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Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: January 18, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★
Review:

In ‘The Hero’ Fred and Barney both are nominated for the election of ‘Grand Imperial Pooh Bah’ at the Royal Order of Water Buffaloes, but then one of them rescues a baby…

‘The Hero’ progresses in all too predictable strides, and is one of the most boring of the Flintstones episodes. The episode gets a little surreal when Fred’s ‘self’ materializes as a blue doppelganger, haunting our hero. The episode shows how mild the characters had become: Fred certainly behaves much less nasty than in the first series. but with that, some of the sharpness of the humor was also lost.

There are a few stone age gags: a tortoise as a jack, a mammoth as a tow and a porcupine as a hairbrush, but they cannot rescue this boring entry.

Watch an excerpt from ‘The Hero’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 18
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Wilma the Maid
To the next Flintstones episode: The Surprise

‘The Hero’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’