The Atom Ant Show — Season 1
Up and at 'em!
About this season
Operating out of his private anthill, the formidable Atom Ant picks up distress calls via his built-in antennae and heads out to battle a fearsomely delightful array of dastards including Bug Fat Dynamo, Crankenshaft, M.D. and his arch-nemesis Ferocious Flea. Sharing screen time with our hero are Precious Pupp, a rascal of a mutt who hides his antics from the kindly Granny Sweets and the Hillbilly Bears, the most ridiculous bears to ever come from the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Episodes (78)
1. Up and Atom
Aired 2 October 1965 • 7 min
Atom Ant is called in to capture Big Fats Dynamo after he and his gang break out of a maximum security prison.
2. Precious Jewel
Aired 2 October 1965 • 7 min
The great jewel thief, breaks into her house to steal her pearls.
3. Detour For Sure
Aired 2 October 1965 • 7 min
Maw and Paw tell the foreman on construction that they don't want any more eviction notices.
4. Crankenshaft's Monster
6.0Aired 9 October 1965 • 7 min
When the Evil Dr. Crankshaft creates a monster in his lab, Atom Ant is called in to save the day
5. Doggone Dognapper
6.0Aired 9 October 1965 • 7 min
Precious Pup is caught by the dogcatcher.
6. Woodpecked
Aired 9 October 1965 • 7 min
Paw is harassed by Maw to get rid of a noisy woodpecker.
7. Gem-A-Go-Go
7.0Aired 16 October 1965 • 7 min
Fancy Finger Finnegan laughs when he the FBI sends ant out after him.
8. Bites and Gripes
Aired 16 October 1965 • 7 min
Two crooks, Blackie and Lefty, steal Precious Pup.
9. Anglers Aweigh
Aired 16 October 1965 • 7 min
Maw sends Paw off to catch some catfish for dinner.
10. Ferocious Flea
Aired 23 October 1965 • 7 min
When a city is plagued by bank robberies, Atom Ant is forced into a battle with Ferocious Flea.
11. Queen of the Road
Aired 23 October 1965 • 7 min
Granny and Pupp are building a fast car to race with. They need the prize money. Two crooks want to win the money, too, and they're willing to do anything crooked to win.
12. Stranger Than Friction
Aired 23 October 1965 • 7 min
Maw makes Paw swear to invite the next person he meets to dinner.
13. Rambling Robot
Aired 30 October 1965 • 7 min
Junior's homemade robot goes berserk.
14. Crook Out, Cook Out
Aired 30 October 1965 • 7 min
Granny mistakenly snares a thief with her butterfly net.
15. Goldilocks and the Four Bears
Aired 30 October 1965 • 7 min
The Bear family decides to take a walk to let their breakfast cool. Meanwhile, a passing movie star named Goldy Looks gets a flat tire and finds the Bear's house while looking for help. She ends up eating their food and sleeping in their beds and she runs off when the Bears get home with an idea for a movie.
16. Nobody's Fool
Aired 6 November 1965 • 7 min
The seductive Anastashia Antnick from Antsvillania keeps Atom Ant busy.
17. Next of Kin
Aired 6 November 1965 • 7 min
Granny gets a letter in the mail with a big box. Her aunt has left her everything in a will, including a big bulldog. Granny must humor the bulldog and have perfect harmony, or else she will lose everything in the will. The bulldog takes an immediate dislike for Precious Pupp.
18. Going, Going Gone Gopher
8.0Aired 6 November 1965 • 7 min
While Maw is away in town Paw is left to guard the turnips.
19. Atom Ant Meets Karate Ant
8.0Aired 13 November 1965 • 7 min
Atom Ant goes to visit his old foe, Muscles, just released from prison.
20. Bowling Pinned
Aired 13 November 1965 • 7 min
Granny enters a bowling tournament.
21. Courtin' Disaster
Aired 13 November 1965 • 7 min
A truce is called between the Rugg's and the Hopper's so that Floral and Claude can begin dating.
22. Fastest Ant in the West
8.0Aired 20 November 1965 • 7 min
Rowdy Dowdy, tears up a town out west.
23. Poodle Pandemonium
Aired 20 November 1965 • 7 min
Precious Pup competes with the Bulldog next door for the affections of a French Poodle.
24. Picnic Panicked
Aired 20 November 1965 • 7 min
At the Hog Woller picnic Clod Hopper has a thing for Floral.
25. Mistaken Identity
Aired 27 November 1965 • 7 min
Ferocious Flea disguises himself as Atom.
26. Dog Tracks
Aired 27 November 1965 • 7 min
Granny buys Precious Pupp a new dog license so the dogcatcher won’t bother him anymore.
27. Judo Kudos
Aired 27 November 1965 • 7 min
Sumo the Japanese fighting bear is on his way to the circus when he falls out of the truck when it hits a bump. Sumo helps Paw Rugg learn karate so he can use it on his rival, Claude Hopper.
28. How Now Bow Wow
Aired 4 December 1965 • 7 min
Ferocious Flea and Bones, steal the Colonel's priceless dog.
29. Sub-marooned
Aired 4 December 1965 • 7 min
A trip to the beach for some surfing turns out different for Granny and Precious Pup.
30. Just Plane Around
Aired 4 December 1965 • 7 min
Experimental plane X-Ray-X lands near the Rugg house and Paw goes for an unexpected ride with agent 00700 and his pal who are trying to steal the plane.
31. Dragon Master
Aired 11 December 1965 • 7 min
Atom Ant welcomes the mad scientist to the good guy club and goes straight for the lump of sugar.
32. Lady Bugged
Aired 11 December 1965 • 7 min
A crook disguises himself as a little old lady when he hears that Granny Sweet won sweepstakes that are worth $500,000 dollars, but he can't fool Precious.
33. War Games
Aired 11 December 1965 • 7 min
The backyard of the Rugg's becomes a war zone.
34. The Big Gimmick
Aired 18 December 1965 • 7 min
Professor Von Gimmick terrorizes Big City with his monster.
35. Test in the West
Aired 18 December 1965 • 7 min
Granny and Precious Pup go out West, only to find everything closed and deserted.
36. Bricker Brats
Aired 18 December 1965 • 7 min
Shag and the Hopper boy keep getting in fights over who has the toughest dad threatening to start the feud back up.
37. Super Blooper
Aired 25 December 1965 • 7 min
Atom Ant and the kids race to see Super Guy, but he's not there.
38. Bones and Groans
Aired 25 December 1965 • 7 min
Granny Sweet goes shopping and gives Precious Pupp a big bone to keep him happy and busy while she is gone. Brutus the Bulldog decides he wants the bone and the battle is on.
39. Slap Happy Grandpappy
Aired 25 December 1965 • 7 min
Grandpa Rugg comes for a visit much to the excitement of Shag and Floral. Grandpa wants to shoot some Hoppers not knowing that Paw has just ended the feud with them.
40. Wild, Wild Ants
8.0Aired 1 January 1966 • 7 min
The ant hill mob takes over the city picnic grounds.
41. Butterfly Nut
Aired 1 January 1966 • 7 min
Precious and Granny Sweet head out to the country to look for butterflies for her collection. Precious digs up a tin box full of money left by a pair of crooks who had buried it. They come back to find Precious guarding it.
42. Pooped Pops
Aired 1 January 1966 • 7 min
Convinced by Maw that a good father plays with his kids, Paw goes along with Shag's games.
43. Dina-sore
Aired 8 January 1966 • 7 min
Tyrone the Tyrannosaurus comes back to life.
44. Precious' Bone
Aired 8 January 1966 • 7 min
Mr. Green gives Precious a new bone from the meat market and Brutus wants to take Precious' bone away from him.
45. Leaky Creek
Aired 8 January 1966 • 7 min
Maw chases Paw down to the creek for his yearly bath. When he gets to the creek he finds it has gone dry due to a pesky beaver that has built a dam.
46. Amusement Park Amazement
Aired 15 January 1966 • 7 min
Thinking Von Gimmick has reformed, Atom Ant offers to help him.
47. The Bird Watcher
Aired 15 January 1966 • 7 min
Granny Sweet agrees to watch a pet bird for her friend Mrs. Brown while she is out of town. While Granny takes Mrs. Brown to the train, Precious Pupp is put in charge of the bird and has to protect it from an overzealous and very hungry cat.
48. My Fair Hillbilly
Aired 15 January 1966 • 7 min
Maw is tired of Paw being such a slob so she sends him to the J.P. Snobbs School of Charm and they try to turn Paw into a gentleman.
49. Bully For Atom Ant
Aired 22 January 1966 • 7 min
Atom Ant meets Chicken Enchilada.
50. Dog Trained
Aired 22 January 1966 • 7 min
The conductor makes Precious Pup ride in the baggage car instead of with Granny.
51. Rickety Rockety Racoon
Aired 22 January 1966 • 7 min
Paw battles with Rickety Raccoon after he steals eggs from the hen house.
52. Termighty Mean
Aired 29 January 1966 • 7 min
Dotzilla, goes on a rampage, eating everything in sight.
53. Oliver Twisted
Aired 29 January 1966 • 7 min
Precious and Granny Sweet are in London where Granny Sweet snaps pictures of the sights to send the pictures to family members while Precious gets lost chasing a cat and meets a pickpocket and his group of dog pickpockets.
54. Modern Inconvenience
Aired 29 January 1966 • 7 min
Maw and Paw are selected as the Hillbilly family of the month by Good Hillbillying Magazine and are given every modern convenience for one month.
55. Nine Strikes You're Out
Aired 5 February 1966 • 7 min
J. Dastardly Deeds sends his nine selves out on a crime spree.
56. Pup, Skip and Jump
Aired 5 February 1966 • 7 min
Granny lets a puppy spend the cold night with them.
57. Rabbit Rumble
Aired 5 February 1966 • 7 min
Paw and Shag must bring back a rabbit for dinner, but they encounter a boxing kangaroo and mistakes him for a giant rabbit.
58. Go West Young Ant
Aired 12 February 1966 • 7 min
A wagon train of ants is surrounded by a red ant tribe on the western plain.
59. A Grapple for the Teacher
Aired 12 February 1966 • 7 min
Granny Sweet is forced to enroll Precious Pupp in an obedience school to avoid being sued by the postman.
60. Speckled Heckler
Aired 12 February 1966 • 7 min
When an experienced hunter comes to the hills offering a reward for a speckled butterfly, the Hillbilly Bears try to capture the local pest for the reward.
61. Knight Fight
Aired 10 September 1966 • 7 min
With no trouble in the world today, Atom Ant goes back to the days of old.
62. Pot-Time Work
Aired 10 September 1966 • 7 min
Precious Pupp and Granny Sweet are on vacation. Granny is heating up a big pot of food for their dinner. A cannibal in the bushes has other ideas: he plans on them for his dinner. When he finally does capture them and Granny offers to share what she is cooking, he runs for his life.
63. Whirly Bear
Aired 10 September 1966 • 7 min
An unexpected ride happens when Paw Mugg tries to fix the broken windmill.
64. Pteraducktyl Soup
Aired 17 September 1966 • 7 min
A kookie professor sneaks into the natural history museum.
65. A Fiend in Need
Aired 17 September 1966 • 7 min
Dr. Frightenstein needs a brain for his new monstrous creation. His faithful servant thinks that Precious Pupp's brain is the perfect candidate.
66. Saucy Saucers
Aired 17 September 1966 • 7 min
Paw gets captured by aliens.
67. Up in the Air Squares
Aired 24 September 1966 • 7 min
Toadstool steals the police building.
68. Ski Sickness
Aired 24 September 1966 • 7 min
Granny competes against Ace McGurk in the year's biggest skiing race.
69. Chipper Chirper
Aired 24 September 1966 • 7 min
Maw's pet bird gets out of the cage and flies away.
70. Mouse-Rouser
Aired 1 October 1966 • 7 min
A mouse, trapped by a cat, writes a desperate plea for help to Atom Ant.
71. Mascot Massacre
Aired 1 October 1966 • 7 min
The local baseball team is advertising for a new mascot. Granny urges Precious Pupp to try out. He ends up playing ball instead and saves the team.
72. Gettin' Paw's Goat
Aired 1 October 1966 • 7 min
Paw's turnip patch is being raided by a troublesome goat. When Paw fails to get rid of the goat, Maw mixes up some cooked turnips with hot sauce in them.
73. Killer-Diller Gorilla
Aired 8 October 1966 • 7 min
Kong is on the loose, wrecking buildings (he "peels" a skyscraper like a banana) and tearing up bridges. This is Atom Ant's greatest challenge ever.
74. A.M. Mayhem
Aired 8 October 1966 • 7 min
Granny can't resist a piece of left-over gooseberry pie, which makes her sleepwalk.
75. Buzzin' Cuzzins
Aired 8 October 1966 • 7 min
Paw's cousin Fud sends a telegram saying he is going to stop in for a visit since they have never met. Meanwhile, Gorzo the Wild Man escapes from a truck delivering him to the circus and is mistaken for cousin Fud when he shows up at the cabin.
76. Rock-A-Bye Boo-Boo
Aired 15 October 1966 • 7 min
Atom Ant keeps a village safe from a Roc and her egg. The Roc ceases her attacks when her egg hatches.
77. Girl Whirl
Aired 15 October 1966 • 7 min
Both Precious and Bruiser vie for the attention for the same female poodle dog by posing as superheroes because she appears to have a crush on Marvel Mutt, a canine superhero on T.V.
78. Do the Bear
Aired 15 October 1966 • 7 min
Two record agents find Paw and make him a star.