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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 Best Episodes of The Flintstones

The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.

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  1. 8.1/10(270 votes)

    #1 - Dr. Sinister

    S5:E8

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  2. 8.0/10(250 votes)

    #2 - A Haunted House is Not a Home

    S5:E7

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  3. 7.9/10(379 votes)

    #3 - Christmas Flintstone

    S5:E15

    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.

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  4. 7.8/10(309 votes)

    #4 - The Hot Piano

    S1:E19

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  5. 7.7/10(318 votes)

    #5 - The Drive-in

    S1:E13

    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.

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  6. 7.7/10(292 votes)

    #6 - The Prowler

    S1:E14

    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.

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  8. 7.7/10(223 votes)

    #7 - Dino Goes Hollyrock

    S3:E1

    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.

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  9. 7.7/10(221 votes)

    #8 - Barney the Invisible

    S3:E3

    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.

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  10. 7.7/10(205 votes)

    #9 - Dial S for Suspicion

    S3:E14

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  11. 7.7/10(201 votes)

    #10 - Mother-In-Law's Visit

    S3:E20

    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.

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  12. 7.7/10(220 votes)

    #11 - The Blessed Event

    S3:E23

    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.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  13. 7.6/10(402 votes)

    #12 - The Swimming Pool

    S1:E3

    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.

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  14. 7.6/10(262 votes)

    #13 - Fred Flintstone: Before and After

    S1:E28

    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.

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  15. 7.6/10(197 votes)

    #14 - High School Fred

    S3:E13

    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.

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  16. 7.6/10(220 votes)

    #15 - The Gruesomes

    S5:E9

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  17. 7.6/10(192 votes)

    #16 - Time Machine

    S5:E18

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  18. 7.5/10(314 votes)

    #17 - The Engagement Ring

    S1:E9

    Barney decides to surprise Betty with a belated engagement ring, which he gives to Fred for safekeeping. But Wilma discovers the ring and assumes it is a gift for her. Not wanting to shatter her illusions, Fred decides to buy a second ring, but doesn't have the cash. He cons Barney into going several rounds with a boxing champ in order to win a $500 prize.

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  19. 7.5/10(214 votes)

    #18 - The Twitch

    S3:E5

    Wilma is in dither over finding an act for her auxiliary's benefit show until big mouth Fred boasts that he will line up singer Rock Roll, whose hit song is ""The Twitch."" Now committed, Fred has to pull out all the stops to obtain the rock star's participation.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee
  20. 7.5/10(204 votes)

    #19 - Swedish Visitors

    S3:E27

    After using the family's vacation money to buy a fur wrap, Wilma devises a scheme to repay the money by renting their home to Swedish musicians.

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  21. 7.5/10(191 votes)

    #20 - Indianrockolis 500

    S5:E13

    To earn money for Pebbles' college fund, Fred adopts the name Goggles Pisanno and drives Barney's home-built sports car in the Indianrockolis 500 race.

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  22. 7.5/10(182 votes)

    #21 - Moonlight and Maintenance

    S5:E20

    Fed up with doing so many domestic chores, Fred moves his family to the Bedrock Towers, a fully automated complex--where he takes on the nighttime job of "new resident stationary engineer" (aka janitor) to help pay the rent.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.5/10(191 votes)

    #22 - Surfin' Fred

    S5:E26

    During a vacation at the beach, Fred is bitten by the surfing bug and becomes a big kahuna to the young people hanging 10.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  24. 7.4/10(362 votes)

    #23 - No Help Wanted

    S1:E4

    Fred uses his influence with a business friend to obtain a job for Barney, who becomes a furniture repossessor. To the dismay of both, Barney's first assignment is to repossess Fred's television! Unwilling to betray his friend, Barney pays off Fred's delinquent television bill with his first paycheck.

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  25. 7.4/10(335 votes)

    #24 - The Monster from the Tar Pits

    S1:E6

    A Hollyrock film company goes on location in Bedrock to film its new feature Monster From The Tar Pits, and gullible Fred is enlisted as stand-in for star Gary Granite. But Fred's real problems begin when Wilma and Betty audition for roles in the film and end up going ga-ga upon meeting movie stars Rock Pile and Wednesday Tuesday.

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  26. 7.4/10(300 votes)

    #25 - The Girls' Night Out

    S1:E15

    Fred and Barney decide to treat their wives to a night out, at an amusement park. Fred cuts a song at a recording booth as a souvenir but misplaces the record. It is later discovered by a group of teens who pass it along to a deejay, and Fred is suddenly transformed into unwitting rock star ""Hi-Fye.""

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dr. Sinister" is the best rated episode of "The Flintstones". It scored 8.1/10 based on 270 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".