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  • Hotfoot
    Dazed and Confused
    • Dec 30, 2007
    • 2564

    The Flinstones Pilot & First Sponsor

    Lost Pilot
    YouTube - The Flintstones lost pilot

    Sponsor Videos
    YouTube - Flintstones Cigarette Commercial
    YouTube - Flintstones for Winston Cigarettes (Cigarette Shop)
    YouTube - cast for Winston Cigarettes (Record Player)
    Last edited by Hotfoot; Sep 30, '08, 5:55 PM.
    Too many toys. Not enough space!
  • SUPERUNDERDOGGIE
    Museum Chaplain
    • Nov 26, 2002
    • 2419

    #2
    Wow...amazing how times have changed. I remember in the 1970s how free people were with cigarettes (my dad was a smoker)...buying them out of vending machines and smoking in office buildings and things....selling "candy" cigarettes.... but nowadays it seems crazy!

    I wonder if people during the era of that flintstones commercial though "This isn't that bad for me....its got a filter!!!" That's the thought I had watching the first commerical. Crazy!
    "God has put definite limits on the heights of man's wisdom, but no limits to the depths of his stupidity"

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    • Hotfoot
      Dazed and Confused
      • Dec 30, 2007
      • 2564

      #3
      Bear in mind that the Flintstones was origionally supposed to be an Adult cartoon similar to the popular Honeymooners show with Jackie Gleason.
      Too many toys. Not enough space!

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      • Marvelmania
        A Ray of Sunshine
        • Jun 17, 2001
        • 10392

        #4
        Funny that reminds me of an old cigarette commercial that Jed and Granny charactes from the Beverly HIllbillys did.

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        • mitchedwards
          Mego Preservation Society
          • May 2, 2003
          • 11781

          #5
          Those are great.

          I can remember when I was a kid my uncle giving me money to go buy him cigarettes at the store.


          Think B.A. Where did you hide the Megos?

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          • Wee67
            Museum Correspondent
            • Apr 2, 2002
            • 10603

            #6
            Virginia Slims, Menthol.

            That's what my mom used to have me pick up at the Wa Wa convenience store. That was fine by me, because I always grabbed some Garbace Can Candy or a pack of Wacky Packages while I was there

            BTW, I recognize the voice of Fred from a billion other Hanna Barbera cartoons. I wonder why they switched. Admittedly, I am so used to Alan Reed, I can't imagine anyone else as Fred Flinstone now.
            WANTED - Solid-Boxed WGSH's, C.8 or better.

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            • Hotfoot
              Dazed and Confused
              • Dec 30, 2007
              • 2564

              #7
              Originally posted by Tim Arnold
              Funny that reminds me of an old cigarette commercial that Jed and Granny charactes from the Beverly HIllbillys did.
              YouTube - Miss Jane teaches smoking

              YouTube - Jed teaches Granny to smoke Winston's

              YouTube - Beverly Hillbillies - Cast Ad #01 - Winston Cigarettes

              Gotta love you tube!
              Too many toys. Not enough space!

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              • UnderdogDJLSW
                To Fear is Not Logical...
                • Feb 17, 2008
                • 4895

                #8
                BTW, I recognize the voice of Fred from a billion other Hanna Barbera cartoons
                In that lost pilot clip the Fred voice I think is being done by Daws Butler. The same guy who was Yogi Bear, Hucklebrry Hound, and dozens of other voices for HB. My guess would be that Alan Reed had more of the Jackie Gleason thing going.
                It's all good!

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