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Out of Control Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 0 - 1985
Episode 1
Hurry-Up
Sat, Oct 6, 198425 mins
Series pilot. Dave interviews a man who house-trains gorillas, Hern shows footage of a game called "flimbok", and a dance lesson is sped up in the "Hurry-Up" segment. Diz tries to tell a story during the show, but has to wait and cram it into two minutes at the end of the show.
Episode 2
Mouth-Off
Sun, Oct 7, 198425 mins
Fred Newman co-hosts with Dave. Diz misunderstands, thinking Fred will be the new host.
Episode 3
Inventions
25 mins
It's National Invention and New Idea Day, and the staff and crew show off their own inventions. Dave's guest is Oscar Boom-Boom Kapow, a man who does human fireworks.
Episode 4
Science
25 mins
Dave's guest is Professor Gravity, a physicist working on anti-gravity pills. After trying one, Dave floats into space.
Episode 5
Big Boss
30 mins
Dave is worried when a well-dressed man appears at the studio, who is said to be the "big boss", which makes him and the rest of the gang believe they are all about to lose their jobs.
Episode 6
The Ducks
25 mins
Dave's former classmates from Millard Fillmore High School (played by the Duck's Breath Mystery Theater) hold a reunion on the show, much to Dave's chagrin. Diz's doll is broken in the confusion and taken to the Doll Hospital.
Episode 7
Love
Fri, Feb 3, 198425 mins
When Dave falls under a trance by a hypnotist to make him fall in love with Diz, Hern takes over hosting the show.
Episode 8
Fashion
Thu, Oct 4, 198425 mins
The Big Boss decides Dave needs a new wardrobe. A professional fashion designer gives the whole cast a wardrobe make-over, resulting in a bizarre fashion show.
Episode 9
Day at the Beach
Fri, Feb 3, 1984
When Waldo takes the day off from work to go to the beach and takes one of the two studio cameras with him, Dave is left to run the show by himself as more staff takes off to go to the beach for some fun adventures.
Episode 10
Bad Luck
Fri, Feb 3, 1984
Dave experiences nothing but bad luck due to his superstitions, which include being chased by a life-sized action figure and dealing with technical problems on the set.
Episode 11
Battle of the Reporters
Fri, Feb 3, 198430 mins
Hern and Angela face off in a "battle of the reporters" to see which one of them is the better reporter for the show.
Episode 12
Big Things
Fri, Feb 3, 198425 mins
Waldo creates a super-growth ray that makes things big, but things get out of control when Dave uses the ray to accidentally blow-up a tarantula that stalks the studio.
Episode 13
Dave and Angela Are Getting Married?
Fri, Feb 3, 1984
When Diz overhears Dave and Angela talking about her upcoming story coverage of a celebrity wedding, she mistakenly assumes that Dave and Angela are the ones getting married, in which Diz tells Hern who fears loosing his job to Angela, as well as Waldo who fears changes in studio working conditions. But things get more complicated when Diz decides to throw a surprise engagement party for Dave and Angela complete with a wedding cake and all.
Episode 14
Dave's Birthday
Fri, Feb 3, 1984
When Diz thinks that today is Dave's birthday, she sets out with the rest of the gang to plan a surprise birthday party for him.
Episode 15
Magic
Fri, Feb 3, 1984
Dave's guest is an incompetent illusionist named Presto who tries to teach him and the gang how to, or more likely how NOT to, perform magic tricks.
Episode 16
Eskimo Pie
Fri, Feb 3, 198425 mins
When Dave and Hern leave to fly up north to Alaska on an excursion to search for the world's best Eskimo Pie, Diz remains behind to run the studio by herself and transforms the place, and the show, into one big music party.
Episode 17
Fri, Feb 3, 198425 mins
Dave tries to help out a depressed Waldo, who never gets any mail, by doing a character makeover on him with the help of Lydia the Letter Carrier.
Episode 18
Monkey for a Day
Fri, Feb 3, 198430 mins
When Dave fails to show up to the studio, Diz decides to hire a substitute host for the day, only that it turns out that the "host" is a chimpanzee.
Episode 19
Rock and Roll Studio
Fri, Feb 3, 198430 mins
When Diz accidentally overbooks the studio into having a rock band record their latest music video, she, Dave, Hern, Angela and Waldo are mistaken for the band and are brought into the now unrecognizable set to prepare for their production number, despite that none of them know how to sing or play musical instruments.
Episode 21
The Comedy Computer
Sun, Feb 3, 1985
Waldo tries to fix the Comedy Computer, Angela interviews Fannie Flash, the klutzy star of "Electra Woman," Dave goes to Kansas City in search of the best burger, Hern haunts a house, and Diz tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Episode 22
The Laugh Track Machine
Fri, Feb 3, 1984
Dave and the others try to help out Lem Blank, the man operating the laugh-track machine for the show, when he does not find the show, or anything else, to be funny anymore.
Episode 23
The Hurry Up/Time Machine
Sun, Nov 18, 198425 mins
By using the Hurry Up Machine, Dave goes back in time to 16th-Century England and learns games there. A kid shows his pet brontosaurus to a stunned Angela. The show searches for the world's best taco and shows how not to build a go-cart.
Episode 24
Worm Contest
Sun, Feb 3, 1985
Dave is hosting a worm contest at guess how many live worms are in a jar, but Hern accidentally destroys the envelope forcing Dave to do a protracted and grueling manual recount of the worms in the jar.
Episode 25
Exercise
Sun, Feb 3, 1985
Noticing how tired and sluggish Dave is, Angela tries to get him and the others in shape by teaching an exercise class on the set. Diz, Hern and Waldo all despise it. An organ grinder chooses Dave to be his monkey.
Episode 26
50 Years Older
Fri, Feb 3, 198425 mins
Waldo accidentally creates a time capsule resulting in himself, Dave, Diz, Hern and Angela aging 50 years.