Perry Gunnite

Perry Gunnite
Information
Gender	Male
Hair color	Black
Occupation	Private investigator Detective
Production Details
Voiced by	John Stephenson

Perry Gunnite is a private investigator and detective of Bedrock, a one-time character of the episode, "Love Letters on the Rocks", featured in the original series, The Flintstones and also the main character of his own spin-off stories featured in The Flintstones comic series.

Background

As a tough, strong, hard-boiled, helpful and heroic, but clumsy private investigator and detective of Bedrock, he operates his role of helping other people, solving mysteries and crimes and defeating notorious criminals. He is also a friend and partner of girlfriend, Pebble Bleach.

Physical Appearance

He is a tall, slender and muscular caveman with a handsome face including his black beady eyes, thick eyebrows and black hair.

Fashion

In the episode, "Love Letters on the Rocks", he wears a purple and black-spotted loin cloth, a white tie and a white Fedora hat with a black and white striped hat band.

In the comic series, he wears a brown-orange and black-spotted loin cloth, a green tie and blue Fedora hat with a black and white striped hat band.

Appearances

Media

• "Love Letters on the Rocks" (The Flintstones, only animated appearance)
• I Yabba-Dabba Do! (cameo)
• Pebbles Cereal commercials (as a background character)

Publications

The Flintstones by Western Publishing

• "Fred's Private Eye Try" (№ 1, first comic appearance)
• "The No-Account Count" and "Facts and Figures" (The Flintstones on the Rocks)
• "Out of the Picture" (Issue № 3)
• "A Case of Trouble" (Issue № 4)
• "Caught in the Act" (Issue № 5)
• "The Inside-Out Job" (Issue № 6)
• "Hi-Fi Fling" (Issues № 7 and 43)
• "Steak Stake-Out" (Issue № 9)
• "The Inside-Out Job" (Issue № 10)
• "Counter-Fit-Thrower" (Issues № 11 and 59)
• "Picking the Pickpocket's Pocket" (Issue № 12)
• "The Sleepy-Eyed Private Eye" (Issue № 14, text story)
• "The Case of the Striped Suit" (Issue № 15, text story)
• "Diary of a Private Eye" (Issue № 16, text story)
• "Relative Detective" (Issues № 17 and 49, text story)
• "A Hair-Raising Caper" (Issues № 18 and 52, text story)
• "The Crystal Caper" (Issues № 19 and 51, text story)
• "Going Batty" (Issues № 20 and 58, text story)
• "Whacky Waiter" (Issues № 21 and 55, text story)
• "Who Has the Clue?" (Issues № 22 and 56, text story)
• "Getting the Business" (Issues № 23 and 57, text story)
• "The Unguarded Bodyguard" (Issue № 24, text story)
• "How to Catch a Crook" (Issue № 25, text story)
• "Too-Good Detective" (Issue № 26, text story)
• "The Double Disappearing Act" (Issue № 27)
• "The Missing Mink" (Issue № 28, text story)
• "The Park Bench Caper" (Issue № 29, text story)
• "Smart Guy Sleuth" and "Too Many Clues" (Issue № 30, text and comic stories)
• "Hard-Way Hero" (Issue № 31, text story)
• "Pop Art Flop" (Issue № 33, text story)
• "The Great Kipper Capper" (Issue № 34, text story)
• "The Answer" (Issue № 35, text story)
• "Girl Friday" (Issue № 36, text story)
• "Bedrock Ice Capades" and "Vacation Frustration" (Issue № 37, comic and text stories)
• "Too Good a Sleuth" (Issue № 38, text story)
• "Rough and Tough" (Issue № 39, text story)
• "A Pet in the Store is Worth Two at Home", "Worry at the Quarry" and "The Baffling Bandit" (Issue № 40, comic and text stories)
• "The Pilfered Pastry" (Issue № 41, text story)
• "The Frighty Night" (Issue № 44)
• "Private-Eye-Yi-Yi" (Issue № 46)
• "Rocky Road to Riches" (Issue № 51)
• "Stoneage Drop-Outs" (Issue № 57)

The Flintstones by Charlton Comics

• "The Private Eyes" (Issue № 1)
• "Spots, Dots and Pans" (Issue № 25)

Other

• "Playing It Safe" (The Flintstones: Bigger and Boulder)
• "The Haunted Quarry" (Yogi Bear (Gold Key Comics) Issue № 23, text story)
• "Fred Flintstone: Private Eye" (The Flintstones (Archie Comics), Issue № 11, last comic book appearance)

Gallery

Model sheet of Perry Gunnite along with The Great Gazoo.

Model sheet of Perry with Fred Flintstone.

Another model sheet of Perry with Fred Flintstone.

Model sheet of Perry with Pebble Bleach.

Another model sheet of Perry with Pebble Bleach and Fred Flintstone.

Perry with his magnifying glass from Hanna-Barbera Carnival.

Perry riding his scooter and catching a crook from Hanna-Barbera Carnival.

Perry with a crook in jail from Hanna-Barbera Carnival.

Notes/Trivia

• He is a spoof of the character, Perry Gunn from the television series of the same name.
• Perry makes appears in the TV movie, I Yabba-Dabba Do!, for Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's wedding and reception, alongside Bony Hurdle and Tex Hardrock.
• Perry also appears as a background character in certain Pebbles Cereal commercials.
• Perry was intended to star in his own series back in the 1980s. John Kricsfaulsi pitched the idea to William Hanna, but the spin-off didn’t get greenlit, as John went on to create Ren and Stimpy.