Love Letters on the Rocks

Barney holding Fred's old love letter to Wilma.

"Love Letters On the Rocks" is the twenty-first episode of The Flintstones season one. It aired on February 17, 1961 on ABC. It was written by Warren Foster, Michael Maltese, and Arthur Phillips, the creators of the show, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joe Barbera, the co-founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Fred finds a love letter to Wilma, coming to the conclusion that she's cheating on him, so he sends out a private investigator to find out who. If only he could remember that it was his old love letter to her from when they were teens...

Characters

In order of appearance:

Non-speaking characters are in italics

• Betty Rubble (Bea Benaderet)
• Wilma Flintstone (Jean Vander Pyl)
• Fred Flintstone (Alan Reed)
• Barney Rubble (Mel Blanc)
• Dino
• Mr. Slagheap (John Stephenson)
• Bartender (Mel Blanc)
• Perry Gunite (John Stephenson)
• Brigette (Bea Benaderet)
• Knuckles Stickazora
• Knuckles Stickazora's henchmen
• Cab driver (Mel Blanc)

Locations

• Bedrock
  • Flintstone house
  • Boulder High School
  • Jewelers
  • Dina's
  • Perry Gunite's office

Objects

• Roller skates
• Love letter
• Fred's watch

Vehicles

• Rubblemobile
• Flintmobile

Behind the scenes

• It isn't specified if Boulder High is actually in Bedrock or not (although The Flintstone Kids depicted them all living in Bedrock as kids).

Errors

• Even though Fred is said to have gone to Boulder High in this episode, he had previously mentioned he went to Rockville Center High in "Hot Lips Hannigan".

In other languages

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