Misfits of Science season 1 Fumble on the One - Metacritic

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NBC
Dec 6, 1985

NBC
Dec 6, 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...

Directed By: Bob Sweeney

Written By: James D. Parriott, Blaze Forrester

NBC
Dec 6, 1985

NBC
Dec 6, 1985

Misfits of Science

S1 • Episode 8

Fumble on the One

Air Date: Dec 6, 1985

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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

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

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

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

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

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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