Double Trouble for the Thing

"Double Trouble for the Thing" is the seventh episode (part one) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of The Thing. It aired on October 20, 1979 on NBC.

A robot double of the Thing goes on a crime spree, which gets the real Thing sent to jail.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Pedestrian #1
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Noelle North
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Robot Thing
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Joe Baker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bank teller
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Noelle North
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bank client
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #1
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #2
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kelly Harkness
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Noelle North
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Betty Harkness
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Ronald Radford
 * style="background-color:#clear"| John Erwin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Waiter
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Benjy Grimm
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wayne Morton
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Kid #1
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Moving guy #1
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Moving guy #2
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| The Thing
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Joe Baker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #3
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #4
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Kid #2 (or kid #1 again?)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Reporter
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| John Stephenson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Danton Blackwood
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #5
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Police captain
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| John Stephenson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #6
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #7
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #4
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Kid #2 (or kid #1 again?)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Reporter
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| John Stephenson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Danton Blackwood
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #5
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Police captain
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| John Stephenson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #6
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #7
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Police captain
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| John Stephenson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #6
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #7
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cop #7
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable

Organizations

 * Ace Moving Co.
 * Centerville Police Department

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Centerville
 * Centerville National Bank
 * Centerville Pizzeria
 * Library
 * Centerville Park
 * Jailhouse
 * Blackwood's laboratory
 * Richley's Diamond Store

Objects

 * Blab
 * Benjy's rings

Vehicles

 * Moving van

Music
The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: October 20, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

 * When the two Things first meet, they do the mirror gag from the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

Errors

 * Three Caucasian cops came in at the beginning, but when they did a close-up, one of them was African American.
 * "Pizzeria" is spelled "Pizzaria."
 * The first time Benjy transforms into the Thing he does it right in front of the library for all to see.
 * When the Thing transforms back into Benjy, the rings were drawn differently than they usually were. They now resembled two halves of a ring, instead of half a ring fixing around a black jewel of some sort.

Home availability

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