The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! is a 2015 American direct-to-video animated film starring The Flintstones. It is the second co-production between Warner Bros. Animation and WWE Studios following "Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery". The film features Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and the whole Bedrock gang with stone age versions of WWE Superstars and Divas. It was released on March 10, 2015, by Warner Home Video. It is the first new Flintstones production in over 14 years since "", 55 years after the original 1960s series and also the first Flintstones film without the
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