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Directed by Carl Urbano Original language(s) English Initial release 26 September 1980 Network NBC | 6.5/10 IMDb Country of origin United States Producer(s) Alex Lovy Director Carl Urbano | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Voices of Henry Corden
Mel Blanc
Jean Vander Pyl
Gay Autterson
John Stephenson
Pat Parris
Frank Welker Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera Film series The Flintstone Primetime Specials Film Series Cast Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl, Henry Corden, John Stephenson, Gay Autterson, Patricia Parris Characters Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, Stubby Frankenstone Similar The Flintstones: Jogging F, The Flintstones: Fred's Fin, The Flintstones Meet Roc, The Flintstones: Little Big, The Flintstones' 25th Anni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Flintstones' New Neighbors is a 1980 animated television special and is the first of The Flintstone Special limited-run prime time revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions which premiered on NBC on September 26, 1980.
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The Flintstones' New Neighbors was animated at Filman, an animation studio in Madrid, Spain (headed by Carlos Alfonso and Juan Pina) who did a lot of animation work for Hanna-Barbera between the early 1970s through the mid-1980s. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio, one of the last productions to do so.
Summary
The Flintstones and the Rubbles welcome a new strange family, The Frankenstones, to their Bedrock neighborhood.
The Frankenstones
The Frankenstone family featured on this special was a different version of the Frankenstones from the episode "Fred and Barney Meet the Frankenstones" of The New Fred and Barney Show (1979).
The new Frankenstone family members are:
A friendship develops between the Flintstones and the Frankenstones, not unlike the rivalry that would be depicted later between Fred and Frank on The Flintstone Comedy Show. This version of the Frankenstones continued to appear throughout the run of the specials.
Voices
Award nomination
The Flintstones' New Neighbors was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Animated Programming at the 33rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1981.
Production credits
Home media releases
The Flintstones' New Neighbors was included as a bonus episode on the 1989 VHS release of The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone.
On October 9, 2012, Warner Archive released The Flintstones' New Neighbors on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection, in a release entitled The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 2. It was a Manufacture-on-Demand release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.