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The Flintstones Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
29 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 0
The Flagstones
Sun, May 1, 19602 mins
The plot of this very brief pilot would be used and expanded upon in one of the early Flintstones episodes, "The Swimming Pool." Fred Flagstone floats in his pool on a tube and his wife Wilma brings his lunch. Barney startles her with his weird scuba-diving gear, which includes a bow and arrow. Barney accidentally shoots Fred's tube with his arrow, Fred sinks into the pool, and Barney rescues Fred's lunch.
Episode 1
The Flintstone Flyer
Fri, Sep 30, 196030 mins
Fred hears some noise at Barney's place. He notices he is building some kind of "egg beater". But Barney tells him he is inventing a flying machine and Fred has doubts whether this thing will really work. After seeing Barney successfully riding the machine, he proposes to name it the Flintstone Flyer, but since he's too big, the machine won't work for him. Afterwards, hearing that this is opera night from Wilma as he wants to go bowling, Fred thinks of a plan to stay home. He feigns a general disorder in front of the wives and Barney, who offers to stay with him. Barney proposes Fred flies to the bowling alley on an improved Flinstone Flyer. It works this time, but little do they know the bowling alley is next to the opera house.
Episode 2
Hot Lips Hannigan
Fri, Oct 7, 196030 mins
Fred is trying desperately to get an act for the "Amateur Night" at the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs. After failed attempts for a singing act, a trampoline act and a magic act, Fred and Barney made the girls disappear in a "Magic Box" and goes to a night club listening to an old school friend doing a music concert. What he does not know is that Betty and Wilma followed them disguised as "teenagers".
Episode 3
The Swimming Pool
Fri, Oct 14, 196030 mins
Fred is mad at Barney for calling him stupid. Then Barney decides to build a swimming pool, and Fred talks his neighbor into sharing the pool with the Flintstones.
Episode 4
No Help Wanted
Fri, Oct 21, 196030 mins
After causing Barney to get fired, Fred gets his friend a job as a "repo man." But Barney's first repossession case is at the Flintstones' house.
Episode 5
The Split Personality
Fri, Oct 28, 196030 mins
A comedy of errors, starting with Barney's taking his last cold bottle of Cactus Cooler on a hot day, leads to Fred's getting hit on the head and knocked out. When he comes to, he is "Frederick," a suave and sophisticated gent who shortly gets on his wife's and his friends' nerves. Barney and the girls strive to find a way to get back the old Fred.
Episode 6
The Monster from the Tar Pits
Fri, Nov 4, 196030 mins
A Hollyrock producer comes to Bedrock to shoot a movie: The Monster from the Tar Pits. Wilma and Betty want parts in the movie, to get close to their favorite actors, but Fred wants to avoid this "phoney business" as he calls it. However, when he comes to complain to the producer, the latter hires him as "the Monster" stunt double.
Episode 7
The Babysitters
Fri, Nov 11, 196030 mins
Barney has two tickets to the fights, but he and Fred can't use them because they've been trapped into babysitting a friend's child while their wives go out for the night. They can't even see the fight on TV, because there's a blackout. Then Fred comes up with an idea to get them into the arena after all.
Episode 8
At the Races
Fri, Nov 18, 196030 mins
Fred wants to buy his friend's pool hall. He intends to finance the purchase by betting a week's paycheck at the dinosaur races.
Episode 9
The Engagement Ring
Fri, Nov 25, 196030 mins
Betty never had an engagement ring, so Barney buys one for his wife and hides it at Fred's house. Inevitably, Wilma discovers the big rock and of course thinks it's for her. Now Fred will have to buy one for her, but he has no credit.
Episode 10
Hollyrock, Here I Come
Fri, Dec 2, 196030 mins
Wilma and Betty win an all-expenses-paid trip to Hollyrock, which gets even better when Wilma is offered a part in a show.
Episode 11
The Golf Champion
Fri, Dec 9, 196030 mins
When Barney, in his official capacity, cites Fred for violation of the rules and strips Fred of a club championship he won, Fred declares war on his old friend.
Episode 12
The Sweepstakes Ticket
Fri, Dec 16, 196030 mins
Fred buys a sweepstakes ticket and decides to share it with Barney and give it to him for safekeeping; then Fred decides he can't trust his old pal.
Episode 13
The Drive - In
Fri, Dec 23, 196030 mins
Barney and Fred buy a drive-in but decide to keep the purchase a secret from the girls. The sexy young waitresses they inherit from the previous owner threaten not only to reveal the secret but to get them into trouble with their wives.
Episode 14
The Prowler
Fri, Dec 30, 196030 mins
A burglar is on the loose in Bedrock. Betty and Wilma take judo classes from Mr Hashimoto, and Fred decides to play a trick on Wilma by disguising himself as a prowler.
Episode 15
The Girls' Night Out
Fri, Jan 6, 196130 mins
Fred records a record in an amusement-park booth and by mistake leaves it behind. When the record is found and played on the airwaves, it becomes a big hit, and Fred's a star.
Episode 16
Arthur Quarry's Dance Class
Fri, Jan 13, 196130 mins
Wilma and Betty received two invitations to a ball. However, when they tell their husbands, they feel uncomfortable about the subject. Though they never told their wives, Fred and Barney both have "two left feet". In order to sneak out and take secret dance lessons, Fred and Barney join the "Joe Rockhead's volunteer firemen", where men can go out to different events, waiting for a fire call from Joe himself. But Wilma and Betty suspect something, and one night they decide to make a phony fire call.
Episode 17
The Big Bank Robbery
Fri, Jan 20, 196130 mins
Fred discovers a bag of loot from a bank robbery buried in his back yard. On his way to the police station to return the money, he is seen with the bag of loot and mistaken for the bank robber.
Episode 18
The Snorkasaurus Hunter
Fri, Jan 27, 196130 mins
To save money on meat, Fred decides to turn his vacation into a hunting trip, where the Flintstones and Rubbles meet up with a talking dinosaur.
Episode 19
The Hot Piano
Fri, Feb 3, 196130 mins
Fred would love to give Wilma a real stunner of an anniversary gift--a baby grand piano--but its cost is way out of his league, until "Eighty-Eight Fingers Louie" offers him a real steal of a deal.
Episode 20
The Hypnotist
Fri, Feb 10, 196130 mins
Fred wants to show the girls that hypnotism is a fraud, so he tries to put Wilma under to make her believe she is a dog, and it doesn't work on her. However, the stunt leaves Barney barking, and the Rubbles and Flintstones must go in search of a real hypnotist to snap Barney out of it.
Episode 21
Love Letters on the Rocks
Fri, Feb 17, 196130 mins
Fred finds old love letters to Wilma, and, failing to recognize them as his own, he hires a detective to track down Wilma's "secret lover."
Episode 22
The Tycoon
Fri, Feb 24, 196125 mins
A tycoon who is a dead ringer for Fred decides to flee responsibility. The tycoon is needed to complete a big business deal, so his desperate employees find and swoop down on Fred to impersonate the rich man. Meanwhile, the tycoon goes about town among the little people, encountering Fred's friends and associates, including Wilma, Barney, and Betty, whom he of course doesn't recognize, and creating many bruised feelings.
Episode 23
The Astra' Nuts
Sat, Mar 4, 196125 mins
Fred and Barney go to a recruitment center by mistake and find themselves signed up for three years of military service.
Episode 24
The Long, Long Weekend
Fri, Mar 10, 196125 mins
The Flintstones and Rubbles think they're going to be enjoying a complimentary vacation at a beach hotel, but the owner, Fred's "friend," hasn't told them that his employees walked out on him and that the two couples will be serving as his wait staff--during a convention.
Episode 25
In the Dough
Fri, Mar 17, 196125 mins
Wilma's "Flint-Rubble-Double-Bubble Cake" wins a baking contest, but when her sudden illness keeps her from competing at the next level, Fred decides to disguise himself and take his wife's place.
Episode 26
The Good Scout
Fri, Mar 24, 196125 mins
Barney and Fred forsake bowling to become leaders of scout troops.
Episode 27
Rooms for Rent
Fri, Mar 31, 196125 mins
The Rubbles and Flintstones need extra money, so each couple rents out a room to a music student. The music students turn out to have no money, so Betty and Wilma decide to take music lessons from them instead in preparation for the lodge's amateur night.
Episode 28
Fred Flintstone: Before and After
Fri, Apr 7, 196125 mins
Used without his consent as the "before" picture in a weight-loss pitch, Fred decides to accept the challenge to lose thirty pounds in thirty days when told of the money that can be his.
