The Flintstones is finally coming to Blu-ray. IGN can exclusively reveal that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will release The Flintstones: The Complete Series on Blu-ray and Digital HD in Fall 2020.
The set will include all six seasons and 166 episodes of the original series, along with two additional animated movies – 1966’s The Man Called Flintstone and 2015’s The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age Smackdown! Every episode has been remastered in HD.
Warners has yet to reveal pricing or a specific release date for the Blu-ray set, although it is expected out this fall. It’s also unclear what bonus features might be included in the set. We’ll have to wait and see if those infamous Winston Cigarettes ads have been remastered in HD…
For those somehow unfamiliar with Fred Flintstone and his “modern Stone Age family,” the original animated series aired on ABC from 1960 to 1966. Initially a prehistoric parody of live-action sitcoms like The Honeymooners, the series gradually shifted in a more family-friendly direction and eventually spawned a multimedia empire. The Flintstones broke new ground as the first animated series to air in a primetime TV slot. It also proved to be the longest-running animated series in TV history until The Simpsons came along and broke that record five times over.
The Flintstones has enjoyed a successful syndicated run and has spawned various spinoffs and reboots over the years, some of them more odd than others. DC Comics previously turned heads in 2016 with its subversive Flintstones series, one that proved to be surprisingly politically topical despite the prehistoric setting.
Fred Flintstone and family may be returning to the air soon. Last year we learned Warner Bros. is developing a new animated series in conjunction with Elizabeth Banks’ Brownstone Productions. The Scooby Doo! reboot movie Scoob! also lays the groundwork for an animated Hanna-Barbera cinematic universe, so it’s always possible we’ll see the Flintstones rubbing elbows with Mystery Inc. one day.
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Source: IGN.com The Flintstones: The Complete Series Coming to Blu-ray in 2020