Season - Episode
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1 - 1The Picnic Panic Sep 08, 1979
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1 - 2Bigfoot Meets the Thing Sep 08, 1979
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1 - 3Junkyard Hijinks Sep 15, 1979
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1 - 4Gone Away Gulch Sep 15, 1979
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1 - 5Circus Stampede Sep 22, 1979
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1 - 6The Thing and the Queen Sep 22, 1979
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1 - 7Carnival Caper Sep 29, 1979
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1 - 8The Thing Blanks Out Sep 29, 1979
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1 - 9The Thing Meets the Clunk Oct 06, 1979
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1 - 10Beach Party Crashers Oct 06, 1979
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1 - 11Decepto the Great Oct 13, 1979
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1 - 12The Thing's the Play Oct 13, 1979
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1 - 13Double Trouble for the Thing Oct 20, 1979
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1 - 14To Thing or Not to Thing Oct 20, 1979
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1 - 15The Big Bike Race Oct 27, 1979
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1 - 16The Thing and the Treasure Hunt Oct 27, 1979
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1 - 17Out to Launch Nov 03, 1979
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1 - 18The Day the Ring Didn't Do a Thing Nov 03, 1979
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1 - 19A Hot Air Affair at the Fair Nov 10, 1979
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1 - 20The Thing Goes to the Dogs Nov 10, 1979
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1 - 21The Thing Goes Camping Nov 17, 1979
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1 - 22Dude Ranch Rodeo Nov 17, 1979
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1 - 23Photo Finish Nov 24, 1979
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1 - 24Lights, Action, Thing! Nov 24, 1979
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1 - 25The Thing and the Captain's Ghost Dec 01, 1979
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1 - 26The Thing and the Absent-Minded Inventor Dec 01, 1979
Overview
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.