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  • NBC
  • Oct 4, 1985
  • NBC
  • Oct 4, 1985

Summary Semi-superhero TV show that revolved around a group of young people with superpowers who are members of an American think tank and fight crime. Members included head scientist and fast talker Dr. Billy Hayes, who worked at the Humanidyne Institute and had no powers but led his team of patients and colleagues, including: Fellow scientist...

  • NBC
  • Oct 4, 1985
  • NBC
  • Oct 4, 1985
Misfits of Science
Season 1
Season Premiere: Oct 4, 1985
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
54
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Summary Semi-superhero TV show that revolved around a group of young people with superpowers who are members of an American think tank and fight crime. Members included head scientist and fast talker Dr. Billy Hayes, who worked at the Humanidyne Institute and had no powers but led his team of patients and colleagues, including: Fellow scientist...

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Episode 1 • Oct 4, 1985 • 1 h
Deep Freeze (Pilot)
Episode 2 • Oct 18, 1985
Your Place or Mayan
After a friend of Billy and El is killed, they go on a search for a lost Mayan treasure with the map they were given by him. Their discovery could very well rewrite Mayan history.
Episode 3 • Oct 25, 1985
Guess What's Coming to Dinner
Harry, genius bottle-washer at Humanidyne, cobbles together a transmitter from company discards - and makes contact with aliens. At least, that's what he thinks he's done. The reality is far more dangerous.
Episode 4 • Nov 1, 1985
Lost Link
A man, who has never left his homeland, miraculously travels from one side of the ocean to the next on a wooden raft to reach the Space Shuttle in time. The Misfits desperately try to help, but he keeps wondering off from them.
Episode 5 • Nov 8, 1985
Sort of Looking for Gina
Episode 6 • Nov 15, 1985
Sonar... and Yet So Far
El's friend Eddie's closest friend is Donald the dolphin, with whom he can communicate using electronics. But when Donald produces a picture of a skeleton and two flamingos deep underwater, things get very dangerous for them both.
Episode 7 • Nov 29, 1985
Steer Crazy
A meteor impacts on a farm and radiates the cows grazing there. All is well until they are converted into hamburgers and served, unknowingly, by Gloria to three Senior Citizens who develop powers. Shortly thereafter, problems arise.
Episode 8 • Dec 6, 1985
Fumble on the One
Billy is reunited with an old friend from high school who, through Humanydine, enlists the help of the Misfits in his Top Secret mission. As the mission unfolds as do the secrets and dangers of Billy's friend.
Episode 9 • Dec 13, 1985 • 47 m
Twin Engines
Johnny's mechanic friend Lonnie has been having visions, and finds out he's a twin, separated at birth, to someone much more famous. When Dwayne goes missing, Lonnie takes his place, and finds himself in serious danger.
Episode 10 • Dec 27, 1985
Grand Theft Bunny
When a fellow scientist of Dr. Hayes takes a bunny from the test lab she broke into, the Misfits are faced with a race against time to stop the outbreak of a deadly new plague.
Episode 11 • Jan 10, 1986
Grand Elusion
The Misfits help a fellow scientist's daughter defect when she and her father tour America as part of a Russian girl's gymnast team.
Episode 12 • Jan 17, 1986
Once Upon a Night
Gloria's pen-pal Jaye, having stolen a bracelet, is the object of some unidentified assailants. In the following pursuit Gloria gets kidnapped instead, Billy and El get arrested, and Jaye manages to escape with Johnny.
Episode 13 • Jan 31, 1986 • 47 m
Center of Attention
The Misfits are pulled into the world of gambling once more when they uncover a plot by the manager of a basketball team to bet on his team to lose. This happens as his players purposely throw games.
Episode 14 • Feb 7, 1986 • 46 m
Against All Oz
Episode 15 • Feb 21, 1986
The Avenging Angel
Lovable loser Mort believes he can wrestle when Gloria helps him save an elderly couple from being attacked. Unfortunately, it's a Mob-controlled protection racket, making things dangerous for Mort and Gloria.
Episode 16 • May 16, 1986
Three Days of the Blender
Billy Hayes is arrested on suspicion of treason when he is found holding a blender that contains a top-secret defense computer chip.

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
54
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
54
33% Positive
2 Reviews
50% Mixed
3 Reviews
17% Negative
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70
Jan 31, 2022
The show has definite possibilities. Young people, who tend to feel like misfits most of the time anyway, could well identify with the characters' feelings, if not their specific difficulties. [08 Sep 1985, p.F]
By Eric Mink FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 31, 2022
The premiere runs too long, but the cast is amiable and the special effects are amusing if not exactly eye-popping.
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50
Jan 31, 2022
If you are over 12, you can look at it one of two ways: You can regard it as hopelessly silly or, if you're in a silly mood, just go along and enjoy it. [29 Sep 1985]
By Robert P. Laurence FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 31, 2022
The problem with the show, from an adult standpoint, is that all the good humor in the world isn't going to make it watchable enough to overcome the stupidity of the premise. [04 Oct 1985, p.E7]
By Steve Sonsky FULL REVIEW
40
Jan 31, 2022
Ingredients don't mix in Misfits.
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25
Jan 31, 2022
The premise of this one is about as dumb as you can get.
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