The Flintstones, which aired from 1960 to 1966, holds a special place in television history as a pioneering animated sitcom, and its enduring appeal shows that its clever humor transcends generations.

The pilot didn't air, and the name got changed to The Flintstones.But in 1993, Cartoon Network unearthed the pilot, found in a New York storage warehouse. "It was this mythological sort of thing ...