The Best Episodes of The Flintstones Season 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fred has a bowling accident and becomes involved with mad doctors who experiment in personality transference.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

Fred accidentally shrinks himself when an experiment goes wrong and ends up appearing on television as Barney's ventriloquist dummy.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

Fred plans Pebbles' birthday party on the same day as the Water Buffalo Lodge party.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: Tony Benedict

Fred has his head in the clouds when he wins free flying lessons in a raffle and contemplates a new career as an airplane pilot.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

The Flintstones and the Rubbles lock horns with cowasaurus rustlers who have been preying on Fred's Uncle Tex's ranch in Texarock.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

Fred and Barney team with debonair detective Aaron Boulder to solve crimes and mysteries.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

The gang take the kids to a local theater for a personal appearance by a TV superhero. But when the actor resigns, the producers ask Fred to step in so the show can continue.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

A baby contest at the lodge sparks a spat between the Flintstones and the Rubbles over who has the most beautiful child in Bedrock, prompting a disappointed Pebbles and Bamm Bamm to run away.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

An annoying neighbor makes Fred's life a misery with his interference, so he enlists Dino to protect him, but finds that Dino is in love with the neighbor's dog.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

The King of Stoneslyvania goes missing before his country can secure a bank loan, leaving advisors for the King to ask Fred to impersonate him to get the loan.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

Fred and Barney have one whale of a tale to tell after they get swallowed by the legendary sea creature Adobe Dick while on a Water Buffalo fishing trip.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

Fred is in the market for a second car and buys one at a local police auction. But he's unaware that the vehicle contains a fortune in stolen gems and that the jewel thieves who hid them have returned to get them back.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: Rance Howard

While on a mineral-gathering trip out West, Fred gets appointed sheriff of a ghost town called Rocky Gulch just in time to deal with a rough-and-tumble trio of outlaw brothers who ride into town looking to gun down the local lawman.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: Joanna Lee

Fred lands a role in an action-movie series playing a hunky Greek hero, but he soon discovers that being a film star isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: N/A

Barney and Betty decide to get Bamm-Bamm a pet of his own, deciding on a stone-age kangaroo.

Director: William Hanna

Writer: Warren Foster