The Flintstones' New Neighbors series and its spin-offs. Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio, one of the last productions to do so. The Flintstones and the Rubbles welcome a new strange family, The Frankenstones, to their Bedrock neighborhood. The Frankenstone family featured on this special was a different version of the Frankenstones from the episode "Fred and Barney Meet the Frankenstones" of "The New Fred and Barney Show" (1979). The new Frankenstone family members are: A friendship develops between the Flintstones and the Frankenstones, not unlike the rivalry that would
Animation in the United States in the television era originally aired during prime time when the whole family would be watching television. "The Flintstones" was the first of several prime-time animated series from Hanna-Barbera, which included "The Jetsons", "Top Cat", and "Jonny Quest". But after the end of "The Flintstones" in 1966, Hanna-Barbera largely turned its efforts to the growing market for Saturday morning cartoons, outside of isolated series for first run syndication in the 1970s such as "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home". Hanna-Barbera was notorious for using common tropes in its series. Its original series of the late 1950s through mid-1960s all featured anthropomorphic animals, usually an