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Kleptomaniac Caper: Directed by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna. With Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet. Wilma intends to donate Fred's old clothes to a rummage sale, but puts the box in Barney's car, leading Fred to believe that Barney stole his clothes and is a kleptomaniac.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
- 1962-04-13
Kleptomaniac Caper. 5922 views. Wilma intends to donate Fred’s old clothes to a rummage sale, but puts the box in Barney’s car, leading Fred to believe that Barney stole his clothes and is a kleptomaniac. Cartoons. Hanna-Barbera. The Flintstones. Fred mistakenly thinks Barney is a kleptomaniac. Herb Vigran guest-stars as a police detective.
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"Kleptomaniac Caper" is the thirtieth episode of the second season and the fifty-eighth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on April 13, 1962.
Wilma secretly clears Fred's wardrobe of all his old belongings to sell at a rummage sale, but when Fred finds his treasured possessions gone he accuses Barney.
Without telling Fred, Wilma confiscates Fred's high school football shirt to add to a box of materials to be donated to a ladies auxiliary rummage sale. She believes that Fred will never notice that the shirt is gone, but Fred, watching a televised football game, decides to pull his football attire from storage, discovers the shirt gone, suspects theft, and calls the police. Officer O'Rockery of Car 34 theorizes that the robber was very selective and is someone who knows Fred and where Fred's possessions are located- and speculates that the culprit is a sick, compulsive, involuntary thief. A kleptomaniac.
The policeman then discovers Fred's shirt in the box of rummaged articles that Betty and Wilma placed in Barney's car for transport to the sale. Though Fred, concerned for his pal, denies ownership of the shirt in the box to protect Barney from criminal charges, he jumps to the conclusion that Barney is a kleptomaniac.
On the pretense of himself having a headache and needing to visit a "head doctor", Fred persuades Barney to accompany him so that Dr. Stonewall, an addle-brained, hypochondriac psychiatrist, can observe Barney's behavior. Watching Barney's holding of and admiration for Stonewall's lighter, Fred and the doctor believe that Fred's suspicions are justified.
While Barney is at the Bedrock Department Store to, "...pick up a few things," for Betty, has payed for the varied merchandise, and is about to leave the store, Fred appears there and attempts to reshelve the items which he believes that Barney shoplifted, arousing the suspicion of a store detective, who chases Fred and Barney into the sporting goods and toy departments and eventually catches them. Wilma and Betty release their husbands from jail, and Wilma confesses to being the cause of the misunderstanding.
•Fred Flintstone
•Wilma Flintstone
•Barney Rubble
•Betty Rubble
•Joe Rockhead (mentioned)
•Rita Rockhead (mentioned)
Bedrock
•Flintstone home •Dr. Stonewall's Office (only appearance) •Bedrock Department Store •Bedrock Police Station •Captain Danger's Boys Club (only mentioned)
"Kleptomaniac Caper" is the thirtieth episode of The Flintstones season two, and the fifty-eighth overall. It aired on April 13, 1962 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.
Warner Bros. Entertainment. Release date. Apr 12, 1962. Running time. 26:04. Audio. English. Subtitle. English [CC] Ignorant of Wilma's donation to a rummage sale, Fred calls the police when he...
Feb 16, 2023 · Kleptomaniac Caper. Wilma intends to donate Fred’s old clothes to a rummage sale, but puts the box in Barney’s car, leading Fred to believe that Barney stole his clothes and is a kleptomaniac.
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