Fred and Barney Meet the Thing
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Fast Facts
- Genre: Animation
Directed by Ray Patterson George Gordon Carl Urbano
- Voices of Henry Corden
Mel Blanc Joe Baker Wayne Norton
- No. of episodes 13
- Production
Executive producer(s): William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
- Producer(s) Alex Lovy
- Running time 60 minutes
- Broadcast
- Original channel NBC
- Original run September 8, 1979 – December 1, 1979
- Chronology
Preceded by The New Fred and Barney Show (1979) Followed by Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979-80)
Fred and Barney Meet the Thing was 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:
Despite the title, the two segments remained separate and did not cross over with one another. Fred, Barney and the Thing were only featured together in brief bumpers between segments.
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.
The Thing
The first segment, a very loose adaptation of Marvel Comics' character The Thing, consisted of stories following the Thing as a teenager named Benjy Grimm who transforms into the rock-skinned superhero by touching together magic rings and reciting the words "Thing ring, do your thing!"
The stories centered mostly around Benjy at Centerville High School with his friends Betty and her rich boyfriend Ronald, Kelly (Betty's kid-sister) and teacher Miss Twilly. Kelly was the only person who knew about Benjy's secret.
Twenty six 11-minute episodes of The Thing were produced; 2 shorts aired per show.
Episodes
- The Picnic Panic / Bigfoot Meets The Thing (September 8, 1979)
- Junkyard Hijinks / Gone Away Gulch (September 15, 1979)
- Circus Stampede / The Thing and the Queen (September 22, 1979)
- Carnival Caper / The Thing Blanks Out (September 29, 1979)
- The Thing Meets the Clunk / Beach Party Crashers (October 6, 1979)
- Decepto the Great / The Thing's the Play (October 13, 1979)
- Double Trouble For The Thing / To Thing or Not To Thing (October 20, 1979)
- The Big Bike Race / The Thing and the Treasure Hunt (October 27, 1979)
- Out to Launch / The Day the Ring Didn't do a Thing (November 3, 1979)
- A Hot Air Affair at the Fair / The Thing Goes to the Dogs (November 10, 1979)
- The Thing Goes Camping / Dude Ranch Rodeo (November 17, 1979)
- Photo Finish / Lights, Action, Thing! (November 24, 1979)
- The Thing and the Captain's Ghost / The Thing and the Absent-Minded Inventor (December 1, 1979)
Voices
- Wayne Norton - Ben Grimm
- Joe Baker - The Thing
- Noelle North - Kelly
- Marilyn Schreffler - Betty, Miss Twilly
- John Erwin - Ronald Radford
- Art Metrano - Spike
- Michael Sheehan - Turkey
- John Stephenson - Dr. Harkness
The New Fred and Barney Show
The "Fred and Barney" half of the show consisted of seven new episodes and reruns of The New Fred and Barney Show, which was a 1970s revival of the original Flintstones series.
Episodes
- Stone Age Werewolf (September 8, 1979)
- Fred and Barney Meet the Frankenstones (September 15, 1979)
- Physical Fitness Fred (September 22, 1979)
- Moonlighters (September 29, 1979)
- Fred Goes to the Houndasaurs (October 6, 1979)
- The Bad Luck Genie (October 13, 1979)
- Dinosaur Country Safari (October 20, 1979)
Voices
- Henry Corden - Fred Flintstone
- Jean Vander Pyl - Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles Flintstone
- Mel Blanc - Barney Rubble, Dino
- Gay Autterson - Betty Rubble
- Don Messick - Bamm-Bamm Rubble
- John Stephenson - Mr. Slate
