[citation needed] After O'Neill moved to Los Angeles, Chuck Barris, then-ABC daytime programming executive, green-lit the pilot for Shindig!

[5] He and his show were depicted on The Flintstones television animated sitcom in the season six episode "Shinrock A Go-Go", which originally aired on December 3, 1965.

This episode featured O'Neill, as "Jimmy O'Neillstone", hosting the Bedrock analogue of Shindig, called "Shinrock"; that program featured as one of the guest performers The Beau Brummels (as "The Beau Brummelstones") performing their recent hit, "Laugh, Laugh".

[citation needed] He retired in the mid 1990s and lived in West Hollywood, California; he died at his home there on January 11, 2013, aged 73.

[7] O'Neill was married three times, including to songwriter Sharon Sheeley, to socialite Eve I. Johnson, and to Renee Whitman.