It Started on Yancy Street

It Started on Yancy Street
Fantastic Four communicate with the Watcher's thought projection.
Premiere date	October 21, 1967
Starring	Gerald Mohr Jo Ann Pflug Jac Flounders Paul Frees
Music composed by	Ted Nichols
Writer(s)	Phil Hahn Jack Hanrahan
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"It Started on Yancy Street" is the seventh episode of Fantastic Four season one, and the eighth episode overall. It aired on October 21, 1967 on ABC. It was written by Phil Hahn and Jack Hanrahan, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the 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

Legend
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
The Watcher	Paul Frees

Organizations

• Fantastic Four
• Yancy Street Gang

Locations

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

Objects

• Transnitron

Vehicles

• Red Ghost's rocket ship

Music

The music was composed by Ted Nichols.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 21, 1967 on ABC
• United Kingdom and Ireland: December 14, 1968 at 6:05 pm on ITV

Errors

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

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 on any physical media.