Planet Pirates

"Planet Pirates" is the first episode of Ruff and Reddy season one, and came as part of The Ruff and Reddy Show. It aired on December 14, 1957 on NBC. It was written by Charles Shows, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the series and the founders of H-B Enterprises.

Ruff and Reddy are abducted by a UFO.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Reddy
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Ruff
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Newscaster
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Daws Butler
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Captain Comet
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Narrator
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Robot
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Narrator
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Don Messick
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Robot
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Robot
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable

Organizations

 * Daily Screech (mentioned)

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Middleville
 * Ruff and Reddy's residence

Objects

 * Daily Screech newspaper
 * Reddy's space helmet

Vehicles

 * Flying saucer

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: December 14, 1957 at 10:30 am on NBC

Everlasting influence

 * This begins a serial of twelve other segments.

Home availability

 * Not available. 😢