Director: | Carl Urbano |
Executive Producer: | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
Producer: | Alex Lovy |
Voices: | Henry Corden Mel Blanc Jean Vander Pyl Gay Autterson John Stephenson Don Messick |
Music: | Hoyt Curtin |
Editor: | Gil Iverson Robert Ciaglia |
Company: | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
Network: | NBC |
Runtime: | 30 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Wind-Up Wilma is a 1981 animated television special and the third of The Flintstone Specials limited-run prime time revival of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The special premiered on NBC on October 4, 1981.[1] In the special, Wilma Flintstone is recruited to play on Bedrock's baseball team.[2]
Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track created by the studio, one of the last productions to do so.
Wilma is a celebrity when she gets a shot at the big leagues and becomes a pitcher for the Bedrock Dodgers after nailing a couple of robbers with a melon at the grocery store; however, she and Fred argue over her ambition to pitch for the team because Fred thinks a woman's place is in the home.
On October 9, 2012, Warner Archive released Wind-Up Wilma on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna-Barbera Classic Collection, in a release entitled The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 2. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.[3]