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The Best Episodes of The Flintstones Season 5

Every episode of The Flintstones Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Flintstones Season 5!

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

Genres:FamilyAnimationComedyKids
Network:ABC

Season 5 Ratings Summary

The best episode of "The Flintstones" season 5 is "Hop Happy", rated 7/10 from 184 user votes. It was directed by William Hanna and written by Warren Foster. "Hop Happy" aired on 9/17/1964 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Monster Fred".

  • Hop Happy
    7.0/10 184 votes

    #1 - Hop Happy

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1964

    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

  • Monster Fred
    7.3/10 194 votes

    #2 - Monster Fred

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1964

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

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Itty Bitty Fred
    7.3/10 180 votes

    #3 - Itty Bitty Fred

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1964

    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

  • Pebbles' Birthday Party
    7.3/10 188 votes

    #4 - Pebbles' Birthday Party

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1964

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

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: Tony Benedict

  • Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up
    7.0/10 174 votes

    #5 - Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up

    Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1964

    Wilma's old friend, Bony Hurdle, pays her a visit because he's participating in the Bedrock rodeo, but Fred gets jealous and decides to compete, too.

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Cinderellastone
    7.4/10 180 votes

    #6 - 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

  • A Haunted House is Not a Home
    8.0/10 245 votes

    #7 - 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

  • Dr. Sinister
    8.1/10 261 votes

    #8 - 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

  • The Gruesomes
    7.6/10 219 votes

    #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

  • The Most Beautiful Baby in Bedrock
    7.2/10 180 votes

    #10 - The Most Beautiful Baby in Bedrock

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1964

    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

  • Dino and Juliet
    7.2/10 188 votes

    #11 - Dino and Juliet

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1964

    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

  • King for a Night
    7.2/10 179 votes

    #12 - King for a Night

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1964

    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

  • Indianrockolis 500
    7.5/10 187 votes

    #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

  • Adobe Dick
    7.2/10 180 votes

    #14 - Adobe Dick

    Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1964

    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

  • Christmas Flintstone
    7.9/10 362 votes

    #15 - 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

  • Fred's Flying Lesson
    7.3/10 173 votes

    #16 - Fred's Flying Lesson

    Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1965

    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

  • Fred's Second Car
    7.2/10 178 votes

    #17 - Fred's Second Car

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1965

    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

  • Time Machine
    7.6/10 189 votes

    #18 - 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

  • The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes
    7.5/10 194 votes

    #19 - 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

  • Moonlight and Maintenance
    7.6/10 177 votes

    #20 - 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

  • Sheriff for a Day
    7.2/10 186 votes

    #21 - Sheriff for a Day

    Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1965

    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

  • Deep in the Heart of Texarock
    7.3/10 170 votes

    #22 - Deep in the Heart of Texarock

    Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1965

    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

  • The Rolls Rock Caper
    7.3/10 186 votes

    #23 - The Rolls Rock Caper

    Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1965

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

    Director: William Hanna

    Writer: N/A

  • Superstone
    7.3/10 176 votes

    #24 - Superstone

    Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1965

    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

  • Fred Meets Hercurock
    7.1/10 166 votes

    #25 - Fred Meets Hercurock

    Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1965

    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