It Started on Yancy Street

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It Started on Yancy Street
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Fantastic Four communicate with the Watcher's thought projection.
Premiere date October 21, 1967
Starring Gerald Mohr
Jo Ann Pflug
Jac Flounders
Paul Frees
Music composed by Ted Nichols
Writer(s) Phil Hahn
Jack Hanrahan
Director(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
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"It Started on Yancy Street" is the seventh episode of Fantastic Four season one, and the eighth episode overall. It aired on October 21, 1967 on ABC. It was written by Phil Hahn and Jack Hanrahan, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

The Red Ghost returns to trick the Fantastic Four into believing they are wanted by the Thing's old rival street gang when he scoops them up and dumps them on the moon as payback.

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes

Characters

Legend
Character debut Speaking debut Ep. debut No lines Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character Actor
Human Torch/Johnny Storm Jac Flounders
Invisible Girl/Sue Richards Jo Ann Plfug
Mister Fantastic/Reed Richards Gerald Mohr
The Thing/Ben Grimm Paul Frees
Red Ghost Vic Perrin
The Watcher Paul Frees


Organizations

Locations

Objects

Vehicles

  • Red Ghost's rocket ship

Production

Development

Filming

Music

The music was composed by Ted Nichols.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

Behind the scenes

Errors

  • Despite being the Watcher's first appearance on-screen, Reed acts like he already knows him, which might be because it's set after "Galactus."

Critical reception

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 on any physical media.

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