The Flintstones
The House Guest
TV Flash files “The House Guest” as hour 42 of 166 in the TV Flash guide — The Flintstones (1960–1966) on ABC, season 2, episode 14, aired 1961-12-22, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E14: listed hour 42 of 166 in the The Flintstones guide, hour 14 of 32 in season 2. It aired 1961-12-22 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Picnic” (S02E13). Next is “The X-Ray Story” (S02E15).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Rubbles are forced to move in with Fred and Wilma while a plumber fixes Fred's "repair job," which did far more harm than the Rubbles' original problem. What began as a simple leak ends up becoming a very major, week-long plumbing job. During the Rubbles' stay, Barney causes so many problems for Fred that he finally loses his patience and blows his top with Barney. Meanwhile, Wilma is angry at Betty and begins to fight with her. After Fred and Barney overhear Wilma and Betty fighting, they stop fighting, make up, and get the wives to also make up, leaving everything correct again between both the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The House Guest sit in the The Flintstones guide?
S02E14 is listed hour 42 of 166 — hour 14 of 32 in season 2, season 2 episode 14.
When did The Flintstones S02E14 air?
The House Guest aired 1961-12-22 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Early Bedrock hours with Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty show the sitcom-in-skins contract before the kids arrive. Later seasons add Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm if you want the household as a merchandising unit.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Flintstones put a blue-collar sitcom in Bedrock and proved animation could own prime time: Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, dinosaurs as appliances, laugh track included. Hanna-Barbera's six-season breakthrough is the blueprint every later cartoon family still raids. Yabba-dabba-doo as American brand, plus the endless Honeymooners-in-skins debate.
So about Bedrock: the group chat has been having the *Honeymooners*-in-skins fight since before the timeline had a name, and nobody is logging off. ABC's *The Flintstones* (1960–1966; 166 episodes) put a blue-collar sitcom in the Stone Age — Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, dinosaurs as appliances, laugh track included — and proved animation could own prime time. William Hanna and Joseph Barbera built the household. Alan Reed's Fred and Jean Vander Pyl's Wilma opposite Mel Blanc's Barney and Bea Benaderet's Betty.…
Filed against
- Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone
Alan Reed’s Fred Flintstone put a blue-collar sitcom in Bedrock and proved animation could own prime time — Wilma, Barney, Betty, dinosaurs as appliances, laugh track included. Hanna-Barbera’s six-season breakthrough, the blueprint every…
- Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl’s Wilma Flintstone put a blue-collar sitcom wife in Bedrock — Fred, Barney, Betty, dinosaurs as appliances, laugh track included. Hanna-Barbera’s six-season prime-time breakthrough, the blueprint every later cartoon family…
- Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble
Mel Blanc’s Barney Rubble gave The Flintstones its next-door giggle — 1960s catalog Bedrock, a laugh-track sitcom in stone, the pal Fred could not do without. The Jetsons and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century kept the most famous voice in…
- Bea Benaderet as Betty Rubble
Bea Benaderet’s Blanche Morton needled The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show as next-door vaudeville, then The Flintstones’ Wilma and Petticoat Junction’s Kate Bradley made her 1950s–60s catalog warmth a three-stop map. TV Flash files…