The Best Episodes of The Flintstones Season 5

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.1/10(198 votes)

   #1 - Hop Happy

   S5:E19/17/1964

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

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Warren Foster

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   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Warren Foster
2. 

   7.3/10(209 votes)

   #2 - Monster Fred

   S5:E29/24/1964

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

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Unknown

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3. 

   7.3/10(192 votes)

   #3 - Itty Bitty Fred

   S5:E310/1/1964

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

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Unknown

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4. 

   7.3/10(202 votes)

   #4 - Pebbles' Birthday Party

   S5:E410/8/1964

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

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Tony Benedict

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   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Tony Benedict
5. 

   6.9/10(187 votes)

   #5 - Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up

   S5:E510/15/1964

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

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Unknown

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6. 

   7.4/10(190 votes)

   #6 - Cinderellastone

   S5:E610/22/1964

   Fred is angry that he's not invited to his boss' party, but after reading "Cinderella" to Pebbles, he dreams that a fairy godmother takes him to the party after all.

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Tony Benedict

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   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Tony Benedict
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   8.1/10(263 votes)

   #7 - A Haunted House is Not a Home

   S5:E710/29/1964

   Fred stands to inherit his Uncle J. Giggles Flintstone's estate under one condition: The family has to spend a night in his relative's eerie mansion staffed by creepy old servants.

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Unknown

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8. 

   8.2/10(284 votes)

   #8 - Dr. Sinister

   S5:E811/5/1964

   Fred and Barney become enmeshed in international spyjinks when they inadvertently become involved with a beautiful foreign agent and the villainous Dr. Sinister, who is intent on world domination.

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Unknown

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9. 

   7.6/10(234 votes)

   #9 - The Gruesomes

   S5:E911/12/1964

   Trying to be neighborly, Fred and Barney offer to babysit for the Gruesome family, who've moved into Tombstone Manor next door with their weird kid and a menagerie of creepy critters.

   Director:William Hanna

   Writer:Unknown

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10. 

    7.2/10(193 votes)

    #10 - The Most Beautiful Baby in Bedrock

    S5:E1011/19/1964

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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11. 

    7.2/10(199 votes)

    #11 - Dino and Juliet

    S5:E1111/26/1964

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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12. 

    7.2/10(188 votes)

    #12 - King for a Night

    S5:E1212/3/1964

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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13. 

    7.5/10(199 votes)

    #13 - Indianrockolis 500

    S5:E1312/10/1964

    To earn money for Pebbles' college fund, Fred adopts the name Goggles Pisanno and drives Barney's home-built sports car in the Indianrockolis 500 race.

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Rance Howard

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14. 

    7.2/10(191 votes)

    #14 - Adobe Dick

    S5:E1412/17/1964

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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15. 

    8.0/10(398 votes)

    #15 - Christmas Flintstone

    S5:E1512/25/1964

    After Fred takes a job as a department-store Santa, he proves so successful that the real Santa asks Fred to stand in for him and deliver presents on Christmas Eve.

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Warren Foster

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    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Warren Foster
16. 

    7.3/10(183 votes)

    #16 - Fred's Flying Lesson

    S5:E161/1/1965

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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17. 

    7.2/10(189 votes)

    #17 - Fred's Second Car

    S5:E171/8/1965

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Rance Howard

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    Writer:Rance Howard
18. 

    7.7/10(202 votes)

    #18 - Time Machine

    S5:E181/15/1965

    On a visit to the Bedrock World's Fair, the Flintstones and the Rubbles take a ride in a time machine that sends them into the future with stops at ancient Rome and Arthurian England, and encounters with Christopher Columbus and Ben Franklin.

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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19. 

    7.5/10(210 votes)

    #19 - The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes

    S5:E191/22/1965

    Fred frets a visit from hillbilly cousins with whom older Flintstone relatives feuded a long time ago, but the stay is a pleasant one until the hosts realize the guests aren't leaving any time soon.

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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20. 

    7.6/10(190 votes)

    #20 - Moonlight and Maintenance

    S5:E201/29/1965

    Fed up with doing so many domestic chores, Fred moves his family to the Bedrock Towers, a fully automated complex--where he takes on the nighttime job of "new resident stationary engineer" (aka janitor) to help pay the rent.

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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21. 

    7.3/10(200 votes)

    #21 - Sheriff for a Day

    S5:E212/5/1965

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Joanna Lee

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22. 

    7.3/10(182 votes)

    #22 - Deep in the Heart of Texarock

    S5:E222/12/1965

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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23. 

    7.3/10(200 votes)

    #23 - The Rolls Rock Caper

    S5:E232/19/1965

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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24. 

    7.3/10(188 votes)

    #24 - Superstone

    S5:E242/26/1965

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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25. 

    7.1/10(180 votes)

    #25 - Fred Meets Hercurock

    S5:E253/5/1965

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

    Director:William Hanna

    Writer:Unknown

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