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
Animated series The first animated television series was "Crusader Rabbit". Animated sitcoms first appeared in the 1960s, with "The Flintstones" (1960–1966), followed by "The Jetsons" (1962–1987). From 1972 to 1974, Hanna-Barbera produced "Wait Till Your Father Gets Home", an adult-oriented sitcom in the style of "All in the Family". The 1980s and 1990s was a renaissance of the cartoon children's television series and adult's television series. Various broadcast networks and media companies began creating television channels and formats designed specifically for airing cartoon series. Companies that already had these types of formats in place began to revamp their existing models during this