Double Trouble for the Thing

Double Trouble for the Thing
Fake Thing spins the real Thing above its head.
Premiere date	October 20, 1979
Run time	11:36
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
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"Double Trouble for the Thing" is the seventh episode (part one) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of The Thing. It aired on October 20, 1979 on NBC.

A robot double of the Thing goes on a crime spree, which gets the real Thing sent to jail.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Pedestrian #1	Noelle North
Robot Thing	Joe Baker
Bank teller	Noelle North
Bank client	Marilyn Schreffler
Cop #1	Unavailable
Cop #2	Unavailable
Kelly Harkness	Noelle North
Betty Harkness	Marilyn Schreffler
Ronald Radford	John Erwin
Waiter	Unavailable
Benjy Grimm	Wayne Morton
Kid #1	Marilyn Schreffler
Moving guy #1	Unavailable
Moving guy #2	Unavailable
The Thing	Joe Baker
Cop #3	Unavailable
Cop #4	Unavailable
Kid #2 (or kid #1 again?)	Marilyn Schreffler
Reporter	John Stephenson
Danton Blackwood	Unavailable
Cop #5	Unavailable
Police captain	John Stephenson
Cop #6	Unavailable
Cop #7	Unavailable

Organizations

• Ace Moving Co.
• Centerville Police Department

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Centerville
      • Centerville National Bank
      • Centerville Pizzeria
      • Library
      • Centerville Park
      • Jailhouse
      • Blackwood's laboratory
      • Richley's Diamond Store

Objects

• Blab
• Benjy's rings

Vehicles

• Moving van

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 20, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

• When the two Things first meet, they do the mirror gag from the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup.

Errors

• Three Caucasian cops came in at the beginning, but when they did a close-up, one of them was African American.
• "Pizzeria" is spelled "Pizzaria."
• The first time Benjy transforms into the Thing he does it right in front of the library for all to see.
• When the Thing transforms back into Benjy, the rings were drawn differently than they usually were. They now resembled two halves of a ring, instead of half a ring fixing around a black jewel of some sort.

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.