Fred and Barney Meet The Thing Season 1 To Thing or Not to Thing 1979
Fred and Barney Meet The Thing is a 60-minute Saturday morning animated package show produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions from September 8, 1979 to December 1, 1979 on NBC. It contained the following segments: ⁕The New Fred and Barney Show ⁕The Thing Despite the title, the two segments remained separate and did not crossover with one another. Fred, Barney and the Thing were only featured together during the show's opening title sequence and in brief bumpers between segments. The unusual combination of a Marvel superhero and The Flintstones was possible because, at this time, Marvel Comics owned the rights to several Hanna-Barbera franchises and were, in fact, publishing comic books based upon them; The Flintstones was one of these. For the 1979-80 season, the series was expanded to ninety-minutes with the addition of The New Shmoo episodes and retitled Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo.
- Released: 1979-10-20
- Runtime: 11 minutes
- Genre: Family, Animation
- Stars: Mel Blanc, Henry Corden, Marilyn Schreffler, Art Metrano
- Director: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Alex Lovy
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1. The Picnic Panic 1979-09-08
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2. Bigfoot Meets the Thing 1979-09-08
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3. Junkyard Hijinks 1979-09-15
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4. Gone Away Gulch 1979-09-15
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5. Circus Stampede 1979-09-22
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6. The Thing and the Queen 1979-09-22
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7. Carnival Caper 1979-09-29
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8. The Thing Blanks Out 1979-09-29
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9. The Thing Meets the Clunk 1979-10-06
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10. Beach Party Crashers 1979-10-06
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11. Decepto the Great 1979-10-13
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12. The Thing's the Play 1979-10-13
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13. Double Trouble for the Thing 1979-10-20
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14. To Thing or Not to Thing 1979-10-20
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15. The Big Bike Race 1979-10-27
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16. The Thing and the Treasure Hunt 1979-10-27
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17. Out to Launch 1979-11-03
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18. The Day the Ring Didn't Do a Thing 1979-11-03
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19. A Hot Air Affair at the Fair 1979-11-10
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20. The Thing Goes to the Dogs 1979-11-10
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21. The Thing Goes Camping 1979-11-17
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22. Dude Ranch Rodeo 1979-11-17
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23. Photo Finish 1979-11-24
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24. Lights, Action, Thing! 1979-11-24
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25. The Thing and the Captain's Ghost 1979-12-01
