The Flintstones: Season 4

1963 · 26 episodes · ★ 5.2

What Season 4 of The Flintstones

Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble are neighbors and best friends in Bedrock, a Stone Age town that resembles mid-20th-century American suburbs. Fred works in a quarry and shares his life with Wilma, while Barney is married to Betty. The families live in modern homes with prehistoric appliances and get around in foot-powered cars, and dinosaurs coexist with humans. The two friends embark on schemes that rarely work out, such as a country outing, a barbecue, or a bowling night. Their wives have to put up with them and, deep down, keep Barney's accomplice-like loyalty going. Episodes blend household mishaps, Barney's talent for singing, and Fred's trouble with his male pride.

26episodes

Sep 19, 1963premiered

Mar 12, 1964Latest episode

10.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Ann-Margrock Presents
Sep 19, 1963 · 25 min
Fred and Barney learn that local talent is being sought for the Bedrock Bowl's premiere event, a television special starring Ann-Margrock (voiced by Ann-Margret). The boys go home and prepare for an audition, and are aided by Ann-Margrock herself (whom they fail to recognize), who comes in to the Flintstones' home to use the phone after her car breaks down.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Harvey Bullock · Starring: Ann-Margret, Daws Butler, Howard Morris, John Stephenson
4x02 Groom Gloom
Sep 26, 1963 · 25 min
Frustrated that paperboy (and part-time babysitter) Arnold always beats him at table-tennis, Fred has a nightmare in which an older Arnold elopes with his grown-up daughter Pebbles.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Don Messick, John Stephenson, Janet Waldo
4x03 Little Bamm-Bamm
Oct 3, 1963 · 25 min
Betty and Barney discover a foundling named Bamm-Bamm on their doorstep and become smitten with the child. They set out to adopt him, but discover that the Welfare Bureau has promised the boy to wealthy Pronto Berger, who is being represented by attorney Perry Masonry. When Berger learns that his wife is pregnant, however, the Rubbles are free to adopt the baby.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Warren Foster · Starring: Don Messick, Hal Smith
4x04 Dino Disappears
Oct 10, 1963 · 25 min
Upset that Fred has forgotten the anniversary of his joining the household, Dino runs away in a sulk. The next morning Fred and Barney seach for him, bringing home a look-alike pet that they assume to be Dino.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Joanna Lee · Starring: Jerry Hausner
4x05 Fred's Monkeyshines
Oct 17, 1963 · 25 min
After Wilma insists that Fred have his eyes examined, he mistakenly puts on the wrong pair of prescription lenses. As a result of his temporarily faulty eyesight, he ends up taking a performing monkey to the circus, believing it is Pebbles.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Joanna Lee · Starring: Don Messick, Doug Young
4x06 The Flintstone Canaries
Oct 24, 1963 · 25 min
Fred forms a barbershop quartet to compete on the ""Hum Along With Herman"" television show, and in the process discovers that Barney is a natural lead tenor. The catch is that Barney can sing only when he's in the bathtub.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Don Messick, Howard Morris, John Stephenson
4x07 Glue for Two
Oct 31, 1963 · 25 min
Fred's formula for a new soft drink, which he hopes will make him rich, instead acts as a kind of glue. Not only does Fred get stuck to Barney, but both of them become affixed to Barney's bowling ball.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Tony Benedict · Starring: Allan Melvin
4x08 Big League Freddie
Nov 7, 1963 · 25 min
When Fred's performance for the Bedrock Quarry baseball team flounders, he is replaced by Roger who attracts the attention of Big League scouts, but since he is wearing Fred's uniform, the scouts try to sign up Fred.
Directed by: William Hanna · Starring: John Stephenson
4x09 Old Lady Betty
Nov 14, 1963 · 25 min
To earn enough money to buy Barney a surprise gift, Betty answers an ad for a job which specifies an elderly lady. Disguising herself, Betty gets the job, but discovers that her employers are counterfeiters.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Allan Melvin, Doug Young
4x10 Sleep On, Sweet Fred
Nov 21, 1963 · 25 min
Betty and Wilma employ a ""sleep-teaching"" method to try and turn Fred and Barney into perfect spouses. The plan goes awry, and the foursome are ultimately arrested as thieves. After pleading their cases in court, the wives are sentenced by the judge to twenty days of serving their ""victimized spouses"" breakfast in bed.
Directed by: William Hanna · Written by: Joanna Lee · Starring: Howard Morris, John Stephenson
4x11 Kleptomaniac Pebbles
Nov 28, 1963 · 25 min
In a jewelry store to buy a birthday gift for Wilma, Fred and Pebbles unknowingly encounter jewel thief Baffles Gravel, who plants a priceless diamond bracelet on Pebbles. After finding the hot ice, Fred and Wilma try to get it back to the store before Pebbles ""crime"" is discovered.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Don Messick
4x12 Daddy's Little Beauty
Dec 5, 1963 · 25 min
Fred misconstrues an overheard conversation and enters Pebbles in a beauty contest, only to find out that the contest is for somewhat older ""babes"" instead of ""babies."" Overcoming the resistance of the contest coordinator, Fred enters Pebbles anyway, with surprising results.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Don Messick
4x13 Daddies Anonymous
Dec 12, 1963 · 25 min
Fred and Barney join an exclusive ""fathers club,"" which offers hen-pecked husbands the chance to play poker under the guise of taking their children for afternoon walks. Fred has to do some fancy switching, though, when he rushes home one day with the wrong infant.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Warren Foster · Starring: Howard Morris, Doug Young
4x14 Peek-a-Boo Camera
Dec 19, 1963 · 25 min
Attending a premarital bachelor party for a Lodge buddy, rowdy Fred and Barney start dancing with the chorus girls in a nightclub, unaware that they are being filmed for television's ""Peek-A-Boo Camera."" The boys do everything possible to keep their wives from seeing the show when it airs on television, and almost succeed.
Directed by: William Hanna · Starring: Don Messick, Doug Young
4x15 Once Upon a Coward
Dec 26, 1963 · 25 min
After being robbed without putting up a fight, Fred tries to prove that he is not a coward. Later, while bowling, he recognizes the voice of the robber and bowls him over, thus restoring his male pride.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Henry Corden, Don Messick, Howard Morris, Hal Smith
4x16 Ten Little Flintstones
Jan 2, 1964 · 25 min
Chaos reigns supreme when ten androids from another planet--all whom are dead-ringers for Fred--land in Bedrock causing havoc in an attempt to conquer the earth. When the alien master admits failure and recalls the androids, Fred is left to explain his odd behavior.
Directed by: William Hanna · Written by: Tony Benedict · Starring: John Stephenson
4x17 Fred el Terrifico
Jan 9, 1964 · 25 min
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!
Directed by: William Hanna · Written by: Joanna Lee · Starring: Don Messick, Janet Waldo
4x18 Bedrock Hillbillies
Jan 16, 1964 · 25 min
Fred inherits a shack in the hills from his hillbilly relatives, and with it a hundred-year-old feud with the Hatrock clan. Fred settles the feud by rescuing a Hatrock baby, by then starts it anew by insulting the Hatrock matriarch.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: June Foray, Howard Morris, John Stephenson, Doug Young
4x19 Flintstone and the Lion
Jan 23, 1964 · 25 min
Fred befriends a kitten while on a fishing trip and decides to make a house pet of it, not realizing that the tiny kitten will grow up to be a full-sized lion, which begins eating the family out of house and home.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Tony Benedict · Starring: Elliot Field
4x20 Cave Scout Jamboree
Jan 30, 1964 · 25 min
After stumbling upon an international gathering of scouts during a camping trip, Fred and Barney become the hit of the scout encampment, much to the dismay of Wilma and Betty when the boys visit them later in Bedrock.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Warren Foster · Starring: Don Messick, Harvey Korman, Dick Beals, John Stephenson
4x21 Room for Two
Feb 6, 1964 · 25 min
After building a new room onto the Flintstone home, Fred and Barney start feuding. Fueling the rift is the fact that Barney cast the deciding vote against Fred for Water Buffalo of the Year, and Barney's discovery that half of Fred's new room is on his property.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Tony Benedict · Starring: Hal Smith, Doug Young
4x22 Ladies' Night at the Lodge
Feb 13, 1964 · 25 min
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.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Don Messick, Howard Morris, Janet Waldo, Doug Young
4x23 Reel Trouble
Feb 20, 1964 · 25 min
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!
Directed by: William Hanna · Starring: Don Messick, Doug Young
4x24 Son of Rockzilla
Feb 27, 1964 · 25 min
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.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Gerry Johnson, Don Messick, Hal Smith, Janet Waldo
4x25 Bachelor Daze
Mar 5, 1964 · 25 min
The razing of the Honeyrock Hotel reminds Wilma and Betty of their courtships while working as hotel waitresses, at which time they mistook hellhops Fred and Barney for young millionaires.
Directing: William Hanna · Starring: Don Messick, Janet Waldo
4x26 Operation Switchover Season Finale
Mar 12, 1964 · 25 min
After mocking Wilma's housekeeping efforts, Fred accepts her challenge to swap jobs for one day. He soon learns that a housewife's labors are tougher than he thought.
Directing: William Hanna · Writing: Joanna Lee · Starring: Don Messick, John Stephenson, Janet Waldo, Doug Young