7.7/10220 votes#1 - Dino Goes Hollyrock
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1962
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
7.2/10199 votes#2 - Fred's New Boss
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1962
When Barney loses his job, Fred approaches Mr. Slate about hiring his friend for the quarry. He is mortified, however, when Barney lands the position of vice president, and becomes Fred's boss!
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.7/10218 votes#3 - Barney the Invisible
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1962
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
7.2/10205 votes#4 - Bowling Ballet
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1962
Fred discovers he is off his game right before the big bowling match. After hearing in a television commercial that rhythm is ""the secret of success in many activities, including bowling,"" he rushes off to the Bedrock Dance Academy to sign up for ballet lessons.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.5/10212 votes#5 - The Twitch
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1962
Wilma is in dither over finding an act for her auxiliary's benefit show until big mouth Fred boasts that he will line up singer Rock Roll, whose hit song is ""The Twitch."" Now committed, Fred has to pull out all the stops to obtain the rock star's participation.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Joanna Lee
7.2/10197 votes#6 - Here's Snow in Your Eyes
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1962
The Lodge delegates Fred and Barney depart for a convention at Stone Mountain Ski Resort, leaving their disappointed wives at home. The girls congratulate themselves on being so understanding until they become involved in a big diamond theft and beauty contest at the resort.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Joanna Lee
7.4/10205 votes#7 - The Buffalo Convention
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1962
The talking dodo bird that Fred gives Wilma for her birthday turns snitch, informing her that Fred and Barney are plotting to sneak away for a Water Buffalo Convention in Frantic City. Wilma, Betty, and the wives of Bedrock plan a surprise of their own at the convention.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.4/10201 votes#8 - The Little Stranger
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1962
Fred overhears Wilma on the phone mentioning ""a little stranger"" who will shortly be visiting the household. Assuming that Wilma is pregnant, Fred summon his dreaded mother-in-law. But the ""little stranger"" turns out to be Arnold the paperboy.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
7.2/10203 votes#9 - Baby Barney
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1962
With his eye on an inheritance, Fred tells his rich Uncle Tex that he has named his child after him. Fred, of course, has no son, which means that he has to find a baby now that Uncle Tex is coming to visit! Unable to borrow a real baby, desperate Fred cons Barney into playing ""Baby Tex.""
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.4/10201 votes#10 - Hawaiian Escapade
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1962
Wilma and Betty enter a television contest and win first prize, a trip for two to Rockiki Beach and a role on the television show ""Hawaiian Spy."" The two families journey to Hawaii, where Fred ends up working as a stunt man on the show.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.4/10194 votes#11 - Ladies' Day
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1962
Barney and Fred skip work to go to the ball park, but Barney only has one ticket. The situation gets complicated when Fred dresses up as a women so he can get in free for Ladies' day. After Betty finds lipstick on Barney's handkerchief, the wives are in hot pursuit. Adding to Fred's problems is the fact that Mr. Slate is entertaining a client at the game.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Harvey Bullock
7.4/10202 votes#12 - Nuttin' But the Tooth
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1962
Barney's loud suffering from a toothache has been keeping the entire neighborhood awake at night, so Fred promises to take him to the dentist the next morning. But having already spent the money for the dentist, Fred has to find a low-cost way to remove his friend's tooth.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Tony Benedict
7.6/10194 votes#13 - High School Fred
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1962
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.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.7/10204 votes#14 - Dial S for Suspicion
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1962
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: N/A
7.3/10187 votes#15 - Flash Gun Freddie
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1962
Fred convinces Barney to buy an instant Polarock camera and the two go into the photo business. When they mistakenly snap the pictures of two escaping bank robbers, they are able to sell the photos and recoup Barney's money.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
7.3/10192 votes#16 - The Kissing Burglar
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1963
Wilma is charmed by the exploits of the Kissing Burglar, a criminal whose m.o. involves leaving a rose and a kiss for the lady of the house. Her comment that she has nothing worth stealing annoys Fred, who decides to teach her a lesson by posing as the burglar--on the very night the real one shows up.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Joanna Lee
7.3/10185 votes#17 - Wilma, the Maid
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/11/1963
At Wilma's insistence, Fred hires an Italian maid, Gina Lolabrickida, to do the cooking and cleaning, but problems arise when she quits on the night Wilma has promised her to Betty, and Fred brings home Mr. Slate for an authentic Italian dinner.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Harvey Bullock
7.2/10187 votes#18 - The Hero
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/18/1963
Barney rescues a baby from a runaway carriage, but it is Fred who gets the credit and attention. His feeble attempts to set the record straight finally give way to his enjoyment of the celebrity, until cold shoulders from both Wilma and Dino, and a visit from his own conscience, persuade him to tell the truth.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
7.2/10199 votes#19 - The Surprise
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 1/25/1963
The appearance of Barney's nephew, baby Marblehead, causes a rift between him and Fred. Fred just can't understand Barney's devotion to the visiting baby, but his attitude changes when Wilma informs him that they are going to have a baby of their own.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.7/10199 votes#20 - Mother-In-Law's Visit
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1963
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
7.4/10201 votes#21 - Foxy Grandma
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1963
Fred's inept efforts at housework during Wilma's pregnancy are worse than no efforts at all, so he sets out to hire a housekeeper, ultimately bringing home a bank robber named Grandma Dynamite, who is in need of a hideout.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
7.3/10187 votes#22 - Fred's New Job
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1963
With the baby coming, Fred asks Mr. Slate for a raise. Slate, however, is tired of such demands from expectant fathers, so he plans to head Fred off with ""Operation Cringe.""
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
7.8/10217 votes#23 - The Blessed Event
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1963
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/10196 votes#24 - Carry On, Nurse Fred
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/1/1963
Fatherhood has already made Fred resolute in his effort to acquire serenity, but his will power is put to the test by the formidable Nurse Frightenshale, who is sent by Wilma's mother to take care of the Flintstones' cave.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Joanna Lee
7.3/10194 votes#25 - Ventriloquist Barney
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 3/8/1963
Barney learns how to throw his voice and can't resist having some fun at Fred's expense. He leads Fred to believe that his newborn daughter Pebbles has miraculously learned to talk.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The Flintstones Season 3
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The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
Genres:FamilyAnimationComedyKids
Network:ABC
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Dino Goes Hollyrock" is the best rated episode of "The Flintstones" season 3. It scored 7.7/10 based on 220 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by Harvey Bullock, it aired on 9/14/1962. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Fred's New Boss".