The Flintstones' 50th Anniversary Celebrated With Google Doodle (PICTURE)

On Thursday Google marked the 50th anniversary of Hanna-Barbera's "The Flintstones" with a special Doodle. The whimsical graphic features Fred Flintstone, his family and his friends piled into Fred's "car" and cruising around their neighborhood.

"The Flintstones may have lived in the prehistoric town of Bedrock, but their technology was on par with much of what we use today," Google Doodler Mike Dutton wrote on the Google Blog. "On the 50th anniversary of its first airing, we gladly salute 'The Flintstones' for inspiring our imaginations and encouraging us to think outside of the box, even if it means taking a look back now and then. I hope you'll join the rest of us here at Google in a little nostalgia to mark this fun occasion!"

"The Flintstones" was set in a re-imagined 10,000 B.C. The series originally aired on ABC on September 30, 1960 and ran until 1966, making it "the first, and the longest running, animated situation comedy shown in prime-time television," writes PCMag.

Check out the 50-year-old show's Google Doodle (below).