always watched this when I'd finish my homework each night from high school, and seeing this brings memories I'll cherish forever. 😊
This is a timeless classic ?
Anyone else saw the meme a million times and now just wanna see the og
I remember growing up and this would air right around 5:30 on Cartoon Network when adults would be getting home from work, now it comes on MeTV with this intro as I’m walking in the door from work, couldn’t have depicted that feeling of leaving work and being home any better
I honestly prefer this theme. It's got more of that classic "family sitcom" vibe.
This was taken from the honeymooners from the 50's.
@@chaosdemonwolf1 yeah I can see
The opening was usually me after school. Now, with me working the overnight shift, the first thing on my agenda when I get home is cleaning up and hitting the sack.
*when is the part he dies*
The classics is always a good throwback to watch
I used to watch in 1990s
God this brings back memories.
Those were the golden days.
Hanna Barbara Cartoon version of the honeymooners.
That is was the original intent, but then they had a baby.
Pretty much what has been said
Some inconsistencies noticeable in the closing credits: Wilma has no mouth; Dino's color is different; the cat appears different; the shape of the windows is different; and the front door appears different from the show. I grew up watching this show in the '60s and '70s and enjoy it to this day. However, I didn't see these credits until a few years ago.
Idk why the other version is more popular than this one. I personally love this one way more.
Probably because it’s catchy
@@watchforever1724 and also it was used for a majority of the show's run. This theme, which is known as "Rise and Shine", was used in the first two seasons as well as the first two episodes of Season 3. Many people found it very similar to "This is It", the theme to The Bugs Bunny Show ("Overture, curtains, lights"). By Episode 3 of Season 3, a new intro and theme were introduced, and that of course was the famous "Meet the Flintstones". It was used for the remainder of Season 3 and then until the end of the show's run. When the show entered syndication, "Meet the Flintstones" was used for all episodes, no matter what season it was from. In either the late 1980s or early 1990s, the "Rise and Shine" theme was restored for the Season 1 and Season 2 episodes (I'm not sure about the first two Season 3 episodes). And since then, the correct themes have been used for the correct seasons.
Tyler Nersinger good to know
absolutely the new song was a nonsense
Duwindu Tharinda you can’t deny it’s impact .Hell the Simpson’s parody this
At 1:12 Wilma is missing her mouth. LOL!!!!
LOL! Good catch!
Thanks. LOL. It looks hilarious.
Jan Eaton good eye bro
Hahahaha thanks however I am a female so that would make me a sis not a bro. LOL!!! Still I am surprised the creators never noticed that one.
The animators never went back to put a mouth on Wilma. Hanna- Barbara were known for being cheap SOB''s
The Flintstones brought to you by Winston......Winston taste good like a cigarette should!
JENDALL714 Yep The original episodes on ABC were sponsored by the makers of Winston Cigarette for seasons 1-2.
…….with a "rub 2 sticks" cigarette lighter commercial
They did more than cigarettes we all know they did cereal commercials and don’t forget Welch’s commercials too
@@RusstheTroubadour While Winston was the primary sponsor for the first two seasons, Miles Products was the secondary sponsor for said seasons.
GRANDAD Alternative Intro
GothicServer And in high quality too.
WWILLLLLMMMMMAAAAA!!! I loved how Fred woke up all of Bedrock with his yelling
Patrick O'connor 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Loved the flinstones as a child and I still do at 51. The Flinstones is my favourite cartoon programme of all time. Love from the 🇬🇧 ❤ 🙏👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The original theme kicks ASS!....smooth, mellow!!!
This was used for 2 seasons
I see the original theme as a take off old tv sitcom themes like The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy and the second theme was more a cartoon theme but both work since it was a cartoon version of a live action sitcom
Sounds very Broadway-ish
Even though I wasn’t born in the 60/80 I still enjoyed the reruns on TV!
Bradly 105 Same here.
There is no age limit on who can enjoy these classics
I have been told by a stranger on Facebook that this show is "toxic" and it showcases "traditions that need to be abandoned." The lady said Fred is a "narcissist" and he is a "misogynist" She said that Wilma, Betty, and Barney "enable Fred to be that way" She called it "the brutal truths." I was told that I was "ignorant" I was "looking at life through rose-colored glasses" and I was "looking the other way" by watching The Flintstones. She said canceling The Flintstones would be good for society because this show demonstrates "unhealthy behaviors." I just enjoy watching this show. Whoa, watching a television show just for the entertainment value imagine that.
My brother and I grew up watching the show. We still watch it. 💓💓💓💓💓
We need high quality rips with this piece, pronto.
I grew up watching the Flintstones in th 1970s and I never saw this intro until about 2011. I had heard it had another intro that sounded like the The Bugs Bunny theme (Overture) but they used more popular Meet The Flintstones theme from seasons 2 to 6 instead. I own season 1 on DVD and this theme has been restored on it. I actually prefer this one over the second one. Recently on the Teletoon network they also started using the original theme song for season 1.
Same with me Jan, I never heard this theme until recently.
Steven Brandt, this theme was definitely rare and I have a feeling a lot of people who grew up watching the show probably even knows it didn't exist and like I said I actually prefer this theme song which by the way is titled Rise and shine. It is a lot more catchy. Other shows have had a different theme song for the first season and a different one for the rest. Example was Happy Days with the first season being a re recorded version of Chuck Berry's Rock Around The Clock. With Happy Days on the other hand I preferred the other theme song. Funny thing is most channels used the original theme song for season one back in the 1970's and now. Gimme A Break also had two theme songs both sung by the show's main cast member Nell Carter. I preferred the more upbeat original. It fit the mood of the show. The second theme song was okay but it was too soft and mellow in my opinion.
I should also say It was Bill Haley and the Comets that sang Rock Around The Clock not Chuck Berry. Also another show that changed its theme song was Eight Is Enough. Seasons 1 and 2 were an instrumental and seasons 3 to 5 was the more popular version again sung by a cast member of the show. Grant Goodeve aka David Bradford. I preferred the second theme song.
The score was written by legendary Hanna Barbera composer Hoyt Curtian which is why all of his scores have a big band feel to them
They played this intro in cartoonnetwork in the mid late 90s. Yeah myself didn't know about the first intro. kinda used too with the other one. XD
Recently, they show the new opening of the Flintstones Cartoon with Pebbles alone without Bamm Bamm along with the Rubbles who are going to the drive in movies, and it is Cometh Home Nurse Fred instead of Ann Margret Presents as I watched on the Cartoon Network in the 1990s and early 2000s, and later Boomerang Classic Cartoon Channel from 2003 to 2011. Cometh Home Nurse Fred which is the following of The Blessed Event, which is Pebbles was born near the end of this episode.
This is Grand Dad
Goddamn, I can’t believe this show’s sixty years old this year lol. Used to watch it as a kid when it aired on Boomerang over here in the UK.
I’m so happy they’re finally releasing this whole series on blu ray!
Thanks for showing us the _other_ Flintstones theme for once, Siivagunner.
In the end credits, why didn't Fred Flintstone just climb through the window instead of banging on the door causing everyone to wake up?
Hahahaha that is a question I have been wondering for many years as probably the rest of us. The same in the more famous "meet the Flinstones" ending when Fred bangs on the door and yells "Willllllllllmmmmmaaaaa!" I said this is another post but my guess is the cat is much smarter than Fred by climbing back into the glassless window or Fred is too fat to climb back in himself. It has always added humour to the show as well.
Yep he did but Fred could have just let himself in by climbing through the 'glassless' window. LOL!!!!
It was Big Mouthed Fred! He DEMANDED attention! lol (and he may have eaten one too many Dino Burgers and would've got stuck, knowing him.)
Fred is just not too bright
Ikr! I thought of that when i was a kid
I like how Fred is respected as the man of the house
Been watching the Flintstones all of my life, first time I saw the original opening and closing .
I camed here only for the nostalgia and stopping seeing Joel-related comments
IF I WANT JOEL, I WATCH JOEL. IF I WANT FLINSTONES, I WATCH FLINSTONES!
The Flintstones was part of my childhood! I loved the Cartoon I had Coloring books everything Flintstones.
I watched The Flintstones when it was a new show. I love the original theme song.
Life was good back then with Flintstones and Jetsons....!😊
This cartoon brings me back great memories of my childhood!
I honestly believe never having remembered hearing or knowing about this original-season, different show opening and closing. I'm old enough to remember watching the last couple of seasons of the show in original prime time with the familiar later show opening/closing, which I thought I remember as the only ones used in all the syndicated repeats I then watched millions of times through the years after that. Great to hear and see.
This show brings back fond childhood memories....I still enjoy watching it today...the earliest I remember watching it was 1962
Wow father time you're getting up there... lmaooo
original music theme was better than what they changed it to. The name of this song is "Rise and Shine". I had it on an LP with people singing lyrics to it when I was a little kid, 1961. Don't know wht happened to that album, but I'VE always remembered this song. Thanks for posting.
What WERE the lyrics? I never knew any existed for this.
@ParaWarnerViacom-17 Enterprises, Inc. The only way to know, for sure, what was written first, would be to know what the respective dates of the first and the final recordings for these two songs are; they may not match those of the air dates for the first episodes.
I hadn't seen that opening/ending since I was 4 or 5. Such good memories.
I remember my childhood friend Joey and howhe used to say at the end of the program"Why the hell is Fred banging on the door to get in when the damn window is open right next to him"?? I miss my best friend ,he was murdered in 1989
The first one is the intro I always saw when watching this on CN Too (remember that channel?)
PP7628 Yea. It's still on...
Not in our country...that channel disappeared a while ago here.
PP7628 Oh. That makes more sense.
when watching this show
How many noticed Fred's car changed often?
2 door, 4 door, convertible 2 door with trunk etc hehe
Is it me or does anyone else notices, But at 0:44 and 1:45, If you listen really good, The theme sounds somewhat similar to the Overture theme for The Bugs Bunny show and Bugs and Tweety show
Yes, and maybe it was changed for season 3 because of it---but I am not sure.
It was, listen to the version of the song with lyrics (it's called Rise & Shine) and you'll quickly realize it's identical.
atsflives4ever I believe it was changed in episode three season three for that very reason.
Agreed.
I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT!!!! YASSS!!!!! SOMEOEN THINKS THE SAME AS ME!!
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The first and the best I always like this theme and season 1 and 2 of the Flintstones were the best.
The end credits is the best
Best of the 60’s!
I bet all of you always wondered why Fred doesn't go through the window after the Sabor Tooth 🐅 runs back through the door and slams it shut on him?! I have been asking myself that for so long. Also Wilma is a heavy sleeper, which is why she didn't hear Fred banging on the door. I am even surprised that Baby Puss run back in through the door instead of the window! Well, who agrees with me on Fred not using the window? Please comment - NOW!!
GRANDAD!!!
MeTV will soon be airing The Flintstones.
The theme song makes me cry
I miss watching this on CN weeknights before going to bed at 10pm.
Damn I never expected a lot of adults to grow on this show
@Chris Smalls yeah I know but it felt like family oriented than adult to me but this is back then so it makes sense
Coming to METV Monday night at 6pm weeknights and 10am Sunday mornings replaces Saved By The Bell starting October 6th. You're welcome. ❤️
1:13 Welma has no mouth 💀💀💀
The original theme music was titled “Rise and Shine.”
Far superior to the second and more familiar “Flintstones” theme. Shame that MeTV chooses to use the syndicated opening/closing themes that included Pebbles and Bamm Bamm on the first season airings.
It sounds more like make them laugh.
pibby lol
what??
You have two options
A. Go to the stone age
B. Go in the times when you watched and enjoyed these
Love the Flintstones! Obviously L.A. with the elevated freeway ramps. If only cars could run on human power, better air quality.
0:51-0:54 always loved this moment.
Love flintstones theme from season 1
Thank you Silvagunner.
in real life, a 2500 citizen population is a village population. The minimum town population is 20,000. Even if Bedrock became a metropolis, it has 2,500,000 citizens. In Flintstone terms it is called a Rockopolis.
Why didn't he just climb through the window to get in instead of waking the whole damn neighborhood? LOL Love u Freddy
Fred was way too fat.
Fred did not think this through.
I have all of season one on a disc collection! Its awesome
Now have the all seasons on dvd
ADORO este desenho. Eu lembro muito da minha infância.
My GrandDad used to love this show
Um dos desenhos q mais marcaram a minha infância
I was born in 2009 but I still watched shows from the 1900s
I never grew up with the Flinstones and actually watched the first season in January
Anyone reviving his childhood memories in 2020? 🤗
I’m sorta watching the show for the first time in 2020
Warner Animation Group, let alone Warner Bros. are developing an animated feature film for The Flintstones and they’re also doing it for their Space-Age counterpart family The Jetsons.
It seems like the last few second were slightly altered. As everyone knows this was the first 30 min ( single story ..not segments like Huckleberry Hound and Quick Draw McGraw ie). Also It was aimed at an adult audience it later became more family oriented. The first two seasons were sponsored by the makers of Winston Cigarettes. There was a Winston "bug" in the lower left corner of original episodes on ABC.
I remember that!
I like this opening better than the later ones
0:10 - No wonder this open didn't last. Apparently WB wasn't hot on H-B stealing its "Overture; curtain, lights... / This is it, the night of nights!" melody.
Didn't know about this one and the theme. Until I saw the 1994 film.
It's been exactly 20 years ago that I watched this when I was 3 years old. And at 1:40 I was like why did that tiger went back inside.
Based on your writing, I find it kind of hard to believe that you're 23 years old.
My first time watching the flinstones was on January 2020 at the age of 21
@@tocotoucan7304 well don't judge me by my writing but on the fact that I used to watch an almost 60 years old animated serie.
GRAND DAD!
Flintstones, meet the Flintstones
They're the modern Stone Age Family
From the town of Bedrock
They're a page right out of history
Let's ride with the family down the street
Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet
When you're with the Flintstones
Have a yabba-dabba-doo time
A dabba-doo time
We'll have a gay old time😊
I don't know why I love this show....nostalgia I suppose.
I mean it’s been parodied
This sounds a bit like the Bugs Bunny Theme, "This Is It."
YOU ARE CORRECT THE FLINTSTONES THEME DIDNT START UNTILL THE THIRD YEAR
Wow, this feels more Simpsons-esque. I used to watch it in French in Québec, and we had the other song and opening for all episodes.
I really like the 1960-61 Instrumental Flintstones version so much better than the Newer Singing Version of the Flintstones !!! When the Flintstones Music came in 1961 - 1967 , they added the music to it . The original music in my opinion is the best !!
7 Grand Dad: The Prequel...
Watching now on MeTV.
"THE FLINTSTONES" brought to you by Miles Products!
Fred: Wilma I'm home!
Wilma: Did you get everything Fred?
Where's the Alka-Seltzer?
Fred: Right here in the blue and white box!
"THE FLINTSTONES" has been brought to you by Miles Products!
Wilma: Fred, One-A-Day vitamins has vitamins A, B, B-1, B-2, B-3, B-6, B-12,
how did they do it?
Fred: I don't know but I'm glad they do!
Normajean McCracken Don't forget the Welch's Grape Jelly & Grape Juice also Skippy Peanut Butter.
@@RusstheTroubadour Pebbles: Woo Woo Gay Goo. (Grape Juice)