8.1/10265 votesLoading...#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
8.0/10249 votesLoading...#2 - 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
8.0/10259 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.9/10290 votesLoading...#4 - 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
7.9/10374 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.8/10299 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.8/10267 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.8/10238 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.8/10220 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.7/10312 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10286 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10231 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10221 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10219 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10206 votesLoading...#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
7.7/10209 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.6/10396 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.6/10258 votesLoading...#18 - Fred Flintstone: Before and After
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/7/1961
Fred agrees to appear in a before-and-after weight reduction commercial, but is humiliated to learn that he is the before example. An offer of $1,000 if he can drop twenty-five pounds in a month fails miserably, as does every other diet plan, until an overeaters group takes him on as a challenge.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.6/10233 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10225 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.6/10209 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.6/10197 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.6/10202 votesLoading...#23 - 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
7.6/10220 votesLoading...#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
7.6/10192 votesLoading...#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
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 265 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by N/A, it aired on 11/5/1964. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Haunted House is Not a Home".