Posts Tagged ‘The Flintstones’
Saturday, January 31st, 2015
James Bond ventured onto the silver screen in Dr. No in 1962, during the height of the Cold War. Sean Connery’s portrayal of the British agent gave audiences an escape from the era’s harsh realities. The Bond franchise inspired an onslaught of fictional spies.
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Tags: 1960s, 1960s Cold War, 1962, 1966, Barney Rubble, Batman, Bob Kane, Boris Badenov, Bullwinkle, Cold War, Dean Martin, Derek Flint, Dr. No, Dr. Sinister, Flintstones, Fred Flintstone, Get Smart, Hanna-Barbera, I Spy, In Like Flint, James Bond, James Coburn, Jay Bondrock, Madame Yes, Matt Helm, Morocco Mole, Natasha Fatale, Natasha Nogoodnik, Our Man Flint, Rock Slag, Rocky the Squirrel, Sean Connery, Secret Agent, Secret Squirrel, Spies, spy craze, The Flintstones, The Man Called Flintstone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Rubbles, The Wild Wild West, Tom of T.H.U.M.B.
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Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
A common thread runs through Saturday morning cartoons of the 1970s.
Music.
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Tags: 1960, 1966, 1970s, 1971, 1972, 1972-73 season, 1974, ABC, Ann-Margrock, Bamm Bamm, Barry Williams, Bedrock Rollers, cartoons, CBS, Christopher Knight, Concerts, diversity, diversity training, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, Fred Flintsone, Groom Gloom, Hanna-Barbera, I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool No More, I Love Lucy, Jackson 5ive, Jay North, Kid Power, Lucy and Ricky, Mike and Carol Brady, Mike Curb, Moonrock, Our Gang, Partridge Family: 2200 A.D., Peanuts, Pebbles, Penny, Philadelphia, prime time, prime time lineup, Rankin-Bass, Sally Struthers, Saturday, Saturday morning cartoons, September, spinoff, teenager, The Brady Bunch, The Brady Kids, the Curbstones, The Flintstones, The Osmonds, The Partridge Family, The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm Show, Wiggy, Yabba Dabba Doo, Yabba Dabba Doozy
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Monday, November 4th, 2013
In 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) evolved from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA’s mission consisted of beating the Russians in the Space Race. No easy task, this. The year prior to NASA’s birth, the Russians placed Sputnik I in orbit. It was the first man-made object in space.
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Tags: 1958, 1962, 1978, Aeronautics, America, Anthony Nelson, Carl Barks, Chase Craig, comic book, Ed Shifres, Flintstones, Gazoo, Gold Key, Harvey Korman, I Dream of Jeannie, Johann David Wyss, Lost in Space, Mercury, NACA, NASA, NASA astronaut, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Project Mercury, Russians, shiprecked, shipwreck, Space, Space Family Robinson, space race, Space Station, Space Station One, Sputnik, Sputnik I, Star Trek, star voyager, Swiss Family Robinson, television, The Flintstones, U.S.S. Enterprise
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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
If music be the food of 1960s television sitcoms, play on.
In the 1960s, the Beatles captained a British invasion across the Atlantic Ocean. John, Paul, George, and Ringo inspired sitcom versions of themselves after their first American television appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 captured America’s attention, not to mention Hollywood’s creative community.
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Tags: 1960, 1960s, 1960s television, 1960s television sitcoms, 1964, 45 RPM, Alan Brady, Ann-Margret, Ann-Margrock, Army, Army buddy, Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, Barney, Barney Rubble, Beatles, Bedbug, Bedbugs, British, British invasion, Bupkis, Buzzy Potter, Camp Crowder, Capri pants, Carl Reiner, Christmas, Diana Ross, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Dick Van Dyke, Ed Sullivan, F Troop, February, February 9, Flinstone, Flinstones, food, Frank, Fred, Fred Flintstone, Gi, Gilligan's Island, Hollywood, Honeybee, Honeybees, I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool No More, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Jerry Lanning, Jimmy Darren, Jimmy Darrock, Mandalay, Martha and the Vandellas, Mary Tyler Moore, Morey Amsterdam, Mosquito, Mosquitoes, music, nothing, Ocean, Oh Rob!, Pebbles, Pebbles Flintstone, radio, radio station, Randy Twizzle, Richard Deacon, Robert Petrie, Rose Marie, royalty check, sitcom, sitcoms, Standells, Sticks, Sticks Mandalay, Stone Age, Surfing Craze, television sitcoms, The Alan Brady Show, The Alan Brady Show Presents, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, the Bedbugs, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Flintstones, the Honeybees, The Littlest Lamb, the Mosquitoies, The Munsters, The Standells, the Supremes, The Twist, The Twizzle, WIFE, Yiddish
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Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Who would you rather have as your other half in romance, marriage, and domesticity? A witch or a genie?
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Tags: 1960s, 1960s space craze, 1964, 1965, 1972, 1987, ABC, Apollo, Barbara Eden, Bewitched, Columbia, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Television, David Marc, Elizabeth Montgomery, Gemini, genie, I Dream of Jeannie, I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later, I Still Dream of Jeannie, Jack O'Brian, Larry Hagman, Mercury, Museum of Broadcasting, Museum of Television and Radio, NASA, NASA astronaut, NBC, New York Journal-American, Paley Center for Media, Richard Warren Lewis, Roger Healey, Samantha Stephens, Screen Gems, sex appeal, space craze, The Flintstones, TV Guide, witch
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass created animation legacies.
A Canadian studio, Rankin-Bass entered the American market in 1961 with versions of two classic stories in first-run syndication.
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Tags: 1939, 1940, 1940 film Pinocchio, 1961, American market, Animagic, Arthur Rankin, Astronaut, Astronauts, Disney, Dorothy, Dragnet, first-run syndication, Hal Erickson, Judge Judy, Jules Bass, L. Frank Baum, Lion, Oz, Pinocchio, Private Eye, Private Eye genre, Rankin-Bass, Return to Oz, Straw Man, Tales of the Wizard of Oz, Television Cartoon Shows, The Flintstones, The Great Train Robbery, The Iceman Cometh, The New Adventures of Pinocchio, The Wizard of Oz, Tin Man
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
“Everybody does it.” The excuse is familiar in a conversation about appropriating copyrighted material without consent, license, or agreement.
The excuse is thin. And getting thinner.
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Tags: Ann-Margret, Ann-Margrock, Beau Brummels, Beau Brummelstones, copyright, copyright owners, Copyright Protection, copyrighted material, copyrights, Definition of Copyright, downloading, downloading to personal computers, DVD, Fair Use, Fred Flintstone, George Costanza, Gumby, Hi Fye, I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool No More, Laugh Laugh, Let the Sun Shine In, Pacific Ocean, parody, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm, personal computers, Quality Control, satire, Seinfeld, television, The Flintstones, The Littlest Lamb, theatre, theatres, You Tube
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James Bond ventured onto the silver screen in Dr. No in 1962, during the height of the Cold War. Sean Connery’s portrayal of the British agent gave audiences an escape from the era’s harsh realities. The Bond franchise inspired an onslaught of fictional spies.