The Flintstones aired from 1960 to 1966. As of September 2006, all six seasons have been released on DVD in North America. In all, 166 episodes were released for the original series.
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The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 28 – Fred Flintstone: Before and After. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 27 – Rooms for Rent. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 26 – The Good Scout. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 25 – In the Dough. The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 24 – The Long, Long Weekend.
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
Pilot | 1959 | ||||
1 | 28 | September 30, 1960 | April 7, 1961 | ||
2 | 32 | September 15, 1961 | April 27, 1962 | ||
3 | 28 | September 14, 1962 | April 5, 1963 | ||
4 | 26 | September 19, 1963 | March 12, 1964 | ||
5 | 26 | September 17, 1964 | March 12, 1965 | ||
6 | 26 | September 17, 1965 | April 1, 1966 |
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Episodes[edit]
The first two seasons were written by Warren Foster, Michael Maltese and Arthur Phillips.
Pilot (1959)[edit]
Title | Animated by | Original air date | |
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'The Flagstones' | Kenneth Muse | May 1994 (on Cartoon Network) | |
First released on The Flintstones: The Collector's Edition on VHS in 1994, it made its television debut on Cartoon Network in May 1994, and aired again on Boomerang in November 2006. It was released on DVD in 2001 and again in 2004. Notes: This was the original pilot episode for The Flintstones, but was never shown with the original series. It was actually a 90-second 'demo reel' (with grease pencil marks still visible on the film), designed to sell the series to potential advertisers in the winter of 1959, depicting a scene from what would eventually become the episode 'The Swimming Pool'. Daws Butler provided the voices of Fred and Barney (he later reprised the role of Barney in season two episodes one, two, five, six and nine when Mel Blanc was unavailable to provide the voice at that time), June Foray was Betty (her appearance was somewhat redesigned for the actual series), and Jean Vander Pyl was Wilma (the only actor from the pilot to regularly reprise their role for the actual series). The pilot was re-voiced for the Cartoon Crack-Ups DVD release for unknown reasons with Henry Corden as Fred, Frank Welker as Barney, Tress MacNeille as Wilma, and Betty Jean Ward as Betty. All other releases of the pilot use the original voice track. |
Season 1 (1960–61)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date [1] | |
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1 | 1 | 'The Flintstone Flyer' | Joseph Barbera & Michael Maltese | September 30, 1960 | |
On a Sunday, Fred fakes illness so he and Barney can get out of taking their wives to the opera, as the night coincides with a Bowling Championship. With the use of Barney's homemade prehistoric helicopter as a means of escape, the two then join their bowling team for the tournament. They almost get away with their scheme, until loose-lipped Barney gives away their night's activities by using a fake mustache he and Fred used earlier to try to trick their wives at the bowling alley. | |||||
2 | 2 | 'Hot Lips Hannigan' | TBA | October 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. Everything goes fine until the wives show up disguised as two 'hep chicks' to teach their wayward husbands a lesson. | |||||
3 | 3 | 'The Swimming Pool' | TBA | October 14, 1960 | |
Fred and Barney build a joint swimming pool in their backyards, leading to fights before Fred's surprise birthday party. Notes: A brief snippet of this episode shows up later in a Jetsons episode, 'Elroy's Mob'; a classmate of Elroy's watches it on his wristwatch TV, before the teacher catches the student and confiscates it. Also features the reworked scene from The Flagstones pilot demo. | |||||
4 | 4 | 'No Help Wanted' | TBA | October 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 neighbors, Barney's first assignment is to repossess Fred's television. Hesitant to betray his best friend, Barney pays off Fred's delinquent television bill with his first paycheck. Note: This is the first episode in which Dino makes an appearance. | |||||
5 | 5 | 'The Split Personality' | TBA | October 28, 1960 | |
After being hit on the head with a bottle of car polish, Fred contracts amnesia and becomes an Englishman named 'Frederick'. Note: In this episode Wilma breaks the fourth wall when she wonders if a man can be too nice. | |||||
6 | 6 | 'The Monster from the Tar Pits' | TBA | November 4, 1960 | |
A Hollyrock film company goes on location in Bedrock to film its new feature 'The Monster from the Tar Pits,' and gullible Fred is enlisted as stand-in for star Gary Granite. However, Fred's real problems begin when Wilma and Betty audition for roles in the film and end up going crazy upon meeting movie stars Rock Pile and Wednesday Tuesday. | |||||
7 | 7 | 'The Babysitters' | TBA | November 11, 1960 | |
Fred and Barney agree to babysit Wilma's nephew, Egbert, which makes them miss a chance to go and see a wrestling match. A blackout of the event in their area prompts them to bring Egbert with them to their friend Joe Rockhead's house so they can watch the fight. Note: This episode is the first appearance of Joe Rockhead. | |||||
8 | 8 | 'At the Races' | TBA | November 18, 1960 | |
To finance their dream of opening a pool hall, Fred and Barney visit the dinosaur racetrack where Fred bets his entire paycheck on a long shot. To cover for gambling, Fred pretends to have been beaten by a robber and tells Wilma that he has lost his check. When the longshot pays off, Fred and Barney are initially elated but quickly realize their problems are only beginning. Note: Betty is absent in this episode. | |||||
9 | 9 | 'The Engagement Ring' | Warren Foster | November 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 dream, Fred decides to buy a second ring but doesn't have the cash, so he cons Barney into going several rounds with a boxing champ in order to win a $500 prize. | |||||
10 | 10 | 'Hollyrock, Here I Come' | TBA | December 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. | |||||
11 | 11 | 'The Golf Champion' | TBA | December 9, 1960 | |
Fred's victory in The Loyal Order of Dinosaurs golf tournament is soured when club president Barney withholds his trophy for nonpayment of club dues. Fred retaliates by demanding that Barney return every item he has borrowed over the years. The fighting continues until Wilma and Betty manage to bring their husbands back together again. | |||||
12 | 12 | 'The Sweepstakes Ticket' | TBA | December 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 Rubbles' house. | |||||
13 | 13 | 'The Drive-In' | TBA | December 23, 1960 | |
Fed up with their jobs, Fred and Barney secretly plan to buy a drive-in restaurant. Fred soon has to deal with a suspicious Wilma, who wants to know why two young girls (carhops seeking jobs) are calling for him and what the messages regarding two tons of dino-burger meat mean. | |||||
14 | 14 | 'The Prowler' | TBA | December 30, 1960 | |
With a prowler on the loose in Bedrock, Betty decides to take judo lessons to protect herself. When Wilma wants to take lessons also, Fred ridicules the idea, arguing that one glimpse of a prowler would send her running in fear. To prove his point, Fred poses as the prowler and sneaks into the Rubble household, on the same night the real prowler shows up. | |||||
15 | 15 | 'The Girls' Night Out' | TBA | January 6, 1961 | |
After constantly being harangued with 'I never get out of the house', 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 accidentally misplaces the record. It is later discovered by a group of teens who pass it along to a DJ, and Fred is suddenly transformed into unwitting rock star 'Hi-Fye', with tours all over Bedrock. The touring proves too much for Wilma and Betty, so they spread a rumor to bring down Hi-Fye's fame. | |||||
16 | 16 | 'Arthur Quarry's Dance Class' | TBA | January 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 fireproof (as well the alarm sounding at 7:30 every night). The wives then suspect that their husbands are slipping out to meet other women, but are glad when they see they have been learning how to dance for them. | |||||
17 | 17 | 'The Big Bank Robbery' | TBA | January 20, 1961 | |
When Fred discovers a bag containing $86,000, his dreams of being a wealthy man finally seem to be coming true but the money has been stolen from the bank. Wilma and Betty force Fred and Barney to return the money to the bank and unwittingly set them up as the primary suspects. | |||||
18 | 18 | 'The Snorkasaurus Hunter' | TBA | January 27, 1961 | |
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. Note: While this episode shows how they got Dino, he appeared previously in 'Arthur Quarry's Dance Class', which was being made at around the same time but aired first. Also, Dino appeared earlier on 'No Help Wanted'. | |||||
19 | 19 | 'The Hot Piano' | TBA | February 3, 1961 | |
To commemorate his 10th wedding anniversary (which he only remembers because it falls on 'Trash Day'), Fred wants to buy Wilma a Stoneway piano. He finds a great deal, from a shady, cash-only businessman named '88 Fingers Louie,' but later realizes that it's more than he bargained for. | |||||
20 | 20 | 'The Hypnotist' | TBA | February 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 but is unable to reverse the trick. | |||||
21 | 21 | 'Love Letters on the Rocks' | TBA | February 17, 1961 | |
Jealous Fred's discovery of a love poem that was sent to Wilma prompts him to hire Bedrock's top detective, Perry Gunnite (a parody of Peter Gunn), to find out who the home-wrecking poet is. When Gunnite's investigation mistakenly points to Barney, Fred plans revenge against his friend until Wilma reminds her husband that he had written the poem himself many years earlier during their courtship. | |||||
22 | 22 | 'The Tycoon' | TBA | February 24, 1961 | |
J.L. Gotrocks, a businessman who closely resembles Fred, decides to abandon his office. The tycoon's desperate employees find and entice Fred to take over his job, which soon becomes overwhelming. Meanwhile, the tycoon goes about town among the little people, encountering Wilma, Barney, and Betty who mistake him for Fred, both gradually are driven to return to their normal positions. Note: A few years later, the Season 5 episode 'King for a Night' would have a similar storyline. | |||||
23 | 23 | 'The Astranuts' | TBA | March 3, 1961 | |
Thinking they are undergoing an examination for insurance, Fred and Barney mistakenly sign up for a three-year stint in the Army. After a tearful goodbye from their wives, the guys enter into the service, where they quickly blunder their way into volunteering for the first lunar-landing mission after being conned into it. | |||||
24 | 24 | 'The Long, Long Weekend' | TBA | March 10, 1961 | |
Fred's old friend Gus Gravel (voiced by Willard Waterman) invites the Flintstones and Rubbles to his seaside hotel for an all-expense-paid vacation. However upon arriving, the foursome finds that the hotel's planned 'activities' seem more like work, because the entire hotel staff has quit their jobs just prior to the foursome's arrival. Gus finally confesses the truth to his four new guests, adding further bad news in that a huge convention is about to arrive, and he needs the Flintstones and Rubbles to stay and work as hotel staff. | |||||
25 | 25 | 'In the Dough' | TBA | March 17, 1961 | |
Wilma and Betty are finalists in a television bake-off, but on the eve of the event, they contract measles. Donning full drag—including wigs, dresses, and plucked-out eyebrows—Fred and Barney take their places in the contest to prepare their 'Upside-Down Flint/Rubble Bubble Cake,' but the guys' carelessness could jeopardize the winning of the grand prize. | |||||
26 | 26 | 'The Good Scout' | TBA | March 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. | |||||
27 | 27 | 'Rooms for Rent' | TBA | March 31, 1961 | |
Tired of hearing their husbands complain about finances, Wilma and Betty rent rooms to 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. | |||||
28 | 28 | 'Fred Flintstone: Before and After' | TBA | April 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 25 lbs. in a month fails miserably, as does every other diet plan, until an overeaters group, 'Foods Anonymous,' takes him on as a challenge. When he finally loses the weight, the overeaters group will not let him go back to his old ways. |
Season 2 (1961–62)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date [1] | |
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29 | 1 | 'The Hit Song Writers' | TBA | September 15, 1961 | |
Fred and Barney write a song with the help of a scammer who plagiarizes Hoagy Carmichael's 'Stardust'. When they unwittingly play this song for Hoagy and his agent, the agent throws them out of his office, but Hoagy forgives the two and after finding a poem Barney wrote. He later puts the poem to music and invites the Flintstones and Rubbles to a special dinner where the song is performed. Note: Special guest-star Hoagy Carmichael appears as himself and wrote the song 'Yabba-Dabba-Dabba-Dabba-Doo' for this episode. | |||||
30 | 2 | 'Droop-Along Flintstone' | TBA | September 22, 1961 | |
The Flintstones and Rubbles take care of Cousin Tumbleweed's ranch and come to enjoy being out west. Later, they 'bust a bronco,' get lost, and accidentally stumble into a filming of a western, but think they are in the middle of being robbed. | |||||
31 | 3 | 'The Missing Bus' | TBA | September 29, 1961 | |
Fred becomes a school bus driver for the route between Bedrock and Red Rock. | |||||
32 | 4 | 'Alvin Brickrock Presents' | TBA | October 6, 1961 | |
Fred—, reading too many excerpts from Arnold the newsboy's detective magazine, suspects his new neighbor has killed his wife. The title spoofs 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' and the plot spoofs Hitchcock's film Rear Window. | |||||
33 | 5 | 'Fred Flintstone Woos Again' | TBA | October 13, 1961 | |
Fred takes Wilma on a second honeymoon, only to find out that the judge who originally married them was unlicensed. Wilma tries to play hard-to-get because she is unhappy with the way Fred has been acting recently. | |||||
34 | 6 | 'The Rock Quarry Story' | TBA | October 20, 1961 | |
Rock Quarry, tired of Hollyrock, moves to Bedrock. Wilma and Betty know immediately that he is Rock Quarry, while Fred and Barney continue to believe that he is going by his alias, 'Gus Schultz.' | |||||
35 | 7 | 'The Soft Touchables' | TBA | October 27, 1961 | |
Fred and Barney become very unsuccessful detectives who are unable to catch anyone doing anything wrong, but wind up getting in real trouble with both the law and some real criminals who try to murder Fred and Barney. | |||||
36 | 8 | 'Flintstone of Prinstone' | TBA | November 3, 1961 | |
Fred goes to Prinstone University's night classes to impress his boss into giving him a raise, but winds up becoming a star player on Prinstone's football team. | |||||
37 | 9 | 'The Little White Lie' | TBA | November 10, 1961 | |
Fred lies to Wilma about going to a poker game after she finds extra money on him, and he goes through great lengths not to get caught in a lie. | |||||
38 | 10 | 'Social Climbers' | TBA | November 17, 1961 | |
Wilma and Betty get tickets to an exclusive and prestigious social event, making Fred and Barney decide to go to charm school in order to prepare for the event. | |||||
39 | 11 | 'The Beauty Contest' | TBA | December 1, 1961 | |
Fred and Barney are appointed judges for the Water Buffalo beauty contest, but the job becomes tougher than they originally thought when Fred's boss pressures him into rigging the contest. | |||||
40 | 12 | 'The Masquerade Ball' | TBA | December 8, 1961 | |
Fred buys tickets to a costume ball from his boss. Later, at the ball, he mistakes his boss for another guest. | |||||
41 | 13 | 'The Picnic' | TBA | December 15, 1961 | |
Fred dumps Barney as his partner at the lodge picnic for Joe Rockhead, causing Barney to resent Fred. | |||||
42 | 14 | 'The House Guest' | TBA | December 22, 1961 | |
The Rubbles are forced to move in with Fred and Wilma while a plumber fixes Fred's 'repair job,' which did far more harm than the Rubbles' original problem. What began as a simple leak ends up becoming a very major, week-long plumbing job. During the Rubbles' stay, Barney causes so many problems for Fred that he finally loses his patience and blows his top with Barney. Meanwhile, Betty is angry at Wilma and begins to fight with her. | |||||
43 | 15 | 'The X-Ray Story' | TBA | December 29, 1961 | |
Dino's x-rays are mistaken for Fred's. Wilma, Betty, and Barney consequently think Fred has caught Dino's illness ('dinopeptitis'). This makes them keep Fred awake for 72 hours straight without telling him and take a trip to the roller skating rink, where Fred falls asleep on his skates despite having twenty or thirty cups of coffee. | |||||
44 | 16 | 'The Gambler' | TBA | January 5, 1962 | |
Fred's compulsive gambling problem causes him to lose all his furniture and his TV set to his nemesis, Arnold the paperboy. | |||||
45 | 17 | 'A Star is Almost Born' | TBA | January 12, 1962 | |
Wilma and Betty stumble upon a groupie hangout to hopefully land a role in a movie, but instead they wind up being hired to do a commercial. | |||||
46 | 18 | 'The Entertainer' | TBA | January 19, 1962 | |
To please his boss, Fred agrees to entertain a woman named Greta Gravel (voiced by Paula Winslowe) by taking her out for a few nights. Greta soon runs into Wilma, who shows up at the same restaurant with Barney and Betty. As Fred's bad luck would have it, Wilma and Greta were high school classmates and Fred can't be seen out with another woman, nor can he abandon his boss' business client. | |||||
47 | 19 | 'Wilma's Vanishing Money' | TBA | January 26, 1962 | |
Fred steals Wilma's money to buy a bowling ball, and tells Wilma it was a burglar. She, meanwhile, was planning to use the money to buy Fred the ball he wanted for his birthday. | |||||
48 | 20 | 'Feudin' and Fussin' | TBA | February 2, 1962 | |
Fred chews Barney out and then calls him stupid after he learns his Saturday golf game was cancelled and refuses to apologize, triggering a feud between the two friends. Things really begin to get out of hand when Barney puts his house up for sale, while Yippy Ye O'Rock, a rich Texan shows an interest in buying the property. | |||||
49 | 21 | 'Impractical Joker' | TBA | February 9, 1962 | |
Barney gets even with Fred because of his practical jokes he's been pulling on him from time after time, so Barney pretends to be a counterfeiter in his basement with the money he won in a slogan contest and Fred thinks the money is fake and will land him in jail. Meanwhile, Wilma and Betty try to cure the both of them of their practical joking. | |||||
50 | 22 | 'Operation Barney' | TBA | February 16, 1962 | |
Fred and Barney play hooky from work to see a ball game. Their plans are foiled when Barney must report to his company's nurse who, after Fred fixes Barney's condition to make it look like he has a 312 degree fever, is alarmed enough to send him to the hospital. Fred pretends to be a doctor and give Barney 'operation' to get Barney out of the hospital. After finally escaping from the hospital, it's discovered that the ball game was actually scheduled for that evening – not that afternoon, as the guys had thought – and that Barney's boss had tickets for Fred and Barney to go, but because Barney was 'sick,' he gave the tickets away to someone else. | |||||
51 | 23 | 'The Happy Household' | TBA | February 23, 1962 | |
Wilma accidentally becomes the host of the new TV cooking show 'The Happy Housewife' produced by Mr. Rockenspiel, which becomes popular with all of Bedrock - except Fred, who isn't a 'happy pappy' as he must go without his wife's home-cooked meals. | |||||
52 | 24 | 'Fred Strikes Out' | TBA | March 2, 1962 | |
Fred has a bowling match on the night of the anniversary of Wilma accepting his marriage proposal, so he attempts to take her out at the same time he goes bowling. | |||||
53 | 25 | 'This is Your Lifesaver' | Larry Markes | March 9, 1962 | |
After Fred and Barney 'save the life' of J. Montague Gypsum, a confidence man, they end up stuck taking care of him. | |||||
54 | 26 | 'Trouble-in-Law' | TBA | March 16, 1962 | |
In a direct continuation of the previous episode (where Wilma announced her mother's impending arrival), Fred's mother-in-law comes for a long and difficult visit. Fred, meanwhile, tries to find a way to get rid of her. Note: Verna Felton makes her first guest appearance as 'Mrs. Slaghoople'. | |||||
55 | 27 | 'The Mailman Cometh' | TBA | March 23, 1962 | |
After Fred thinks he's been singled out for not receiving his annual raise, he mails his boss, Mr. Slate, an angry letter. Then, Slate visits the Flintstone residence to personally apologize for the inadvertent error and announces to Wilma that Fred is, indeed, getting his raise. Fred tries to get the letter back before Mr. Slate receives it and fires him. | |||||
56 | 28 | 'The Rock Vegas Story' | TBA | March 30, 1962 | |
While eating out with Barney at an automat, Fred stumbles into an old school friend, Sherman, who is now the owner of a Rock Vegas hotel. After Sherman extends an invitation to visit his casino, the Flintstones and the Rubbles head off to Rock Vegas. Before they even get the chance to check in, Fred has already gambled all of the foursome's money away, but Sherman invites them to stay at the hotel by working off their charges. | |||||
57 | 29 | 'Divided We Sail' | TBA | April 6, 1962 | |
Barney becomes a contestant on a TV game show, The Prize is Priced (a takeoff on The Price is Right). He wins a houseboat, and everyone goes on a disastrous cruise where a sea serpent pulls the boat way off shore. | |||||
58 | 30 | 'Kleptomaniac Caper' | TBA | April 13, 1962 | |
Fred mistakenly thinks Barney is a kleptomaniac. | |||||
59 | 31 | 'Latin Lover' | TBA | April 20, 1962 | |
After watching a romantic movie on TV, Wilma convinces Fred to adopt a 'latin lover' image. She soon becomes (erroneously) convinced that other women are after Fred because of his suave image and tries to convince him to go back to being the same old Fred. | |||||
60 | 32 | 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game' | TBA | April 27, 1962 | |
Barney becomes a baseball coach to a bunch of boys while Fred becomes an umpire. |
Season 3 (1962–63)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date [1] | |
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61 | 1 | 'Dino Goes Hollyrock' | Harvey Bullock | September 14, 1962 | |
Dino becomes a star on the TV show Sassie (a parody of Lassie) while Fred is hoping to cash in on Dino's success. Note: This was the first episode that ABC aired in color. | |||||
62 | 2 | 'Fred's New Boss' | Warren Foster | September 21, 1962 | |
Barney gets laid off and Fred gets him a job at the quarry. Barney is immediately promoted to Fred's boss, causing Fred to be jealous that Barney is promoted so quickly. Note: This is the last episode to use the original 'Rise and Shine' opening and end credits. | |||||
63 | 3 | 'Barney the Invisible' | Warren Foster | September 28, 1962 | |
Fred tries to cure Barney's hiccups with a potion that he invented, vanishing Barney's hiccups along with him. Note: This is the first episode of the show to use 'Meet the Flintstones' as the theme song for the opening and end credits. | |||||
64 | 4 | 'Bowling Ballet' | Warren Foster | October 5, 1962 | |
Fred has a problem with bowling and takes ballet lessons to regain his skills for a big tournament. | |||||
65 | 5 | 'The Twitch' | Joanna Lee | October 12, 1962 | |
Fred gets pop star 'Rock Roll' to perform at Wilma's club function. When Rock suffers laryngitis pursuant to an allergic reaction (to pickled dodo eggs) and cannot perform, Fred comes to the rescue by donning Rock's costume and lip-syncing to his hit record. | |||||
66 | 6 | 'Here's Snow in Your Eyes' | Joanna Lee | October 19, 1962 | |
Fred and Barney go on a ski trip and tell Wilma and Betty to stay home. Jealous, Wilma and Betty secretly follow them on their trip, during which the two men inadvertently catch a trio of jewel thieves. | |||||
67 | 7 | 'The Buffalo Convention' | Warren Foster | October 26, 1962 | |
Fred, Barney, and the other members of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes are informed that they'll be going to Frantic City (a parody of Atlantic City, New Jersey) for a convention for three days — without the wives. Their wives are lulled into agreement by a phony 'doctor' (in actuality, the lodge's plumber) who convinces them that their husbands need an out-of-town break for a few days. Meanwhile, Fred buys a talking dodo bird named Doozy for Wilma. Naturally, once the boys leave, Doozy informs Wilma about the husbands' entire plan, so Wilma and Betty and the other Water Buffalo wives follow them to Frantic City. | |||||
68 | 8 | 'The Little Stranger' 'The Little Visitor' | Herbert Finn | November 2, 1962 | |
Fred overhears portions of a conversation that Wilma and Betty have about taking in a 'little visitor' and Fred thinks Wilma is having a baby. He asks his mother-in-law to stay to help Wilma with the arrival of their baby, but, to Fred's chagrin, the 'little visitor' turns out to be the Flintstones' paperboy, Arnold. | |||||
69 | 9 | 'Baby Barney' | Warren Foster | November 9, 1962 | |
Fred's rich Uncle Tex is coming for a visit, and to stay on Tex's short list of inheriting his uncle's money, Fred had told Tex that Wilma had a baby boy and named him after his uncle. | |||||
70 | 10 | 'Hawaiian Escapade' | Joanna Lee | November 16, 1962 | |
Fred wins a contest to go to Hawaii and be on a TV show, Hawaiian Spy (a reference to ABC's Hawaiian Eye). He is given a role as a stunt double for star 'Larry Lava', but it's Wilma that turns out to be the big star instead. | |||||
71 | 11 | 'Ladies' Day' | Harvey Bullock | November 23, 1962 | |
Fred dresses up as a woman just to see a baseball game on 'ladies' day' with Barney due to their mutual lack of money. | |||||
72 | 12 | 'Nuttin' but the Tooth' | Tony Benedict | November 30, 1962 | |
Barney has a toothache, so in order to have enough money for a boxing match featuring Heavyweight Champion of the World Floyd Patterstone (Floyd Patterson), Fred takes Barney to a veterinary dentist instead of one for humans. Due to the dentist's long telephone call from his wife and Barney's continued exposure to anesthetic gases during the phone call, Barney floats out of the dentist's office. A panicked Fred tries to follow Barney to bring him down, but soon both are flying high above Bedrock. Note: In real life, Patterson was no longer the champion when this episode aired. He had been succeeded by Sonny Liston. | |||||
73 | 13 | 'High School Fred' | Warren Foster | December 7, 1962 | |
In order to keep his job, Fred must return to high school in order to earn the diploma that he was unable to earn years before and winds up making friends with the kids in the school. | |||||
74 | 14 | 'Dial 'S' for Suspicion' | Herbert Finn | December 14, 1962 | |
When Fred sees Wilma reading a novel, he worries that she is planning on murdering him to collect life insurance money after a few near accidents. Note: This is a parody of Dial M for Murder and Suspicion. | |||||
75 | 15 | 'Flash Gun Freddie' | Jack Raymond | December 21, 1962 | |
Fred and Barney take up photography as a hobby during their vacation from work. | |||||
76 | 16 | 'The Kissing Burglar' | Joanna Lee | January 4, 1963 | |
A romantic burglar is targeting Fred's neighborhood and befriends Wilma before getting caught. | |||||
77 | 17 | 'Wilma, the Maid' | Harvey Bullock & R.S. Allen | January 11, 1963 | |
In order to impress his boss, Fred decides to hire a maid, Lollobrickida to make his boss a nice dinner, but after Fred promises to sing to her, she quietly quits and Wilma poses as the maid in disguise. | |||||
78 | 18 | 'The Hero' | Herbert Finn | January 18, 1963 | |
Barney saves a baby's life when a runaway carriage rides by, but when he hands Fred the baby before the newspaper reporters and police arrive, Fred takes the credit. Fred then fights with his somewhat nasty conscience for taking credit as a hero. | |||||
79 | 19 | 'The Surprise' | Warren Foster | January 25, 1963 | |
Fred resents Barney spending so much time taking care of his nephew Marblehead to the point their friendship nearly ends. At the end of the episode, Wilma informs Fred that they are going to be having a baby of their own. Note: In this episode Fred breaks the fourth wall when he says The Flintstones are going to have a baby. | |||||
80 | 20 | 'Mother-In-Law's Visit' | Warren Foster | February 1, 1963 | |
Fred's mother-in-law visits to help get Wilma ready for the new baby, making Fred miserable. Fred takes a job as a cab driver in disguise and makes all his money for the night driving his mother-in-law around. | |||||
81 | 21 | 'Foxy Grandma' | Herbert Finn | February 8, 1963 | |
After his mother-in-law leaves, Fred goes through three housekeepers and finally finds an elderly lady that he is happy with. However, this sweet old lady turns out to be a bank robber named Grandma Dynamite. | |||||
82 | 22 | 'Fred's New Job' | Warren Foster | February 15, 1963 | |
Fred needs a raise in order to pay the expenses of having a new baby arrive. He wants to ask the boss for a raise, but Mr. Slate puts on an act in front of Fred where he pretends to fire another employee for asking. Fred gets fired 'for his own good' anyway after Barney dresses up as another employer and states that he wants to hire Fred for twice the money Mr. Slate is paying. Fred then has several jobs, but is fired from each one. After taking a circus job, Mr. Slate finds Fred and rehires him with a huge raise. | |||||
83 | 23 | 'The Blessed Event' 'Dress Rehearsal' | Harvey Bullock & R.S. Allen | February 22, 1963 | |
In order to prepare for the new baby, Fred and Barney do a dress rehearsal of taking Wilma to the hospital. | |||||
84 | 24 | 'Carry On, Nurse Fred' | Story by : Michael Maltese Teleplay by : Joanna Lee | March 1, 1963 | |
Fred has a tough time with the nurse that his mother-in-law sends to help Wilma with caring for the newborn baby, Pebbles. Fred fires her and takes over, but fails miserably. | |||||
85 | 25 | 'Ventriloquist Barney' | Story by : Michael Maltese Teleplay by : Herbert Finn | March 8, 1963 | |
Fred gets mad with Barney's ventriloquist joke that he pulled on him, claiming Pebbles could speak. Later, Barney comes over and calls a truce with him and he gets himself and Fred tickets to a big wrestling match. Fred calls a babysitter to watch Pebbles, but she comes over and parties instead of babysitting Pebbles. So Barney suggests that he and Fred sneak off with Pebbles to the big wrestling match that Wilma and Betty are watching on television. | |||||
86 | 26 | 'The Big Move' | Joanna Lee | March 22, 1963 | |
Fred moves the family to an upper-class neighborhood to improve Pebbles's life but in the end decides their old neighborhood with Barney and Betty is the best thing. | |||||
87 | 27 | 'Swedish Visitors' | Harvey Bullock & R.S. Allen | March 29, 1963 | |
Wilma borrows money from a bank account and in order to get it back, she rents the Flintstones' house to some Swedish musicians without Fred's knowledge while they take a camping trip. When Fred drives a sleeping Wilma and Pebbles back home, he finds the Swedish musicians there and he and Barney attempt to get rid of them. Notes: Yogi Bear (voiced by Daws Butler) and Boo-Boo make a cameo appearance. The Swedish singer Owe Thörnqvist provides guest vocals. | |||||
88 | 28 | 'The Birthday Party' | Joanna Lee | April 5, 1963 | |
Fred says that he 'doesn't want a birthday surprise party,' although he really does. Barney tries to get him away from the real surprise party until everything is ready. Note: This episode indeed airs as episode 88, but it was made prior to episodes 79–87. Episodes 79–87 are all about the coming of Pebbles, their baby. In this episode, it is stated that Fred and Wilma still have no children. |
Season 4 (1963–64)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date [1] | |
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89 | 1 | 'Ann-Margrock Presents' | Harvey Bullock & R.S. Allen | September 19, 1963 | |
Ann-Margrock (special guest star Ann-Margret, providing her own voice) comes to town for a big concert and stays with the Flintstones, who do not know who she is. After a few tries, Fred and Barney both get on Ann-Margrock's show at the newly constructed Hollyrock Bowl. Note: During this season, ABC moved the series from Fridays to Thursday nights. | |||||
90 | 2 | 'Groom Gloom' | Herbert Finn | September 26, 1963 | |
Arnold the paper boy annoys Fred as he is playing with Pebbles when he jokes that they will get married when they grow up. Fred then has a bad dream that Arnold grows up and becomes the local hero then takes his job at the quarry, his pride as a pool player and bowler, his friendship with Barney, and marries Pebbles. Notes: Janet Waldo guest stars as teenage Pebbles. | |||||
91 | 3 | 'Little Bamm-Bamm' | Story by : Carey Wood Teleplay by : Joe Martin | October 3, 1963 | |
Barney and Betty have visited the Flintstones every night since Pebbles came home, and eventually Fred has had enough and kicks them out. Although he quickly apologizes, Barney and Betty realize they want a baby and wish upon a falling star. The next morning a baby boy is found in a basket on their door step, with a note asking that he be cared for and that his name is Bamm Bamm (who soon displays that he has extreme strength). Quickly falling in love with the child, Barney and Betty take steps to legally adopt him. After almost being turned down, they are given the baby. Note: In this episode Barney breaks the fourth wall when he bets that the viewers at home cannot guess what he and Betty wished for. | |||||
92 | 4 | 'Dino Disappears' | Joanna Lee | October 10, 1963 | |
Fred mistakenly forgets Dino's birthday, but gets gifts for Pebbles. Dino gets jealous and Fred drags Dino outside. The next day, Dino is missing. Fred and Barney search for Dino, and they think he's been kidnapped by a man and according to the man, his name is 'Rocky' and he is a stunt/dancing animal and they plan to get him back. Later at night, Fred and Barney takes 'Rocky' and are chased by cops and they wind up in court and the real Dino pops up in court while being chased by dogcatchers. | |||||
93 | 5 | 'Fred's Monkeyshines' | Joanna Lee | October 17, 1963 | |
Fred gets eyeglasses and takes the wrong ones. He then mistakes a monkey for Pebbles at the circus. | |||||
94 | 6 | 'The Flintstone Canaries' | Barry E. Blitzer | October 24, 1963 | |
Fred and Barney enter a singing contest as the Flintstone Canaries on the Hum Along with Herman Show. Note: This episode is a spoof of the then-popular NBCTV seriesSing Along with Mitch, starring Mitch Miller. | |||||
95 | 7 | 'Glue for Two' | Tony Benedict | October 31, 1963 | |
Fred and Barney get glued together on Barney's new bowling ball after Fred invents a new super-strong superglue. | |||||
96 | 8 | 'Big League Freddie' | Story by : Rick Mittleman Teleplay by : Walter Black | November 7, 1963 | |
Fred tries out for a Major League Baseball team. Fred is injured during his tryout with his friend Roger Marble. When Roger is picked, he is mistaken for Fred who, after much pressure, comes clean. | |||||
97 | 9 | 'Old Lady Betty' | Walter Black | November 14, 1963 | |
Betty gets a part-time job to earn money enough to get Barney a rocking chair running errands for an elderly lady. Betty disguises herself as an elderly lady as well with Wilma's help. The elderly lady, however is actually a counterfeiter gun moll named Greta Gravel and sends Betty to the store to buy small purchases with fake 100 dollar bills in order to get authentic money. | |||||
98 | 10 | 'Sleep On, Sweet Fred' | Joanna Lee | November 21, 1963 | |
Wilma and Betty start to hypnotize Fred and Barney while they sleep in order to get lavish gifts and nicer treatment. They are inadvertently overheard by Fred and Barney and their plan backfires when Fred and Barney pretend to make plans to steal from a store to give Wilma and Betty mink coats. | |||||
99 | 11 | 'Kleptomaniac Pebbles' | Barry E. Blitzer | November 28, 1963 | |
Pebbles quietly takes things from various stores, but at a jewelry store, a real thief named Baffles Gravel, alias 'Lightfingers Leo', plants a diamond necklace in Pebbles' carriage and Fred thinks Pebbles stole that as well. Note: Betty is absent in this episode. | |||||
100 | 12 | 'Daddy's Little Beauty' | Herbert Finn | December 5, 1963 | |
Fred believes he enters Pebbles in a beauty contest for babies when he actually enters her in a beauty contest for young women. He decides to hide it from Wilma after she refuses to allow Pebbles to enter a beauty contest, and tries to sneak her into the beauty contest without Wilma knowing. | |||||
101 | 13 | 'Daddies Anonymous' | Herbert Finn & Alan Dinehart | December 12, 1963 | |
In order to get out of doing weekend housework, Fred and Barney begin taking Pebbles and Bamm Bamm for many walks. They eventually join a club playing cards and partying all day on weekends while bringing the babies along. | |||||
102 | 14 | 'Peek-a-Boo Camera' | Audrey Edwards | December 19, 1963 | |
Fred, Barney, Betty, and Wilma all enjoy a television show called Peek-A-Boo Camera. Fred and Barney attend a friend's bachelor party, telling the wives that their friend is near death and they are seeing him for the last time. The bachelor party winds up being televised for Peek-A-Boo Camera. When Fred and Barney find out, they try to have their scene cut out so their wives don't see them. Note: This episode is a spoof of Candid Camera. | |||||
103 | 15 | 'Once Upon a Coward' | Herbert Finn | December 26, 1963 | |
When Fred gets mugged, he starts to think Wilma believes he is a coward. To try to make Wilma think he's not a coward, Fred plots to nab the mugger. | |||||
104 | 16 | 'Ten Little Flintstones' | Tony Benedict | January 2, 1964 | |
Invaders from outer space make ten robots that look like Fred. These ten look-alikes begin to wreak havoc on Fred, his family, friends, and even his job. | |||||
105 | 17 | 'Fred El Terrifico' | Joanna Lee | January 9, 1964 | |
Fred, Wilma, Betty, and Barney take a trip to Rockapulco, where jewel thieves pretend to befriend Fred in order to frame him for stealing more jewels while in Mexico. | |||||
106 | 18 | 'The Bedrock Hillbillies' | Herbert Finn | January 16, 1964 | |
The Hatrocks become depressed when they think the last of the Flintstones, with whom they have been feuding for 90 years, has died. They soon realise that one Flintstone family – Fred's – is still living. Fred receives notification that he is the sole heir to the Flintstone estate and travels to claim it, taking his family and the Rubbles with him. Once at the Flintstone family cabin, the Hatrocks resume their feud. Note: This is the first of two appearances by the Hatrocks, who would return in episode 133. | |||||
107 | 19 | 'Flintstone and the Lion' | Tony Benedict | January 23, 1964 | |
On a fishing trip, Fred finds what he thinks is a kitten. He takes the kitten home as a pet - which soon grows into a lion – and Fred must try to find a way to get rid of the lion, before it eats them out of house and home. | |||||
108 | 20 | 'Cave Scout Jamboree' | Warren Foster | January 30, 1964 | |
Fred causes a flood at work and is laid off for a week. He decides to take his family and The Rubbles on a camping trip, where a bunch of cave scouts from all around the world are holding a jamboree. | |||||
109 | 21 | 'Room for Two' | Tony Benedict | February 6, 1964 | |
Fred and Barney build a new room onto Fred's house. After a fight, Barney discovers that the room is half on his property. As a result, they have to share the room and their fighting continues. | |||||
110 | 22 | 'Ladies' Night at the Lodge' | Herbert Finn | February 13, 1964 | |
Wilma and Betty are curious about what goes on at Fred and Barney's Water Buffalo Lodge meetings so they sneak in wearing disguises as men. | |||||
111 | 23 | 'Reel Trouble' | Barry E. Blitzer | February 20, 1964 | |
Fred gets into all kinds of trouble when he becomes addicted to taking home movies of Pebbles with his movie camera and showing them to his friends. | |||||
112 | 24 | 'Son of Rockzilla' | Barry E. Blitzer | February 27, 1964 | |
A Hollyrock film company decides to go to Bedrock to film its new feature Son of Rockzilla, and Fred is enlisted to play the monster. | |||||
113 | 25 | 'Bachelor Daze' | Story by : Ralph Goodman Teleplay by : Herbert Finn | March 5, 1964 | |
The Honeyrock Hotel, where Fred and Barney first met Wilma and Betty, is in danger of being torn down. The Flintstones and Rubbles reminisce about when they first met. Note: Janet Waldo is the voice of 'Mrs. Slaghoople'. | |||||
114 | 26 | 'Operation Switchover' | Joanna Lee | March 12, 1964 | |
Fred and Wilma trade roles and Fred must clean the house and make appetizers when visitors come to inspect the house for a contest that Wilma has entered. Note: This is the final episode where Bea Benaderet does the voice of Betty Rubble. |
Season 5 (1964–65)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date [1] | |
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115 | 1 | 'Hop Happy' | Warren Foster | September 17, 1964 | |
Hoppy, the new pet that Barney and Betty got for Bamm Bamm, causes major havoc and nearly ends Barney's friendship with Fred. Note: Gerry Johnson replaces Bea Benaderet as the voice of Betty Rubble beginning with this episode. | |||||
116 | 2 | 'Monster Fred' | Barry E. Blitzer | September 24, 1964 | |
Fred reverts to childhood after getting hit on the head with a bowling ball. After looking for a doctor, Barney finds a mad scientist that uses electric shock to swap personalities. | |||||
117 | 3 | 'Itty Bitty Fred' | Jena Lee Rosen | October 1, 1964 | |
Fred begins inventing again and creates a reducing formula called 'Fred-O-Cal' to take off weight. This formula winds up shrinking Fred to less than a foot tall. Note: Ed Sullivan is again caricatured in this episode as 'Ed Sullystone' (previously seen in the season three episode 'The Twitch'). | |||||
118 | 4 | 'Pebbles' Birthday Party' | Tony Benedict | October 8, 1964 | |
Fred makes arrangements for Pebbles' first birthday and the Water Buffalo Lodge parties. Trouble ensues when the only caterer in town muddles the parties, including sending a clown to the Water Buffalo Lodge and dancing girls to Pebbles' birthday party, and Fred gets blamed for it. | |||||
119 | 5 | 'Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up' | Rance Howard | October 15, 1964 | |
When Pebbles seems to love rodeo star Bony Hurdle more than Fred, he tries to prove his love to her by entering in The Bedrock Rodeo in disguise. | |||||
120 | 6 | 'Cinderellastone' | Tony Benedict | October 22, 1964 | |
Fred seems to be passed over for a promotion at work when the boss invites every employee to his house party except him. Fred then dreams he is Cinderella and his fairy godmother brings Fred to his boss's party. | |||||
121 | 7 | 'A Haunted House is Not a Home' | Alan Dinehart & Herbert Finn | October 29, 1964 | |
Fred's Uncle Giggles fakes his death and pretends that he has left his fortune to Fred. In order to get the fortune, Fred is required to stay overnight at Giggles' haunted house where it appears that Fred nearly gets killed. Note: A spoof on horror classic House on Haunted Hill. | |||||
122 | 8 | 'Dr. Sinister' | William Idelson & Samuel Bobrick | November 5, 1964 | |
Fred and Barney are disappointed that their life is boring after watching a Jay Bondrock movie. Then, when sent to the store, Fred and Barney find themselves captured, flown to a distant island, beaten up, and almost killed by a mad scientist named Dr. Sinister. Note: This episode is a parody of James Bond's Doctor No. | |||||
123 | 9 | 'The Gruesomes' | Warren Foster | November 12, 1964 | |
A weird family named the Gruesomes move in next door to the Flintstones, whom Fred doesn't like. Notes: First of two appearance by the Gruesomes, who would return in episode 133. Howard Morris, Andrew Sabiston and Naomi Lewis provide the voices of Weirdly, Goblin and Creepella Gruesome. This episode parodied The Munsters and The Addams Family – two popular ghoul comedies of the time. | |||||
124 | 10 | 'The Most Beautiful Baby in Bedrock' | Joanna Lee | November 19, 1964 | |
Fred enters Pebbles in a beauty contest for babies while Barney enters Bamm Bamm, which causes a major fight between Fred and Barney. | |||||
125 | 11 | 'Dino and Juliet' | Tony Benedict | November 26, 1964 | |
Fred's new neighbor, Mr. Loudrock, becomes a thorn in his side, but Dino falls in love with Loudrock's pet and has puppies. Note: Mr. Loudrock is voiced by Henry Corden, who later provided the singing voice of Fred in The Man Called Flintstone and years later replaced Alan Reed completely as the voice of Fred following Reed's death. Also, this is a spoof of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. | |||||
126 | 12 | 'King for a Night' | William Idelson & Samuel Bobrick | December 3, 1964 | |
When the King of Stonesylvania visits Bedrock, he decides he wants to be a normal person, dead-ringer look-alike Fred is hired to fill in for him as king. The plan begins to unravel when the king demonstrates little tolerance for the outside world and Fred does not like being a king much better. When Wilma mistakes the king for Fred, more troubles begin for both the king and Fred. Note: This episode is a reworking of episode 22, 'The Tycoon'. | |||||
127 | 13 | 'Indianrockolis 500' | Rance Howard | December 10, 1964 | |
Fred and Barney enter their sports car into the Indianrockopolis 500, with Fred adopting the sporting moniker 'Goggles Pyzano'. | |||||
128 | 14 | 'Adobe Dick' | Barry E. Blitzer | December 17, 1964 | |
On a fishing trip, Fred and Barney are swallowed by a whale named Adobe Dick. Note: A spoof of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. | |||||
129 | 15 | 'Christmas Flintstone' | Warren Foster | December 25, 1964 | |
Fred becomes Santa for a Macyrock's store, and does such a good job that Santa's elves recruit him to substitute for the real Santa when he becomes ill. Note: The series moved from Thursday back to Friday nights on ABC with this episode. | |||||
130 | 16 | 'Fred's Flying Lesson' | Rick Mittleman | January 1, 1965 | |
Fred wins a flying lesson at a lodge contest. He decides to take the lesson and his teacher is a younger woman. | |||||
131 | 17 | 'Fred's Second Car' | Rance Howard | January 8, 1965 | |
Fred buys a gangster's car for almost nothing from a police auction, but his plan goes wrong when Big Sparkle and his men, three gangsters, track the car down and plot to kill Fred and Barney off. | |||||
132 | 18 | 'Time Machine' | William Idelson & Samuel Bobrick | January 15, 1965 | |
The Flintstones and the Rubbles visit the Bedrock World's Fair, where they visit a time machine exhibit and travel to various times of the future. | |||||
133 | 19 | 'The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes' | Alan Dinehart & Herbert Finn | January 22, 1965 | |
The Hatrocks come to visit the Flintstones after they declare their feud over, and wind up overstaying their welcome. The Flintstones then recruit their neighbors, the Gruesomes, to scare the Hatrocks away by performing 'bug music' (a spoof of the Beatles). Note: Second and final appearances of both the Hatrocks and the Gruesomes. | |||||
134 | 20 | 'Moonlight and Maintenance' | Alan Dinehart & Herbert Finn | January 29, 1965 | |
After visiting luxury apartments, Fred decides he wants to live there, so he moves with Wilma and Pebbles. In order to pay for the place, Fred takes a job at the apartment complex moonlighting as a janitor. Fred finds that working two jobs is too hectic, and when Fred's boss, Mr. Slate, moves into Bedrock Towers, he must try to hide from Mr. Slate that he is moonlighting. | |||||
135 | 21 | 'Sheriff for a Day' | Jemima Williams & Christina Robertson | February 5, 1965 | |
The Flintstones and the Rubbles travel to a small town out west. Fred runs into an old friend who hears that the Slatery Brothers are seeking revenge on the town. In order to defend themselves, he recruits Fred as sheriff. Notes: The Cartwrights, from Bonanza, are caricatured here as the 'Cartrocks'. This episode loosely spoofs the classic film High Noon. This is the only episode to air originally without a laugh track; one current syndicated print has a new laugh track dubbed in. | |||||
136 | 22 | 'Deep in the Heart of Texarock' | Barry E. Blitzer | February 12, 1965 | |
Fred visits his Uncle Tex's ranch in Texarock and has to stop a bunch of cow thieves. | |||||
137 | 23 | 'The Rolls Rock Caper' | Alan Dinehart & Herbert Finn | February 19, 1965 | |
Fred and Barney wind up on an adventure and are seen in a TV show called Smile, You're on My Favorite Crime. Note: 'Aaron Boulder' is a caricature of Gene Barry's 'Amos Burke' from Burke's Law. | |||||
138 | 24 | 'Superstone' | Barry E. Blitzer | February 26, 1965 | |
When the actor who portrays TV's 'Superstone' walks off the job, Fred is recruited to fill in and play him, but he is framed by two thugs who knock him unconscious, dress in his costume, and steal the cash box. | |||||
139 | 25 | 'Fred Meets Hercurock' | Joanna Lee | March 5, 1965 | |
Fred is recruited to play Hercurock in a new movie. | |||||
140 | 26 | 'Surfin' Fred' | Joanna Lee | March 12, 1965 | |
The Flintstones and Rubbles travel to Rock Island beach when there is a big surfing contest judged by singer/actor Jimmy Darrock (special guest star James Darren). Fred and Wilma decide to enter the surfing contest, even though Fred can't surf. Note: Two songs from The Fantastic Baggys' 1964 album, 'Tell 'Em I'm Surfin', are featured on the soundtrack ('Wax Up Your Board' and 'Surfin' Craze'). |
Season 6 (1965–66)[edit]
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Written by | Original air date [1] | |
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141 | 1 | 'No Biz Like Show Biz' | Joanna Lee | September 17, 1965 | |
Fred is tired of so many teen stars on television after a football game is canceled due to a teen program. He then dreams that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm become singing stars, causing more havoc than Fred can handle. Notes: Talent scout 'Eppy Brianstone' (a play on Beatles manager Brian Epstein) voiced by Bernard Fox. At the time, Hanna-Barbera Records released a 45 single of 'Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm's' recording of 'Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In)', which would go on to replace 'Meet the Flintstones' as the show's closing credits for a few episodes this season. | |||||
142 | 2 | 'The House that Fred Built' | Joanna Lee | September 24, 1965 | |
Fred's mother-in-law writes a letter saying that she is staying with her favorite son-in-law and his wife, and would be coming to seeing them next week. Fred then attempts to fix up an old house for his mother-in-law and move it into his backyard. | |||||
143 | 3 | 'The Return of Stony Curtis' | Harvey Bullock & R.S. Allen | October 1, 1965 | |
Wilma wins a contest to have Stony Curtis (special guest star Tony Curtis) come over for a day to be her slave. | |||||
144 | 4 | 'Disorder in the Court' | Alan Dinehart & Herbert Finn | October 8, 1965 | |
Fred and Barney are on jury duty and the jury convicts 'The Mangler' of robbery. After his conviction, The Mangler vows to get even with the foreman of the jury, Fred. The convict escapes from prison the very next day and Fred fears that The Mangler is going to get him. | |||||
145 | 5 | 'Circus Business' | Herbert Finn & Alan Dinehart | October 15, 1965 | |
The Flintstones and Rubbles visit a carnival, and Fred decides to buy the carnival unaware of the problems it has. | |||||
146 | 6 | 'Samantha' | Harvey Bullock & R.S. Allen | October 22, 1965 | |
Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York guest star as new neighbors, Samantha and Darrin (from Bewitched), who move next door to the Flintstones. Fred and Barney take a camping trip without Wilma and Betty. Samantha then decides to help Wilma and Betty follow the husbands to the woods. Note: Hanna-Barbera animated the opening titles for Bewitched. | |||||
147 | 7 | 'The Great Gazoo' | Joanna Lee | October 29, 1965 | |
Wilma and Betty want to go out to eat at a very expensive restaurant, while Fred and Barney claim they cannot afford it. Soon after, Fred and Barney find a space alien who has crash-landed on Earth, who says that he will help them until he is able to go back to his home planet. Gazoo promises to give Fred and Barney some money for the dinner date to that expensive restaurant, but when the bill arrives, Gazoo is nowhere to be found, leaving Fred and Barney to wash the dishes at the restaurant. | |||||
148 | 8 | 'Rip Van Flintstone' | Tony Benedict | November 5, 1965 | |
Fred is dragged to a company picnic after a skatebone incident at a supermarket where he is very bored and annoyed, alienating his friends and coworkers. He falls asleep and dreams he wakes up 20 years later where the picnic area is empty and dilapidated, his friends are long gone and the town of Bedrock is now a big city, and Barney is a millionaire, Pebbles married Bamm Bamm, and Wilma lives on Barney's estate. Fred is upset that he has slept his life away before he actually awakens near the picnic and learns that he really only slept for about an hour. Reborn, Fred returns to the picnic, happily joining in on all of the events. Note: This episode was inspired by the story Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. | |||||
149 | 9 | 'The Gravelberry Pie King' | Herbert Finn & Alan Dinehart | November 12, 1965 | |
After Gazoo gets Fred to see his boss for a list of demands from him and his co-workers, Mr. Slate fires Fred to meet the demands of the other workers. Fred then hangs out at the park and meets an unemployed man who thinks the pie Wilma made is the best pie he's ever had. Other people taste it, including P.J. Safestone of Safestone Supermarkets (which is the parody of Safeway Supermarkets). Safestone makes a deal with Fred to bake 50 pies, then 500 pies but later Fred discovers that the pies are causing him to lose money making them. When Fred tries to make a better deal, Safestone refuses and Fred is stuck with 500 unsold pies. | |||||
150 | 10 | 'The Stonefinger Caper' | Joanna Lee | November 19, 1965 | |
Gazoo gives Fred a luxury car and this causes more problems, including some mysterious people trying to get a secret formula from Barney, who they think is scientist Dr. Rockenheimer. After Fred makes the mistake of telling Gazoo to get lost, the mysterious people finally knock Fred and Barney out, and are ready to kill them to get a formula Barney does not have. | |||||
151 | 11 | 'The Masquerade Party' | Warren Foster | November 26, 1965 | |
Fred and Barney enter a costume contest both dressed as devils. Meanwhile, a new band puts on a radio hoax saying the town is being invaded by space aliens called 'Way-Outs'. After deciding to let Barney be the devil, Fred decides to dress as a space alien and is mistaken for one of the Way-Outs. | |||||
152 | 12 | 'Shinrock-A-Go-Go' | Barry E. Blitzer | December 3, 1965 | |
Fred is entered in a teen dance contest against his will on the Shinrock show, hosted by Jimmy O'Neillstone (special guest star Jimmy O'Neill) where every one of Fred's mishaps becomes a new dance. The Beau Brummels also guest star as 'The Beau Brummelstones'. | |||||
153 | 13 | 'Royal Rubble' | Tony Benedict | December 10, 1965 | |
It is believed by a royal tribe that Barney is their king due to his resemblance to the real king. Barney goes along with this and fills in as their king. Note: This was the first episode in which Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's version of 'Open Up Your Heart' was used as the closing credits. The other episode that uses this ending is 'Fred Goes Ape'. The singing voices are provided by Jessica Brown and Dominic Whitaker. | |||||
154 | 14 | 'Seeing Doubles' | George O'Hanlon | December 17, 1965 | |
Fred and Barney have a bowling game on Friday night, the night that they are to take Wilma and Betty out to dinner. After failing to convince the wives to let them go bowling, Gazoo makes two doubles that look like Fred and Barney to take the wives out while they go bowling. | |||||
155 | 15 | 'How to Pick a Fight with Your Wife Without Really Trying' | Alan Dinehart & Herbert Finn | January 7, 1966 | |
Gazoo convinces Fred to do a Monopoly game with Wilma to spice up their relationship for 'togetherness' in their marriage, but things make a turn for the worse when they begin to fight, and Fred decides to stay with Barney, and Wilma stays with Betty until they can make up. | |||||
156 | 16 | 'Fred Goes Ape' | Barry E. Blitzer | January 14, 1966 | |
When Fred's allergies become so extreme that he sneezes a hole in the TV screen, Fred decides to take medicine pills called 'Scram' from a store which has the disastrous side effect of turning into an ape. | |||||
157 | 17 | 'The Long, Long, Long Weekend' | Herbert Finn & Alan Dinehart | January 21, 1966 | |
After Fred criticizes a novel about the future that Barney is reading, The Great Gazoo sends Fred, Barney, Betty, and Wilma into the 21st century. Notes: The setting for the future is from The Jetsons series, and the music score from The Jetsons is used. The title is a spoof of season 1 episode title 'The Long, Long Weekend'. | |||||
158 | 18 | 'Two Men on a Dinosaur' | Walter Black | February 4, 1966 | |
The Great Gazoo uses Fred's television to contact his home planet about returning there and is told, 'Are you kidding?'. In order to show that he is worthy of returning home, Gazoo decides to teach gamblers Fred and Barney a lesson by magically fixing the results of a dinosaur race at the race track. Fred and Barney wind up in big trouble after some gangsters spot them picking winners. | |||||
159 | 19 | 'The Treasure of Sierra Madrock' | Joanna Lee | February 11, 1966 | |
Finding 'treasure' on the way home from Rock Vegas tests Fred and Barney's friendship. Note: A spoof of The Treasure of Sierra Madre. | |||||
160 | 20 | 'Curtain Call at Bedrock' | George O'Hanlon | February 18, 1966 | |
Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty put on the play Romeorock & Julietstone. | |||||
161 | 21 | 'Boss for a Day' | Herbert Finn & Alan Dinehart | February 25, 1966 | |
After complaining about having to work so hard on his job, Fred is magically made the boss for a day by Gazoo, and Fred quickly discovers being the boss is not all it's cracked up to be. | |||||
162 | 22 | 'Fred's Island' | Barry E. Blitzer | March 4, 1966 | |
After Fred is conned into painting his boss's huge yacht, the boat drifts away from the dock and they drift to what Fred believes is an unexplored island. | |||||
163 | 23 | 'Jealousy' | Harvey Bullock & R.S. Allen | March 11, 1966 | |
Wilma's childhood friend comes to town making Fred very jealous. Note: Betty, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and Dino are absent in this episode. | |||||
164 | 24 | 'Dripper' | Barry E. Blitzer | March 18, 1966 | |
Dripper the seal (a satire on Flipper) follows the Flintstones home while Dripper's trainer is attempting to kidnap his pet. | |||||
165 | 25 | 'My Fair Freddy' | Tony Benedict | March 25, 1966 | |
Fred and Wilma get accepted into a Country Club with rich socialites, based on a conversation Wilma was having about their pet Dino, causing Fred to try to learn manners in order to fit in. Note: This is the last appearance of The Great Gazoo. | |||||
166 | 26 | 'The Story of Rocky's Raiders' | Joanna Lee | April 1, 1966 | |
Fred's grandfather comes for a visit. While awaiting his arrival, Fred finds Grandpa Flintstone's diary, which recalls his army days as the head of 'Rocky's Raiders' in Stone World War I. |
References[edit]
- ^ abcdef'The Flintstones Episode Guide -Hanna-Barbera'. www.bcdb.com. April 12, 2012. Retrieved January 3, 2016.[better source needed]
External links[edit]
- The Flintstones at the Big Cartoon DataBase
Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_The_Flintstones_episodes&oldid=916080714'
The Flintstones | |
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Genre | Animated sitcom |
Created by | |
Developed by | |
Written by | |
Directed by | |
Voices of |
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Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin[1] |
Opening theme | 'Rise and Shine' (instrumental) (first two seasons and the first two episodes of season 3) 'Meet the Flintstones' (remainder of the show's run) |
Ending theme | 'Rise and Shine' (instrumental) (first two seasons and the first two episodes of season 3) 'Meet the Flintstones' (rest of the show's run) 'Open Up Your Heart (and Let the Sunshine In)' (some episodes on season 6) |
Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 6 |
No. of episodes | 166 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producer(s) | |
Editor(s) | Kenneth Spears Donald A. Douglas Joseph Ruby Warner Leighton Greg Watson |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
Distributor | Screen Gems (1960–1967) Columbia Pictures Television (1974–1987)[2] The Program Exchange (1987–1994)[3][4] Turner Program Services (1995–98)[4] Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1998–present) |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Picture format | 480i |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original release | September 30, 1960 – April 1, 1966 |
Chronology | |
Followed by | The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show |
Related shows | Cave Kids (spin-off) |
The Flintstones is an American animatedsitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC. The series takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting, and follows the activities of the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles (who are also their best friends). It was originally broadcast from September 30, 1960, until April 1, 1966, as the first animated series to hold a prime time slot.
The continuing popularity of The Flintstones rested heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting.[5][6]The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated franchise for three decades, until The Simpsons debuted in late 1989.[7] In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time (after The Simpsons).[8]
- 2Characters
- 3Voice actors
- 7Reception
- 8Films and subsequent television series
Overview[edit]
The show is set in a comical, satirical version of the Stone Age which, although it uses primitive technology, resembles mid-20th-century suburban America. The plots deliberately resemble the sitcoms of the era, with the caveman Flintstone and Rubble families getting into minor conflicts characteristic of modern life. The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock (pop. 2500). In this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals co-exist with cavemen, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths.
Animation historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that the series draws its humor in part from creative uses of anachronisms. The main one is the placing of a 'modern', 20th-century society in prehistory. This society takes inspiration from the suburban sprawl developed in the first two decades of the postwar period. This society has modern home appliances, but they work by employing animals.[9] They have automobiles, but they hardly resemble the cars of the 20th century. These cars are large wooden and rock structures and burn no fuel. They are powered by people who run while inside them. Finally, the stone houses of this society are cookie-cutter homes positioned into neighborhoods typical of mid-20th-century American suburbs.[10]
Characters[edit]
The Flintstones[edit]
- Fred Flintstone is the main character of the series. Fred is an accident-prone bronto-crane operator at the Slate Rock and Gravel Company and the head of the Flintstone household. He is quick to anger (usually over trivial matters), but is a very loving husband and father. He is also good at bowling and is a member of the fictional 'Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes' (Lodge No. 26), a men-only club paralleling real-life fraternities such as the Loyal Order of Moose. His famous catchphrase is 'Yabba Dabba Doo!'
- Wilma Flintstone is Fred's wife and Pebbles' mother. She is more intelligent and level-headed than her husband, though she often has a habit of spending money (with Betty and her catchphrase being 'Da-da-da duh da-da CHARGE IT!!'). She often is a foil to Fred's poor behavior, but is a very loyal wife to him. She is also a very jealous woman who is easily angered if there's even a hint of another woman (especially a pretty one) having anything to do with Fred.
- Pebbles Flintstone is the Flintstones' infant daughter, who is born near the end of the third season.
- Dino is the Flintstones' pet dinosaur that acts like a dog. A running gag in the series involves Fred coming home from work and Dino getting excited and knocking him down and licking his face repeatedly.
- Baby Puss is the Flintstones' pet saber-toothed cat, which is rarely seen in the actual series, but is always seen throwing Fred out of the house during the end credits, causing Fred to pound repeatedly on the front door and yell 'Wilma!', waking the whole neighborhood in the process.
The Rubbles[edit]
- Barney Rubble is the secondary main character and Fred's best friend and next-door neighbor. His occupation is, for the most part of the series, unknown, though later episodes depict him working in the same quarry as Fred. He shares many of Fred's interests such as bowling and golf, and is also a member of the 'Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes'. Though Fred and Barney frequently get into feuds with one another (usually due to Fred's short temper), their deep fraternal bond remains evident.
- Betty Rubble is Barney's wife and Wilma's best friend. Like Wilma, she, too, is slightly more intelligent than her husband and has a habit of spending money, and also is highly jealous of other pretty women being around her husband.
- Bamm-Bamm Rubble is the Rubbles' preternaturally strong adopted son, whom they adopt during the fourth season; his name comes from the only phrase he ever speaks as a baby: 'Bamm, Bamm!'
- Hoppy is the Rubbles' pet hopparoo (a kangaroo/dinosaur combination creature), which they purchase in the beginning of the fifth season. When he first arrives, Dino and Fred mistake him for a giant mouse and are frightened of him, but they eventually become best friends after Hoppy gets help when they are in an accident. He babysits the kids as he takes them around in his pouch, which also serves as a shopping cart for Betty.
Other characters[edit]
Over 100 other characters appeared throughout the program.[11]
- Mr. Slate is Fred and Barney's hot-tempered boss at the gravel pit. Mr. Slate fires Fred on several occasions throughout the series, only to give him his job back by the end of the episode. A running gag is Slate's ever-changing first name, which was revealed to be Sylvester, Nate, Oscar, and George as the series progressed. In the episode 'The Long, Long Weekend' which originally aired on January 21, 1966, he is shown as being the founder of 'Slate Rock and Gravel Company'; still in business two million years later, the company is operated by his descendant, 'George Slate the Eighty-Thousandth'. Note, in the early Flintstones episodes, the more recognized 'Mr. Slate' character was known as 'Mr. Rockhead' and was a supervisor of Fred's. Mr. Slate was a short character. During the course of the cartoon, the two men switched identities and the shorter character faded away from existence.
- Arnold is the Flintstones' paper boy, whom Fred absolutely despises, mainly because Arnold is frequently able to best and outsmart Fred at a number of tasks and also because he often ('unintentionally') throws the newspaper in Fred's face. Arnold's parents are mentioned in the series, but his mother Doris, a friend of Wilma and Betty's (as evidenced in the episode 'The Little Stranger', which originally aired on November 2, 1962), is referenced in name only, never actually appearing on screen. Arnold's father, however, did appear in the episode 'Take Me Out to the Ball Game', which originally aired on April 27, 1962, though his name is never mentioned.
- Joe Rockhead is a mutual friend of Fred and Barney. Usually, when Fred and Barney have some kind of falling out, Fred mentions doing something (such as going to a baseball game) with Joe. Joe was, at some point, chief of the Bedrock Volunteer Fire Department (as shown on the episode 'Arthur Quarry's Dance Class', which originally aired on January 13, 1961). His appearance varied throughout the run of the series, but his appearance in the episode 'The Picnic', which originally aired on December 15, 1961, was the one most commonly used.
- Pearl Slaghoople is Wilma's hard-to-please mother, Fred's mother-in-law and Pebbles' maternal grandmother, who is constantly disapproving of Fred and his behavior. Their disastrous first meeting was recounted in the episode 'Bachelor Daze', which originally aired on March 5, 1964. They briefly reconciled in the episode 'Mother-in-Law's Visit', which originally aired on February 1, 1963. That is, until, she found out that she became Fred's 'nice fat pigeon' when he suckered her out of money that he needed to buy a baby crib for Pebbles. They reconciled again at the end of the TV movie I Yabba Dabba Do.
- The Great Gazoo is an alien exiled to Earth that helps Fred and Barney, often against their will. He is actually from the future, and is quite dismayed when he realizes he has been sent back to 'the Stone Age'. He can only be seen by Fred, Barney, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, other small children, Dino, and Hoppy. Gazoo appeared in the final season only.
- Uncle Tex Hardrock is Fred's maternal uncle and a member of the Texarock Rangers. He constantly holds Fred's future inheritance over his head.
- Sam Slagheap is the Grand Poobah of the Water Buffalo Lodge.
Voice actors[edit]
Fred Flintstone physically resembles both the voice actor who played him, Alan Reed, and Jackie Gleason, whose series, The Honeymooners, inspired The Flintstones.[12] The voice of Barney Rubble was provided by voice actor Mel Blanc, though five episodes during the second season (the first, second, fifth, sixth, and ninth) employed Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler while Blanc was incapacitated by a near-fatal car accident. Blanc was able to return to the series much sooner than expected, by virtue of a temporary recording studio for the entire cast set up at Blanc's bedside. Blanc's portrayal of Barney had changed considerably after the accident. In the earliest episodes, Blanc had used a much higher pitch to the point of portraying Barney as a smart-aleck. After his recovery from the accident, Blanc used a deeper voice, quite similar to the voice of the Abominable Snowman he performed in other cartoons, and was shown as somewhat dopier than before.
Reed based Fred's voice upon Gleason's Honeymooners interpretation of Ralph Kramden, while Blanc, after a season of using a nasal, high-pitched voice for Barney, eventually adopted a style of voice similar to that used by Art Carney in his portrayal of Ed Norton. The first time the Art Carney-like voice was used was for a few seconds in 'The Prowler' (the third episode produced).
In a 1986 Playboy interview, Gleason said Alan Reed had done voice-overs for Gleason in his early movies and that he had considered suing Hanna-Barbera for copying The Honeymooners but decided to let it pass.[13] According to Henry Corden, a voice actor and a friend of Gleason's, 'Jackie's lawyers told him he could probably have The Flintstones pulled right off the air. But they also told him, 'Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air? The guy who took away a show so many kids love, and so many parents love, too?'[14]
Henry Corden's voice became Fred's after Reed's death in 1977, starting with A Flintstone Christmas.[15] Corden had previously provided Fred's singing voice in The Man Called Flintstone[16] and later on The Flintstones children's records. Since 2000, Jeff Bergman, James Arnold Taylor, and Scott Innes (performing both Fred and Barney for Toshiba commercials) have performed the voice of Fred. Since Mel Blanc's death in 1989, Barney has been voiced by Jeff Bergman, Frank Welker, and Kevin Michael Richardson. Various additional character voices were created by Hal Smith, Allan Melvin, Janet Waldo, Daws Butler, and Howard Morris, among others.
Voice cast[edit]
- Fred Flintstone – Alan Reed (speaking voice only)
- Wilma Flintstone/Pebbles Flintstone – Jean Vander Pyl
- Barney Rubble – Mel Blanc; Daws Butler (season 2; episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9 only)
- Betty Rubble – Bea Benaderet (seasons 1–4); Gerry Johnson (seasons 5–6)
- Bamm-Bamm Rubble/Hoppy/Arnold – Don Messick
- Dino – Mel Blanc
- Mr. Slate – John Stephenson
- Mrs. Slaghoople – Verna Felton and Janet Waldo
- The Great Gazoo – Harvey Korman
Additional voice cast[edit]
- Ginny Tyler as Carhop
- Hal Smith as Uncle Tex and Santa Claus
Episodes[edit]
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||
Pilot | 1959 | ||||
1 | 28 | September 30, 1960 | April 7, 1961 | ||
2 | 32 | September 15, 1961 | April 27, 1962 | ||
3 | 28 | September 14, 1962 | April 5, 1963 | ||
4 | 26 | September 19, 1963 | March 12, 1964 | ||
5 | 26 | September 17, 1964 | March 12, 1965 | ||
6 | 26 | September 17, 1965 | April 1, 1966 |
Music[edit]
The opening and closing credits theme during the first two seasons was called 'Rise and Shine', a lively instrumental underscore accompanying Fred on his drive home from work. The tune resembled 'The Bugs Bunny Overture (This Is It!)', the theme song of The Bugs Bunny Show, also airing on ABC at the time, and may have been the reason the theme was changed in the third season.[17] Starting in season 3, episode 3 ('Barney the Invisible'), the opening and closing credits theme was the familiar vocal 'Meet the Flintstones'. This version was recorded with a 22-piece big band, and the Randy Van Horne Singers. The melody is derived from part of the 'B' section of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 Movement 2, composed in 1801/02.[18] The 'Meet the Flintstones' opening was later added to the first two seasons for syndication. The musical underscores were credited to Hoyt Curtin for the show's first five seasons; Ted Nichols took over in 1965 for the final season.[17]
History and production[edit]
The idea of The Flintstones started after Hanna-Barbera produced The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw Show. Although these programs were successful, they did not have the same wide audience appeal as their previous theatrical cartoon series Tom and Jerry, which entertained both children and the adults who accompanied them. However, since children did not need their parents' supervision to watch television, Hanna-Barbera's output became labeled 'kids only'. Barbera and Hanna wanted to recapture the adult audience with an animated situation comedy.[19]
Barbera and Hanna experimented with hillbillies (a hillbilly theme was later incorporated into two Flintstones episodes, 'The Bedrock Hillbillies' and 'The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes'), Romans (Hanna-Barbera eventually created The Roman Holidays), pilgrims, and Indians as the settings for the two families before deciding on the Stone Age. According to Barbera, they settled on that because 'you could take anything that was current, and convert it to stone-age'.[20] Under the working title The Flagstones, the family originally consisted of Fred, Wilma, and their son, Fred, Jr. A brief demonstration film was also created to sell the idea of a 'modern stone age family' to sponsors and the network.[21]:3 Animator Kenneth Muse, who worked on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, also worked on the early seasons of The Flintstones.
The show imitated and spoofed The Honeymooners, although the early voice characterization for Barney was that of Lou Costello.[22]William Hanna admitted that 'At that time, The Honeymooners was the most popular show on the air, and for my bill, it was the funniest show on the air. The characters, I thought, were terrific. Now, that influenced greatly what we did with The Flintstones ... The Honeymooners was there, and we used that as a kind of basis for the concept.'[citation needed] However, Joseph Barbera disavowed these claims in a separate interview, stating that, 'I don't remember mentioning The Honeymooners when I sold the show. But if people want to compare The Flintstones to The Honeymooners, then great. It's a total compliment. The Honeymooners was one of the greatest shows ever written.'[23] Jackie Gleason, creator of The Honeymooners, considered suing Hanna-Barbera Productions, but decided that he did not want to be known as 'the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air'.[24][25] Another influence was noted during Hanna-Barbera's tenure at MGM, where they were in a friendly competition with fellow cartoon director Tex Avery. In 1955, Avery directed a cartoon entitled 'The First Bad Man' (narrated by cowboy legend Tex Ritter). The cartoon concerned the rowdy antics of a bank robber in stone-age Dallas. Many of the visual jokes antedated by many years similar ones used by Hanna-Barbera in the Flintstones series. Many students of American animation point to this cartoon as a progenitive seed of the Flintstones.
The concept was also predated by the Stone Age Cartoons series of 12 animated cartoons released from January 1940 to September 1940 by Fleischer Studios. These cartoons show stone-age people doing modern things with primitive means. One example is Granite Hotel including characters such as a newsboy, telephone operator, hotel clerk, and a spoof of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
Barbera explained that selling the show to a network and sponsors was not an easy task.
Here we were with a brand new thing that had never been done before, an animated prime-time television show. So we developed two storyboards; one was they had a helicopter of some kind and they went to the opera or whatever, and the other was Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble fighting over a swimming pool. So I go back to New York with a portfolio and two half-hour boards. And no-one would even believe that you'd dare to suggest a thing like that, I mean they looked at you and they'd think you're crazy. But slowly the word got out, and I used the presentation which took almost an hour and a half. I would go to the other two boards and tell them what they did, and do all the voices and the sounds and so-on, and I'd stagger back to the hotel and I'd collapse. The phone would ring like crazy, like one time I did Bristol-Myers, the whole company was there. When I got through I'd go back to the hotel the phone would ring and say 'the president wasn't at that meeting, could you come back and do it for him.' So I had many of those, one time I had two agencies, they'd fill the room I mean God about 40 people, and I did this whole show. I got to know where the laughs were, and where to hit it, nothing; dead, dead, dead. So one of the people at Screen Gems said 'This is the worst, those guys....' he was so angry at them. What it was, was that there were two agencies there, and neither one was going to let the other one know they were enjoying it. But I pitched it for eight straight weeks and nobody bought it. So after sitting in New York just wearing out, you know really wearing out. Pitch, pitch, pitch, sometimes five a day. So finally on the very last day I pitched it to ABC, which was a young daring network willing to try new things, and bought the show in 15 minutes. Thank goodness, because this was the very last day and if they hadn't bought it, I would have taken everything down, put it in the archives and never pitched it again. Sometimes I wake up in a cold-sweat thinking this is how close you get to disaster.[20]
When the series went into production, the working title The Flagstones was changed, possibly to avoid confusion with the Flagstons, characters in the comic strip Hi and Lois. After spending a brief period in development as The Gladstones (GLadstone being a Los Angeles telephone exchange at the time),[26] Hanna-Barbera settled upon The Flintstones, and the idea of the Flintstones having a child from the start was discarded, with Fred and Wilma starting out as a childless couple. However, some early Flintstones merchandise, such as a 1961 Little Golden Book, included 'Fred Jr.'[27]
Despite the animation and fantasy setting, the series was initially aimed at adult audiences, which was reflected in the comedy writing, which, as noted, resembled the average primetime sitcoms of the era, with the usual family issues resolved with a laugh at the end of each episode, as well as the inclusion of a laugh track. Hanna and Barbera hired many writers from the world of live action, including two of Jackie Gleason's writers, Herbert Finn and Sydney Zelinka, as well as relative newcomer Joanna Lee while still using traditional animation story men such as Warren Foster and Michael Maltese.
The Flintstones premiered on September 30, 1960, at 8:30 pm, and quickly became a hit. It was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed, although Fred and Wilma are sometimes depicted as sleeping in separate beds. For comparison, the first live-action depiction of this in American TV history was in television's first-ever sitcom: 1947's Mary Kay and Johnny.[28]
Fred and Wilma advertising Winston cigarettes during the closing credits
The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black-and-white television commercials for Winston[29] (dictated by the custom, at that time, that the star(s) of a TV series often 'pitched' their sponsor's product in an 'integrated commercial' at the end of the episode).[30]
During the third season, Hanna and Barbera decided that Fred and Wilma should have a baby. Originally, Hanna and Barbera intended for the Flintstone family to have a boy, the head of the marketing department convinced them to change it to a girl since 'girl dolls sell a lot better than boy dolls'.[19] Although most Flintstones episodes were stand-alone storylines, Hanna-Barbera created a story arc surrounding the birth of Pebbles. Beginning with the episode 'The Surprise', aired midway through the third season (January 25, 1963), in which Wilma reveals her pregnancy to Fred, the arc continued through the time leading up to Pebbles' birth in the episode 'Dress Rehearsal' (February 22, 1963), and then continued with several episodes showing Fred and Wilma adjusting to the world of parenthood. Around this time, Winston pulled out their sponsorship and Welch's (grape juice and grape jellies) became the primary sponsor, as the show's audience began to shift younger. The integrated commercials for Welch's products feature Pebbles asking for grape juice in her toddler dialect, and Fred explaining to Pebbles Welch's unique process for making the jelly, compared to the competition. Welch's also produced a line of grape jelly packaged in jars which were reusable as drinking glasses, with painted scenes featuring the Flintstones and characters from the show. In Australia, the Nine Network ran a 'Name the Flintstones' baby' competition during the 'pregnancy' episodes—few Australian viewers were expected to have a U.S. connection giving them information about past Flintstone episodes. An American won the contest and received an all-expenses-paid trip to tour Hanna-Barbera Studios.Another arc occurred in the fourth season, in which the Rubbles, depressed over being unable to have children of their own (making The Flintstones the first animated series in history to address the issue of infertility, though subtly), adopt Bamm-Bamm. The 100th episode made (but the 90th to air), 'Little Bamm-Bamm Rubble' (October 3, 1963), established how Bamm-Bamm was adopted. Nine episodes were produced before it but aired afterwards, which explains why Bamm-Bamm was not seen again until episode 101, 'Daddies Anonymous' (Bamm-Bamm was in a teaser on episode 98, 'Kleptomaniac Pebbles'). Another story arc, occurring in the final season, centered on Fred and Barney's dealings with the Great Gazoo (voiced by Harvey Korman).
After Pebbles' birth, the tone and writing became more juvenile and ratings from the adult demographic began to decline. The last original episode was broadcast on April 1, 1966.[31]
The first three seasons of The Flintstones aired Friday nights at 8:30 on ABC. Season four and part of season five aired Thursdays at 7:30. The rest of the series aired Fridays at 7:30.
In the U.S., syndicated reruns of the series were offered to local stations until 1997, when E/I regulations and changing tastes in the industry led to the show's move to cable television. From the time of Ted Turner's purchase of Hanna-Barbera in 1992, TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network aired the program. On April 1, 2000, the program moved to Boomerang, where it aired until March 6, 2017 (in its last years on the channel, it had been relegated to a graveyard slot) and returned to the channel on July 30, 2018. Online, the series was made available on the In2TV service beginning in 2006, then the online version of Kids' WB until that service was discontinued in 2015. As of 2017, full episodes are only available in the U.S. on Boomerang's subscription video-on-demand service, with select clips made available on the official YouTube account tied to the revamped Kids' WB website. In 2019, MeTV acquired rerun rights to the series, returning the show to broadcast television for the first time in over 20 years.[32]
Reception[edit]
The night after The Flintstones premiered, Variety magazine called it 'a pen and ink disaster',[33] and the series was among many that debuted in a 'vast wasteland' of a 1960–61 television season considered one of the worst in television history up to that point.[citation needed] As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative plots.[34] Despite the mixed critical reviews at first, The Flintstones has generally been considered a television classic and was rerun continuously for five decades after its end. In 1961, The Flintstones became the first animated series to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, but lost out to The Jack Benny Program. In January 2009, IGN named The Flintstones as the ninth-best in its 'Top 100 Animated TV Shows'.[35]
Nielsen ratings[edit]
Season | Time slot (ET) | Rank | Rating[36][37][38] |
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1960–61 | Friday at 8:30-9:00 pm | 18 | 24.3 |
1961–62 | 21 | 22.9 (Tied with The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) | |
1962–63 | 30 | 20.5 | |
1963–64 | Thursday at 7:30–8:00 pm | 33 | 19.7 |
1964–65 | Thursday at 7:30–8:00 pm (Episodes 1–14) Friday at 7:30–8:00 pm (Episodes 15–26) | 60 | N/A |
1965–66 | Friday at 7:30–8:00 pm | 70 | N/A |
Films and subsequent television series[edit]
Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a film based upon the series was created. The Man Called Flintstone was a musical spy caper that parodied James Bond and other secret agents. The movie was released to theaters on August 3, 1966, by Columbia Pictures.[39] It was released on DVD in Canada in March 2005 and in United States in December 2008.
The show was revived in the early 1970s with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm having grown into teenagers, and several different series and made-for-TV movies (broadcast mainly on Saturday mornings, with a few shown in prime time), including a series depicting Fred and Barney as police officers, another depicting the characters as children, and yet others featuring Fred and Barney encountering Marvel Comics superhero The Thing and Al Capp's comic strip character The Shmoo—have appeared over the years. The original show also was adapted into a live-action film in 1994, and a prequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, which followed in 2000. Unlike its sister show The Jetsons (the two shows appeared in a made-for-TV crossover movie in 1987), the revival programs were not widely syndicated or rerun alongside the original series.[citation needed]
Television series[edit]
- The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971–72) (one season)
- The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972–73) (one season)
- The Flintstone Comedy Show (1973–74) (compilation series)
- Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977–78) (compilation series)
- The New Fred and Barney Show (1979) (one season)
- Fred and Barney Meet The Thing (1979) (one season)
- Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979–80) (one season)
- The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980–82) (two seasons)
- The Flintstone Funnies (1982–84) (compilation series)
- The Flintstone Kids (1986–88) (two seasons)
- What a Cartoon! – featuring Dino: Stay Out! (1995) and Dino: The Great Egg-Scape (1997)
- Cave Kids (1996) (one season)
- Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs![40][41]
- The Flintstones Adult Reboot
Theatrical animated feature[edit]
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- The Man Called Flintstone (1966, released by Columbia Pictures)
Television specials[edit]
- The Flintstones on Ice (1973)
- A Flintstone Christmas (1977)
- The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978)
- The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980)
- The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1980)
- The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling (1980)
- The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (1981)
- The Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981)
- The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986)
- The Flintstone Kids' 'Just Say No' Special (1988)
- Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989)
- A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993)
Television films[edit]
- The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
- I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993)
- Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993)
- A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
- The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
Educational films[edit]
- Energy: A National Issue (1977)
- Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips
- Bamm-Bamm: Term Paper (1978)
- Bamm-Bamm: Information Please (1979)
- Flintstones: A Weighty Problem (1980)
- Flintstones: Fire Alarm (1980)
- Flintstones: Fire Escape (1980)
- Flintstones: Driving Guide (1980)
Live-action films[edit]
- The Flintstones (1994)
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
Direct-to-video films[edit]
- The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015)
Other media[edit]
- For a list of DVDs, video games, comic books, and VHS releases, see List of The Flintstones media.
Cancelled Seth MacFarlane reboot[edit]
In 2011, it was announced Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane would be reviving The Flintstones for the Fox network, with the first episode airing in 2013.[42] After Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly read the pilot script and 'liked it but didn't love it', MacFarlane chose to abandon work on the project rather than restarting it.[43][44]
Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs![edit]
Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! is an upcoming American animated television series spin-off of The Flintstones, the first to feature them since the 1996 series Cave Kids, and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. It will be produced by Mark Marek and Marly Halpern-Graser.
Like Cave Kids, the show focuses on the lives of best friends Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, who are joined by Dino for many adventures in the world. The show is scheduled to air as a part of the Boomerang IPTV subscription service service in 2019.[45] The series will first air on Teletoon in Canada in Fall 2019.[46]
Upcoming animated film[edit]
In 2014, it was announced that Warner Bros. was developing an animated film with Chris Henchy, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, to write the script for the project. Ferrell, and McKay would also be executive producers.[47] In 2018, it was confirmed that the project is still in development, but it is currently unknown if the crew members would still be involved.[48]
New reboot series[edit]
It was announced that a new Flintstones reboot series, directed to an adult audience, is in development by Elizabeth Banks and her production company Brownstone Productions.[49]
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Theme parks[edit]
Two Flintstones-themed amusement parks exist in the United States: Bedrock City in Custer, South Dakota, and another in Valle, Arizona. The one near Williams Arizona is still open for the summer of 2019. It cost $5 per person to get in. Both have been in operation for decades. Bedrock City, also known as Flintstone Park, closed in August 2015.[50]
Another existed until the 1990s at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. In Canada, Flintstone Park in Kelowna, British Columbia, opened in 1968 and closed in 1998; it was notable for the 'Forty Foot Fred' billboard of Fred Flintstone which was a well-known Kelowna landmark.[51][52]Another Flintstones park was located in Bridal Falls, British Columbia, which closed in 1990.[53]Calaway Park outside Calgary, Alberta, also opened with a Flintstones theme and many of the buildings today have a caveman-like design, though the park no longer licenses the characters. The Australia's Wonderland and Canada's Wonderland theme parks, both featured Flintstones characters in their Hanna-Barbera-themed children's sections from 1985 up until the mid-1990s. Kings Island near Cincinnati, Ohio, had a Hanna-Barbera land, in which many Hanna-Barbera characters were featured, including the Flintstones, in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Live theater[edit]
A stage production opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1994 (the year the live-action film was released), developed by Universal and Hanna-Barbera Productions. It opened at the Panasonic Theater, replacing the Star Trek show. The story consists of Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty heading for 'Hollyrock'. The show ran until January 2, 1997.
In popular culture[edit]
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Miles Laboratories (now part of Bayer Corporation) and their One-A-Day vitamin brand was the alternate sponsor of the original Flintstones series during its first two seasons, and in the late 1960s, Miles introduced Flintstones Chewable Vitamins, fruit-flavored multivitamin tablets for children in the shape of the Flintstones characters, which are currently being sold.[54]
The Simpsons referenced The Flintstones in several episodes. In the episode 'Homer's Night Out', Homer's local convenience store clerk, Apu, remarks 'You look familiar, sir. Are you on the television or something?', to which Homer replies 'Sorry, buddy, you've got me confused with Fred Flintstone.'[55] During the couch gag of the opening credits of the episode 'Kamp Krusty', the Simpson family arrive home to find the Flintstone family already sitting on their couch.[56] The same couch gag was reused in syndicated episodes of 'The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show', when The Simpsons overtook The Flintstones as the longest-running animated series.[57] In 'Lady Bouvier's Lover', Homer's boss, Mr. Burns, appears at the family's house and says 'Why, it's Fred Flintstone (referring to Homer) and his lovely wife, Wilma! (Marge) Oh, and this must be little Pebbles! (Maggie) Mind if I come in? I brought chocolates.' Homer responds by saying 'Yabba-dabba-doo!'[58] The opening of 'Marge vs. the Monorail' depicts Homer leaving work in a similar way to Fred Flintstone in the opening of The Flintstones, during which he sings his own version of the latter's opening theme only to slam into a chestnut tree.
On September 30, 2010, Google temporarily replaced the logo on its search page with a custom graphic celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Flintstones' first TV broadcast.[59]
Foreign versions[edit]
The series was translated into several languages.
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The Hungarian version was written by József Romhányi in the 1960s.[60][61][62][63] Romhányi was a well-known poet, writer and translator with the speciality of extreme word-play and he rewrote the whole cartoon in rhyming form full of wordplays and puns. It became so popular[64] that many lines found their way into popular culture or became adages.[65][66] The Hungarian publisher released the series in the 1990s with new dubbing, which resulted in a backlash from fans demanding the original dubbing. The studio did not have all the original voice material and they asked the general public to provide them the original copies of the series, so the original dub was re-recorded and later released on a DVD version in the 2000s.[67]
See also[edit]
- Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue – Hanna-Barbera characters honor Fred in an all-star celebrity roast for his birthday (1977)
- 'Meet The Flintstones', a version of the show's theme song that became a hit single for The B-52's
- Alley Oop, a comic strip about a prehistoric family with commentary on American suburban life
- The Cavern Clan, a Brazilian comic strip about a prehistoric life in the Stone Age
- Stone Age Cartoons, a 1940 American series of 12 animated short films from Fleischer Studios
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Sources[edit]
- Lehman, Christopher P. (2007), 'The Cartoons of 1961–1962', American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era: A Study of Social Commentary in Films and Television Programs, 1961–1973, McFarland & Company, ISBN978-0786451425
Further reading[edit]
- 'The Flintstones': The Official Guide to the Cartoon Series, by Jerry Beck, Running Press, 2011.
External links[edit]
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