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Season 1
March 5, 1969

Season 1

An aardvark tries to catch one ant without success.

01. The Ant and the Aardvark

The Ant and the Aardvark

March 5, 1969

02. Hasty but Tasty

The Aardvark is bedeviled by a portable hole which removes the ground beneath him on the edge of a cliff and lets the air out of a balloon suspending the Aardvark above the Ant onto whom the Aardvark plans to drop an anvil; anvil does not crush the Ant but hits the fallen Aardvark on his head.

March 12, 1969

03. The Ant from Uncle

To bar the Ant from subterranean refuge, the Aardvark strives to plug every ant hole in existence and, to his dismay, discovers a hole of volcanic proportions which is the dwelling of Charlie's huge, older kin.

March 19, 1969

04. I've Got Ants in My Plans

The Aardvark finds further opposition, in the form of another hungry aardvark, to his aim of ant intake - and so ensues a battle of aardvarks for digestive possession of Charlie, with use of spread-on-ground thumb tacks and rubber cement, plus jet-powered stilts and a tripping rope.

March 26, 1969

05. Technology, Phooey

Aardvark's computer contraption that he consults for advice on how to catch the Ant only guides the Aardvark through an exercise of painful futility.

April 2, 1969

06. Never Bug an Ant

The Aardvark's vacuum cleaner, intended by him to inhale the Ant after his own snout becomes corked and bottled, ingests an angry bear.

April 9, 1969

07. Dune Bug

The Ant is spending his vacation at the beach, but the Aardvark sniffs him out. A Life Guard mistakes Aardvark for a dog a repeatedly kicks him off the beach. Ultimately Aardvark is send off to the Dog Pound.

April 16, 1969

08. Isle of Caprice

The setting: two South Sea islands. On one: a hungry, shipwrecked Aardvark. On the other: an army of (food) Ants. The Aardvark knows that this is true because he sees the Ants in his spyglass. All that you have to do is swim right over there... except that there's a mean old shark who won't let that happen. The Aardvark tries, but he fails. Next, he gets a surfboard. The shark eats that as if it's newspaper.

April 23, 1969

09. Scratch a Tiger

The Aardvark is hungry. He spots an anthill. Inside is the Ant. It seems that dinner is for sure. One problem: the Ant has a friend who owes him a favor... a tiger. Returning the favor, the tiger guards the Ant and his pals from the Aardvark.

April 30, 1969

10. Odd Ant Out

A grocery truck loses a shipment of chocolate-covered ants. The Aardvark and another green aardvark fight over a can of ants, which they can't seem to open.

May 7, 1969

11. Ants in the Pantry

The Bongo Pest Control Agency gets a call for an ant problem, so the Aardvark intercedes to take care of the call himself.

May 14, 1969

12. Science Friction

The Ant is captured by a scientist and placed in an insect specimen container within the scientist's mobile laboratory, and fortunately for the Ant, his host does not approve of the Aardvark's Ant-snatching attempts.

May 21, 1969

13. Mumbo Jumbo

The Ant's "lodge brothers" come to his rescue and thwart the Aardvark's nefarious plans.

May 28, 1969

14. The Froze Nose Knows

The Aardvark shiveringly pursues the Ant after a snowfall has covered their habitat.

June 4, 1969

15. Don't Hustle an Ant with Muscle

Whilst hiding out in a house after escaping from being chased by the Aardvark, the Ant discovers a bottle of "Vitamins for Strength" and after eating a couple of them, becomes ten times stronger than he used to be- much to the Aardvark's displeasure!

June 11, 1969

16. Rough Brunch

The Aardvark chases The Ant, but this time The Ant has found a new pal in a termite.

June 18, 1969

17. From Bed to Worse

After being run over by a truck, both the ant and the aardvark wind up in the hospital with broken legs. However that, along with sharing the room with an aggressive bulldog, doesn't stop the aardvark from continuing to pursue the ant as his dinner.

June 25, 1969