Junkyard Hijinks

Junkyard Hijinks
The Thing stops the Yancy Street Gang in their tracks.
Premiere date	September 15, 1979
Run time	11:35
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
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"Junkyard Hijinks" is the second episode (part one) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It aired on September 15, 1979 on NBC.

Benjy and Kelly want to turn the Yancy Street Gang's junkyard into a playground against the latter's wishes.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Benjy Grimm/The Thing	Wayne Morton (Benjy) Joe Baker (Thing)
Kelly Harkness	Noelle North
Turkey	Michael Sheehan
Spike Hanrahan	Art Metrano
Stretch	Unavailable
Ronald Radford	John Erwin
Betty Harkness	Marilyn Schreffler
Sewer worker	Unavailable
Ronald's father

Organizations

• Yancy Street Gang
• Ace Moving Co.

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Centerville
      • Yancy Street
        • Centerville Community Playground
        • Yancy Street Gang headquarters
      • Eva's Cafe
      • Starduster
      • Mac TV and Radio Shop

Objects

• Benjy's rings

Vehicles

• Ronald's car
• Yancy Street Gang's motorcycles
• Ronald's tractor

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 15, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

• Benjy doesn't transform until over four minutes in the episode, the longest time yet.
• Betty said "Jeepers," which is usually Daphne Blake's catchphrase in Scooby-Doo cartoons.

Errors

• When Kelly first talks about the playground, there is a plain field behind the Yancy Street Gang, but when it cuts up close to them, there are buildings all around them including Eva's Cafe.
• When Benjy and Kelly walk away from the Yancy Street Gang after the former pair are first dismissed, they walk past another building with the Eva's Cafe sign now on the window.
• This whole episode is made moot in "The Thing and the Queen," when the park goes back to being a junkyard again.

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.