The Little White Lie

"The Little White Lie" is the ninth episode of The Flintstones season two, and the thirty-seventh overall. It aired on November 10, 1961 on ABC. It was written by Herb Finn, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the series and the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Fred doesn't want Wilma to know that he lied to play poker, so he pretends that his winnings came from a lost wallet. Wilma later places an ad for the wallet's "owner."

Characters

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Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Bedrock

Filming
The cast was recorded on March 23, 1961.

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: November 10, 1961 on ABC

Behind the scenes

 * According to this episode, the Flintstone's telephone number is BEDROCK-313.
 * This is last of the five episodes in which Daws Butler voices Barney, with the others being "The Hit Songwriters", "Droop-Along Flintstone", "Fred Flintstone Woos Again" and "The Rock Quarry Story".
 * Newspaper woman Daisy Kilgranite is an allusion and spoof of newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, who was very well-known at the time this episode was made.
 * Wilma talks about the movie Swiss Family Rubberstone, with James Slagney. These two are a spoof on Robert Louis Stevenson's novel, Swiss Family Robinson, and the actor James Cagney respectively.

Errors

 * In one scene it is nighttime at the front door and daylight at the kitchen window.
 * The local paper that Wilma puts the ad in is called The Bedrock Chronicle, but in the previous episode, "Flintstone of Prinstone", their paperboy Arnold holds a stack of papers called The Bugle and furthermore in the two previous episodes, Fred and Wilma are shown reading The Rockville Times.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * December 7, 2004: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season on DVD.
 * October 28, 2008: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Series (limited edition) on DVD.
 * November 13, 2012: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Series (standard edition) on DVD.
 * October 3, 2017: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
 * February 13, 2018: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Series (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
 * October 27, 2020: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Series on Blu-ray Disc.
 * In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
 * June 4, 2007: Warner Home Video releases The Flintstones: The Complete Second Season on DVD.