Dennis the Menace (1985)

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19852 Seasons22m episodes6.7

Kids, Animation, Comedy

TMDB6.7

Votes272

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Runtime: 22m episodes
Genre: Kids
Certificate: TV-G
Origin: CA

About

The young blond boy with a cowlick and a mischievous personality, Dennis the Menace, gets into numerous scrapes and adventures with his dog Ruff and his friends Joey, Margaret, Gina, Tommy, PeeBee and Jay.

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Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 9, 1985
Network: CBS, Syndication
Studio: Atkinson Film Arts

Time to finish

29 hrs

78 episodes. About 5 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

Phil Hartman

George Wilson

Jeannie Elias

Marilyn Lightstone

Brennan Thicke

Maurice LaMarche

Stevie Vallance

SERIES

19852 Seasons22m episodes6.7

Kids, Animation, Comedy

TMDB6.7

Votes272

Your rating

Runtime: 22m episodes
Genre: Kids
Certificate: TV-G
Origin: CA

About

Where to watch

Region

With ads

Tubi TV

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Sep 9, 1985
So Long, Old Paint/Trembly Assembly/Private I
Mr. Wilson is painting his house and Dennis invites himself over to help out. Needless to say, Dennis' "helping" gets Mr. Wilson close to a nervous breakdown. Dennis accompanies Henry to an auto showroom, where Dennis harasses the poor salesman so, that Henry buys a new car almost to avoid a law-suit. He discovers that the purchase entitles him to watch the actual car being built on the assembly line, with the hapless salesman acting as their guide. Now Dennis turns his impulsiveness toward the robot assembly line, screwing it up completely, and their "new" car comes out looking like futuristic junk!. A Raymond Chandler-type takeoff in which Dennis pretends to be a hard-boiled private eye, in the Bogart tradition, tracking down his missing pooch, Ruff, by questioning his friends and neighbors.
E2 · Airs Sep 16, 1985
A Visitor from Outer Space/Train That Boy/Genie Madness
An alien from another planet lands in Dennis room in a quest for peace and quiet... but Dennis wants to show him around! A mad romp ensues with Dennis taking the alien to Mr. Wilson's house.
E3 · Airs Sep 23, 1985
Cheer Up/Ghostblusters/The Life You Save
Mr. Wilson slips on Dennis' skateboard and has to go to the hospital. Once there, Dennis arrives to cheer Wilson up... Wilson is in for the time of his life! The kids discover an abandoned old gothic house that Dennis decides would make a great club-house.
E4 · Airs Sep 30, 1985
Shark Treatment/Jungle Bungle/Racetrack Menace
They're shooting a "Jaws"-type movie at the beach, when the remote control falls into the mechanical shark's mouth, and it zooms off. Dennis finds the fake shark, and crawling inside it, has fun frightening his friends.
E5 · Airs Jun 9, 1986
All the President's Menace/The Love Rowboat/Wilson the Menace
Dennis and his family visit Mt. Rushmore, which is in the middle of being renovated. Dennis scales the scaffolding in an effort to help out. There he meets an old man holed up in one of the president's nostrils.
E6 · Airs Oct 14, 1985
Fishing for Trouble/Future Fortune/Time Bomb
Dennis goes fishing with Mr. Wilson, who's out to finally catch "Old Gramps", smartest trout in the whole lake. After a number of zany mishaps due to Dennis' over-eagerness, Wilson manages to hook the prize-winning fish -- only to have Dennis cause it to escape back into the water. When Mr. Wilson gets his hands on a radio that PeeBee has invented -- one that seems to... Read all
E7 · Airs Oct 21, 1985
Spa Blahs/Whale of a Tale/Disaster on the Green
Mrs. Wilson has bought George a gift membership at a Health Spa. Dennis accompanies Wilson on his first visit, where he proceeds to drive poor Wilson nuts, speeding up his exercycle, pouring bubble bath in the spa water, etc. Finally the management tears up Wilson's membership.
E8 · Airs Oct 28, 1985
Here, Kitty!/Circus Berserkus/The Monster of Mudville Flats
Dennis brings home a stray kitten which Alice makes him turn over to the Wilsons. But the "kitten" is actually a baby mountain lion, which proceeds to wreck the Wilson's home. Things get worse when it's angry mother shows up, looking for its cub!. Mr. Wilson takes Dennis and Joey to the circus and ends up being the main event.
E9 · Airs Nov 4, 1985
The Price of Stardom/Space Menace/The Magic Flute
Dennis is made the prop man for the community theater whereupon he turns a serious drama into a roaring comedy. When Henry takes Dennis and the gang on a tour of his aerospace company, the gang slips away. They find a rocket ship and decide to investigate. Once inside, Dennis hits a button and WHOOSH! they are blasted into outer space.
E10 · Airs Nov 11, 1985
Dennis' Yard Sale/The Abominable Snow Menace/It Came from the Planet Dennis
When Henry and Alice leave to go to a "Poor People's" charity auction, Dennis decides to help the poor people by selling most everything in the Mitchell household.
E11 · Airs Nov 18, 1985
Snowman Madness/The Invisible Kid/Home Destruction
Slippery ice causes chaos when Henry and Dennis set out to make a snowman. After tumbling and sliding all over the ski resort, they end up as part of a snowman and receive hot cocoa for their efforts.
E12 · Airs Nov 25, 1985
Chitty Chitty Moon Walk/Wet 'N Wild/Dennis at the Movies
Dennis keeps his eye on the secret solar powered moonwalker for his Dad. But when Joey touches the wrong button, it takes them for a stop-and-go-ride around town, eventually leading two crooks who want to steal it to the police. Dennis and Joey build a raft to go down the local river.
E13 · Airs Dec 2, 1985
The Supermarket/The Big Candied Apple/The Defective Detector
Dennis visits a supermarket and completely dismantles it. The Mitchell's visit New York. The Statue of Liberty will never be the same. The gang goes to the beach and decide to look for treasure with a metal detector. Once there, a bully tries to take it away from them. Ultimately, Dennis saves the bully from danger by way of the metal detector's powerful magnet.
E14 · Airs Dec 9, 1985
Henry the Menace/Come Fly with Me/Camping Out
Henry's father comes to visit, and he tells Dennis what Henry was like as a little boy. Not surprisingly, the child-sized Henry and the present-day Dennis had a lot in common. They both create chaos wherever they go. Dennis and PeeBee enter a friendly challenge of building and flying their own airplanes.
E15 · Airs Dec 16, 1985
Up Up and Away (From Here)/Going Ape/Dennis the Pirate
Dennis, George, Henry, and Joey all enter a balloon race. Dennis wins the race, but only after a wild series of adventures. A take-off on King Kong, in which PeeBee, experimenting with a gas-filled balloon, loses control of it, and he, Dennis, Margaret, and Joey, are carried off, ending up on a banana-shaped island.
E16 · Airs Dec 23, 1985
It's a Ruff Life/Professor Myron Mentalapse/Dennis Race 2000
When Ruff upsets one of PeeBee's experiments, the dog and Joey end up with their brains switched, Ruff can speak, while Joey can only bark! PeeBee and Dennis chase them around town, trying to capture them and re-switch their brains back to their owners.
E17 · Airs Dec 30, 1985
A Better Mousetrap/The Wizzer of Odd/Canine Car Wash
Mrs. Wilson will not return until Mr. Wilson gets rid of all the mice. PeeBee's special mousetraps are regarded as circus rides by the mice and they come from everywhere to play, which costs Mr. Wilson a lot of quarters, the price he pays to the boys for each mouse captured.
E18 · Airs Jan 6, 1986
Ride'Em Cowboy/Tenting Tonight/A Hair Raising Tale
Dennis and his parents visit the beautiful ranch of his favorite Uncle Bud. Uncle Bud has always wanted to win the local rodeo, and Dennis helps him out by riding the wildest bronc in six counties!. Henry's company has developed a sophisticated self-inflating tent to be used by space explorers on the moon.
E19 · Airs Jan 13, 1986
Medieval Evil/Beaver-Mania/Say Uncle
E20 · Airs Jan 20, 1986
Hopping Mad/Mayan Mayhem/The Big Power Trip
Dennis buys a magician's hat and gives it to Margaret at her cello recital. The hat goes wild, spewing frogs and rabbits all over the place, creating all kinds of comedy. Dennis and George Wilson take the wrong vacation plane and end up in South America, being pursued by Mayan natives. They have all kinds of wild adventures trying to get back home.
E21 · Airs Jun 16, 1986
Strong Medicine/Gold Strike/Lights! Camera! Mud!
Dennis is blasted by a "strength ray" that Peebee has invented, and suddenly has super muscles. he goes around using his new-found strength to do various good deeds; rescuing kittens from tall trees, etc. Dennis challenges the town bully to a fight, not realizing that his super strength has worn off. But the bully proves to be a coward, and runs off anyway.
E22 · Airs Feb 3, 1986
Invasion of the Blob/Wild West Show-Down/The Hen Party
A blob from outer space enters various forms tree, Ruff, Alice, Henry, Mr. Wilson, baseball in search of a good place to plan an invasion. But Dennis manages to make the blob uncomfortable no matter where it hides.
E23 · Airs Feb 10, 1986
Up Up and Oh Boy!/The Company Picnic/Aw Nuts!
On a bicycle-built-for-two Henry and Mr. Wilson race after Dennis, Margaret and Joey who have accidentally taken flight in Henry's newest invention, a dirigi-blimp.
E24 · Airs Feb 17, 1986
Clip-Joint Capers/Tanks for the Memory/Second Honeymoon
After making the barber's guard dog sick, Dennis volunteers Ruff for watch dog. When bank robbers next door drill a hole in the wall of the barber ship to escape through, Dennis and Ruff capture them but make a shambles of the barber shop.
E25 · Airs Feb 24, 1986
A Couple of Coo-Coos/The Cloneheads/Nothing But the Tooth
Dennis accidentally locks the keys in the car while out in the country with Mr. Wilson for a demonstration of homing pigeons. Dennis ties a note to the pigeon which gets stuck in a tree and then Mr. Wilson gets stuck after freeing the bird.
E26 · Airs Mar 3, 1986
Mummy's Little Boy/Horsing Around/Dennis Plasters Pamplona
Wrapped head to toe in bandages while playing hospital, Joey gets picked up by an ambulance and taken to the hospital. Dennis and Margaret attempt to rescue him and make a shambles of the hospital corridors. Dennis makes friends with an old horse named Horace.
E27 · Airs Mar 10, 1986
Dennis Predicts/Dennis & the Kangaroo Cavalry/Meatball Mess
E28 · Airs Mar 17, 1986
My Fair Dennis/A Good Knight's Work/Life in the Fast Lane
E29 · Airs Mar 24, 1986
A Nightmare at the Opera/A Royal Pain/Having a Marbleous Time
E30 · Airs Mar 31, 1986
Marky the Menace/Dennis the Genius/A Step Ahead
E31 · Airs Apr 7, 1986
The Boss Gets Scalped/Mr. Dennistein/Lean Green Jumping Machine
E32 · Airs Apr 14, 1986
Laundry Business/Journey to the Center of Uncle Charlie's Farm/Dennis Springs Into Action
E33 · Airs Apr 21, 1986
Ruff's Hat Trick/A Moving Experience/Lemon-Aid
After Dennis gets his father stopped by a policeman, Ruff swipes the cop's hat and Dennis and the cop chase him through the city streets leaving a mess in their wake. Dennis stops a bank robber when Ruff is found and is made an honorary policeman.
E34 · Airs Apr 28, 1986
Sounds in the Night/Dennis Does Hollywood/Ruff to the Rescue
Mischievous Dennis Mitchell (Mason Gamble) makes the life of neighbor George Wilson (Walter Matthau) miserable with his overactive energy and inadvertent troublemaking.
E35 · Airs May 5, 1986
The Bicycle Thief/Menace of the Mine Shaft/Margaret's Birthday Party
E36 · Airs May 12, 1986
So Sorry!/Shock Therapy/Yard Wars
Mischievous Dennis Mitchell (Mason Gamble) makes the life of neighbor George Wilson (Walter Matthau) miserable with his overactive energy and inadvertent troublemaking.
E37 · Airs May 19, 1986
Ruff's Masterpiece/Going to the Dogs/Big Baby
E38 · Airs May 27, 1986
Building a Better Dog House/Dennis and the Dragon/Hic!
E39 · Airs Jun 2, 1986
Strike Up the Band/Queen of Chinatown/Tale of a Tux
E40 · Airs Jun 9, 1986
Give a Little Whistle/Charmed I'm Sure/After Hours
E41 · Airs Jun 16, 1986
Baseball's Best Ballplayer; Mr. Wilson's Diet; The Backyard Band
E42 · Airs Jun 23, 1986
Double Dennis/Timber Wolves/Help Not Wanted
E43 · Airs Jun 30, 1986
Million Dollar Dennis/3-D and Me/Barber Shop Disharmony
E44 · Airs Jul 7, 1986
Bowling for Dennis/Dennis Conquers the Navy/The Longest Half-Yard
E45 · Airs Jul 14, 1986
Vampire Scare/Give Me Liberty or Give Me Dennis/Wilson for Mayor
E46 · Airs Jul 21, 1986
Dangerous Detour/The Prodigy/The Chimp
E47 · Airs Jul 28, 1986
High Steel/Bicycle Mania/Little Dogs Lost
E48 · Airs Aug 4, 1986
Dennis Destroys Dallas/Black & Blue Hawaii/Oil's Well That Ends Well
E49 · Airs Aug 11, 1986
Door to Door Bore/Dennis in Venice/Young Sherlock Dennis
E50 · Airs Aug 18, 1986
Surf's Up/Yo Ho Ho/The Karate Kiddie
E51 · Airs Aug 25, 1986
Dennis and the Deep/K-9 Kollege/Housepests
E52 · Airs Sep 1, 1986
Animalympics/No Bones About It/Dennis Takes the Cake
E53 · Airs Sep 8, 1986
Quiet Riot/The Magic Pen/A Feeling for Stealing
E54 · Airs Sep 15, 1986
Househusband Henry/Wheeling & Double-Dealing/Stop That Car!
E55 · Airs Sep 22, 1986
Lights, Camera, Auction!/Boy Ahoy/Faulty Alarm
E56 · Airs Sep 29, 1986
Hail to the Chief/Dennis in Microchipland/Handy Dandy Dennis
E57 · Airs Oct 6, 1986
Dennis the Businessman/Soccer it to Me, Dennis/Camp Over Here-Over There
E58 · Airs Oct 13, 1986
Hullaballoo at the Harmony Homes/Phantom of the Wax Museum/Dennis and the Gypsy Woman
E59 · Airs Oct 20, 1986
Attack of the Giant Tomatoes/The Dinosaur Doozy/Funhouse Grouch
E60 · Airs Oct 27, 1986
Dennis Rocks Out/Deserted with Dennis/Fashionable Menace
E61 · Airs Nov 3, 1986
Back to the Drawing Board/Part-Time Helper/G.I.George
E62 · Airs Nov 10, 1986
Wanted: Scarface Wilson/Ruff Come Home/10-4 Dennis
E63 · Airs Nov 17, 1986
Heroes Unwelcome/The Martians are Coming/Ancient Olympics
E64 · Airs Nov 24, 1986
Pool Haul/Fool for Gold/Nothin' to Be Afraid Of
E65 · Airs Dec 1, 1986
Yankee Doodle Dennis/Dennis the Barnstormer/Trial and Error

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Sep 9, 1985
Network: CBS, Syndication
Studio: Atkinson Film Arts

Time to finish

29 hrs

78 episodes. About 5 weeks at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Phil Hartman

George Wilson

Jeannie Elias

Marilyn Lightstone

Brennan Thicke

Maurice LaMarche

Stevie Vallance

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