The Flintstones - The Complete Sixth Season

December 22, 2006

Rated: NR Runtime: 780 min Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

The Flintstones lasted for 6 years and by the time this last season aired they has just about run out of ideas… so how about bringing in an alien?! Yeah, this is the season with The GreatGazoo. It’s also the season with Bewitched, My Fair Freddy and The Treasure of Sierra Madrock. Good episodes yes, but let’s all be grateful they didn’t go for a seventh season.

The Flintstones - The Complete Sixth Season Just in case you don’t know what I’m talking about, The Flintstones is an animated show that started back in 1960. It follows the antics of two couples, Fred and WilmaFlintstone and Barney and Betty Rubble. The setups are all standard sitcom stuff from that time period and it works very well. The “modern technology” is always amusing to watch and the situations are really quite funny.

What falls apart in this collection is the picture quality. I’ve read some reviews on Amazon where people talk about how great it looks.. and they are lying (or have crappyTV’s .) The video has NOT been cleaned up very well, there are many artifacts and scratches still present and in a few episodes the color is shifted to green on one side of the screen. Might not be noticeable to some people but it stands out quite well on both the plasma and LCD projector I’ve tested this on. Audio is fine, I just wish this looked better.

The show itself stands up to the test of time quite well. I grew up watching The Flintstones on WTBS everyday and just popping the DVD into my player put a smile on my face. It was also nice to see the openings to these episodes that I didn’t even know where there! Like many shows today they all started with something before the opening credits, butWTBS apparently trimmed that out for some additional commercials. Damn you Ted Turner!

Anyway, I love the show and recommend this set to anyone who’s a fan. I’m holding back a star simply because they didn’t treat the material with enough respect during the mastering process.

Posted by John | Filed Under 4 Stars, Bea Benaderet, Comedy, DVD, Don Messick, Gerry Johnson, Jean Vander Pyl, NR