The Flinstones And Winston Ciggies -- Now There's A Memory

You know, you have to be my age or older to realize that when The Flinstones was initially aired on television, it's target audience was adults, not children. I personally remember it was on Friday NIGHTS, at 8:30, which was a night every other week that my mother went out with her married lover (laughs) and my sister and I were left home alone (I was only 8 when it first came on, but back in those days, people left siblings alone at home if someone was at least in elementary school). I remember it mostly because I would go to bed, with my mom not home, so I would put on the television in the living room and pretend she was home watching TV.

The series was initially aimed at adult audiences; the first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston (dictated by the custom, at that time, that the star{s} of a TV series often "pitched" their sponsor's product in an "integrated commercial" at the end of the episode).

Courtesy of Wikipedia.