The Flintstones/The Rolls Rock Caper

The Rolls Rock Caper
Season 5, Episode 23
Airdate	February 19, 1965
Written by	Alan Dinehart, Herbert Finn
Directed by	Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Produced by	Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
← 5x22 Deep in the Heart of Texarock	5x24 → Superstone
The Flintstones — Season Five

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The Rolls Rock Caper is the twenty-third episode of the fifth season of The Flintstones, and the one hundred thirty-seventh episode overall.

Starring the Voice of: Alan Reed (Fred Flintstone)

Featuring the Voices of: Mel Blanc (Barney Rubble, Dino, Garbage Man), Jean Vanderpyl (Wilma, Pebbles, Mrs. Mortimer Mortar), Gerry Johnson (Betty)

Other Voices: Don Messick (Bamm-Bamm, Hoppy), Allan Melvin (Aaron Boulder, Thug #1), Henry Corden (Maitre d', Gus, Ingomar)

Plot Overview

While stepping out to the ice cream shop to pick up some ice cream for dessert for their families, Fred and Barney are deputized by multimillionaire playboy detective Aaron Boulder to join him on a murder mystery case Boulder is pursuing. Fred and Barney end up doing the leg work for Boulder during the case and run into difficulties with the criminals they face. The guys, frustrated over their lack of success in capturing the crooks, turn their badges back in to Boulder, but they quickly discover it all turned out to be part of an act for Boulder's new reality TV series, My Favorite Crime. Boulder brings Fred and Barney home, where a pleased Wilma and Betty reveal that they saw them on the show.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• Aaron Boulder is based on the Amos Burke character played by Gene Barry on Burke's Law, with an accent similar to actor Cary Grant
• My Favorite Crime, the reality show which Boulder hosts, is a parody of Candid Camera