Samantha

Samantha
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	6
Episode number	146
Original airdate	October 22, 1965
Crew
Animated by	Rudy Cataldi Jerry Hathcock Ed Parks
Written by	Harvey Bullock R.S. Allen
Chronology
Previous	"Circus Business"
Next	"The Great Gazoo"

"Samantha" is the sixth episode of the sixth season of The Flintstones. It aired on October 22, 1965.

Synopsis

Darrin goes boating, while Samantha joins the Flintstones and the Rubbles for a camping trip, which ends up pitting the men against the women.

Plot

When her husband, Darren, travels for business purposes and leaves her at home, Samantha befriends Wilma and Betty, who are also alone at home, while Fred and Barney are on a camping expedition. Samantha suggests that Wilma and Betty join their husbands in the wilderness, but establish their own campsite. The Flintstone and Rubble wives like this idea, though they admit to having no experience at camping by themselves. Samantha secretly uses her "hocus-pocus" to enable Wilma and Betty to better their husbands in the forest, with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm accompanying their mothers.

While Wilma and Betty establish the ladies' campground, Samantha assists the babies in procuring fish from a river, at the same time as Fred and Barney are casting their fishing poles there. When Samantha asks of Fred and Barney what bait is required to catch fish, they deviously advise her to use rocks! Not one to argue with the men, Samantha does exactly this, tying rocks to the strings of her and the babies' fishing poles, and through her magic, she, Pebbles, and Bamm-Bamm catch a total of six fish for Wilma and Betty to cook with a fire, while Fred and Barney are denied even a minnow's nibble on their fishing pole hooks.

She then materializes a huge, ferocious dinosaur and a flying carnivore and transforms a kitten into a roaring tigersaurus to terrorize the men, who are trying to filch some food from their wives. Wilma and Betty of course see no frightening beasts, only the kitten, and Fred and Barney are disgraced. Fred and Barney finally humble themselves to admit that their wives are proficient campers, and Samantha is pleased to have benignly used her nose-twitching witchcraft. Darren would approve, but she is not going to tell him!

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Dino
• Darrin Stephens (only appearance)
• Samantha Stephens (only appearance)

Locations

• Bedrock
  • Flintstone home
  • Stephens' home (only appearance)
  • Forest

Objects

• Tent
• Fishing poles
• Samantha's moving stuff (only appearance)

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Brontosaurus (as a monster)
• Pterodactyl
• Tigersaurus
• Octopus
• Fish (as food)
• Saber-Tooth Bear (as a toy)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile
• Samantha's car (only appearance)
• Topaz Moving truck (only appearance)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Bird Lew Lizard Tigersaurus Brontosaurus Kitten
Gerry Johnson	Betty Rubble
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Paul Octopus
Elizabeth Montgomery	Samantha Stephens
Dick York	Darrin Stephens

Notes/Trivia

• Samantha and Darrin Stephens guest star from television's "Bewitched" (voiced by series star Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York).

Errors

• None known.