Bedrock (The Flintstones) Mississippi but never got past the initial planning stage. Bedrock (The Flintstones) Bedrock is the fictional prehistoric city which is home to the characters of the animated television series The Flintstones. Though the first two seasons' opening credits of the original "Flintstones" series stated the town's population as only 2,500 people (though it did swell to 30,000 in a dream sequence in the sixth-season episode entitled "Rip Van Flintstone"), Bedrock was generally presented as a medium-sized American city, with all the amenities of such, but with a "prehistoric" twist. For instance, sauropod dinosaurs were seen being used as cranes at
Animation in the United States in the television era life, and he became as recognizable to the TV audience as his studio's cartoon characters. The first major animation studio to produce cartoons exclusively for television was Hanna-Barbera Productions. When MGM closed its cartoon studio in 1957, Hanna-Barbera began producing cartoons directly for television, finding an audience in the evening "family hour" time. The first animated series from Hanna-Barbera were NBC's "The Ruff & Reddy Show" and the first-run syndication entry "The Huckleberry Hound Show". However, the studio hit its stride in 1960s with ABC's "The Flintstones", the first half-hour animated sitcom. Like many of its immediate successors it was