Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979)

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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.

IMDb rating: 5.4 (311 votes)
Episode average: 5.2 -0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1979)

5.19 avg 13 episodes 5.3 → 5.5

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Picnic Panic/Bigfoot Meets the Thing	5.3	38
2	Junkyard Hijinks/Gone Away Gulch	6.2	33
3	Circus Stampede/The Thing and the Queen	5.9	31
4	Carnival Caper/The Thing Blanks Out	6.0	32
5	The Thing Meets the Clunk/Beach Party Crashers	6.3	33
6	Decepto the Great/The Thing's the Play	4.7	30
7	Double Trouble for the Thing/To Thing or not to Thing	4.5	31
8	The Big Bike Race/The Thing and the Treasure Hunt	5.6	30
9	Out to Launch/The Day the Ring Didn't Do a Thing	4.4	31
10	A Hot Air Affair at the Fair/The Thing Goes to the Dogs	4.4	30
11	The Thing Goes Camping/Dude Ranch Rodeo	4.3	32
12	Photo Finish/Lights, Action, Thing!	4.4	31
13	The Thing and the Captain's Ghost/The Thing and the Absent-Minded Inventor	5.5	31