Toons After Dark: The Flintstones celebrate 25 years.......on CBS (1986)

 The Flintstones' 25th anniversary had already come & gone by the time CBS landed a primetime special in 1986 to mark the occasion.

And there are the few of you who dare ask, "why CBS"? 

Easy answer: 15 years earlier, CBS landed the 1st spinoff of the series, Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm, which morphed into the 1st Flintstone Comedy Show the next season. Tim Conway hosts this retrospective, which features his good buddy, Harvey Korman (Great Gazoo, season 6), plus guest appearances from a host of celebrities, including Wheel of Fortune's Vanna White. When they get around to the song, "Teammates", Korman & Conway pick up for the original vocal track from the series (Mel Blanc and, we must assume, Henry Corden, one of two musical voice doubles for Alan Reed during the series' run before inheriting Reed's role as Fred in 1977).

Mind the video quality, which is not the greatest.

Conway opening with an Indiana Jones parody is typical Conway, but was an hour really enough? I'd like to think ABC, the original home of The Flintstones, had been offered the special, and would pick up the prequel, The Flintstone Kids, in the fall of '86.

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