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The Best Episodes of The Flintstones

Every episode of The Flintstones ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Flintstones!

The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
Genres:FamilyAnimationComedyKids
Network:ABC

Best Episodes Summary

"Dr. Sinister" is the best rated episode of "The Flintstones". It scored 8.1/10 based on 263 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by N/A, it aired on 11/5/1964. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Samantha".

  • Dr. Sinister
    8.1/10263 votes
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    #1 - Dr. Sinister

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1964

    Fred and Barney become enmeshed in international spyjinks when they inadvertently become involved with a beautiful foreign agent and the villainous Dr. Sinister, who is intent on world domination.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Samantha
    8.1/10257 votes
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    #2 - Samantha

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1965

    Samantha and Darrin Stephens guest star from television's ""Bewitched"" (voiced by series star Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York). Darrin goes boating, while Samantha joins the Flintstones and the Rubbles for a camping trip, which ends up pitting the men against the women. Aided by Samantha's witchcraft, the women manage to out-do the men at every turn.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Harvey Bullock

  • A Haunted House is Not a Home
    8.0/10249 votes
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    #3 - A Haunted House is Not a Home

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1964

    Fred stands to inherit his Uncle J. Giggles Flintstone's estate under one condition: The family has to spend a night in his relative's eerie mansion staffed by creepy old servants.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Christmas Flintstone
    7.9/10366 votes
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    #4 - Christmas Flintstone

    Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1964

    After Fred takes a job as a department-store Santa, he proves so successful that the real Santa asks Fred to stand in for him and deliver presents on Christmas Eve.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • The Hot Piano
    7.8/10295 votes
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    #5 - The Hot Piano

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1961

    To commemorate his tenth wedding anniversary (which he only remembers because it falls on ""Trash Day""), Fred wants to buy Wilma a Stoneway piano. He finds a hot deal--ultimately too hot--from a shady, cash-only businessman named 88 Fingers Louie.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Alvin Brickrock Presents
    7.8/10266 votes
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    #6 - Alvin Brickrock Presents

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1961

    When his neighbors' domestic fights suddenly end with the disappearance of the wife, Fred suspects Alvin Brickrock of foul play. After reading a detective magazine, he becomes convinced that Brickrock is really Albert Bonehart, wife-murderer.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Larry Markes

  • The X-Ray Story
    7.8/10235 votes
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    #7 - The X-Ray Story

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1961

    Ailing Dino is taken to the vet, who diagnoses him as having a ""dinopeptic germ,"" which is common to dinosaurs but lethal in humans. But when Dino's x-rays are mistaken as Fred's, Wilma is alerted and told to prepare the only known cure: keeping the patient awake for seventy-two hours, without telling him why.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • The Blessed Event
    7.8/10217 votes
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    #8 - The Blessed Event

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1963

    Wilma is still pregnant and Fred is trying to be calm. This shatters when the docter tells him the blessed event could happen any day now.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Ann-Margrock Presents
    7.8/10288 votes
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    #9 - Ann-Margrock Presents

    Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1963

    Fred and Barney learn that local talent is being sought for the Bedrock Bowl's premiere event, a television special starring Ann-Margrock (voiced by Ann-Margret). The boys go home and prepare for an audition, and are aided by Ann-Margrock herself (whom they fail to recognize), who comes in to the Flintstones' home to use the phone after her car breaks down.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Harvey Bullock

  • The Drive-in
    7.7/10310 votes
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    #10 - The Drive-in

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1960

    Fed up with their jobs, Fred and Barney secretly plan to buy a restaurant, but then Fred has to deal with a suspicious Wilma who wants to know why two young girls (carhops who are seeking a job) are calling for him, and what the messages regarding two tons of dino-burger meat mean.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • The Prowler
    7.7/10284 votes
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    #11 - The Prowler

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1960

    With a burglar on the loose in Bedrock, Betty decides to take judo lessons to protect herself. When Wilma wants to take lesson also, Fred ridicules the idea, arguing that one glimpse of a burglar would send her running in fear. To prove his point, Fred poses as the burglar and sneaks into the Rubble household, on the same night the real criminal shows up.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Joseph Barbera

  • The House Guest
    7.7/10229 votes
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    #12 - The House Guest

    Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1961

    While plumbers at the Rubble home try to unfix Fred's attempted repair job, Betty and Barney move in temporarily with the Flintstones. The wives are convinced the forced togetherness will cause problems between Fred and Barney and they are right, although the husbands go to extreme measures to try to hide their bickering.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Dino Goes Hollyrock
    7.7/10220 votes
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    #13 - Dino Goes Hollyrock

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1962

    Hearing about a talent search for a new animal star to appear in ""The Adventures of Sassie,"" Fred coaches Dino and prepares for an audition. But Dino gets more than he bargained for when he lands the part.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Harvey Bullock

  • Barney the Invisible
    7.7/10218 votes
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    #14 - Barney the Invisible

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1962

    In an attempt to cure Barney's hiccups, Fred offers his friend a swig from an experimental soft drink he has formulated. The brew turns Barney invisible, and Fred's elaborate attempts to hide the fact make Wilma wonder about her husband's sanity.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • Dial S for Suspicion
    7.7/10204 votes
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    #15 - Dial S for Suspicion

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1962

    A series of strange accidents coupled with Wilma's sudden insistence on having Fred take out a life insurance policy, and her devotion to a murder mystery novel about a wife who bumps off her husband, causes Fred to wonder if his life is in danger.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Mother-In-Law's Visit
    7.7/10199 votes
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    #16 - Mother-In-Law's Visit

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1963

    With fatherhood impending, Fred promises to become more kind, considerate, and thoughtful. His willingness to change is strechted practically beyond endurance when his mother-in-law shows up to help Wilma during her pregnancy.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • The Great Gazoo
    7.7/10208 votes
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    #17 - The Great Gazoo

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1965

    Fred and Barney discover a visitor from another planet, the two-foot high, green Gazoo, who becomes their servant. An evening out at an expensive restaurant, supposedly with Gazoo treating, becomes a nightmare as the alien disappears, leaving the Flintstones and the Rubbles to wash dishes to pay for the food.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Joanna Lee

  • The Swimming Pool
    7.6/10392 votes
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    #18 - The Swimming Pool

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1960

    Fred and Barney jointly build a swimming pool, but Barney hogs the pool time, angering Fred. To get even, Fred hires a pal to pose as a police officer and break up one of his neighbor's pool parties.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • The Little White Lie
    7.6/10232 votes
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    #19 - The Little White Lie

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1961

    After telling Wilma that he is going to visit a sick friend, Fred runs off to a poker game, where he wins $200. To explain the money, he tells Wilma that he found the cash, and is dismayed when she places an ad in the newspaper to locate the owner.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Impractical Joker
    7.6/10213 votes
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    #20 - Impractical Joker

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1962

    Fed up with Fred's practical jokes, Barney decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Barney sets up the gag with a stack of five, crisp $100 bills, his prize from the Sudsy-Wudsy jingle contest.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • The Happy Household
    7.6/10222 votes
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    #21 - The Happy Household

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1962

    After a squabble about finances, Wilma seeks employment of her own. She applies for an office job at the Bedrock Radio & Television Corporation, but instead becomes the hostess of the ""Happy Housewife Show,"" a situation that makes things less than happy back at the cave.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • Trouble-In-Law
    7.6/10208 votes
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    #22 - Trouble-In-Law

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/16/1962

    Having sold her home, Fred's antagonistic mother-in-law arrives at the Flintstone cave, and Fred tries to play cupid after meeting a rich Texan who is looking for an elderly wife. He invites the man home for dinner, but Wilma becomes suspicious of the would-be suitor.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Joanna Lee

  • High School Fred
    7.6/10194 votes
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    #23 - High School Fred

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1962

    An efficiency expert hired by Mr. Slate informs Fred that he will be fired unless he gets a high school diploma. Slate offers to send Fred to school, and Wilma mistakenly assumes that Fred is being groomed for an executive position.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

  • The Gruesomes
    7.6/10220 votes
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    #24 - The Gruesomes

    Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1964

    Trying to be neighborly, Fred and Barney offer to babysit for the Gruesome family, who've moved into Tombstone Manor next door with their weird kid and a menagerie of creepy critters.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Time Machine
    7.6/10191 votes
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    #25 - Time Machine

    Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1965

    On a visit to the Bedrock World's Fair, the Flintstones and the Rubbles take a ride in a time machine that sends them into the future with stops at ancient Rome and Arthurian England, and encounters with Christopher Columbus and Ben Franklin.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A