A Hot Air Affair at the Fair

A Hot Air Affair at the Fair
Yancy Street Special sabotages Benjy's Centerville High Balloon.
Premiere date	November 10, 1979
Run time	11:34
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
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"A Hot Air Affair at the Fair" is the tenth episode (part one) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It aired on November 10, 1979 on NBC.

Benjy and Kelly enter a hot air balloon race because there's nothing wrong with a bunch of unsupervised teenagers competing in a hot air balloon race.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Miss Twilly	Marilyn Schreffler
Benjy Grimm	Wayne Morton
Kelly Harkness	Noelle North
Betty Harkness	Marilyn Schreffler
Ronald Radford	John Erwin
Ronald's mother
Spike Hanrahan	Art Metrano
James	Unavailable
Duck	Unavailable

Organizations

• Yancy Street Gang

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Centerville
      • State fair
      • Sleep Tight Mattress Factory
      • Harkness residence
• The Moon

Objects

• Benjy's rings

Vehicles

• Centerville High Balloon
• Golden Bird
• Yancy Street Special

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 10, 1979 on NBC

Errors

• Kelly is a high school student?
• Kelly is overreacting a bit when she claimed Spike was trying to send them to the moon. Near the end of the episode, Betty and Ronald's hot air balloon traveled up to a certain point before it fell back down after freezing.
• Benjy spends more time at Kelly's than he does at his own house, which still hasn't been seen at this point.

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.