Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series is an annual award given to the best television comedy series of the year. From 1960 to 1964, this category was combined with the Comedy Specials (one time programs) category so that both type of programs competed for the same award during those years. "The Flintstones" and "Family Guy" are the only animated series to be nominated for the award. Outside the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS and NBC), Fox has won this award twice, with "Ally McBeal" and "Arrested Development", cable network HBO has
The Flintstones' New Neighbors be depicted later between Fred and Frank on "The Flintstone Comedy Show". This version of the Frankenstones continued to appear throughout the run of the specials. "The Flintstones' New Neighbors" was nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Animated Programming at the 33rd Primetime Emmy Awards in 1981. "The Flintstones' New Neighbors" was included as a bonus episode on the 1989 VHS release of "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone". On October 9, 2012, Warner Archive released "The Flintstones' New Neighbors" on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection, in a release entitled "The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials