The Ant and the Aardvark — Season 1

Aired 5 March 1969 • 6 min

The Ant and the Aardvark meet at a picnic site and their conflict begins.

Aired 12 March 1969 • 6 min

Aardvark decides to intercept Ant on a road leading to and from a picnic. Subsequent ANTics closely follow the conflict of another road-running duo from 20 years prior.

Aired 19 March 1969 • 6 min

Aardvark tries to catch Ant in his anthill. Aardvark decorates his mouth as a nightclub to lure Ant inside. Ant hides in a giant anthill with his oversized aunt. Yes, she would be a Gi-ant. Spoiler: Aardvark fails at all attempts.

Aired 26 March 1969 • 6 min

Ant is attending a $100/plate dinner when their event is interrupted by Aardvark. Another Aardvark (green) appears and a conflict between the Aardvarks, and hilarity, ensues.

Aired 2 April 1969 • 6 min

Aardvark invests in a computer to help him defeat the Ant. It repeatedly offers advice that dooms Aardvark to a day of misadventure and pain, as the Ant overcomes each strategy easily and with minimal effort.

Aired 9 April 1969 • 6 min

The Ant turns all of Aardvark's plans on their head, and Aardvark is caught in the blow-back each time. In the end, Ant enjoys a sugar cube.

Aired 16 April 1969 • 6 min

Ant and Aardvark at the beach! A public beach where Aardvark's ANTics run afoul of the lifeguard. In the end the Aardvark winds up going to the dogs.

Aired 23 April 1969 • 6 min

Marooned on one island, Aardvark spies another island across the sea with a bounty of Ants. Aardvark battles the sea and a persistent shark-bulldog who seems as willing to keep Aardvark on the first island as he is to eat him.

Aired 30 April 1969 • 6 min

Score one for the Aardvark? Story begins with Ant removing a thorn from a tiger's paw. Bet you can't see where this is going. Tiger protects Ant and his picnic-stealing family from Aardvark throughout the show. At the end, the Tiger gets another thorn and Aardvark removes it. Show ends with the Tiger chasing the Ant.

Aired 7 May 1969 • 6 min

Return of the green Aardvark! Our Aardvark is hungrier than usual and looking for ants. He encounters green Aardvark who can offer only moral support, as he is also without food. Just then a truck passes, dropping a can of chocolate covered ants. Our Aardvark battles green Aardvark for the can throughout the show. By the end, they both lose. Our Ant is released by another ant and emerges from the can covered in chocolate and happy to be free.

Aired 14 May 1969 • 6 min

Aardvark is hiding outside the Bongo Theme Park exterminator's office and learns that a visitor on Bongo Road is reporting an ant infestation. He races to the address to beat the exterminator and enjoy the ant. Turns out that the ant is Ant, and battles ensue. In the end, a battered Aardvark decides to enjoy some pasta, only to find that Ant was hiding among the noodles. Ant escapes the Aardvark's mouth but is chased by Aardvark who's hunger for ants exceeds his pain.

Aired 21 May 1969 • 6 min

Aardvark begins by bragging about his suction power. He soon encounters a scientific expedition has captured and is studying Ant. Wanting Ant more than they do, he proceeds to battle scientists and their roving laboratory. Aardvark is forced to give up when his bandaged snout, his former pride and joy, is too battered to suck anything more than a fruit drink.

Aired 28 May 1969 • 6 min

Ant is a member of the "Brothers of the Forest", Lodge 202. Aardvark ignores this fraternity to his peril, and winds up battling the animals of the forest in pursuit of Ant. Most notably, he battles two elephants. At the end of the show, Aardvark has also joined the lodge and expresses a desire to get to know Ant much more intimately, proceeding to chase the Ant off and into the distance.

Aired 4 June 1969 • 6 min

It's like an episode of the Ant and the Aardvark, but with snow! Aardvark battles the cold, bears, and frozen anthills in pursuit of Ant. In the end he gives up and tries to hitch a ride to Palm Springs.

Aired 11 June 1969 • 6 min

Ant discovers the power of vitamins. As everyone knows, a vitamin pill will turn you into an instant powerhouse. Now overly muscular, Ant beats Aardvark and makes him do his bidding, serving him hand and foot. But he forgets you need to keep taking your vitamins and becomes a regular ant again. Aardvark, frustrated, seeks to take his revenge and chases Ant into a passing truck. To Aardvark's horror, it's a vitamin truck and Ant has found a new supply. The show ends with the sounds of Aardvark getting beat without mercy inside the truck.

Aired 18 June 1969 • 6 min

Ant teams up with Termite who takes him to his home - an abandoned house. Aardvark, ever in pursuit of Ant, follows and Termite proceeds to thwart and injure Aardvark by consuming portions of the house causing Aardvark to fall or be crushed in various ways. In the end, Aardvark climbs a pole to escape a bulldog as Termite eats chunks out of the pole, dropping it lower and lower. In the end, the fate of Aardvark is left uncertain because Termite has become fat and cannot eat anymore.

Aired 25 June 1969 • 6 min

Aardvark and Ant are struck by a car in the jungle and are taken by ambulance to a hospital. The patients in their hospital ward consists of Bulldog, Aardvark, and Ant. Episode proceeds to show Aardvark trying to eat Ant, Bulldog trying to eat Aardvark, and Ant trying to trick Aardvark into the clutches of Bulldog.