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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!

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

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    The Flintstones Season 5 Episode 8 - Dr. Sinister
    8.2/10(284 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Flintstones Season 5 Episode 7 - A Haunted House is Not a Home
    8.1/10(263 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Flintstones Season 6 Episode 6 - Samantha
    8.1/10(278 votes)

    #3 - Samantha

    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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Harvey Bullock

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  4. The Flintstones Season 5 Episode 15 - Christmas Flintstone
    8.0/10(398 votes)

    #4 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  5. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 19 - The Hot Piano
    7.9/10(329 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Flintstones Season 2 Episode 4 - Alvin Brickrock Presents
    7.9/10(279 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Larry Markes

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  7. The Flintstones Season 2 Episode 15 - The X-Ray Story
    7.9/10(251 votes)

    #7 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  8. The Flintstones Season 3 Episode 23 - The Blessed Event
    7.9/10(235 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 1 - Ann-Margrock Presents
    7.9/10(312 votes)

    #9 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Harvey Bullock

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  10. The Flintstones Season 2 Episode 14 - The House Guest
    7.8/10(246 votes)

    #10 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Flintstones Season 3 Episode 3 - Barney the Invisible
    7.8/10(237 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  12. The Flintstones Season 3 Episode 14 - Dial S for Suspicion
    7.8/10(219 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Flintstones Season 6 Episode 7 - The Great Gazoo
    7.8/10(222 votes)

    #13 - The Great Gazoo

    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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  14. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 13 - The Drive-in
    7.7/10(336 votes)

    #14 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  15. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 14 - The Prowler
    7.7/10(309 votes)

    #15 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joseph Barbera

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  16. The Flintstones Season 2 Episode 9 - The Little White Lie
    7.7/10(244 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Flintstones Season 2 Episode 21 - Impractical Joker
    7.7/10(229 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  18. The Flintstones Season 2 Episode 23 - The Happy Household
    7.7/10(240 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  19. The Flintstones Season 3 Episode 1 - Dino Goes Hollyrock
    7.7/10(239 votes)

    #19 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Harvey Bullock

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  20. The Flintstones Season 3 Episode 20 - Mother-In-Law's Visit
    7.7/10(212 votes)

    #20 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  21. The Flintstones Season 5 Episode 18 - Time Machine
    7.7/10(202 votes)

    #21 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Flintstones Season 6 Episode 8 - Rip Van Flintstone
    7.7/10(217 votes)

    #22 - Rip Van Flintstone

    S6:E8

    Bored by his company picnic, Fred slips away to take a nap, and awakens twenty years later to discover that Barney has become millionaire B.J. Rubble, and that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm have gotten married. Upon entering Wilma who is now living alone through Barney's largesse, Fred really awakens and realizes it was all a dream.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 3 - The Swimming Pool
    7.6/10(422 votes)

    #23 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  24. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 9 - The Engagement Ring
    7.6/10(332 votes)

    #24 - 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.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  25. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 28 - Fred Flintstone: Before and After
    7.6/10(278 votes)

    #25 - 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.

    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 284 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".