Beach Party Crashers

Beach Party Crashers
The Thing fights an octopus.
Premiere date	October 6, 1979
Run time	11:36
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
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"Beach Party Crashers" is the fifth episode (part two) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It aired on October 6, 1979 on NBC.

The Yancy Street Gang create some scares in the water to ruin the Centerville High students' beach day.

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
Ronald Radford	John Erwin
Betty Harkness	Marilyn Schreffler
Louis XIV
Stretch	Unavailable
Spike Hanrahan	Art Metrano
Turkey	Michael Sheehan
Octopus	N/A
The Thing	Joe Baker
Ants	Unavailable
Aardvark	Unavailable
Sharks	N/A

Organizations

• Gucci
• Yancy Street Gang

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Centerville
      • Beach

Objects

• Benjy's rings
• Sun Free

Vehicles

• Ronald's car

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 6, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

• This is the first time Betty tries to make her feelings known to the Thing, even though she's already dating Ronald.

Errors

• Why is Miss Twilly hitching a ride with the gang?
• Although there were a lot of people at the beach, when it came time to all the other kids of the school sitting together eating, of course, they're all absent.
• Considering the Thing is supposed to be a hero, leaving the Yancy Street Gang to be potentially eaten by sharks, is highly irresponsible of him.

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.