The Flintstones "The Simpsons" debuted decades later. In 2013, "TV Guide" ranked "The Flintstones" the second greatest TV cartoon of all time (after "The Simpsons"). The show is set in a comical, satirical version of the Stone Age which, although it uses primitive technology, resembles mid-20th-century suburban America. The plots deliberately resemble the sitcoms of the era, with the caveman Flintstone and Rubble families getting into minor conflicts characteristic of modern life. The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock (pop. 2500). In this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals co-exist with cavemen, saber-toothed cats,
The Cartoon Company The Cartoon Company The Cartoon Company was an Australian children's television Saturday morning cartoon block that aired on the Nine Network in the mid and late 1980s until the early 1990s. It first aired on 19 July 1986 and was hosted by Bob Driessen, Karen Dunkerton, Craig Campbell, Kathy Hopper (who had also presented the early Melbourne edition of "The Bugs Bunny Show" in the 1980s) and Michelle Marr from 1986 to 1989 and later Robyn Gorrell (only from 1989), Tony Johnston (from 1989 to 1991), Kristine Davis (only from 1990) and Nerida Leishman (only from 1991). The series featured