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Fred and Barney Meet The Thing

Fred and Barney Meet The Thing — Season 1

IMDb 6.0 HD 1979 1 Season 26 Episodes

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.

Episodes

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E1 The Picnic Panic
Aired 08 Sep 1979

Benjy and his friends attend their high school picnic at the Centerville Picnic Grounds, but when the Yancy Street Gang shows up at the picnic and causes trouble, The Thing must save the day.

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E2 Bigfoot Meets the Thing
Aired 08 Sep 1979

Benjy and his friends confront a real Bigfoot while on a ski trip at North Woods Ski Lodge.

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E3 Junkyard Hijinks
Aired 15 Sep 1979

Benjy and his friends decide to transform the Yancy Street Gang's junkyard into a playground for the neighborhood children.

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E4 Gone Away Gulch
Aired 15 Sep 1979

Benjy and his friends visit the town of Gone Away Gulch and, during a storm, the group seeks shelter in a deserted hotel haunted by an old prospector.

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E5 Circus Stampede
Aired 22 Sep 1979

Benjy and his friends attend the Barney and Baillum Circus where the Yancy Street Gang sets loose a mouse, causing the elephants to stampede and all the other animals to escape.

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E6 The Thing and the Queen
Aired 22 Sep 1979

When Betty runs for homecoming queen, the Yancy Street Gang (whose friend Sophie is also vying for the same title) resorts to their usual dirty tactics as they try to sabotage Betty's campaign.

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E7 Carnival Caper
Aired 29 Sep 1979

Benjy and his friends visit a local carnival and, after stopping a runaway ferris wheel and fixing it, The Thing is offered a job at the carnival by its owner.

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E8 The Thing Blanks Out
Aired 29 Sep 1979

Benjy and his friends enjoy a trip aboard Ronald's father's yacht; Thing saves the group from crashing into a downed drawbridge, but then he is stricken with amnesia following the closing drawbridge's impact on his head.

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E9 The Thing Meets the Clunk
Aired 06 Oct 1979

Dr. Quimby introduces his latest invention – a robot called Clunk who is programmed to do good – however, the robot malfunctions, goes out-of-control and causes trouble for The Thing.

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E10 Beach Party Crashers
Aired 06 Oct 1979

Benjy attends a beachside surf party with Kelly, Betty, Ronald and Miss Twilly, but the Yancy Street Gang are up to their old tricks as they crash the party and sabotage a volleyball game.

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E11 Decepto the Great
Aired 13 Oct 1979

A magician, Decepto the Great, performs his magic show at the high school fair, but Benjy discovers Decepto is stealing from the school kids and it's up to The Thing to stop him from escaping town.

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E12 The Thing's the Play
Aired 13 Oct 1979

Betty studies with acting teacher Ferdinand Bestmore so she can audition for a TV crew coming to Centerville High School to shoot a commercial; however, Bestmore confuses Betty with an old actress he once discovered and whom she resembles so he kidnaps her.

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E13 Double Trouble for the Thing
Aired 20 Oct 1979

An evil scientist named Danton Blackwood creates a robot Thing to commit crime to make the citizens believe The Thing has gone bad, but which also lands the real Thing in jail.

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E14 To Thing or Not to Thing
Aired 20 Oct 1979

No overview available.

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E15 The Big Bike Race
Aired 27 Oct 1979

Benjy enters a cross country bike race because the winner gets to escort the Race Queen to the dance.

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E16 The Thing and the Treasure Hunt
Aired 27 Oct 1979

No overview available.

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E17 Out to Launch
Aired 03 Nov 1979

Benjy and his friends are going to a ship launching but the world's greatest demolition expert intends to ruin the day.

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E18 The Day the Ring Didn't Do a Thing
Aired 03 Nov 1979

The Yancy Street Gang decides to steal Benjy's ring, causing no end of trouble for The Thing.

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E19 A Hot Air Affair at the Fair
Aired 10 Nov 1979

No overview available.

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E20 The Thing Goes to the Dogs
Aired 10 Nov 1979

Ronald has entered his dog Countess in the Centerville Dog Show, but chaos ensues when Countess is dognapped by the troublesome Yancy Street Gang and it's up to The Thing to rescue her.

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E21 The Thing Goes Camping
Aired 17 Nov 1979

Benjy, his friends and Miss Twilly go on a camping trip as part of a special school project which is anything but relaxing with a bear running loose at their campsite and a big storm triggering a landslide that threatened the entire camp.

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E22 Dude Ranch Rodeo
Aired 17 Nov 1979

No overview available.

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E23 Photo Finish
Aired 24 Nov 1979

Benjy accompanies his friends to the Centerville Zoo which is sponsoring a photo contest and the Yancy Street Gang resorts to their usual dirty tactics to win.

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E24 Lights, Action, Thing!
Aired 24 Nov 1979

Ronald and Betty are hired to appear in a movie currently filming at a local lake, but problems occur when a mechanical octopus monster (controlled by an angry stuntman) attacks the set, trying to sabotage the entire production.

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E25 The Thing and the Captain's Ghost
Aired 01 Dec 1979

The Yancy Street Gang dares Ben and his friends to stay on a haunted ship for a night.

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E26 The Thing and the Absent-Minded Inventor
Aired 01 Dec 1979

Benjy and his friends attend Centerville's annual inventors show where they meet the absent-minded Fenwick Twilly (Miss Twilly's uncle) who unveils his gigantic vacuum cleaner Supervac, which sucks everything in sight and destroys all the other inventions during its rampage.

Top Cast

Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc
Henry Corden
Henry Corden
Marilyn Schreffler
Marilyn Schreffler
Art Metrano
Art Metrano

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