Christmas Annual Review – The Flintstones

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1965 – Hannah-Barbara As a child Christmas annuals relating to on-going TV shows & movies were regular gifts for me. I often got Doctor Who & Star Trek annuals. Now I’m 53 I don’t expect them anymore, but a friend was clearing out some of his old stuff and gave me an old Flintstones annual, which is far from mint condition, but rather fun and nostalgic to read through. I won’t review every story in it as they are all quite alike. The opening one, The Boy Scout’s Jamboree, has the Flintstones & Rubbles upset at being too broke for their luxury summer holiday. They hit on the idea of a cut-price tent camping trip instead. Wilma & Betty think it will be disastrous but the families end up sharing the campsite with some over-enthusiastic boy-scouts who decide making the holiday great for the two couples is their good deed for the week. It’s Barney who finally messes things up when his obsessive uncanny impersonation of a wild sabre-toothed tiger attracts a real one which Fred assumes to be Barney in a cat costume with typical sit-com consequences. This would have worked as an actual TV episode so it is a nice reminder of how much I loved such annuals in my childhood. Arthur Chappell