Season 1

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  7.5/1026 votes

  Lying

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1972

  Edward tells stories about wrestling with alligators. Fat Albert and the gang realize that Edward has been lying to them about everything and gets caught at the end.

  Director: Unknown

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  7.3/1018 votes

  The Runt

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1972

  Fat Albert and the Gang meet a guy named Pee Wee who's very small that he feels left out of everything. The Gang and Pee Wee learned that It's not your size that matters but being who you are that counts.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.3/1018 votes

  The Stranger

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1972

  Fat Albert and the gang meet a new girl from the south.

  Director: Unknown

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  7.6/1017 votes

  Creativity

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1972

  The origin of the Junkyard Band. The gang tries doing odd jobs for money but they only made enough money to buy a broken drumstick but then they realize they could make their own instruments. Fat Albert makes an instrument out of an old radiator, a funnel, and a big potato bag. Bill makes a set of drums out of trash cans as well as turning old tin cans into chimes for Russell. Weird Harold turns a bed frame into a harp. Dumb Donald creates a trombone out of pipes and a horn from a grammaphone. Mushmouth takes an old bird cage and makes his own guitar. Bucky puts big pipes together to make an organ.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/1020 votes

  Fish Out Of Water

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1972

  The Gang goes to Camp Green Lane for the Summer meeting people that are different from them. Fat Albert and the gang learned meeting new people is cool.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.3/1019 votes

  Moving

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1972

  Fat Albert recieves news that he's moving away and the gang kicked him out of the club. The Cosby Kids missed Fat Albert so much that all they wanted was their friend back. Fat Albert moved around the corner in his neighborhood.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.8/1018 votes

  Playing Hookey

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1972

  Fat Albert and the Gang think school is nothing but a waist of time so they decide to play hookey the next day. Dumb Donald told the gang he was going to school and thought he was joking but got made fun of and kept walking. Fat Albert and his friends had so much playing hookey knowing they wouldn't get caught.Later on that evening the Junkyard Gang met two homeless bums who didn't go to school telling them that if they didn't finish their education you won't be able to read and write letters. The Gang decide to stay in school realizing it's cool.

  Director: Unknown

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  7.2/1015 votes

  The Hospital

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1972

  Russell has a physical with the school doctor and learns he needs to have a tonsilectomy. In the process, it is discovered that Bill needs one, too. Thinking the operation will take their lives away, they give all their favorite posessions to their friends, only to find that they will pull through. They also find out that they will get ice cream afterwards and learn that it won't be so bad after all.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.9/1016 votes

  Begging Benny

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1972

  Fat Albert's Cousin Benny comes to visit and mistreats all his friends. In the long run he learns what a real friend is all about.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.3/1016 votes

  The Hero

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1972

  The Gang looks up to Scrap Iron because he's cool then gets them busted and realize he's not a hero.

  Director: Unknown

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  7.0/1016 votes

  The Prankster

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/18/1972

  Otis becomes the coolest kid on the block with his pranks that he doesn't care who he hurts.

  Director: Unknown

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  7.8/1015 votes

  Four Eyes

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1972

  Heywood is the clumsiest person who can't see anything. Once Heywood got his glasses, the gang wanted to be just like him.

  Director: Unknown

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  7.9/1017 votes

  The Tomboy

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1972

  A new Girl named Penny comes to town and tags along with Fat Albert and the Gang playing sports with them.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/1017 votes

  Stagefright

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/9/1972

  Fat Albert and the Gang perform in front of an audience and get stage fright. The Gang realized that It's Important to speak up when you're in front of others.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown