Invasion of the Booby Hatchers

Invasion of the Booby Hatchers
Premiere date	October 10, 1981
Run time	23:28
Starring	Penny Marshall Cindy Williams Ron Palillo Ken Mars Frank Welker
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Tom Swale Duane Poole
Director(s)	George Gordon Carl Urbano Ray Patterson Gordon Hunt (voices)
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"Invasion of the Booby Hatchers" is the first episode of Laverne & Shirley season one. It aired on October 10, 1981 on ABC. It was written by Tom Swale and Duane Poole, directed by George Gordon, Carl Urbano, and Ray Patterson, and voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

While guarding a rocket, Laverne and Shirley accidentally get inside and launch it off into space to discover aliens from Venus preparing to invade Earth, and worse the aliens want their help.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Laverne DeFazio	Penny Marshall
Shirley Feeney	Cindy Williams
Sergeant Squealy	Ron Palillo
Sergeant Turnbuckle	Ken Mars
Zarkon	Unavailable
Finnick	Frank Welker
Jules Verne
Gamma-6	Frank Welker

Organizations

• United States Army

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Camp Fillmore
      • Connecticut (indirectly mentioned)
        • New Haven (indirectly mentioned)
          • Yale University (mentioned)
      • Detroit (mentioned)
      • South Dakota (indirectly mentioned)
        • Mount Rushmore (mentioned)
      • California (indirectly mentioned)
        • Malibu (mentioned)
• The Moon
• Venus
• Galdaswain (mentioned)

Objects

• Boo Boo Kitty

Vehicles

• Army rocket
• Zarkon's spaceship

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, who is credited as musical director, with musical supervision by Paul DeKorte.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: October 10, 1981 on ABC

Behind the scenes

• The episode title is an allusion to the 1958 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (as well as the 1978 remake).
• Boo Boo Kitty is also from the live-action Laverne & Shirley show.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 5, 2019: CBS Home Entertainment releases Laverne & Shirley in the Army on DVD.