The Flintstones (Season 5)

Hop Happy (Episode 1) 4.0

Writer: Warren Foster

Air date: 1964-09-17

Runtime: 25 min

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

Monster Fred (Episode 2) 4.0

Air date: 1964-09-24

Runtime: 25 min

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

Itty Bitty Fred (Episode 3) 4.0

Air date: 1964-10-01

Runtime: 25 min

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

Pebbles' Birthday Party (Episode 4) 4.0

Writer: Tony Benedict

Air date: 1964-10-08

Runtime: 25 min

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

Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up (Episode 5) 5.7

Air date: 1964-10-15

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Cinderellastone (Episode 6) 4.0

Writer: Tony Benedict

Air date: 1964-10-22

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

A Haunted House is Not a Home (Episode 7) 4.0

Air date: 1964-10-29

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Dr. Sinister (Episode 8) 4.0

Air date: 1964-11-05

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

The Gruesomes (Episode 9) 4.0

Air date: 1964-11-12

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

The Most Beautiful Baby in Bedrock (Episode 10) 4.0

Air date: 1964-11-19

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Dino and Juliet (Episode 11) 4.0

Air date: 1964-11-26

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

King for a Night (Episode 12) 4.0

Air date: 1964-12-03

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Indianrockolis 500 (Episode 13) 4.0

Writer: Rance Howard

Air date: 1964-12-10

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Adobe Dick (Episode 14) 4.0

Air date: 1964-12-17

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Christmas Flintstone (Episode 15) 4.0

Writer: Warren Foster

Air date: 1964-12-25

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Fred's Flying Lesson (Episode 16) 4.0

Air date: 1965-01-01

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Fred's Second Car (Episode 17) 4.0

Writer: Rance Howard

Air date: 1965-01-08

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Time Machine (Episode 18) 4.0

Air date: 1965-01-15

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes (Episode 19) 4.0

Air date: 1965-01-22

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Moonlight and Maintenance (Episode 20) 4.0

Air date: 1965-01-29

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Sheriff for a Day (Episode 21) 4.0

Writer: Joanna Lee

Air date: 1965-02-05

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Deep in the Heart of Texarock (Episode 22) 4.0

Air date: 1965-02-12

Runtime: 25 min

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

The Rolls Rock Caper (Episode 23) 4.0

Air date: 1965-02-19

Runtime: 25 min

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

Superstone (Episode 24) 4.7

Air date: 1965-02-26

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Fred Meets Hercurock (Episode 25) 4.0

Air date: 1965-03-05

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: 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.

Surfin' Fred (Episode 26) 4.0

Air date: 1965-03-12

Runtime: 25 min

Overview: During a vacation at the beach, Fred is bitten by the surfing bug and becomes a big kahuna to the young people hanging 10.