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*Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo*
Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
Based on	The Flintstones; by William Hanna; Joseph Barbera; Thing; by Stan Lee; Jack Kirby; Shmoo; by Al Capp;
Directed by	Ray Patterson; George Gordon
Voices of	Henry Corden; Mel Blanc; Jean Vander Pyl; Gay Autterson; Joe Baker; Wayne Norton; Marilyn Schreffler; Frank Welker; Dolores Cantu-Primo
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	17 (59 segments)
Production
Executive producers	William Hanna; Joseph Barbera
Producer	Art Scott
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	Hanna-Barbera Productions
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 22, 1979 –; November 15, 1980
Related
	Fred and Barney Meet the Thing; The Flintstone Comedy Show;

Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo is an American animated package show and a spin-off of The Flintstones produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired on NBC from December 8, 1979 to November 15, 1980.^[1] The 90-minute show is a repackaging of episodes from Fred and Barney Meet the Thing combined with the addition of The New Shmoo episodes (which was originally broadcast as a stand-alone half-hour series).^[2]

The series contained the following three segments:

The New Fred and Barney Show (a revival of The Flintstones) – one episode, 30 minutes
The Thing (based on the Marvel Comics superhero Thing) – two episodes, 11 minutes each
The New Shmoo (based on the Li'l Abner comic strip character Shmoo) – one episode, 30 minutes

Despite the show's title, the three segments remained separate and did not crossover with one another. The characters of Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Thing and Shmoo were only featured together in brief bumpers between segments, and the original half-hour episodes of The New Shmoo were now split into two-parters, allowing more mingling and mixing of the program's individual segments. In 1980–81, Shmoo joined Fred and Barney as part-time police officers on the "Bedrock Cops" segments of The Flintstone Comedy Show.^[3]

During the series' initial run, a television special called The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White (also produced by Hanna-Barbera) was shown in four parts on Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo on four consecutive Saturday mornings (September 27, October 4, 11, 18, 1980), despite having no narrative connection to the show.^[4]^[5]

Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track, one of their last productions to do so.

Voice cast

The New Fred and Barney Show

Henry Corden as Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble, Dino
Gay Autterson as Betty Rubble
Don Messick as Bamm-Bamm Rubble
John Stephenson as Mr. Slate

The Thing

Wayne Norton as Benjy Grimm
Joe Baker as The Thing
Noelle North as Kelly Harkness
Marilyn Schreffler as Betty Harkness, Miss Twilly
John Erwin as Ronald Radford
Art Metrano as Spike
Michael Sheehan as Turkey
John Stephenson as Dr. Harkness, Stretch

The New Shmoo

Frank Welker as Shmoo
Dolores Cantu-Primo as Nita
Bill Idelson as Mickey
Chuck McCann as Billy Joe

References

^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 210. ISBN 978-1538103739.
^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. p. 108. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 333–344. ISBN 978-1476665993.
^ The Harlem Globetrotters Meet Snow White^{[dead link‍]} at The Big Cartoon DataBase, retrieved April 19, 2020.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. p. 272. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.