The BEST episodes of The Flintstones season 5
Every episode of The Flintstones season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Flintstones season 5!
The Flintstones is about a modern stone-age family, set in the prehistoric times. There's Fred, the meat-loving, bowling-playing fat man, Wilma, his wife who loves to cook and Pebbles, their cute baby daughter. Their next door neighbors are Barney, Fred's best friend, Betty, Barney's wife who always loves to hang out with Wilma, and their baby son Bamm-Bamm who is incredibly strong. The two families risk prehistoric danger or wild antics as they struggle to live normal lives.
#1 - Fred Meets Hercurock
Season 5 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/5/1965
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.
#2 - Surfin' Fred
Season 5 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/12/1965
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.
#3 - Monster Fred
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1964
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.
#4 - Hop Happy
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1964
Barney and Fred get a Hopparoo (a Stone Age kangaroo) for Bamm-Bamm as a pet. After causing momentary chaos for Fred, Hoppy is accepted and invited along on a picnic with the group, where he and Dino end up saving the families from near catastrophe.
#5 - Moonlight and Maintenance
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/29/1965
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.
#6 - Fred's Flying Lesson
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1965
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.
#7 - Time Machine
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/1965
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.
#8 - Sheriff for a Day
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/5/1965
While hunting out west for uranium, Fred and Barney manage to get themselves appointed sheriff and deputy in a town terrorized by an outlaw band. They (and the town) are saved through the intervention of the famous television western family, the Cartrocks, westerners from the Rockerosa.
#9 - Indianrockolis 500
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1964
Fred and Barney enter Barney's home-built car in the Indianrockolis 500. To fool Mr. Slate, Fred drives under the name "Goggles Pisanno." Will Fred succeed in winning the $50,000.00 prize for Pebbles' and Bamm-Bamm's college education?
#10 - Superstone
Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/26/1965
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.
#11 - Deep in the Heart of Texarock
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/12/1965
In order to help Fred's rich Uncle Tex (whose ranch is so large it has its own ocean) capture some rustlers, Fred and Barney dress up as a cowasaurus. The only problem is they attract the attentions of Carmen, a real female cowasaurus.
#12 - A Haunted House Is Not a Home
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1964
In order to collect an inheritance from is uncle, J. Giggles Flintstone, Fred must spend on night at his uncle's spooky mansion. He and Barney make it through the night (no thanks to the creepy servants), only to find that Giggles is very much alive, and merely testing Fred's worth as an heir. Fred blows any chance of an inheritance by chasing his uncle through the house in a maniacal rage.
#13 - Adobe Dick
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1964
A Water Buffalo fishing trip turns exciting when Fred and Barney are swallowed by the feared whalesaurus Adobe Dick. They escape by tickling the beast until it laughs itself to sleep, and Barney photographs Fred standing next to it. But when they use the picture to prove their fish story, they discover that Barney has taken a great shot of his own finger.
#14 - Dr. Sinister
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/5/1964
Fred and Barney are suddenly thrust into an international spy plot involving a mysterious stranger who passes them an envelope, then beautiful spy Madame Yes, and Dr. Sinister, a villain who seeks world power. The two escape the villains and their nefarious plot, but once home, their wives refuse to believe the wild tale.
#15 - King for a Night
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1964
The King of Stonesylvania (who is naturally a look-alike for Fred) is in Bedrock to secure a ten million dollar loan for his country. He runs away and his assistants hire Fred to impersonate him. Barney encounters the king and, thinking it is the real Fred, is puzzled as to why he is acting so strangely.
#16 - Christmas Flintstone
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/1964
Fred works as a department store Santa to pick up some extra holiday cash. He is so successful that the real Santa Claus, who is ill, asks him to take over delivering toys on Christmas Eve. Fred does, but in his rush he forgets to deliver presents to his own house. To his delight, he finds Santa has already taken care of it.
#17 - Itty Bitty Fred
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1964
Inventor Fred comes up with a weight-loss potion that doesn't just shed pounds, it drastically reduces Fred's size. Capitalizing on the weird situation, Barney goes on "The Ed Sullystone Show" as a ventriloquist, with Fred acting as his dummy. But during the act, Fred returns to his normal size, and they are thrown off the show.
#18 - Cinderellastone
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1964
Fred is upset to learn he is the only company employee not invited to Mr. Slate's party. After reading the story of "Cinderelly" to Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, he falls asleep and dreams that his fairy godmother appears to escort him to Slate's party. Fred's disappointment that it was all a dream turns to glee when Mr. Slate promotes him to foreman, explaining that a mysterious executive at the party recommended him.
#19 - The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/22/1965
When Fred's hillbilly friends the Hatrocks come to visit, even the Gruesomes can't scare them away. Fred finally discovers their aversion to rock music, and uses it to chase them back to the hills.
#20 - The Gruesomes
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/12/1964
Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome, along with their son Gobby, move into Tombstone Manor, next door to the Flintstones. Trying to be neighborly, Fred and Barney agree to babysit Gobby, whose strange pets make for a tortuously eventful evening.
#21 - Fred's Second Car
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/8/1965
Fred buys a second car at a police auction, unaware that the vehicle is also being sought by a gang of jewel thieves, who think stolen jewels are hidden inside. Fred is captured by the gang and sends Dino for help, then manages to escape. Wilma, Betty, and the police arrive on the scene just as the gang catches up with him a second time.
#22 - Pebbles' Birthday Party
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1964
In trying to organize a birthday party for his daughter and a Lodge party on the same night, Fred mixes things up. As a result, a clown shows up to the Lodge party, while dancing girls arrive at the Flintstones' home to entertain the tots.
#23 - The Rolls Rock Caper
Season 5 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/19/1965
Fred and Barney become the assistants of millionaire cop Aaron Boulder, only they chase the criminals while Boulder chases women. At the end Boulder reveals they are guest stars on his new show, "Smile, You're On My Favorite Crime."
#24 - Dino and Juliet
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1964
The Flintstones have a new neighbor: Mr. Loudrock! After tormenting Fred through practical jokes such as tickling his trapped feet, they go into a feud., which is only broken by Dino falling in love with Loudrock's dog. Eventually, she has puppies, and all is forgiven, and Loudrock and Flintstone live happily ever after.
#25 - Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1964
Fred's ego takes a serious bruising when an old friend of Wilma's, rodeo champion Bony Hurdle, arrives in town for The Bedrock Rodeo and enchants young Pebbles, who even calls him "Dada." To win his daughter's affection back, Fred joins the rodeo himself.