Moving along the timeline of Christmas themed TV episodes, we travel millions of years into the past to the town of Bedrock. It's yabba-dabba-doo time to celebrate the holidays with the Flintstones.
There's been several Christmas specials starring Fred and his buddy Barney and their families. But for the sake of this Advent theme, I'm staying away from as many holiday specials as possible for that may be a subject to explore for the future. So the episode I am highlighting is from the original 1960s series. Titled 'Christmas Flintstone', this episode has later been re-packaged as 'How the Flintstones Saved Christmas' on VHS and DVD.
In this episode, Fred has taken a second job for the holidays at Macyrock's Department store as a clerk. He's about to get fired, when the regular store Santa calls in sick. So Fred is sent as a replacement and it's the role he was born to play! In fact, Fred does such an awesome job, when the real Santa Claus is too sick to deliver presents, Fred is recruited in his place!
Besides the obvious fact that this story takes place way before the birth of Christ and thus how can cavemen celebrate Christmas- this is a treasured episode to many. Me included. It's funny, cheery, and it features the original and still the best actor to voice Fred, Alan Reed.
This episode is unique as it's the first one in this Advent that actually aired on Christmas Day 1964. Unfortunately, due to copyright and such, I'm not able to post the complete episode. So in hopes of making it up to you, I provide 2 Advent gifts today. First is a 1980s Christmas themed Fruity Pebbles commercial in which Fred meets Santa. and then I have a clip of Fred singing Dino The Dinosaur's Christmas Tree from that classic episode.
Enjoy... and until next time Merry Christmas!
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