The Flintstones

The Best Episodes of The Flintstones

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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.
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  1. 8.2/10(268 votes)

    #1 - Dr. Sinister

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    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. 8.1/10(260 votes)

    #2 - Samantha

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    S6:E6

    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.

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  3. 8.0/10(248 votes)

    #3 - A Haunted House is Not a Home

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    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
  4. 8.0/10(376 votes)

    #4 - Christmas Flintstone

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    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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  5. 7.8/10(301 votes)

    #5 - The Hot Piano

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    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
  6. 7.8/10(263 votes)

    #6 - Alvin Brickrock Presents

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    S2:E4

    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.

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  8. 7.8/10(235 votes)

    #7 - The X-Ray Story

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    S2:E15

    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.

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  9. 7.8/10(218 votes)

    #8 - The Blessed Event

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    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
  10. 7.8/10(291 votes)

    #9 - Ann-Margrock Presents

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    S4:E1

    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.

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  11. 7.7/10(312 votes)

    #10 - The Drive-in

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    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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  12. 7.7/10(286 votes)

    #11 - The Prowler

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    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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  13. 7.7/10(230 votes)

    #12 - The House Guest

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    S2:E14

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.7/10(218 votes)

    #13 - Dino Goes Hollyrock

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    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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  15. 7.7/10(218 votes)

    #14 - Barney the Invisible

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    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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  16. 7.7/10(203 votes)

    #15 - Dial S for Suspicion

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    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
  17. 7.7/10(199 votes)

    #16 - Mother-In-Law's Visit

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    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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  18. 7.7/10(208 votes)

    #17 - The Great Gazoo

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    S6:E7

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee
  19. 7.6/10(396 votes)

    #18 - The Swimming Pool

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    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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  20. 7.6/10(308 votes)

    #19 - The Engagement Ring

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    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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  21. 7.6/10(257 votes)

    #20 - Fred Flintstone: Before and After

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    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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  22. 7.6/10(229 votes)

    #21 - The Little White Lie

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    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:N/A
  23. 7.6/10(213 votes)

    #22 - Impractical Joker

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    S2:E21

    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.

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  24. 7.6/10(222 votes)

    #23 - The Happy Household

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    S2:E23

    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.

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  25. 7.6/10(208 votes)

    #24 - Trouble-In-Law

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    S2:E26

    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.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee
  26. 7.6/10(194 votes)

    #25 - High School Fred

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    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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Best Episodes Summary

"Dr. Sinister" is the best rated episode of "The Flintstones". It scored 8.2/10 based on 268 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, "Samantha".