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The Ruff and Reddy Show is a Hanna-Barbera animated series starring Ruff, a straight and smart cat voiced by Don Messick, and Reddy, a dumb and stupid dog voiced by Daws Butler. First broadcast in December 1957 on NBC, it was the first television show produced by Hanna-Barbera and presented by Screen Gems, the television arm of Columbia Pictures.
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Episode 1 - Planet Pirates
Release Date: 1957-12-14In this, the very first episode of Hanna-Barbera's first TV show, our heroes read reports of spacecrafts from other worlds. One such ship bears a bead on Ruff and Reddy as they nap and take them aboard the craft.
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Episode 2 - Night Flight Fright
Release Date: 1957-12-14Ruff and Reddy awaken from their nap to find they have been taken hostage by the ship from space.
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Episode 3 - "Whama Bamma Gamma" Gun
Release Date: 1957-12-14Ruff and Reddy's robotic captors pursue them with a gun that Reddy gets hold of.
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Episode 4 - The Mastermind of Muni Mula
Release Date: 1957-12-21On the metal planet Muni-Mula ("aluminum" spelled backwards), Ruff and Reddy face a two-headed metallic chieftain called "The Big Thinker," who takes our heroes to be assimilated as metal clones.
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Episode 5 - The Mad Monster of Muni Mula
Release Date: 1957-12-21The duplicating process of Ruff and Reddy begins. Reddy tries to intervene but becomes a robot himself after he gets zapped by the robot brain implanter.
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Episode 6 - Hocus Pocus Focus
Release Date: 1957-12-21Ruff tries to help Reddy but is followed by a roving mechanical spy.
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Episode 7 - Muni Mula Mix-Up
Release Date: 1957-12-28Reddy gets accidentally mesmerized by the brain waves and under orders of the Big Thinker takes Ruff captive.
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Episode 8 - Creepy Creature Feature
Release Date: 1957-12-28Ruff and Reddy discover a scientist, Professor Gizmo, in the dome of the Big Thinker. Gizmo tells how he blasted off in his homemade rocket and was taken prisoner in Muni-Mula.
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Episode 9 - The Creepy Creature
Release Date: 1957-12-28After Reddy destroys the slumbering inner works of the Big Thinker, he, Ruff and Gizmo are hunted down by a huge robot centurion.
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Episode 10 - Surprise in the Skies
Release Date: 1958-01-04Reddy, having given the Gizmo 2 ship a boost, is left behind on Muni-Mula. Ruff and Gizmo go back after him but are confronted by a flying attack squad of Muni-Mula robots.
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Episode 11 - Crowds in the Clouds
Release Date: 1958-01-04Gizmo confuses the Muni-Mula attack squadron by cloaking the Gizmo 2 craft in a dark cloud. Meanwhile, Reddy takes off in one of the metal squadron's head propellers and is mistaken by Gizmo to be one of the metal men.
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Episode 12 - Reddy Rocket Rescue
Release Date: 1958-01-04Gizmo rescues Reddy from his freefall, but now the Gizmo 2 rocket ship is on a collision course with a meteor.
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Episode 13 - Rocket Ranger Danger
Release Date: 1958-01-11The meteor hits the Gizmo 2, sending it and our heroes on a crash course to Earth, where broadcast media reports its arrival as if it were a UFO invasion.
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Episode 14 - Pinky the Pint Sized Pachyderm
Release Date: 1958-01-11A baby elephant escapes from a circus and requests Ruff and Reddy to take him home in Africa.
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Episode 15 - Last Trip of a Ghost Ship
Release Date: 1958-01-11Ruff, Reddy and Pinky board Voo Doo Queen and get locked on board.
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Episode 16 - The Irate Pirate
Release Date: 1958-01-18Captain Crossbones Jones forces Ruff, Reddy and Pinky to be his crew, but they start to escape.
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Episode 17 - Dynamite Fright
Release Date: 1958-01-18Ruff, Reddy and Pinky get stranded at sea trying to escape and then they start to sink.
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Episode 18 - Marooned in Typhoon Lagoon
Release Date: 1958-01-18Ruff, Reddy and Pinky cruise to an island. Ruff gets captured whilst exploring.
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Episode 19 - Scarey Harry Safari
Release Date: 1958-01-25A hunter named Harry Scary uses Ruff as bait to lure a lion, but the lion and Ruff take off.
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Episode 20 - Jungle Jitters
Release Date: 1958-01-25Ruff rescues the lion and Harry Scary reveals himself as an elephant hunter.
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Episode 21 - Bungle in the Jungle
Release Date: 1958-01-25Before Harry Scary can shoot Reddy, the lion comes to his rescue and all three run for it.
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Episode 22 - Miles of Crocodiles
Release Date: 1958-02-01Ruff, Reddy and Pinky escape from Harry and try to get across a river. Their escape log turns out to be a crocodile.
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Episode 23 - A Creep in the Deep
Release Date: 1958-02-01Reddy gets trapped with the crocodiles after saving Ruff and Pinky and Harry Scary comes round.
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Episode 24 - Hot Shot's Plot
Release Date: 1958-02-01Ruff and Reddy follow Harry Scary who took Pinky away. Harry Scary makes Pinky lure his mother into a trap.
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Episode 25 - The Gloom of Doom
Release Date: 1958-02-08Harry Scary gets all Ruff, Reddy, the lion, Pinky and his mother exactly where he wants.
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Episode 26 - The Trapped Trap the Trapper
Release Date: 1958-02-08The tables turn because of Harry Scary's empty rifle. Ruff and Reddy stowaway back home.
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Episode 27 - Westward Ho Ho Ho
Release Date: 1958-02-08Reddy wins a trailer, so he and Ruff take a vacation to the Grand Canyon. An accident, however, sends them to the ghost town of Gruesome Gulch.
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Episode 28 - Slight Fright on a Moonlight Night
Release Date: 1958-02-15Ruff and Reddy are spooked by Gruesome Gulch's ghosts, which are actually fake ones manipulated by two rustlers.
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Episode 29 - Asleep While the Creep Steals Sheep
Release Date: 1958-02-15Ruff and Reddy meet Wooly, a sheepdog whose flock of sheep is being mysteriously stolen. Reddy is coerced into posing as a sheep to catch the thieves.
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Episode 30 - Copped by a Copter
Release Date: 1958-02-15The sheep thieves in a helicopter pluck Reddy from the flock and take him to Gruesome Gulch.
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Episode 31 - The Two Terrible Twins from Texas
Release Date: 1958-02-22The thieves, sibling outlaws Killer and Diller, aim to sheer the sheep of their wool, which threatens Reddy's cover.
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Episode 32 - Killer and Diller in a Chiller of a Thriller
Release Date: 1958-02-22Reddy's cover is blown. Killer and Diller tie him up, place him in a mine's ore car and sends him towards an unfinished section of the trestle.
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Episode 33 - A Friend to the End
Release Date: 1958-02-22Ruff and Wooly rescue Reddy, and together the three heroes head back to Gruesome Gulch to find Wooly's sheep.
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Episode 34 - Heels on Wheels
Release Date: 1958-03-01As Ruff, Reddy and Woolly pursue the Texan Twins, they get flat tires and take the helicopter for transport.
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Episode 35 - The Whirly Bird Catches the Worms
Release Date: 1958-03-01Reddy lands on the truck's roof where he holds Killer at gunpoint. But Reddy ends up getting clobbered by a tunnel's low clearance.
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Episode 36 - The Boss of Double-Cross
Release Date: 1958-03-01On Killer and Diller's secret ranch, the Double Cross, the sheep spell out the word "help" for our heroes. Unfortunately, their copter has run out of gas.
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Episode 37 - Ship-Shape Sheep
Release Date: 1958-03-08Thanks to the sheep, our heroes find the copter's safety chute for landing safely. Once landed, Killer and Diller capture them and lock them up.
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Episode 38 - Tootin' Shootin'
Release Date: 1958-03-08In accordance with the rules of the west, Wooly demands that he and his friends fight for their lives. So he volunteers Reddy to a duel with Killer and Diller.
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Episode 39 - Hot Lead for a Hot-Head
Release Date: 1958-03-08Reddy nervously faces Killer and Diller in the duel, but he has an ace in the hole: Ruff in his cowboy hat with a second revolver.
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Episode 40 - The Treasure of Doubloon
Release Date: 1958-03-15At an aquarium, a baby seal follows Ruff and Reddy home. A chase ensues when the aquarium announces a reward for the seal's return.
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Episode 41 - Blunder Down Under
Release Date: 1958-03-15The chase for the seal leads to a pier near the ocean, where someone underwater is in trouble.
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Episode 42 - The Metal Monster Mystery
Release Date: 1958-03-15The metal monster Ruff and Reddy hoist to land is a diving bell, and in it is Professor Gizmo, who is mining for gold beneath the sea. Meanwhile, a periscope spies our heroes.
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Episode 43 - The Late, Late Pieces of Eight
Release Date: 1958-03-22The periscope belongs to a mysterious submarine that trails Gizmo's ship, the S.S. Leadbottom, which is on the way to a pirate's treasure.
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Episode 44 - The Goon of Doubloon Lagoon
Release Date: 1958-03-22The submarine captures Gizmo's diving bell with a giant magnet and takes it to a mysterious grotto.
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Episode 45 - Two Dubs in a Sub
Release Date: 1958-03-22Captain Greedy and Saltwater Daffy imprison Ruff, Reddy and Dr. Gizmo. Then the seal arrives to help them.
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Episode 46 - Big Deal With A Small Seal
Release Date: 1958-03-29The seal helps Ruff, Reddy and Gizmo escape and leads Greedy and Salt Water Daffy on a merry chase.
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Episode 47 - A Real Keen Submarine
Release Date: 1958-03-29The crew attempts to escape on Captain Greedy's sub, but are recaptured. Greedy forces Ruff and Gizmo to mine for treasure while Salt Water Daffy keeps Reddy and the seal at bay.
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Episode 48 - No Hope for a Dope of a Periscope
Release Date: 1958-03-29The seal saves Reddy from drowning but Saltwater catches him.
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Episode 49 - Rescue In The Deep Blue
Release Date: 1958-04-05The seal and Reddy manage to get away from Saltwater but are tailed by a shark.
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Episode 50 - A Whale of a Tail of a Tale of a Whale
Release Date: 1958-04-05Reddy and the seal escape but are being pursued by a shark. A friendly whale scares off the shark and takes Reddy and the seal to help Ruff and Gizmo.
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Episode 51 - Welcome Guest in a Treasure Chest
Release Date: 1958-04-05The seal boards Dr. Gizmo's sub with Ruff inside it and prepares a surprise for Greedy.
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Episode 52 - Pot-Shot Puts Hot Shot on Hot Spot
Release Date: 1958-04-05Greedy gets all the gold, but when he makes Reddy give back the doubloon he was going to keep as a souvenir, Greedy's ship sinks from the weight.