Night Flight Fright

Night Flight Fright
Premiere date	December 14, 1957
Run time	4:00
Starring	Don Messick Daws Butler
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Charles Shows
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
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"Night Flight Fright" is the second 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 HB Enterprises.

Finding themselves trapped aboard the UFO, Ruff and Reddy are chased by the maniacal menaces who pilot it.

Memorable quotes

Reddy: Boy, the moon's out kinda early today.
Ruff: That's not the moon, you goon, that's the Earth!

Ruff: Ixnay, ixnay!
Reddy: Ixnay? You know I don't speak a word of Spanish.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Narrator (voice only)	Don Messick
Ruff	Don Messick
Reddy	Daws Butler
Robots	N/A
Captain Comet

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Middleville
      • Ruff and Reddy's residence
  • Spain (mentioned)
• Outer space

Objects

• 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

Errors

• The recap of what occurred in the last episode shows Ruff and Reddy being taken up into the spaceship at the same time, when really they were taken one at a time.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😢