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List Your 10 Favourite Episodes of The Flintstones!!


Mine are:

1. The Astra'nuts
2. The Mailman Cometh
3. Love Letters on the Rocks
4. Social Climbers
5. The Entertainer
6. Barney the Invisible
7. The Snorkasaurus Hunter
8. Mother-in-Law's Visit
9. The Rock Vegas Story
10. Ann-Margrock Presents

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How can I limit this (especially out of more than 160 episodes to just ten??
I'll name 34-still subject to change and the same goes for the information..)

EDIT(9/30/13):Happy Anniversary (see below addition)
SECOND EDIT (2/19/15):
I'll just round this off to top 40..
1."The Impractical Joker&quot"(season 2, 2/9/62, wri.Warren Foster, add.voices Don Messick and John Stephenson)

2."The Flintstone Flyer";(season 1, 9/30/60, premiere broadcast episode of all and the very first, wri.Michael Maltese, no guest voices)

3."My Fair Freddy"(season 6 (final season of them all as well as last-produced), 3/25/60, wri.Alan Dinehart, Herbert Finn, add.voices Harvey Korman, Don Messick, Allan Melvin)

4."Groom Gloom"(reviewed by me else where, season 4, 9/26/63, wri.Herb Finn, add.voices Don Messick, Janet Waldo, and John Stephenson; the first teenage Pebbles)

5."The Swimming Pool"(season 1, first produced and including the 1959 pilot "The Flagstones". named that until "Hi and Lois" creators Chic Young & Mort "Beetle Bailey" Walker and their syndicate sued due to the "Flagstons" name of their own famous property,10/7/60, wri.Warren Foster, add.voices Daws Butler, Michael Rye, Bill Thompson and Hal Smith)

6."The Hypnotist" (season 1, 10/460, wri.Warren Foster, add.voices Howie McNear, Jerry Mann)

7"Fred Flintstone Before or After" (season 1,last of first season, 1961, wri.??,add.voices Bern Bennett, Don Messick)

8."Trouble-in-Law"t;(season 2, 3/16/62, wri.Joanna Lee, add.voice Verna Felton and Hal Smith)

9"A Haunted House is not a Home"(season 5,`episode 7, 10/28/64, writ.: Tony Benedict, add.voices Hal Smith and Don Mesasick)

10."No Biz like Show Biz";(season 6, 9/17/65,.wri.Joanna Lee, add.voices Rebbeca and (mother) Ricky page , Danny Hutton, Bernard Fox)

11";Superstone"; (Season 6, need date and writer, add.voices Elliott Field, Don Messick, and an uncredited Allan Melvin)

12";At the Races";(Season 1, 1960, wri.Warren Foster, Mike Maltese, add.voices Hal Smith)

13.";Bedrock Hillbillies";(season 4, 1963, wri.Herb Finn, add.voices Howard Morris, June Foray, Don Messick, and Doug Young?)

14";Swedish Visitors"; (season 4,1963, add.voices an uncredited Charles Henry Hoople ,Bill Thompson, and Daws Butler and a credited Doug Young and Howie Morris)

15";The Mailman Cometh" (season 2, 3/23/62, wri.Art Phillips, add.voices Herbert G.Vigrant and John Stephenson)

16."Dino Goes Hollyrock" (season 3, 1962, wri.Tony Benedict add.voices Don Messick, John Stephenson and Herschel Bernardi)

17."The Costume party(??)(Season 6, 1966,wri.? add.voices Janet Waldo, Don Messick, Howard Morris and Allen Melvin)

18."No Help Wanted" (season 1, 10/60, wri.Warren Foster; add.voices Frank Nelson)

19."The Split Personality" (season 1, 10/7/60, wri.Tony Benedict, add.voices Howie McNear)

20."The Hit Songwriters" (season 2, note:Mel Blanc was badly injured and in the hospital for this and a few other 1961 episodes, so Daws Butler does Barney a la Yogi, both of whom started out as Art Carney imnpressions of Ed Norton on the Honeymooners, 1961, add.voices Hoagy Carmichael, Daws Butler and John Stephenson)

21."The Little Visitor"(Season 3, 1963, wri.Joanna Lee; add.voices Verna Felton and Don Mesick)

22."Stonefinger Caper!" (Season 6, 1966, wri.Joanna Lee, add.voices Harvey Korman)

23."The Houseguests" (season 2, one of the first episodes broadcast when Mel Blanc recuperated, though from his bed doing his characters and doing them well and also the only other one besides the first one broadcast, "The Flintstone Flyer", 9/30/60, to have just the four regulars Al Reed, Mel Blanc, Bea Benadaret and Jean VanderPyl's characters and this time only one other, voiced by Blanc, the plumber,wri.?, no add.voices)

24."Seeing Doubles" (season 6, 1966, closes with "No Biz like Show Biz" (9/17/65) footage, one of several to do so this season, wri.George O'Hanlon, better known in the, ahem, Hanna-Barbera universe as George Jetson; add,voices Harvey Korman, Don Messick)

25."The Gravelberry Pie King" (season 6, another to use the "No Biz" Pebbles and Bamm Bamm song sequence,add.voices Harvey Korman, John Stephenson, Don Messick, Doug Young)

26."The Drive-In" (season 1, add.voices Nancy Wible, Ginny Tyler, John Stephenson and Don Messick)

27."Dino Disappears" (Season 4, 10/3/63, wri.Joanna Lee, add.voices Jerry Hausner and Hal Smith)

28."Rip Van Flintstone" (Season 6, 10/65, wri.Tony Benedict, add.voices John Stephenson, Allan Melvin, Hal Smith and Don Messick)

29."The Long, Long, Long, Weekend (season 6, 1966, wri.? add.voices Harvey Korman, Don Messick, John Stephenson and Janet Waldo)

30."Ten Little Flintstones"(season 4, 1964, wri.Tony Benedict, add.voices John Stephenson)

Some more
31."The Hot Piano"(Happy anniversary X 2 times to the tune of "Wm.Tell" to the show!) Season 2, wri.Michael Maltese & Warren Foster, add.voices Frank Nelson, Don Messick, Daws Butler, and John Stephenson?)

32."Ten Little Flintstones" (Season 4, wri.?, add.voices Don Messick, John Stephenson)

33."Operation: Barney" (season 2; add.voices Sandra Gould, Paula Winslow,John Stephenson, Don Messick and Herschel Bernardi)


34."The Engagement Ring""((Season 1, wri.? add.voices Don Messick, Frank Nelson).

35."Dr.Sinister" (season 5, wri.Sam Bobrick, Bill Idelson, add.voices Mel Blanc, Jean Vanderpyl (respectively as Dr. and as Madame Yes)

36."Kleptomania Caper"(season 2, wri.Joanna Lee, add.voice Herb Vigran, John Stephenson as the E.E.Horton (also Sigmund Fried and Howard Mcnear like to a point) psychiastrist Dr.Stonewall) and Herschel Bernardi)
More
37."The X-Ray-Story" (season 2, wri.Warren Foster; add.voices John Stephenson as both a German doc and Edward Everett Horton sounding doctor)
Sarah Silverman Is Magic

38."Little Bamm-Bamm" (Season 4, wri.Warren foster-how could we forget THIS one..add.voices Don Messick (as new cast member Bamm Bamm) & Hal Smith(??))

39."Invisible Barney" aka "Barney the Invisble"(season 3, first with new iconic visual/theme open/closing; add.voices John Stephenson, Don Messick and in his last appearance, Howard "Floyd the Barber from Mayberry" McNear first one with the credits remaining though of course the remaining of that first half only yielded episodes that had the same previous seasons' standard closing reissue with same animation, layout, guest voices, layouts,etc.,etc.)

40."(forgot title but it's the one right before where Barney's promoted and Fred and Wilma hang out)"(Season 3; wri.Warren Foster, last to have original titles/theme open.closing;guest John Stephenson, Herschel Bernardi, one of the last along with #39 to have the earlier "other voices").

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Wow!! You sure are an expert on the Flintstones, gcarras!!

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It's difficult to choose but here it goes:

1. The Snorkasaurus Story
2. The House Guest
3. Impractical Joker
4. Cave Scout Jamboree
5. The Mailman Cometh
6. The Flinstone Canaries
7. The Golf Champion
8. The Good Scout
9. Fred's New Boss
10. Glue For Two

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53rd anniversary of the Flintstones!!!
Mine are:
1. The Most Beautiful Baby In Bedrock
2. Dress Rehearsal/Blessed Event
3. The Happy Household
4. My Fair Freddy
5. Barney The Invisible
6. Rip Van Flintstone
7. No Help Wanted
8. Masquerade Party
9. Impractical Joker
10. Christmas Flintstone

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1. Hot Lips Hannigan
2. Alvin Brickrock Presents
3. The Missing Bus
4. The Drive In
5. The Girl's Night Out
6. The Big Bank Robbery
7. The Hot Piano
8. The Hit Song Writers
9. The Baby Sitters
10. Shinrock A Go-Go

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My 3 top favorites are:
01: The Blessed Event
02: Baby Bamm-Bamm
03: SEASON 3 EPISODE 12 "Nuttin' Buy the Tooth (Barney's Toothache)
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Here are my ten(even though I probably have more than ten favourite eps).

1:The Flintstone Flyer
2:The Big Bank Robbery
3:The Drive-In
4:The Hot Piano
5:Ann Margrock Presents
6:Carry On Nurse Fred(the way Fred spun around in the washing machine looks so hilarious)
7:Seeing Doubles
8:Shinrock-A-Go-Go
9:No Biz Like Show Biz
10:Pebbles'Birthday Party

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Ugh so hard, just going to name the first ten faves that come into my head.

Dress Rehearsal
Alvin Brickrock Presents
Pebbles Birthday Party
Dino Goes Hollyrock
The Hot Piano
The Buffalo Convention
Monster Fred
A Haunted House is Not a Home
Doctor Sinister
The Gravelberry Pie King

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I love Top 10 lists - Here's mine...

1) Glue for Two
2) Boss for a Day
3) Shinrock A-Go-Go
4) The X-Ray Story
5) Seeing Doubles
6) Fred Flintstone Before & After
7) The Hot Piano
8) The Blessed Event
9) Wilma's Vanishing Money
10) Cinderellastone

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Mine in no particular order:

1. No Biz Like Show Biz
2. Disorder in the Court
3. The Rolls Rock Caper
4. The Time Machine
5. Dr. Sinister
6. A Haunted House is Not a Home
7. Peek-a-Boo Camera
8. Little Bamm Bamm
9. The X-Ray Story
10. Dino Goes Hollyrock

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1⃣➡ The Story of Rocky's Raiders (1966)
2⃣➡ Fred's Flying Lesson (1965)
3⃣➡ Fred's Island (1966)
4⃣➡ A Haunted House Is Not a Home (1964)
5⃣➡ The Masquerade Party (1965)

6⃣➡ Alvin Brickrock Presents (1961)
7⃣➡ Time Machine (1965)
8⃣➡ Dr. Sinister (1964)
9⃣➡ Indianrockolis 500 (1964)
1⃣0⃣➡ Here's Snow in Your Eyes (1962)

Honorary mention: Christmas Flintstone (1964)

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