7.0/10186 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
7.3/10196 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
7.3/10182 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
7.3/10190 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
6.9/10176 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
7.3/10181 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
8.0/10249 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
8.1/10263 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
7.6/10220 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
7.2/10181 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
7.2/10190 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
7.2/10180 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
7.5/10190 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
7.2/10182 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
7.9/10366 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
7.3/10173 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
7.2/10179 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
7.6/10191 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
7.5/10197 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
7.6/10180 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
7.3/10189 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
7.3/10172 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
7.3/10189 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
7.3/10179 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
7.1/10168 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
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The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
Genres:FamilyAnimationComedyKids
Network:ABC
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Hop Happy" is the best rated episode of "The Flintstones" season 5. It scored 7/10 based on 186 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by Warren Foster, it aired on 9/17/1964. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Monster Fred".