7.0/101 votes#1 - Little Bamm-Bamm
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1963
Betty and Barney discover a foundling named Bamm-Bamm on their doorstep and become smitten with the child. They set out to adopt him, but discover that the Welfare Bureau has promised the boy to wealthy Pronto Berger, who is being represented by attorney Perry Masonry. When Berger learns that his wife is pregnant, however, the Rubbles are free to adopt the baby.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
6.0/104 votes#2 - Hot Lips Hannigan
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1960
Believing he has made Wilma and Betty disappear through magic, Fred capitalizes on his newfound freedom by taking Barney to a nightclub, the Rockland, where an old friend, trumpeter Hot Lips Hannigan, is performing. The jazz is cool until the wives show up to teach their wayward husbands a lesson.
Director: N/A
Writer: Warren Foster
6.0/104 votes#3 - The Swimming Pool
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1960
Fred and Barney jointly build a swimming pool, but Barney hogs the pool time, angering Fred. To get even, Fred hires a pal to pose as a police officer and break up one of his neighbor's pool parties.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.7/103 votes#4 - No Help Wanted
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/21/1960
Fred uses his influence with a business friend to obtain a job for Barney, who becomes a furniture repossessor. To the dismay of both, Barney's first assignment is to repossess Fred's television! Unwilling to betray his friend, Barney pays off Fred's delinquent television bill with his first paycheck.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#5 - The Split Personality
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/28/1960
A conk on the head turns Fred into an aristocratic sophisticate, whose behavior manages to disrupt the entire city of Bedrock.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#6 - The Monster from the Tar Pits
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/4/1960
A Hollyrock film company goes on location in Bedrock to film its new feature Monster From The Tar Pits, and gullible Fred is enlisted as stand-in for star Gary Granite. But Fred's real problems begin when Wilma and Betty audition for roles in the film and end up going ga-ga upon meeting movie stars Rock Pile and Wednesday Tuesday.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#7 - The Babysitters
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/11/1960
Roped into babysitting little Egbert, the child of a friend, Fred and Barney take the tot over to the pal Joe Rockhead's house to watch the fights on television. Egbert befriends Joe's pet runtosaurus and dresses the creature up in his baby clothes, which results in chaos when the pet--whom Fred and Barney mistake for the baby--escapes from the house and dashes up a tree.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#8 - The Engagement Ring
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/25/1960
Barney decides to surprise Betty with a belated engagement ring, which he gives to Fred for safekeeping. But Wilma discovers the ring and assumes it is a gift for her. Not wanting to shatter her illusions, Fred decides to buy a second ring, but doesn't have the cash. He cons Barney into going several rounds with a boxing champ in order to win a $500 prize.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#9 - Hollyrock, Here I Come
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1960
Wilma and Betty win a trip to Hollyrock from a television contest. Finding themselves lonely and bored, Fred and Barney take vacations from work and follow them out. When Wilma is ""discovered,"" Fred muscles his own way into the world of television to bring her back.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#10 - The Sweepstakes Ticket
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1960
Barney hides the sweepstakes ticket he and Fred have bought in the lining of an old coat, which Betty subsequently gives to a passing hobo. While the boys try to recover the ticket, convinced it is the winning one, Wilma and Betty have their own winning ticket stashed away at the Rubble's house.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#11 - The Drive-in
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1960
Fed up with their jobs, Fred and Barney secretly plan to buy a restaurant, but then Fred has to deal with a suspicious Wilma who wants to know why two young girls (carhops who are seeking a job) are calling for him, and what the messages regarding two tons of dino-burger meat mean.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#12 - The Girls' Night Out
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1961
Fred and Barney decide to treat their wives to a night out, at an amusement park. Fred cuts a song at a recording booth as a souvenir but misplaces the record. It is later discovered by a group of teens who pass it along to a deejay, and Fred is suddenly transformed into unwitting rock star ""Hi-Fye.""
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#13 - Arthur Quarry's Dance Class
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1961
Fred and Barney sign up for dance lessons at Arthur Quarry's so that they do not humiliate themselves at the charity ball. Their excuse that they have joined the volunteer fire department falls apart when Betty and Wilma realize that the all-stone town of Bedrock is fire proof. The wives then suspect that their husbands are slipping out to meet other women.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#14 - The Snorkasaurus Hunter
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1961
Would-be hunter Fred convinces Wilma and the Rubbles to spend their vacation time in the mountains, hunting for snorkasaurus. Fred is successful in his hunt, but he gets more than he bargained for when the wives insist that the snorkasaurus be taken home as their new pet, Dino.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#15 - The Hypnotist
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1961
While attempting to demonstrate his skill as a hypnotist to his wife and the Rubbles, Fred manages to hypnotize Barney into thinking that he is a frisky puppy, and is then unable to bring him back.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#16 - The Tycoon
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1961
When industrial tycoon J.L. Gotrocks decides he wants to rub shoulders with the common people, dead-ringer Fred is hired to fill in for him in the board room. Fred savors his new lifestyle at the country club, but the plan begins to unravel when J.L. demonstrates little tolerance for the common folk.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#17 - The Astra' Nuts
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1961
Thinking they are undergoing an examination for a physical contest, Fred and Barney mistakenly sign up for a three-year stint in the Army! After a tearful goodbye to their wives they enter into the service, where they quickly blunder their way into volunteering for the first lunar landing mission.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#18 - The Long, Long Weekend
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1961
Friend Gus Gravel invites the Flintstones and the Rubbles to his seaside hotel for an all-expense-paid vacation. But upon arriving, the four find that the hotel's planned ""activities"" seem more like work. Gus finally confesses that his entire hotel staff has just resigned on the eve of a huge convention.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#19 - The Good Scout
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/24/1961
Assuming the command of a Boy Scout troop, Fred quickly learns the hazards of a ""routine"" camping trip. Fred blunders his way through until an overnight flood leaves him and the troop hanging on a tree limb over a treacherous waterfall, hoping a ranger will rescue them.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#20 - Rooms for Rent
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/31/1961
Tired of hearing their husbands complain about finances, Wilma and Betty rent rooms to piano and bongo-playing student musicians. Fred and Barney go along with the arrangement, unaware that their wives are providing the lodging in return for music and dancing lessons.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#21 - Fred Flintstone: Before and After
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/7/1961
Fred agrees to appear in a before-and-after weight reduction commercial, but is humiliated to learn that he is the before example. An offer of $1,000 if he can drop twenty-five pounds in a month fails miserably, as does every other diet plan, until an overeaters group takes him on as a challenge.
Director: William Hanna
Writer: Warren Foster
4.0/102 votes#22 - 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
4.0/102 votes#23 - 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
4.0/102 votes#24 - 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
4.0/102 votes#25 - 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
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"Little Bamm-Bamm" is the best rated episode written by Warren Foster. It scored 7/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by William Hanna. It aired on 10/3/1963 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Hot Lips Hannigan".