It Started on Yancy Street

It Started on Yancy Street
Fantastic Four communicate with the Watcher's thought projection.
Premiere date	October 21, 1967
Writer(s)	Phil Hahn and Jack Hanrahan
Director(s)	William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
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"It Started on Yancy Street" is the seventh episode of Fantastic Four season one. It aired on October 21, 1967 on ABC. It was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, co-founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

The Red Ghost returns to trick the Fantastic Four into believing they are wanted by the Thing's old rival street gang, when he scoops them up and dumps them on the moon as payback.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Human Torch/Johnny Storm	Jac Flounders
Invisible Girl/Sue Richards	Jo Ann Plfug
Mister Fantastic/Reed Richards	Gerald Mohr
The Thing/Ben Grimm	Paul Frees
Red Ghost	Vic Perrin
Uatu, the Watcher	Paul Frees

Organizations

• Fantastic Four
• Yancy Street Gang

Locations

• New York City
  • Manhattan
    • Yancy Street
• The Moon
  • The Watcher's laboratory

Objects

• Transnitron

Vehicles

• Red Ghost's rocket ship

Music

The score was composed by Ted Nichols.

Errors

• Despite being the Watcher's first appearance on-screen, Reed acts like he already knows him, which may be because it's set after "Galactus".

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

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