Christmas Flintstone is an animated Christmas television special from season 5 of the 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...

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Plot

Fred

Fred Flintstone

Frederick Joseph “Fred” Flintstone, also known as Fred W. Flintstone or Frederick J. Flintstone, is the protagonist of the animated sitcom The Flintstones, which aired during prime-time on ABC during the original series' run from 1960-66. He is the husband of Wilma Flintstone and father of Pebbles...

 gets a second job at Macyrock's

Macy's

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 in order to finance the family's Christmas

Christmas

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. Mr. Macyrock initially fires Fred, but then Mr. Macyrock's assistant tells him that their usual Santa is sick, and instead has Fred replace their usual Santa. Then, two of Santa's elves appear to Fred, Twinky and Blinky, both of whom are 300-500 years old. They then tell him that the real Santa Claus

Santa Claus

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 is sick, and he replaces him in the sleigh. Fred then shouts Christmas greetings in French

French language

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, Italian

Italian language

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, German

German language

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, Dutch

Dutch language

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, English

English language

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, and Swedish

Swedish language

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Voice cast

• Alan Reed
  Alan Reed
  Alan Reed was an American actor and voice actor, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on The Flintstones and various spinoff series...
  
   - Fred Flintstone
• Jean Vanderpyl - Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles Flintsone, customer
• 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, Dino, Mr. Macyrock
• Gerry Johnson
  Gerry Johnson
  Gerry Johnson was an American actress who provided the voice of Betty Rubble in seasons five and six of the US cartoon series The Flintstones...
  
   - Betty Rubble, gift rapping lady, girl#1
• Don Messick
  Don Messick
  Donald Earl "Don" Messick was an American voice actor best known for his work for Hanna-Barbera. Perhaps his most well-known voice creations include Scooby-Doo, Papa Smurf, and Dr. Benton Quest....
  
   - Bamm-Bamm Rubble, kid#1, reporter, blinky
• Hal Smith
  Hal Smith (actor)
  Harold John "Hal" Smith was an American character actor and voice actor. Smith is best known as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and was the voice of many characters on various animated cartoon shorts...
  
   - Santa Claus, streetcrosser, dinosaur
• Dick Beals
  Dick Beals
  Richard "Dick" Beals is an American voice actor. He has performed many voices in his career, which spans from the early 1950s into the 21st century...
  
   - kid#2, twinky

Songs

• Merry Christmas is My Favorite Time of Year
• Dino
  Dino (The Flintstones)
  Dino is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series The Flintstones, and its TV spinoffs and feature films. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. In the show, he is a metaphorical pet dog, and exhibits the characteristics...
  
   the Dinosaur's Christmas Tree
• Merry Christmas is My Favorite Time of Year (Reprise)

Trivia

• This episode of the Flintstones conflicts in two ways with the Christmas special "A Flintstone Christmas
  A Flintstone Christmas
  A Flintstone Christmas is a 60-minute animated Christmas television special featuring The Flintstones. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and aired on NBC on December 7, 1977. This special is not to be confused with the episode "Christmas Flintstone" which aired during the show's run...
  
  ". In the first instance, by the end of this episode, Fred believes in Santa Claus and even states "No one's going to tell me that there isn't a Santa Claus". In "A Flintstone Christmas", Fred finds it hard to believe that Santa is on his roof and even thinks that Barney
  Barney Rubble
  Bernard "Barney" Rubble is the deuteragonist of the television animated series The Flintstones. He is the diminutive blonde-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble...
  
   is immature for believing in Santa Claus. In the second instance, Santa looks very different in this episode than he did in "A Flintstone Christmas
  A Flintstone Christmas
  A Flintstone Christmas is a 60-minute animated Christmas television special featuring The Flintstones. It was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and aired on NBC on December 7, 1977. This special is not to be confused with the episode "Christmas Flintstone" which aired during the show's run...
  
  ".However "A Flintstone Christmas" could be a remake of this episode.