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 Flintstone Kids Rocky's dog Stalagbite. The premise of "The Flintstone Kids", which depicts Fred and Barney as childhood friends with Wilma and Betty, contradicts the continuity of the original "Flintstones" series, which established in the episode "Bachelor Daze" that the two men did not meet their wives until they were young adults. Despite this, the character of Philo Quartz, who was created for this show, would later appear as an adult in the TV special "A Flintstones Christmas Carol". Reruns aired on Cartoon Network in the United States from 1994 until 2003. This series featured the following segments: In 1988, Mary Jo