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The images come from the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page , but unfortunately I can't provide photo credit. They show Ann-Margret performing as "Ann Margrock" on the animated sitcom The Flintstones. The show aired on ABC-TV for 6 seasons from 1960 to 1966. The photos capture Ann recording voice-overs with Alan Reed (the voice of Fred) and Jean Vander Pyl (the voice of Wilma) at the Hanna-Barbera studios in Los Angeles in 1963.

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From MeTV As many know, The Honeymooners inspired The Flintstones, but more specifically, the cartoon was a hybrid of the classic Jackie Gleason sitcom and popular newspaper comic strip. In his memoir Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation, Scheimer, one of the creators of the Filmation animation studio, remembers the moment the light bulb went off over somebody's head. He was working for Hanna-Barbera at the time. "I was doing layouts in a little closet next to where the writers were," Scheimer recalled. "One day a writer named Charlie Shows came in…. He said, 'I've got a great idea! You take The Honeymooners , and you take Alley Oop, and you put them together, and you've got a great story!'" Launched in 1932, Alley Oop revolved around a caveman named Alley Oop living in a prehistoric kingdom of Moo. He wore a loincloth and owned a pet dinosaur named Dinny. Sound a little familiar? READ MORE Check Out: Toons Of Terror!!!: The Flintstone...

 It seems that Fred and Barney have an eccentric neighbor who collects strange objects and fights with his wife constantly. When the fighting stops the two stone age sleuths deduce that eerily strange behaving Alvin Brickrock has chopped up his wife and hidden her remains in an old trunk. This 1961 classic episode of The Flintstones barrows it's title from the late 50s television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents and parodies the plot of on of the Hitchcock's most famous films Rear Window (1954). Just like Jimmy Stewart's character L.B. Jefferies in the film Fred and Barney spend the majority of the episode trying to convince their wives Wilma and Betty that they aren't crazy and that Brickrock had indeed done away with his wife. In the end, of course, it is revealed that Brickrock had really killed his wife but not in the way Fred and Barney thought he did. Indeed having a trained Piranha-keet is a very effective murder weapon if you want to dispose of an disagreei...

The idea of The Flintstones started after Hanna-Barbera produced The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw Show. Although these programs were successful, they did not have the same wide audience appeal as their previous theatrical cartoon series Tom and Jerry, which entertained both children and the adults who accompanied them. However, since children did not need their parents' supervision to watch television, Hanna-Barbera's output became labeled "kids only". Barbera and Hanna wanted to recapture the adult audience with an animated situation comedy. Barbera and Hanna experimented with hillbillies (a hillbilly theme was later incorporated into two Flintstones episodes, "The Bedrock Hillbillies" and "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes"), Romans (Hanna-Barbera eventually created The Roman Holidays), pilgrims, and Indians as the settings for the two families before deciding on the Stone Age. According to Barbera, they settled on that beca...

 Immediately after The Flintstones ended its seven-year run (1960-1966) as the first animated show on American prime-time television, work began on "The Man Called Flintstone" the first and only big screen appearance of “The Modern Stone Age Family.” Alan Reed (Fred), Mel Blanc (Barney), Jean vanDer Pyl (Wilma) and Gerry Johnson (Betty) were all brought back to reprise their TV roles for the motion picture, which was written, by Ray Allen and Harvey Bullock. The film was aimed at capitalizing on the success of the original show and to be a spoof of the popular James Bond films. The film was part musical, part Flintstones and a good chunk 007. The film was released in August of 1966 and was minor success at the box office. The film did however have a second life as a matinee feature following its initial release.    In the film Fred Flintstone is persuaded to take over for an injured secret agent Rock Slag, to whom he is an exact double, by the Stone Age Secret Service. ...