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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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  • Dr. Sinister
    8.2/10(266)
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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

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  • A Haunted House is Not a Home
    8.0/10(248)
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    #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

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  • Christmas Flintstone
    8.0/10(376)
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    #3 - 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

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  • The Hot Piano
    7.8/10(300)
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    #4 - 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

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  • The Drive-in
    7.7/10(311)
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    #5 - 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

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  • The Prowler
    7.7/10(285)
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    #6 - 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

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  • The Swimming Pool
    7.6/10(395)
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    #7 - 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

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  • Fred Flintstone: Before and After
    7.6/10(256)
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    #8 - 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

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  • The Gruesomes
    7.6/10(218)
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    #9 - 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

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  • Time Machine
    7.6/10(190)
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    #10 - 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

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  • Moonlight and Maintenance
    7.6/10(179)
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    #11 - Moonlight and Maintenance

    Season 5 Episode 20

    Aired 1/29/1965

    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.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Engagement Ring
    7.5/10(306)
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    #12 - The Engagement Ring

    Season 1 Episode 9

    Aired 11/25/1960

    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.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

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  • Indianrockolis 500
    7.5/10(189)
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    #13 - Indianrockolis 500

    Season 5 Episode 13

    Aired 12/10/1964

    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.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Rance Howard

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  • The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes
    7.5/10(196)
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    #14 - The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes

    Season 5 Episode 19

    Aired 1/22/1965

    Fred frets a visit from hillbilly cousins with whom older Flintstone relatives feuded a long time ago, but the stay is a pleasant one until the hosts realize the guests aren't leaving any time soon.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

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  • Surfin' Fred
    7.5/10(190)
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    #15 - Surfin' Fred

    Season 5 Episode 26

    Aired 3/12/1965

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

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

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  • No Help Wanted
    7.4/10(355)
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    #16 - No Help Wanted

    Season 1 Episode 4

    Aired 10/21/1960

    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.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

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  • The Monster from the Tar Pits
    7.4/10(330)
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    #17 - The Monster from the Tar Pits

    Season 1 Episode 6

    Aired 11/4/1960

    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.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

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  • Love Letters on the Rocks
    7.4/10(276)
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    #18 - Love Letters on the Rocks

    Season 1 Episode 21

    Aired 2/17/1961

    Jealous Fred's discovery of a love poem that was sent to Wilma prompts him to hire Bedrock's top detective Perry Gunite, to find out who the home-wrecking poet is. Gunite's investigation mistakenly points to Barney. Fred plans revenge against his friend until Wilma reminds her husband that he had written the poem himself years earlier during their courtship.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Arthur Phillips

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  • Cinderellastone
    7.4/10(179)
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    #19 - Cinderellastone

    Season 5 Episode 6

    Aired 10/22/1964

    Fred is angry that he's not invited to his boss' party, but after reading "Cinderella" to Pebbles, he dreams that a fairy godmother takes him to the party after all.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Tony Benedict

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  • The Flintstone Flyer
    7.3/10(534)
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    #20 - The Flintstone Flyer

    Season 1 Episode 1

    Aired 9/30/1960

    Fred fakes illness so he and Barney can get out of taking their wives to the opera. Using prehistoric helicopter as a means of escape, the two of them join their bowling team for a night of fun. They almost get away with their scheme, until loose-lipped Barney gives away their night's activities.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Hot Lips Hannigan
    7.3/10(405)
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    #21 - Hot Lips Hannigan

    Season 1 Episode 2

    Aired 10/7/1960

    Believing he has made Wilma and Betty disappear through magic, Fred capitalizes on his newfound freedom by taking Barney to a nightclub, the Rockland, where an old friend, trumpeter Hot Lips Hannigan, is performing. The jazz is cool until the wives show up to teach their wayward husbands a lesson.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Warren Foster

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  • The Split Personality
    7.3/10(341)
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    #22 - The Split Personality

    Season 1 Episode 5

    Aired 10/28/1960

    A conk on the head turns Fred into an aristocratic sophisticate, whose behavior manages to disrupt the entire city of Bedrock.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

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  • The Golf Champion
    7.3/10(285)
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    #23 - The Golf Champion

    Season 1 Episode 11

    Aired 12/9/1960

    Fred's victory in The Loyal Order of Dinosaurs golf tournament is soured when club president Barney withholds his trophy for nonpayment of club dues. Fred retaliates by demanding that Barney return every item he has borrowed over the years. The stalemate continues until Wilma and Betty manage to bring their husbands back together.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Girls' Night Out
    7.3/10(294)
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    #24 - The Girls' Night Out

    Season 1 Episode 15

    Aired 1/6/1961

    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.""

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

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  • Arthur Quarry's Dance Class
    7.3/10(272)
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    #25 - Arthur Quarry's Dance Class

    Season 1 Episode 16

    Aired 1/13/1961

    Fred and Barney sign up for dance lessons at Arthur Quarry's so that they do not humiliate themselves at the charity ball. Their excuse that they have joined the volunteer fire department falls apart when Betty and Wilma realize that the all-stone town of Bedrock is fire proof. The wives then suspect that their husbands are slipping out to meet other women.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Warren Foster

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dr. Sinister" is the best rated episode of "The Flintstones". It scored 8.2/10 based on 266 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by N/A, it aired on 11/5/1964. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "A Haunted House is Not a Home".