The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration was a 60-minute CBS

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 live-action and animated

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 television special

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 produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with Robert Guenette Productions commemorating the 25th anniversary of television's first primetime animated series, The Flintstones

The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that screened from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966, on ABC. Produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, The Flintstones was about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next-door neighbor and best friend. It...

, which was broadcast on May 20, 1986. The special, hosted by Tim Conway

Tim Conway

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, Harvey Korman

Harvey Korman

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 and Vanna White

Vanna White

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, featured clips from past episodes and spin-offs combined with new animation and musical segments. Special guest appearances also included Telly Savalas

Telly Savalas

Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz...

, Susan Saint James

Susan Saint James

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 and Jane Curtin

Jane Curtin

Jane Therese Curtin is an American actress and comedienne. She is commonly referred to as Queen of the Deadpan.First coming to prominence as an original cast member on Saturday Night Live in 1975, she went on to win back-to-back Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series on the 1980s...

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For the first time in their 25-year history the Flintstones characters are finally done in digital ink and paint for this production.

Voices

• Henry Corden
  Henry Corden
  Henry Corden was a Canadian-born American actor and voice artist best-known for taking over the role of Fred Flintstone after Alan Reed died in 1977. His official debut as Fred's new voice was on the 1977 syndicated weekday series Fred Flintstone and Friends for which he provided voice-overs on...
  
   - Fred Flintstone
• Jean Vander Pyl
  Jean Vander Pyl
  Jean Vander Pyl was an American actress on radio, television and movies. Although her career spanned many decades, she is best remembered as the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the Hanna-Barbera cartoon The Flintstones...
  
   - Wilma Flintstone
• Mel Blanc
  Mel Blanc
  Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros...
  
   - Barney Rubble
• Bea Benaderet
  Bea Benaderet
  Bea Benaderet was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She is best remembered for her wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate...
  
   - Betty Rubble

Production credits

• Executive Producers: Joseph Barbera and William Hanna
• Director and Producer: Robert Guenette
• Writers: John Ludin, Charles Howell, Tom Ruegger
  Tom Ruegger
  Tom Ruegger is an American animation writer, producer, and director.-Career:In the 1980s Ruegger worked for Hanna-Barbera, writing and producing various animated series, most notably The Snorks, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo and A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.In 1989 he began...
  
  
• Casting Director: Andrea Romano
• Executives in Charge of Production: Jayne Barbera, Margaret Loesch
  Margaret Loesch
  Margaret Ann Loesch, is a veteran television executive, multi-award–winning producer, who is currently the President and CEO of Discovery Communications and Hasbro Inc's joint venture television network, The Hub.-Early life:...
  
  
• Production Manager: Bob Stein
• Art Director: Bill Bohnert
• Editor: Peter Wood
• Music: Hoyt Curtin
• Music Arrangers: Tom Worrat, Ron Jones
• Music Coordinator: Joanne Miller
• Music Editors: Terry W. Moore, Dennis McLean, Joe Sandusky
• Boom Operator: Andy Robins
• Sound Effects: Mike Deneck
• Camera: Tom Harvey
• Video Tape: Ron Stutzman
• Animator: Gordon Hunt
• Animation Directors: Frank Andrina, Robert Goe, Richard Leon, Jay Sarbry
• Layout Artist: Andrew Gentle
• Supervising Film Editor: Larry Cowan
• Animation Supervisor: Janine Dawson

External links

• The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration @ The Big Cartoon DataBase