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Note: This is the first episode in which Dino makes an appearance.

Hesitant to betray his best friend, Barney pays off Fred's delinquent television bill with his first paycheck. To the dismay of both neighbors, Barney's first assignment is to repossess Fred's television. Also features the reworked scene from The Flagstones pilot demo.įred uses his influence with a business friend to obtain a job for Barney, who becomes a furniture repossessor. Notes: A brief snippet of this episode shows up later in a Jetsons episode, 'Elroy's Mob' a classmate of Elroy's watches it on his wristwatch TV, before the teacher catches the student and confiscates it. Everything goes fine until the wives show up disguised as two 'hip chicks' to teach their wayward husbands a lesson.įred and Barney build a joint swimming pool in their backyards, leading to fights before Fred's surprise birthday party. They almost get away with their scheme, until loose-lipped Barney gives away their night's activities by using a fake mustache he and Fred used earlier to try to trick their wives at the bowling alley.īelieving he has made Wilma and Betty disappear through magic, Fred capitalizes on his newfound freedom by taking Barney to a nightclub, the Rockland, where an old friend, trumpeter Hot Lips Hannigan, is performing. With the use of Barney's homemade prehistoric helicopter as a means of escape, the two then join their bowling team for the tournament. On a Sunday, Fred fakes illness so he and Barney can get out of taking their wives to the opera, as the night coincides with a bowling championship. All other releases of the pilot use the original voice track. The pilot was re-voiced for the Cartoon Crack-Ups DVD release for unknown reasons with Henry Corden as Fred, Frank Welker as Barney, Tress MacNeille as Wilma, and Betty Jean Ward as Betty.

Daws Butler provided the voices of Fred and Barney (he later reprised the role of Barney in season 2 episodes 1, 2, 5, 6 and 9 when Mel Blanc was unavailable to provide the voice after a car accident at that time), June Foray was Betty (her appearance was somewhat redesigned for the actual series), and Jean Vander Pyl was Wilma (the only actor from the pilot to regularly reprise their role for the actual series).

#Closing time doctor who watch series#

It was actually a 90-second 'demo reel' (with grease pencil marks still visible on the film), designed to sell the series to potential advertisers in the winter of 1959, depicting a scene from what would eventually become the episode 'The Swimming Pool'. Notes: This was the original pilot episode for The Flintstones, but was never shown with the original series. It was released on DVD in 2001 and again in 2004. The first 2 seasons were written by Warren Foster, Michael Maltese and Arthur Phillips.įirst released on The Flintstones: The Collector's Edition on VHS in 1994, it made its television debut on Cartoon Network on May 7, 1994, and aired again on Boomerang in November 2006.