Philo Quartz

Philo Quartz
Information
Gender	Male
Hair color	Black
Occupation	Student and genius (as a kid) Police officer at the Bedrock Police Department (as an adult)
Relatives	Bob Quartz (father) Barbara Quartz (mother)
Status	Active
Production Details
First appearance	"Frankenstone" (The Flintstone Kids)
Last appearance	A Flintstones Christmas Carol
Voiced by	Bumper Robinson (child) Buster Jones (adult)

Philo Quartz is a character of The Flintstone Kids, a spin-off of the original series, The Flintstones and its TV special. In The Flintstone Kids continuity, he is the son of Bob Quartz and one of Freddy Flintstone's friends, but in the main Flintstones continuity, he is a police officer in Bedrock who is a good friend of Fred and Barney.

Background

Philo was created for the 1986 spin-off The Flintstone Kids where he was depicted as part of Fred's gang and served as the group's nerdy expert and inventor, often helping them by making gadgets for the gang or fixing broken items. He was also one of the first Flintstones characters of color.

Despite The Flintstone Kids not being canon to the main Flintstones franchise, Philo was added to the actual cast in A Flintstones Christmas Carol (the last mainline Flintstones TV special to be produced by Hanna-Barbera) as an adult who resembled and acted exactly like his father from The Flintstone Kids, having no interest in technology and instead being a dedicated but friendly police officer who was a good friend of Fred's, though with a presumably different past than that of his Flintstone Kids counterpart.

Personality

In the The Flintstone Kids, Philo is depicted as an intelligent but at times absent minded young genius much like Moonrock Crater before him. Like most of Fred's gang, he is a friendly and helpful child who enjoys helping others with their problems, mostly with his inventions which can be either hit or miss.

In the main canon special, A Flintstones Christmas Carol, Philo is much like his father, a dedicated and hard-working police officer who is good friends with Fred and Barney. Despite being a police officer, he was very lenient and was quick to forgive Fred's antics.

Physical Appearance

In The Flintstone Kids, he is a young boy with brown skin, black hair, black eyes and wears a red short-sleeved loincloth shirt and a golden yellow and black striped loincloth with a torn hemline, a pair of brown glasses and red shoes.

In A Flintstones Christmas Carol, he looks just like his father did, wearing the exact same police uniform and he did not wear shoes.

Appearances

• The Flintstone Kids
  • 102(a). "Frankenstone" (first appearance, fantasy)
  • 102(c). "Freezy Does It"
  • 103. "Heroes for Hire"
  • 105. "The Bad News Brontos"
  • 109. "Poor Little Rich Girl"
  • 112(c). "A Tale of Too Silly"
  • 113. "Curse of the Gemstone Diamond"
  • 115(b). "Dino Come Home"
  • 118(a). "The Twilight Stone"
  • 118(c). "Day of the Villains"
  • 120(a). "Betty's Big Break" (fantasy)
  • 122(c). "Capt. Caveman's First Adventure"
  • 124(a). "Philo's Invention"
  • 204(c). "Captain Caveman's Super Cold"
  • 206(a). "A Tiny Egg"
  • 207(a). "Freddy the 13th"
  • 208(a). "Philo's D-feat"
  • 209(a). "Little Rubble, Big Trouble"
• The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
• A Flintstones Christmas Carol (last appearance)

Gallery

Dreamchip, Philo and Rocky in the intro.

Philo as a police officer in A Flintstones Christmas Carol.

Model sheet of Philo Quartz.

Construction drawing of Philo by creative designer, Iwao Takamoto.

Notes/Trivia

• He is voiced by Bumper Robinson, who was the only child actor to appear in both seasons, starting from when he was 12 until he was 14, while Freddy's second "Flintstone Kids" voice actor, Scott Menville, filled in on the second season when he was 16, and Elizabeth Frasier was the second for Wilma at the age of 11, but like Menville, she only voiced her character in season 2.
• He is one of very few characters in the franchise to ever wear shoes aside from the male members of The Frankenstone Family.