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A romantic burglar is targeting Fred’s neighborhood and befriends Wilma before getting caught. Note: This has some similarities to the season one episode “The Prowler”. Fred wants to teach Wilma a lesson for hoping the kissing burglar who's active in the neighborhood will come to their house.
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"The Kissing Burglar" is the sixteenth episode of the third season and the seventy-sixth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It first aired on January 4, 1963.
Wilma is charmed by the exploits of the Kissing Burglar, a criminal whose m.o. involves leaving a rose and a kiss for the lady of the house.
Bedrock is victimized by a masked, nighttime bandit who kisses the sleeping women of the homes which he plunders and leaves a rose as his "calling card" at the scenes of the crimes. Wilma and Betty are both infatuated with the gentlemanly, debonair manner of the tickly moustached, infamous Kissing Burglar and are exultant with anticipation when they use porcupine pins on a map to determine that Cobblestone Lane on which Flintstone and Rubble couples live is next on the Kissing Burglar's path.
When Wilma jests that she has nothing valuable for the amorous criminal to steal, Fred replies that a tacky Alaskan Tibbar stole which he bought for Wilma qualifies in this regard, and Wilma and Betty, while at a supermarket, scoff at Fred's cheapness and fantasise about Wilma being the recipient of furs and jewels from a suddenly wealthy Fred. The Kissing Burglar's shrewish wife hears part of Wilma and Betty's supermarket conversation and misunderstands that the Flintstones are truly in possession of riches; so, she orders her thieving husband, of whom she is the material motivation and "the brains"- albeit disapproving vehemently of his "romantic touches", to rob Mr. and Mrs. Flintstone.
Meanwhile, Fred is annoyed by Wilma's fascination with the Kissing Burglar and decides to teach a lesson to Wilma by pretending to be the puckering plucker of fortunes. Wilma learns from Betty by telephone about Fred's planned masquerade (Betty has seen Fred conferring with Barney and carrying strange clothes and a rose) and acts coy when Fred invades his own house in his bogus burglar guise. Mistaken identity then occurs when the bandit's "bitter half" furiously chases and attacks Fred with her purse after discovering him in the act of repeating her husband's forbidden victim-kissing and rose-dropping (for Wilma) and when the real Kissing Burglar arrives at cave Flintstone.
Wilma, believing the Kissing Burglar to be Fred and exasperated, removes his mask and recovers from initial fright at being confronted by the bona fide burglar, encourages him to confide his wretched life as slave to a domineering, demanding spouse, and persuades him to surrender himself to the police so that he can enjoy a private, quiet jail cell, and Fred escapes the Kissing Burglar's "battle-axe", goes home to Wilma, and apologizes for his deception.
•Fred Flintstone
•Wilma Flintstone
•Barney Rubble
•Betty Rubble
•The Kissing Burglar (only appearance)
•The Kissing Burglar's Wife (only appearance)
Bedrock
•Flintstone home •Henry's house (only appearance) •The Kissing Burglar's house (only appearance) •Supermarket
•Daily Bugle •Alaskan Tibbar stole (only appearance)
•Roses (only appearance)
•The Good Rock book (only appearance)
•Rock Bell Phone
•Porcupineasaurus
•Brontosaurus (as a Bronto-Ham Sandwich)
•Turtlesaurus (as a shopping cart)
•Alaskan Tibbar (as a stole)
The Kissing Burglar: Directed by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna. With Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet. Fred wants to teach Wilma a lesson for hoping the kissing burglar who's active in the neighborhood will come to their house.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
- 1963-01-04
Episode Title:The Kissing Burglar.Episode Description:A romantic burglar is targeting Fred's neighborhood and befriends Wilma before getting caught.
Dec 5, 2023 · "The Kissing Burglar" is the sixteenth episode of The Flintstones season three, and the seventy-sixth overall. It aired on January 4, 1963 on ABC. It was written by Joanna Lee, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the series and the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions .
Summaries. Fred wants to teach Wilma a lesson for hoping the kissing burglar who's active in the neighborhood will come to their house. There is a Kissing Burglar roaming in Bedrock. Wilma dreams this man will come and rob the house while kissing her. To give her a lesson, Fred dresses as the Burglar himself.
The Flintstones. Season 3 Episode 16 - The Kissing Burglar. 1960 · 26 min. TV-G. Kids & Family · Animation · Comedy. Wilma upsets Fred by claiming burglars wouldn't want his gifts. Subtitles: English. Starring: Alan Reed Jean Vander Pyl Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet Don Messick John Stephenson. Directed by: William Hanna Joseph Barbera. Season 3.
