The Flintstones as children, and yet others featuring Fred and Barney encountering Marvel Comics superhero The Thing and Al Capp's comic strip character The Shmoo – have appeared over the years. The original show also was adapted into a live-action film in 1994, and a prequel, "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas", which followed in 2000. Unlike its sister show "The Jetsons" (the two shows appeared in a made-for-TV crossover movie in 1987), the revival programs were not widely syndicated or rerun alongside the original series. In 2011, it was announced "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane would be reviving "The Flintstones" for
The Land Before Time (TV series) Claw, an evil villainous "Tyrannosaurus", and Screech and Thud, two henchmen "Utahraptor". The TV series takes place after the events of "", due to Chomper and Ruby being absent in that film. The show premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on March 5, 2007. It also on Boomerang in the United Kingdom on April 16, 2007. It premiered in Japan on Kids Station in May 2007. The show has neither aired on Cartoon Network in the United States nor on YTV in Canada since March 2008. The show began airing in reruns on Sprout on January 14, 2017.