Episode
Dennis the Menace: The Supermarket/The Big Candied Apple/The Defective Detector
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Dennis the Menace
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1985-12-02
Episode context
The Supermarket/The Big Candied Apple/The Defective Detector is Episode 13 in Season 1 of Dennis the Menace. It aired on 1985-12-02.
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Episode 12: 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.
Episode 14: 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.
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Episode 11: 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.
Episode 15: 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.
Episode 10: 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.
Episode 16: 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.
Episode 9: 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.
Episode 17: 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.
Episode 8: 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.
Episode 18: 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.
Episode 7: 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.
Episode 19: Medieval Evil/Beaver-Mania/Say Uncle