A Flintstone Family ABC TV Show

Fred is a typical blue-collar worker, who works as a "bronto crane operator" at Slate Rock & Gravel Company (also known as Rockhead & Quarry Cave Construction Company in earlier episodes). Fred's job title in the second-season episode "Divided We Sail" is "geological engineer". During the original series' third season, Wilma gives birth to the daughter-Pebbles. Years later, when Pebbles is a teenager, Fred and Barney join the Bedrock police force for a time as part-time police officers. Eventually, Fred becomes a grandfather to the adult Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's twins, Chip and Roxy. Fred's family grew again in A Flintstone Family Christmas, when he and Wilma adopted an orphaned caveboy named Stony, & despite a rough start, Fred & his new son bonded well. George O'Hanlon originally auditioned for the role of Fred Flintstone. He later went on to voice George Jetson, another Hanna-Barbera character in the animated sitcom The Jetsons. Alan Reed was the original voice artist of Fred (minus the original short pilot where he was voiced by Daws Butler, who also voiced him on a 1973 record until Reed's death in 1977. The Flintstones is an American animated TV series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles. It was originally broadcast on ABC from September 1960-1966, & was the No.1 animated series with a prime-time slot on TV Business..