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
The Flintstones Finally, the stone houses of this society are cookie-cutter homes positioned into typical neighborhoods. Over 100 other characters appeared throughout the program. Fred Flintstone physically resembles both the voice actor who played him, Alan Reed, and Jackie Gleason, whose series, "The Honeymooners", inspired "The Flintstones". The voice of Barney Rubble was provided by voice actor Mel Blanc, though five episodes during the second season (the first, second, fifth, sixth, and ninth) employed Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler while Blanc was incapacitated by a near-fatal car accident. Blanc was able to return to the series much sooner than expected, by virtue of