Lights, Action, Thing!

Lights, Action, Thing!
First day on set with Ronald as the jungle man.
Premiere date	November 24, 1979
Run time	11:32
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
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"Lights, Action, Thing!" is the twelfth episode (part two) of The Thing season one, and came as a segment of Fred and Barney Meet the Thing. It aired on November 24, 1979 on NBC.

"Bad News" Bedazzle is filming a new movie in Centerville, with his recently fired stuntman sabotaging the entire production and putting everyone's safety at risk.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Ronald Radford	John Erwin
Kelly Harkness	Noelle North
Benjy Grimm	Wayne Morton
Betty Harkness	Marilyn Schreffler
Assistant director	Unavailable
Mr. Bedazzle	Unavailable
Muscle Define	Unavailable
Retired stuntman #1	Unavailable
Retired stuntman #2	Unavailable

Organizations

• Miracle Pictures

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Centerville
      • Mr. Bedazzle's trailer
      • Stuntmen's Rest Home
      • Bijou

Objects

• Benjy's rings

Vehicles

• Ronald's boat
• Ronald's car

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 24, 1979 on NBC

Behind the scenes

• The episode title is a play on the cliche director's cue of "Lights, camera, action." You're welcome.
• This episode is somewhat similar to the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Never Ape an Ape Man."
• Ronald quotes William Shakespeare's Hamlet when he says, "To be or not to be."

Errors

• On the board that says Miracle Pictures' slogan, "If it's good... It's a miracle!!," the second apostrophe is missing.
• When Ronald hands over his money to Mr. Bedazzle, the latter has a poster of a movie that was never there before.

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.