Ten Little Flintstones

Ten Little Flintstones
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	4
Episode number	104
Production number	P-104
Original airdate	January 2, 1964 (ABC)
Recording Date	July 8, 1963
Crew
Animated by	Ed Parks George Nicholas Hicks Lokey
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Walt Clinton Jack Huber
Background	Curt Perkins (known as Curtiss D. Perkins)
Written by	Tony Benedict
Chronology
Previous	"Once Upon a Coward"
Next	"Fred El Terrifico"

"Ten Little Flintstones" is the sixteenth episode of the fourth season and the one hundred and fourth overall episode of The Flintstones. It aired on January 2, 1964.

Synopsis

An alien spacecraft lands in Bedrock and creates ten clones of Fred who causes him trouble.

Plot

While Fred is taking out the trash outside of his house, he is observed by the pointy-eared, whir-voiced, shadowy occupant of a flying saucer. The "little, green man"'s mission to invade prehistoric Earth.

As part of his mission's first phase, infiltration and examination of Stone Age society, the otherworldly scout copies the structure of Fred's body and garments- behind Fred's back, and creates ten duplicates of Fred, all of them powerfully strong but possessing the limited vocabulary of a monotone "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", and releases them to disperse into Bedrock, stepping into and out of Fred's life without Fred's immediate awareness and causing some trouble and chaos (nocturnal ransacking of the Rubbles' icebox and clobbering of Barney with a sandwich after Barney demands an end to "Fred's" midnight feast) and some benefit (helping Slate to impress potential business client Rockwell in a display of fierce golf prowess, which Rockwell interprets as indicative that Slate's employees are all in prime physical condition) for Fred, who suspects that something strange is afoot but does not in his wildest imaginings consider the existence of multiple doppelgangers of alien manufacture.

When he finally learns that Flintstone impostors are ambulating in Bedrock, Fred infers a practical joke by his Water Buffalo pals and, seeing his replicas on a street, chases them into their headquarters, the flying saucer, in which pointy-ears declares his subterfuge thwarted and exposed by the formidable Earthlings and aborts the planetary conquest plan, expelling Fred from the flying saucer before it launches into space.

Now fully cognizant of the alien factor, Fred tells to Wilma and the Rubbles his account of by himself ridding Earth of malevolent space creatures, and they, of course, do not believe it.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Dino
• Baby Puss (cameo)
• Mr. Slate
• Rockwell (only appearance)
• Robot Fred Duplicates (only appearance)
• News Reporter (only appearance)
• Alien Master (only appearance)
• Joe Rockhead (mentioned)
• Sam Shale (mentioned)
• Girl (only appearance, no lines)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Rubble home
• Slate Quarry Co.
• Stoneside Golf Club (only appearance)

Objects

• Sandwich
• Golf clubs
• Golf ball
• Rock Bell Phone

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Pelicansaurus (as a trash can)
• Parrotsaurus (on a radio)
• Roosterasaurus
• Triceratops

Vehicles

• Flintmobile
• Loggin Continental
• Strollers
• U.F.O. (only appearance)

Media

• Bedrock News (news broadcast)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Parrotsaurus
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble Secretary
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Alien Leader News Reporter Rooster Rockwell Robot Fred
John Stephenson	Mr. Slate Pelican

Notes/Trivia

• The TV announcer mentions the Dow Stones rock market (Dow Jones stock market).
• The music in the background is from the William Tell Overture, also known as Happy Anniversary from the episode of the first season, "The Hot Piano".
• The Alien Master's body was never revealed but only his shadow appeared on the screen.
• Baby Puss is smaller and colored differently in this episode.
  • In addition, Fred finally puts Baby Puss out for the night in this episode, unlike the ending credits.
• The Fred clones' monotonous "Yabba-Dabba-Doo" was used in a Boomerang bumper featuring multiple Fred Flintstone banks.

Allusions

• The episode name is a reference to the nursery rhyme, Ten Little Indians.

Errors

• During the episode's finale, when the spaceship lands for the second and last time, it appears to be night time. But at the same moment where Fred is chasing all of his duplicates down the street, it appears to be daylight.
• There are only supposed to be ten Fred imposters, but eleven stampede over Fred after his failed attempt to lasso them.
• Fred chases the ten imposters onto the spaceship, but only nine imposters (plus the real Fred) are seen inside the ship.