7.5/10257 votes#1 - The Hit Song Writers
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1961
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.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
7.3/10231 votes#2 - Droop Along Flintstone
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1961
The Flintstones and the Rubbles take up Fred's rich cousins, Tumbleweed and Mary Lou Jim, on their offer to take care of their ranch while they go on an ocean cruise. Having gotten lost on the ranch, Fred and Barney stumble onto a nearby film location, where they are chased by cowboys and Indians.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.5/10246 votes#3 - The Missing Bus
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1961
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.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Larry Markes
7.8/10267 votes#4 - Alvin Brickrock Presents
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1961
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
7.1/10228 votes#5 - Fred Flintstone Woos Again
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1961
Needled by Wilma about his lack of romanticism, Fred takes his wife on a second honeymoon to Rock Mountain Inn, accompanied by the Rubbles. When the Flintstones learn that the official, Judge Wedrock, who married them was never licensed, Wilma takes advantage of the situation by making Fred court her all over again.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
7.5/10250 votes#6 - The Rock Quarry Story
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1961
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.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.2/10228 votes#7 - The Soft Touchables
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1961
Part-time detectives Fred and Barney take their first case from Dagmar, The Peroxide Kid, who is really working for Boss Rockhead, a crook posing as a bank president. Rockhead stations Fred and Barney as bank guards while he and his gang transport the money to a ""safe place.""
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Arthur Phillips
7.3/10231 votes#8 - Flintstone of Prinstone
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1961
Determined to rise above manual labor, Fred attends night class at Prinstone University and is drafted as a quarterback on the varsity team. But during the big game against Shale U., and exhausted Fred creates problems when he confuses his football signals with his accounting course figures.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Larry Markes
7.6/10233 votes#9 - The Little White Lie
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1961
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: N/A
7.4/10224 votes#10 - Social Climbers
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1961
Wilma and Betty wrangle tickets to the upper-crust Ambassador's Reception and convince their husbands to go with them, sending Fred and Barney to charm school to prepare for the event. But the middle-class foursome ultimately discover that trying to play ""stuffy"" is no fun.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.3/10220 votes#11 - The Beauty Contest
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1961
Fred and Barney are appointed judges for the Loyal Order of Water Buffalo's beauty contest. But complicating matters are Wilma's and Betty's suspicions, pressure from Mr. Slate, whose daughter is the competition, and threats from a racketeer who wants his girlfriend to be named Miss Water Buffalo.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.1/10215 votes#12 - The Masquerade Ball
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/8/1961
Fred buys tickets to a society costume ball from his supervisor, Mr. Rockhead. Fred's plan to use this opportunity to butter up his costumed boss backfires when Rockhead switches costumes, and instead of being the recipient of Fred's honey, he becomes an unwitting confidant in his scheme.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
7.2/10216 votes#13 - The Picnic
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1961
Coveting the trophy collection of Lodge brother Joe Rockhead, Fred realizes that dumping Barney as his partner will improve his chances of winning during the annual field day games. This plan causes resentment from both Barney and Rockhead.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
7.7/10231 votes#14 - The House Guest
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1961
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: N/A
7.8/10238 votes#15 - The X-Ray Story
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1961
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
7.2/10219 votes#16 - The Gambler
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1962
A compulsive gambler in his younger days, Fred has been cured through psychiatric consultation--until paperboy Arnold tempts him with a bet. When the Flintstones' furniture begins to mysteriously disappear, Barney is dispatched to investigate Fred's marble games behind locked doors.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.1/10215 votes#17 - A Star is Almost Born
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1962
While shopping in a Bedrock drugstore with Betty, Wilma is discovered by a famous television producer. As a result, Fred borrows money from Barney to pay for acting lessons a quits his job in order to manage his wife's career.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Arthur Phillips
7.2/10215 votes#18 - The Entertainer
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1962
Fred works overtime to earn extra money for a surprise gift for Wilma, and is ultimately tapped by Mr. Slate to entertain an important female client at the Copa Cave night club. Unfortunately, the Rubbles and Wilma show up at the club that same night.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Arthur Phillips
7.3/10214 votes#19 - Wilma's Vanishing Money
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1962
While searching for a hairpin to fix the toaster, Fred finds a secret stash of cash that has been hidden by Wilma. To teach her a lesson, he uses the money to buy a new bowling ball, unaware that Wilma has been saving up to buy him the same ball as a birthday present.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Harvey Bullock
7.1/10209 votes#20 - Feudin' and Fussin'
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1962
While Fred is napping away his pre-golf tournament tensions, Barney interrupts his pal's dreams with a practice shot. Temperamental Fred explodes at Barney, which results in the Flintstones almost finding themselves without neighbors, when the Rubbles put their house up for sale.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Arthur Phillips
7.5/10215 votes#21 - Impractical Joker
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1962
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
7.2/10215 votes#22 - Operation Barney
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1962
While driving to work, the boys decide to play hookey and go instead to the ballpark. They call in sick to their bosses and Barney is promptly ordered to report to the company nurse for a check-up. Fred then concocts an elaborate ruse that does indeed get Barney out of work--and into the hospital.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Tony Benedict
7.6/10225 votes#23 - The Happy Household
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1962
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
7.3/10214 votes#24 - Fred Strikes Out
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1962
Once more, Fred forgets the anniversary of the night he proposed to Wilma. After being chastised by Wilma, he agrees to take her on a date to the movies, but she wants to go on the same night he is supposed to be captaining his bowling team in the bowling alley, Fred tries to do both.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Joanna Lee
7.2/10199 votes#25 - This is Your Lifesaver
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1962
Fred and Barney encounter the penniless J. Montague Gypsum, who is threatening to jump from a bridge. Fred takes the man home and learns too late how responsible he is for the life he saved.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Larry Markes
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The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
Genres:FamilyAnimationComedyKids
Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Hit Song Writers" is the best rated episode of "The Flintstones" season 2. It scored 7.5/10 based on 257 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by N/A, it aired on 9/15/1961. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Droop Along Flintstone".