Junkyard Hijinks

"Junkyard Hijinks" is the second episode (part one) of The Thing season one. It aired on September 15, 1979 on NBC.

Benjy and Kelly want to turn the Yancy Street Gang's junkyard into a playground against the latter's wishes.

Characters
Joe Baker (Thing)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Benjy Grimm/The Thing
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wayne Morton (Benjy)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wayne Morton (Benjy)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kelly Harkness
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Noelle North
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Turkey
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Michael Sheehan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Spike Hanrahan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Art Metrano
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Stretch
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ronald Radford
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Erwin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty Harkness
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sewer worker
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ronald's father
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty Harkness
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sewer worker
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ronald's father
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ronald's father
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ronald's father

Organizations

 * Yancy Street Gang
 * Ace Moving Co.

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Centerville
 * Yancy Street
 * Centerville Community Playground
 * Yancy Street Gang headquarters
 * Eva's Cafe
 * Starduster
 * Mac TV and Radio Shop

Objects

 * Benjy's rings

Vehicles

 * Ronald's car
 * Yancy Street Gang's motorcycles
 * Ronald's tractor

Music
The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: September 15, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

 * Benjy doesn't transform until over four minutes in the episode, the longest time yet.
 * Betty said "Jeepers," which is usually Daphne Blake's catchphrase in Scooby-Doo cartoons.

Errors

 * When Kelly first talks about the playground, there is a plain field behind the Yancy Street Gang, but when it cuts up close to them, there are buildings all around them including Eva's Cafe.
 * When Benjy and Kelly walk away from the Yancy Street Gang after the former pair are first dismissed, they walk past another building with the Eva's Cafe sign now on the window.
 * This whole episode is made moot in "The Thing and the Queen," when the park goes back to being a junkyard again.

Home availability

 * Warner Bros. owns the show, while Disney owns the characters, making it difficult to release this episode onto DVD.