The BEST episodes directed by William Hanna
#1 - The Hypnotist
The Flintstones - Season 1 - Episode 20
While attempting to demonstrate his skill as a hypnotist to his wife and the Rubbles, Fred manages to hypnotize Barney into thinking that he is a frisky puppy, and is then unable to bring him back.
#2 - Wilma's Vanishing Money
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 19
While searching for a hairpin to fix the toaster, Fred finds a secret stash of cash that has been hidden by Wilma. To teach her a lesson, he uses the money to buy a new bowling ball, unaware that Wilma has been saving up to buy him the same ball as a birthday present.
#3 - Circus Business
The Flintstones - Season 6 - Episode 5
Hoping once again to strike it rich, Fred buys a circus. When the performers quit, Fred must put a show on himself with the help of Barney, Dino, and Hoppy, which he does successfully - so much that the performers return, and the former owner buys the big top back. To prove he is cured of get-rich-quick schemes, Fred passes up a chance to buy an oil well, which of course pays off.
#4 - Fred's Flying Lesson
The Flintstones - Season 5 - Episode 16
When Fred wins free flying lessons in a Lodge raffle, he dreams of starting a new career as an airplane pilot. Things do not go that smoothly, however, and when Fred is thrown out of the place over an army base, he has to talk co-pilot Barney and the plane down by radio.
#5 - The Happy Household
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 23
After a squabble about finances, Wilma seeks employment of her own. She applies for an office job at the Bedrock Radio & Television Corporation, but instead becomes the hostess of the "Happy Housewife Show," a situation that makes things less than happy back at the cave.
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#6 - Arthur Quarry's Dance Class
The Flintstones - Season 1 - Episode 16
Fred and Barney sign up for dance lessons at Arthur Quarry's so that they do not humiliate themselves at the charity ball. Their excuse that they have joined the volunteer fire department falls apart when Betty and Wilma realize that the all-stone town of Bedrock is fire proof. The wives then suspect that their husbands are slipping out to meet other women.
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#7 - This Is Your Lifesaver
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 25
Fred and Barney encounter the penniless J. Montague Gypsum, who is threatening to jump from a bridge. Fred takes the man home and learns too late how responsible he is for the life he saved.
#8 - Time Machine
The Flintstones - Season 5 - Episode 18
While at the World's Fair, the Flintstones and the Rubbles laughingly step into a time machine, which they believe to be a hoax. But before long, they are transported to Ancient (but to them, future) Rome, Arthurian England, on board the ship of Christopher Columbus, and to Colonial America to meet Ben Franklin.
#9 - The Surprise
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 19
The appearance of Barney's nephew, baby Marblehead, causes a rift between him and Fred. Fred just can't understand Barney's devotion to the visiting baby, but his attitude changes when Wilma informs him that they are going to have a baby of their own.
#10 - Game of Peril
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop - Season 1 - Episode 16
A scavenger hunt nearly ends in disaster until Penelope realizes the hunt was planned by the Hooded Claw.
#11 - Moonlight and Maintenance
The Flintstones - Season 5 - Episode 20
Tired of household chores, Fred moves his family to the fully automated Bedrock Towers, taking on the job of building custodian to help pay the rent. Problems result from the discovery that his own apartment is in the sub-basement, while his daytime boss, Mr. Slate, occupies the penthouse.
#12 - Fred Strikes Out
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 24
Once more, Fred forgets the anniversary of the night he proposed to Wilma. After being chastised by Wilma, he agrees to take her on a date to the movies, but she wants to go on the same night he is supposed to be captaining his bowling team in the bowling alley, Fred tries to do both.
#13 - Superstone
The Flintstones - Season 5 - Episode 24
When costumed television hero Superstone cancels out of a personal appearance, Fred is hired to take his place. Criminals, meanwhile, plan to steal the box office receipts and frame Fred for it. With Barney's help, Fred manages to catch the crooks and prove his innocence.
#14 - High School Fred
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 13
An efficiency expert hired by Mr. Slate informs Fred that he will be fired unless he gets a high school diploma. Slate offers to send Fred to school, and Wilma mistakenly assumes that Fred is being groomed for an executive position.
#15 - Baby Barney
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 9
With his eye on an inheritance, Fred tells his rich Uncle Tex that he has named his child after him. Fred, of course, has no son, which means that he has to find a baby now that Uncle Tex is coming to visit! Unable to borrow a real baby, desperate Fred cons Barney into playing "Baby Tex."
#16 - The Rock Vegas Story
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 28
Fred and Barney run into old friend Sherman Cobblehead, owner of The Golden Cactus Hotel in Rock Vegas, at an eatery. Cobblehead's casual promise to "take care of" Fred should he ever come to Vegas is misinterpreted as a guarantee that Fred will be a big winner in the casino.
#17 - Hollyrock, Here I Come
The Flintstones - Season 1 - Episode 10
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.
#18 - The Snorkasaurus Hunter
The Flintstones - Season 1 - Episode 18
Would-be hunter Fred convinces Wilma and the Rubbles to spend their vacation time in the mountains, hunting for snorkasaurus. Fred is successful in his hunt, but he gets more than he bargained for when the wives insist that the snorkasaurus be taken home as their new pet, Dino.
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#19 - Dial 'S' for Suspicion
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 14
A series of strange accidents coupled with Wilma's sudden insistence on having Fred take out a life insurance policy, and her devotion to a murder mystery novel about a wife who bumps off her husband, causes Fred to wonder if his life is in danger.
#20 - The Kissing Burglar
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 16
Wilma is charmed by the exploits of the Kissing Burglar, a criminal whose m.o. involves leaving a rose and a kiss for the lady of the house. Her comment that she has nothing worth stealing annoys Fred, who decides to teach her a lesson by posing as the burglar - on the very night the real one shows up.
#21 - Dino Goes Hollyrock
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 1
Hearing about a talent search for a new animal star to appear in "The Adventures of Sassie," Fred coaches Dino and prepares for an audition. But Dino gets more than he bargained for when he lands the part.
#22 - The Mailman Cometh
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 27
Fuming that he is the only employee of the quarry not to received a raise in the mail, Fred writes a blistering letter to his boss, Mr. Slate, then Wilma frantically tries to retrieve it after Mr. Slate apologizes for the oversight.
#23 - The Curse of Anubis
Jonny Quest - Season 1 - Episode 3
Dr. Ahmed Kareem steals the statue of Anubis from the Temple of Anubis. He plans to implicate an outsider for the theft, and unify Arab nations against the outside world. The outsider he chooses is Benton Quest! But his plan almost succeeds: he traps Dr. Quest and Race in an old tomb with the statue. There they will be found with the statue. In the end, he discovers the horrifying truth: the Curse of Anubis - death to those who violate his temple - is all too real. Anubis sends someone to retrieve his statue and punish Dr. Kareem.
#24 - Impractical Joker
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 21
Fed up with Fred's practical jokes, Barney decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Barney sets up the gag with a stack of five, crisp $100 bills, his prize from the Sudsy-Wudsy jingle contest.
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#25 - Alvin Brickrock Presents
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 4
When his neighbors' domestic fights suddenly end with the disappearance of the wife, Fred suspects Alvin Brickrock of foul play. After reading a detective magazine, he becomes convinced that Brickrock is really Albert Bonehart, wife-murderer.
#26 - Social Climbers
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 10
Wilma and Betty wrangle tickets to the upper-crust Ambassador's Reception and convince their husbands to go with them, sending Fred and Barney to charm school to prepare for the event. But the middle-class foursome ultimately discover that trying to play "stuffy" is no fun.
#27 - Mother-in-Law's Visit
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 20
With fatherhood impending, Fred promises to become more kind, considerate, and thoughtful. His willingness to change is stretched practically beyond endurance when his mother-in-law shows up to help Wilma during her pregnancy.
#28 - A Star Is Almost Born
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 17
While shopping in a Bedrock drugstore with Betty, Wilma is discovered by a famous television producer. As a result, Fred borrows money from Barney to pay for acting lessons a quits his job in order to manage his wife's career.
#29 - The Gambler
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 16
A compulsive gambler in his younger days, Fred has been cured through psychiatric consultation - until paperboy Arnold tempts him with a bet. When the Flintstones' furniture begins to mysteriously disappear, Barney is dispatched to investigate Fred's marble games behind locked doors.
#30 - The Babysitters
The Flintstones - Season 1 - Episode 7
Roped into babysitting little Egbert, the child of a friend, Fred and Barney take the tot over to the pal Joe Rockhead's house to watch the fights on television. Egbert befriends Joe's pet runtosaurus and dresses the creature up in his baby clothes, which results in chaos when the pet - whom Fred and Barney mistake for the baby - escapes from the house and dashes up a tree.
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#31 - Fred Meets Hercurock
The Flintstones - Season 5 - Episode 25
Impressed by Fred's physical strength, movie producer Go-Go Ravine hires him to play "Hercurock" in a new movie. After braving pterodactyls, charging mastodons, and a three-headed brontosaurus, though, Fred retires back to the safety of his day job at the rock quarry.
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#32 - Monster Fred
The Flintstones - Season 5 - Episode 2
Conked on the head by a bowling ball, Fred awakens believing he is a baby. Barney then takes Fred to see Dr. Frankenstone, who has been experimenting with switching personalities in animals.
#33 - The Great Gazoo
The Flintstones - Season 6 - Episode 7
Fred and Barney discover a visitor from another planet, the two-foot high, green Gazoo, who becomes their servant. An evening out at an expensive restaurant, supposedly with Gazoo treating, becomes a nightmare as the alien disappears, leaving the Flintstones and the Rubbles to wash dishes to pay for the food.
#34 - Fred's New Boss
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 2
When Barney loses his job, Fred approaches Mr. Slate about hiring his friend for the quarry. He is mortified, however, when Barney lands the position of vice president, and becomes Fred's boss!
#35 - Barney the Invisible
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 3
In an attempt to cure Barney's hiccups, Fred offers his friend a swig from an experimental soft drink he has formulated. The brew turns Barney invisible, and Fred's elaborate attempts to hide the fact make Wilma wonder about her husband's sanity.
#36 - Ladies' Night at the Lodge
The Flintstones - Season 4 - Episode 22
Disguising themselves to gain entry into the all-male Water Buffalo Lodge meeting, Wilma and Betty argue that wives should be allowed to attend the meetings. But after going through painful initiation ceremonies as new members, they decide they are better off staying home.
#37 - Little School Mouse
Tom and Jerry - Season 1950 - Episode 37
After being chased by Tom once again, Professor Jerry escapes into his classroom (mouse hole). Once there, he proceeds to teach his only student, Nibbles, how to outwit a cat. And the subject for the lesson is none other than Tom.
#38 - Fred el Terrifico
The Flintstones - Season 4 - Episode 17
Vacationing in Rockapulco, Fred encounters international jewel thieves who plant a million dollars' worth of stolen diamonds on him to carry across the border. The deception is detected and Fred is offered a reward, and is subsequently arrested back home for failing to declare the reward money!
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#39 - Reel Trouble
The Flintstones - Season 4 - Episode 23
Proud papa Fred shows his home movies of Pebbles to everyone, including two criminals who discover that he has captured them on film. But rather than sit through the films again, the criminals turn themselves in!
#40 - Surfin' Fred
The Flintstones - Season 5 - Episode 26
The quiet of the families' seaside weekend is shattered by a national surfing contest. Fred, however, gets caught up in surfin' fever, and ultimately has to be saved by Jimmy Darrock (voiced by James Darren), a surf music idol posing as a lifeguard.
#41 - The Missing Mouse
Tom and Jerry - Season 1950 - Episode 27
The radio reports that a white mouse, having swallowed enough explosives to blow up the city, has escaped from a lab.
#42 - Son of Rockzilla
The Flintstones - Season 4 - Episode 24
Thinking he will be discovered, Fred takes a job wearing a monster costume in a publicity stunt for a new horror movie. He creates the desired effect, frightens the townspeople, and falls into his own monstrous dilemma.
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#43 - In the Dough
The Flintstones - Season 1 - Episode 25
Wilma and Betty are finalists in a television bake-off, but on the eve of the event, they contract measles. Donning wigs and dresses, Fred and Barney take their places in the contest.
#44 - Tot Watchers
Tom and Jerry - Season 1950 - Episode 68
Babysitter Jeannie, still attached to the phone, unintentionally forces Tom and Jerry to take care of the baby, who still keeps getting into mischief.
#45 - Trouble-in-Law
The Flintstones - Season 2 - Episode 26
Having sold her home, Fred's antagonistic mother-in-law arrives at the Flintstone cave, and Fred tries to play cupid after meeting a rich Texan who is looking for an elderly wife. He invites the man home for dinner, but Wilma becomes suspicious of the would-be suitor.
#46 - Matinee Mouse
Tom and Jerry - Season 1960 - Episode 35
This episode used clips from older episode, and used better sound and music. Tom and Jerry go to the movies and are reminded painfully about the past, causing them to start beating each other again. The Tom, Jerry, and Spike in the movie stop fighting to watch the Tom and Jerry in the audience fighting.
#47 - Swedish Visitors
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 27
After using the family's vacation money to buy a fur wrap, Wilma devises a scheme to repay the money by renting their home to Swedish musicians.
#48 - Carry on, Nurse Fred
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 24
Fatherhood has already made Fred resolute in his effort to acquire serenity, but his will power is put to the test by the formidable Nurse Frightenshale, who is sent by Wilma's mother to take care of the Flintstones' cave.
#49 - Wilma, the Maid
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 17
At Wilma's insistence, Fred hires an Italian maid, Gina Lolabrickida, to do the cooking and cleaning, but problems arise when she quits on the night Wilma has promised her to Betty, and Fred brings home Mr. Slate for an authentic Italian dinner.
#50 - Nuttin' But the Tooth
The Flintstones - Season 3 - Episode 12
Barney's loud suffering from a toothache has been keeping the entire neighborhood awake at night, so Fred promises to take him to the dentist the next morning. But having already spent the money for the dentist, Fred has to find a low-cost way to remove his friend's tooth.