Episode
The Flintstones: The Gruesomes
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.
Details
- Series
- The Flintstones
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1964-11-12
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
The Gruesomes is Episode 9 in Season 5 of The Flintstones. It aired on 1964-11-12. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 7: A Haunted House is Not a Home
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.
Episode 11: Dino and Juliet
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.
Episode 6: Cinderellastone
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.
Episode 12: King for a Night
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.
Episode 5: Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up
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.
Episode 13: Indianrockolis 500
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.
Episode 4: Pebbles' Birthday Party
Fred plans Pebbles' birthday party on the same day as the Water Buffalo Lodge party.
Episode 14: Adobe Dick
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.
Episode 3: Itty Bitty Fred
Fred accidentally shrinks himself when an experiment goes wrong and ends up appearing on television as Barney's ventriloquist dummy.
Episode 15: Christmas Flintstone
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.