The original Flintstones cast broke up at about the same time as the Beatles. The stars of the show were blow to the four winds. Wilma got a bit part on the Mary Tyler Moore show as Rhoda’s mother and a dish washing liquid commercial. Betty moved to Rock Vegas to open a brothel. Barney died in a motorcycle crash while high on Meth. Fred of course as you well know became a professional bowler. The one cast member who had the strangest path was Dino. He was working as a technical advisor on the movie Caveman with Ringo Starr and made friends with Ringo’s wife Barbara Bach who always had a soft spot for gay dinosaurs. She introduced him to a cutting edge group of gay and bi-sexual rockers like David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. They were all very impressed by two things. Dino’s musical talent and his enormous dinosaur cock. But why should that be a surprise. After Bedrock is where Rock lives.
(John Deacon, Behind the Music: the Dino Flintstone story)
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The best Flintstones episode ever was when they became spies. There was a hideout compound held by some evil villain in a volcano, with all sorts of Rube Goldberg storage spy technology. I have no idea what the name of the episode was, or how to find it, but it was one of those inchoate childhood memories that was so cool and eerie that I'll never get it out of my head. I saw it just before going to school one day. That was life in the days when you could watch tv before going about the daily grind. I used to come home for lunch some days, too. And the best tv after finishing a day of kindergarten or first grade were those Spiderman cartoons. Yes, Hannah Barbera sure knew how to keep us entertained back then.
Stone-age not storage.
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