The Stonefinger Caper

The Stonefinger Caper
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	6
Episode number	150
Production number	P-150
Original airdate	November 19, 1965 (ABC)
Recording Date	July 8, 1965
Crew
Animated by	Bob Carr (as Robert Carr) George Germanetti Hicks Lokey John Sparey
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Jack Huber
Background	Fernando Montealegre (known as F. Montealegre) Fernando Arce Rene Garcia
Written by	Joanna Lee
Chronology
Previous	"The Gravelberry Pie King"
Next	"The Masquerade Party"

"The Stonefinger Caper" is the tenth episode of the sixth season and the one hundred and fiftieth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on November 19, 1965.

Synopsis

A hackneyed spy movie turns serious when the villainous Stonefinger and his henchmen suddenly come to life and begin to menace Fred and Barney. It takes Gazoo's magical powers to get the situation straightened out.

Plot

On returning to homes from a secret agent movie (From Crusher with Love) at the Bedrock Drive-in, the Flintstones and Rubbles comment that their lives lack excitement. Gazoo offers some adrenaline-surging thrills to Fred and Barney, and the cavemen are unenthusiastic about any more troublesome magic by Gazoo. Unbeknown to them, what they crave is actually already in its beginning stages.

SPLERSH, an international crime syndicate, thinks that Barney is Dr. Rockinheimer, a wealthy, foreign scientist with a secret formula for converting ordinary stone into uraniumrock, and who, apart from beard, mustache, and eyeglasses, resembles Barney. This belief is given credence when members of the syndicate observe Fred and Barney cavorting in a fancy car provided to them by Gazoo. Complications involving the car also include $50 speeding and parking tickets.

Fred and Barney order Gazoo to teleport the car into oblivion- and for Gazoo to go away and never come back. SPLERSH then abducts Fred and Barney, and its stone-fingered leader (Stonefinger) demands that Barney surrender the formula, or die, Barney and Fred both, at the jaws of a horrorsaurus, a huge, vicious carnivore. Fred and Barney plead for Gazoo to help them, and Gazoo appears at their side and reduces the monster and the criminals to infancy, freeing the grateful Fred and Barney.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble (no lines)
• The Great Gazoo
• Stonefinger (only appearance)
• Crusher (only appearance)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Stonefinger's house (only appearance)
• Bedrock Drive-In Theater

Objects

• Polarock camera

Food

• Sandwiches
• Hot Dogs
• Popcorn
• Candy
• Bronto-Burgers
• Cactus Berry Muffins

Animals

• Pterodactyl
• Horrorsaurus (first animated appearance)
• Squirrelsaurus (as a brush)
• Brontosaurus (as Bronto-Burgers)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile
• Maserocki (only appearance)

Media

• From Crusher with Love (movie)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Squirrelsaurus
Gerry Johnson	Betty Rubble
Henry Corden	Crusher
Harvey Korman	The Great Gazoo Stonefinger

Notes/Trivia

• Dr. Orloff Rockenheimer is a reference to J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped develop the atomic bomb.
• The horrorsaurus looks a lot like Doris the finkasaurus from "Son of Rockzilla".
• The sports car is a Maserocki which is the spoof of a Maserati.
• Hoppy and Dino are only absent in this episode.
• The Bond films would soon be spoofed again in the feature film, The Man Called Flintstone.

Allusions

• This episode contains references to James Bond. For example, the title of the movie being shown at the drive-in, From Crusher with Love, is a spoof of the James Bond movie, From Russia with Love.
  • Also, the villain Stonefinger, is a spoof of the James Bond villain Goldfinger.

Errors

• None known.