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. 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

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

Objects

 * Benjy's rings

Vehicles

 * Centerville High Balloon
 * Golden Bird
 * Yancy Street Special

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. own the show, while Disney own the characters, making it difficult to release this episode onto DVD.