Circus Stampede

Circus Stampede
Jojo reenacts his favorite movie.
Premiere date	September 22, 1979
Run time	11:34
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
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"Circus Stampede" is the third episode (part one) of The Thing season one. It aired on September 22, 1979 on NBC.

The Yancy Street Gang causes a ruckus at the circus, which stirs an ape to break free of its cage and kidnap Betty.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Jojo	Unavailable
Kelly Harkness	Noelle North
Benjy Grimm	Wayne Morton
The Thing	Joe Baker
Truck driver	N/A
Train conductor	N/A
Turkey	Michael Sheehan
Stretch	Unavailable
Spike Hanrahan	Art Metrano
Guard	Unavailable
Elephant	Unavailable
Miss Twilly	Marilyn Schreffler
Ronald Radford	John Erwin
Betty Harkness	Marilyn Schreffler
Stanley
Mouse	Unavailable
Bear	Unavailable
Lion	Unavailable
Seal	N/A
Fabulous Bellini

Organizations

• Yancy Street Gang

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Centerville
      • Barney & Bailum Circus

Objects

• Benjy's rings

Vehicles

• Benjy's car

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 22, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

• This is the first time Benjy uses his own car, instead of hitching a ride in Ronald's car, someone he's not actually even truly friends with.
• Jojo is a parody of King Kong.

Errors

• The longer Jojo is out of his cage, the taller he gets.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

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