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The Best Episodes of The Flintstones

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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. Background image for Dr. Sinister
    8.1/10(272 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:Unknown
  2. Background image for A Haunted House is Not a Home
    8.0/10(254 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:Unknown
  3. Background image for Christmas Flintstone
    7.9/10(381 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. Background image for Alvin Brickrock Presents
    7.8/10(269 votes)

    #4 - Alvin Brickrock Presents

    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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  5. Background image for The X-Ray Story
    7.8/10(239 votes)

    #5 - The X-Ray Story

    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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  6. Background image for The Blessed Event
    7.8/10(223 votes)

    #6 - 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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Ann-Margrock Presents
    7.8/10(298 votes)

    #7 - Ann-Margrock Presents

    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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  9. Background image for The House Guest
    7.7/10(234 votes)

    #8 - The House Guest

    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:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Happy Household
    7.7/10(228 votes)

    #9 - The Happy Household

    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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  11. Background image for Dino Goes Hollyrock
    7.7/10(225 votes)

    #10 - 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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  12. Background image for Barney the Invisible
    7.7/10(223 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Background image for Dial S for Suspicion
    7.7/10(208 votes)

    #12 - 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:Unknown
  14. Background image for Mother-In-Law's Visit
    7.7/10(203 votes)

    #13 - 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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  15. Background image for The Rock Quarry Story
    7.6/10(252 votes)

    #14 - The Rock Quarry Story

    S2:E6

    Movie star Rock Quarry has had enough of Hollyrock, and decides to move to Bedrock, where he is stalked by star-struck Wilma and Betty for an autograph. Meanwhile, Fred has an auto collision with the actor and invites him home to dinner, where he is recognized by Wilma despite his insistence that he is not Rock Quarry.

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  16. Background image for The Little White Lie
    7.6/10(234 votes)

    #15 - The Little White Lie

    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:Unknown
  17. Background image for Impractical Joker
    7.6/10(218 votes)

    #16 - Impractical Joker

    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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  18. Background image for High School Fred
    7.6/10(199 votes)

    #17 - 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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  19. Background image for The Gruesomes
    7.6/10(223 votes)

    #18 - 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:Unknown
  20. Background image for Time Machine
    7.6/10(193 votes)

    #19 - 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:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Hit Song Writers
    7.5/10(264 votes)

    #20 - The Hit Song Writers

    S2:E1

    After discovering that Barney is a closet poet, Fred manages to link him up with songwriter Hoagy Carmichael and the three set out to write a hit song. The resultant tune garners the boys a moment of fame as songwriters.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Missing Bus
    7.5/10(248 votes)

    #21 - The Missing Bus

    S2:E3

    Receiving a pay cut after thirteen years at the quarry, Fred decides to quit and become a bus driver. With Barney as co-pilot, Fred delivers fifty kids to school, a nerve-shattering experience. Not wanting to let the job get the better of him, he dutifully picks them up again but mis-delivers them home.

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  23. Background image for Trouble-In-Law
    7.5/10(214 votes)

    #22 - Trouble-In-Law

    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
  24. Background image for The Rock Vegas Story
    7.5/10(210 votes)

    #23 - The Rock Vegas Story

    S2:E28

    Fred and Barney run into old friend Sherman Cobblehead, owner of The Golden Cactus Hotel in Rock Vegas, at an eatery. Cobblehead's casual promise to ""take care of"" Fred should he ever come to Vegas is misinterpreted as a guarantee that Fred will be a big winner in the casino.

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  25. Background image for Divided We Sail
    7.5/10(202 votes)

    #24 - Divided We Sail

    S2:E29

    Fred receives a ticket to a television game show that offers big prizes, but succumbs to stage fright before the show. Barney subs for him and wins a house boat, which Fred then tries to claim as his.

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  26. Background image for Kleptomaniac Caper
    7.5/10(204 votes)

    #25 - Kleptomaniac Caper

    S2:E30

    Wilma secretly empties Fred's closet of mementos for a rummage sale, including his old football uniform. But when Fred finds the goods in the Rubbles' car, where Wilma put them, he suspects Barney of being a thief.

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    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee

Best Episodes Summary

"Dr. Sinister" is the best rated episode of "The Flintstones". It scored 8.1/10 based on 272 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by Unknown, 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".