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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Tubi TV
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- Seasons
- 2
- Episodes aired
- 78
- Latest aired
- S02E13
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1985 – December 1986 65 episodes
- Season 2 January 1988 – March 1988 13 episodes
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S01E01 So Long, Old Paint/Trembly Assembly/Private I
September 9 find the promo
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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.
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S01E02 A Visitor from Outer Space/Train That Boy/Genie Madness
September 16 find the promo
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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.
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S01E03 Cheer Up/Ghostblusters/The Life You Save
September 23 find the promo
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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.
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S01E04 Shark Treatment/Jungle Bungle/Racetrack Menace
September 30 find the promo
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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.
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S01E05 All the President's Menace/The Love Rowboat/Wilson the Menace
June 9 find the promo
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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.
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S01E06 Fishing for Trouble/Future Fortune/Time Bomb
October 14 find the promo
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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
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S01E07 Spa Blahs/Whale of a Tale/Disaster on the Green
October 21 find the promo
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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.
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S01E08 Here, Kitty!/Circus Berserkus/The Monster of Mudville Flats
October 28 find the promo
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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.
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S01E09 The Price of Stardom/Space Menace/The Magic Flute
November 4 find the promo
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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.
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S01E10 Dennis' Yard Sale/The Abominable Snow Menace/It Came from the Planet Dennis
November 11 find the promo
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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.
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S01E11 Snowman Madness/The Invisible Kid/Home Destruction
November 18 find the promo
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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.
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S01E12 Chitty Chitty Moon Walk/Wet 'N Wild/Dennis at the Movies
November 25 find the promo
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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.
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S01E13 The Supermarket/The Big Candied Apple/The Defective Detector
December 2 find the promo
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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.
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S01E14 Henry the Menace/Come Fly with Me/Camping Out
December 9 find the promo
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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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S01E15 Up Up and Away (From Here)/Going Ape/Dennis the Pirate
December 16 find the promo
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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.
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S01E16 It's a Ruff Life/Professor Myron Mentalapse/Dennis Race 2000
December 23 find the promo
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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.
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S01E17 A Better Mousetrap/The Wizzer of Odd/Canine Car Wash
December 30 find the promo
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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.
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S01E18 Ride'Em Cowboy/Tenting Tonight/A Hair Raising Tale
January 6 find the promo
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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.
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S01E19 Medieval Evil/Beaver-Mania/Say Uncle
January 13 find the promo
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S01E20 Hopping Mad/Mayan Mayhem/The Big Power Trip
January 20 find the promo
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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.
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S01E21 Strong Medicine/Gold Strike/Lights! Camera! Mud!
June 16 find the promo
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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.
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S01E22 Invasion of the Blob/Wild West Show-Down/The Hen Party
February 3 find the promo
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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.
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S01E23 Up Up and Oh Boy!/The Company Picnic/Aw Nuts!
February 10 find the promo
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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.
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S01E24 Clip-Joint Capers/Tanks for the Memory/Second Honeymoon
February 17 find the promo
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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.
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S01E25 A Couple of Coo-Coos/The Cloneheads/Nothing But the Tooth
February 24 find the promo
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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.
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S01E26 Mummy's Little Boy/Horsing Around/Dennis Plasters Pamplona
March 3 find the promo
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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.
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S01E27 Dennis Predicts/Dennis & the Kangaroo Cavalry/Meatball Mess
March 10 find the promo
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S01E28 My Fair Dennis/A Good Knight's Work/Life in the Fast Lane
March 17 find the promo
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S01E29 A Nightmare at the Opera/A Royal Pain/Having a Marbleous Time
March 24 find the promo
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S01E30 Marky the Menace/Dennis the Genius/A Step Ahead
March 31 find the promo
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S01E31 The Boss Gets Scalped/Mr. Dennistein/Lean Green Jumping Machine
April 7 find the promo
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S01E32 Laundry Business/Journey to the Center of Uncle Charlie's Farm/Dennis Springs Into Action
April 14 find the promo
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S01E33 Ruff's Hat Trick/A Moving Experience/Lemon-Aid
April 21 find the promo
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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.
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S01E34 Sounds in the Night/Dennis Does Hollywood/Ruff to the Rescue
April 28 find the promo
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Mischievous Dennis Mitchell (Mason Gamble) makes the life of neighbor George Wilson (Walter Matthau) miserable with his overactive energy and inadvertent troublemaking.
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S01E35 The Bicycle Thief/Menace of the Mine Shaft/Margaret's Birthday Party
May 5 find the promo
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S01E36 So Sorry!/Shock Therapy/Yard Wars
May 12 find the promo
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Mischievous Dennis Mitchell (Mason Gamble) makes the life of neighbor George Wilson (Walter Matthau) miserable with his overactive energy and inadvertent troublemaking.
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S01E37 Ruff's Masterpiece/Going to the Dogs/Big Baby
May 19 find the promo
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S01E38 Building a Better Dog House/Dennis and the Dragon/Hic!
May 27 find the promo
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S01E39 Strike Up the Band/Queen of Chinatown/Tale of a Tux
June 2 find the promo
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S01E40 Give a Little Whistle/Charmed I'm Sure/After Hours
June 9 find the promo
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S01E41 Baseball's Best Ballplayer; Mr. Wilson's Diet; The Backyard Band
June 16 find the promo
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S01E42 Double Dennis/Timber Wolves/Help Not Wanted
June 23 find the promo
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S01E43 Million Dollar Dennis/3-D and Me/Barber Shop Disharmony
June 30 find the promo
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S01E44 Bowling for Dennis/Dennis Conquers the Navy/The Longest Half-Yard
July 7 find the promo
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S01E45 Vampire Scare/Give Me Liberty or Give Me Dennis/Wilson for Mayor
July 14 find the promo
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S01E46 Dangerous Detour/The Prodigy/The Chimp
July 21 find the promo
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S01E47 High Steel/Bicycle Mania/Little Dogs Lost
July 28 find the promo
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S01E48 Dennis Destroys Dallas/Black & Blue Hawaii/Oil's Well That Ends Well
August 4 find the promo
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S01E49 Door to Door Bore/Dennis in Venice/Young Sherlock Dennis
August 11 find the promo
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S01E50 Surf's Up/Yo Ho Ho/The Karate Kiddie
August 18 find the promo
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S01E51 Dennis and the Deep/K-9 Kollege/Housepests
August 25 find the promo
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S01E52 Animalympics/No Bones About It/Dennis Takes the Cake
September 1 find the promo
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S01E53 Quiet Riot/The Magic Pen/A Feeling for Stealing
September 8 find the promo
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S01E54 Househusband Henry/Wheeling & Double-Dealing/Stop That Car!
September 15 find the promo
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S01E55 Lights, Camera, Auction!/Boy Ahoy/Faulty Alarm
September 22 find the promo
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S01E56 Hail to the Chief/Dennis in Microchipland/Handy Dandy Dennis
September 29 find the promo
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S01E57 Dennis the Businessman/Soccer it to Me, Dennis/Camp Over Here-Over There
October 6 find the promo
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S01E58 Hullaballoo at the Harmony Homes/Phantom of the Wax Museum/Dennis and the Gypsy Woman
October 13 find the promo
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S01E59 Attack of the Giant Tomatoes/The Dinosaur Doozy/Funhouse Grouch
October 20 find the promo
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S01E60 Dennis Rocks Out/Deserted with Dennis/Fashionable Menace
October 27 find the promo
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S01E61 Back to the Drawing Board/Part-Time Helper/G.I.George
November 3 find the promo
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S01E62 Wanted: Scarface Wilson/Ruff Come Home/10-4 Dennis
November 10 find the promo
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S01E63 Heroes Unwelcome/The Martians are Coming/Ancient Olympics
November 17 find the promo
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S01E64 Pool Haul/Fool for Gold/Nothin' to Be Afraid Of
November 24 find the promo
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S01E65 Yankee Doodle Dennis/Dennis the Barnstormer/Trial and Error
December 1 find the promo