You cannot look at the Flintstones characters and not think about Jackie Gleason and Art Carney's The Honeymooners, but that was very much by the design of series creators William Hannah and Joseph ...

The film follows Fred Flintstone (John Goodman), a working-class quarry worker, who unwittingly becomes involved in a corporate scam perpetrated by his boss, Cliff Vandercave (Kyle MacLachlan).

It was Sept. 30, 1960 — 60 years ago today — that Fred Flintstone first knocked off work at the quarry, rushed home to pick up his family and his next-door neighbors and treated them to a drive-in ...