A Hot Air Affair at the Fair

"A Hot Air Affair at the Fair" is the tenth episode (part one) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It aired on November 10, 1979 on NBC.

Benjy and Kelly enter a hot air balloon race because there's nothing wrong with a bunch of unsupervised teenagers competing in a hot air balloon race.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#clear"| Miss Twilly
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Marilyn Schreffler
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Benjy Grimm
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Wayne Morton
 * 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:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ronald's mother
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Spike Hanrahan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Art Metrano
 * style="background-color:#clear"| James
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Duck
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Spike Hanrahan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Art Metrano
 * style="background-color:#clear"| James
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Duck
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Duck
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable

Organizations

 * Yancy Street Gang

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Centerville
 * State fair
 * Sleep Tight Mattress Factory
 * Harkness residence
 * The Moon

Objects

 * Benjy's rings

Vehicles

 * Centerville High Balloon
 * Golden Bird
 * Yancy Street Special

Music
The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: November 10, 1979 on NBC

Errors

 * Kelly is a high school student?
 * Kelly is overreacting a bit when she claimed Spike was trying to send them to the moon. Near the end of the episode, Betty and Ronald's hot air balloon traveled up to a certain point before it fell back down after freezing.
 * Benjy spends more time at Kelly's than he does at his own house, which still hasn't been seen at this point.

Home availability

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