"Recess" is being shown Saturday mornings at about 8:15 AM central time on the ABC series "Disney's One Saturday Morning", and on weekdays and Sundays on the UPN series "Disney's One, Too". Check local listings for the UPN broadcast in your local area.
"Recess" had 13 episodes of 26 shorts in its first season. This episode guide lists the shorts in the order that they first debuted. However, Disney then rearranged the shorts of 9 of the episodes into new orders, never showing the original order again as of yet.
For its second season, "Recess" again had 13 episodes: one full-length episode and 24 shorts. But as with the first season the shorts have been rearranged and never been rebroadcast in their original order.
In its third season "Recess" had 8 episodes for ABC. "Recess" also debuted on Disney's weekday-Sunday "One, Too" lineup. 21 episodes so far have debuted on One, Too. In the weekday lineup the shorts in 11 of the 26 first and second season episodes were restored to their debut order. For the other 15 the shorts were arranged differently from what this guide lists. But One, Too did not rearrange the shorts any further. The 8 ABC eps though were constantly rearranged as always.
The numbering of the "Recess" episodes in this list is the order in which they debuted. I don't know of any official numbering that Disney uses for the show.
Unfortunately, I'm having a terrible time listing voice credits for this particular show. Most of the kids' voices are hard to distinguish, and most of the names in the closing credits are totally new to me. If you have a complete cast list of the voices, please e-mail me to help me out.
| Theodore J. Detweiller | Ross Malinger |
| Andrew Lawrence | |
| Vince LaSalle | Ricky D'Shon Collins |
| Ashley Spinelli | Pamela Segall |
| Mikey Blumberg | Jason Davis |
| ( singing ) | Robert Goulet |
| Gretchen P. Grundler | Ashley Johnson |
| Gustav Patton Griswold | Courtland Mead |
| Muriel P. Finster | April Winchell |
| Principal Peter Prickly | Dabney Coleman |
| Alordayne Grotke | Allyce Beasley |
| Randall J. Weems | Ryan O'Donohue |
| King Bob | Toran Caudell |
| Ashley Armbruster | Anddi L. McAffe |
| Ashley Boulet | Francesca Smith |
| Ashley Quinlan | Kath Soucie |
| Ashley Tomassian | Mayim Bialik |
| Menlo | Blake Ewing |
| Irwin Lawson | Erik von Detten |
| Digger Sam | Klee Barger |
| Digger Dave | Ryan O'Donohue |
| Francis, the hustler kid | Michael Shulman |
| the upside-down girl | Francesca Smith |
| Jimmy, the guru kid | Klee Barger |
| the swinger girl | Francesca Smith |
| Butch | Kath Soucie |
| Teresa Laverne LeMays | |
| a.k.a. "the Cornchip Girl" | Aria Noelle Curzon |
| Phillip the Scout | Klee Barger |
| Galileo | Eric Idle |
| Jeff Bennett | |
| kindergateners | E.G. Dailey |
| Gelman | Justin Shenkarow |
| Sue Bob Murphy | Christine Cavanaugh |
| Lieutennant Griswold | Sam MacMurray |
| Hank | Jeff Wright |
| Paul Dooley | |
| Ms. Lemmon | Tress MacNeille |
| Superintendent Fred Skinner | John Astin |
| Mayor Phillip Fitzhue | Ronnie Schell |
| Coach Kluge | Paul Willson |
| Bertha | Tress MacNeille |
| Lunchlady Irma | Tress MacNeille |
| Lunchlade Harriet | Andrea Martin |
| Flo Spinelli | Katey Segall |
| Bob Spinelli | Sam MacMurray |
| Principal Paul Prickly | Martin Mull |
| Leonard Weems | David L. Lander |
| Thaddeus T. Third the Fifth | Ed Asner |
| ## | Title of episode | Date Debuted |
| 1 | The Break-In | 9/13/97 |
| The New Kid | ||
| 2 | The Experiment | 9/20/97 |
| The Great Jungle Gym Standoff | ||
| 3 | Jinxed | 9/27/97 |
| Officer Mikey | ||
| 4 | First Name Ashley | 10/4/97 |
| To Finster with Love | ||
| 5 | King Gus | 10/11/97 |
| Big Brother Chad | ||
| 6 | My Fair Gretchen | 10/18/97 |
| Speedy, We Hardly Knew Ye | ||
| 7 | I Will Kick No More Forever | 10/25/97 |
| The Kid Came Back | ||
| 8 | The Pest | 11/1/97 |
| The Legend of Big Kid | ||
| 9 | The Box | 11/8/97 |
| The Trial | ||
| 10 | Teacher's Lounge | 11/15/97 |
| Randall's Reform | ||
| 11 | Rainy Days | 11/22/97 |
| The Great Can Drive | ||
| 12 | The Voice | 1/10/98 |
| Kids in the Mist | ||
| 13 | Parents' Night | 1/17/98 |
| Swing On Thru to the Other Side | ||
| 14 | The Break-Up | 9/12/98 |
| The Hypnotist | ||
| 15 | Mama's Girl | 9/19/98 |
| Outcast Ashley | ||
| 16 | The Game | 9/26/98 |
| The Lost Ball | ||
| 17 | Gus's Last Stand | 10/3/98 |
| Operation Field Trip | ||
| 18 | The Challenge | 10/10/98 |
| Wild Child | ||
| 19 | The Substitute | 10/31/98 |
| Gretchen and the Secret of Yo | ||
| 20 | The Girl was Trouble | 11/7/98 |
| Copycat Kid | ||
| 21 | Operation Stuart | 11/14/98 |
| Pharoah Bob | ||
| 22 | Economics of Recess | 12/12/98 |
| Omega Kids | ||
| 23 | Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave | 12/26/98 |
| 24 | The Story of Whomps | 1/9/99 |
| Weekend at Muriel's | ||
| 25 | Bad Hair Day | 1/16/99 |
| Dance Lessons | ||
| 26 | Principal for a Day | 2/27/99 |
| The Beauty Contest | ||
| 27 | One Stayed Clean | 9/11/99 |
| A Genius Among Us | ||
| 28 | The First Picture Show | 9/12/99 |
| The Big Prank | ||
| 29 | Hustler's Apprentice | 9/13/99 |
| The Spy Who Came In From the Playground | ||
| 30 | Dodgeball City | 9/18/99 |
| A Career to Remember | ||
| 31 | Gus's Fortune | 9/19/99 |
| Rumor Mill | ||
| 32 | Recess is Cancelled | 9/22/99 |
| Tattletale Heart | ||
| 33 | Kindergarten Derby | 9/25/99 |
| The Bet | ||
| 34 | The Madness of King Bob | 9/26/99 |
| Call Me Guy | ||
| 35 | Space Cadet | 10/2/99 |
| Stand Up Randall | ||
| 36 | Prickly is Leaving | 10/3/99 |
| Randall's Friends | ||
| 37 | The Shiner | 11/6/99 |
| Lord of the Nerds | ||
| 38 | The Biggest Trouble Ever | 11/7/99 |
| The Rules | ||
| 39 | Gus and Misdemeanors | 11/8/99 |
| A Science-Fair to Remember | ||
| 40 | That Stinking Feeling | 11/13/99 |
| My Funny Valentines | ||
| 41 | Mikey's Pants | 11/14/99 |
| Here Comes Mr. Perfect | ||
| 42 | Good Luck Charm | 11/19/99 |
| Diggers Split Up | ||
| 43 | Schoolworld | 11/21/99 |
| Bachelor Gus | ||
| 44 | The Dude | 11/28/99 |
| Partners in Crime | ||
| 45 | The Candidates | 11/29/99 |
| This Brain for Hire | ||
| 46 | The Barnaby Boys | 1/15/00 |
| Buried Treasure | ||
| 47 | The Library Kid | 1/22/00 |
| The Ratings Game | ||
| 48 | Spinelli's Masterpiece | 2/6/00 |
| Nobody Doesn't Like T.J. | ||
| 49 | A Great State Fair | 2/13/00 |
| The A.V. Kid | ||
| 50 | Yope from Norway | 2/20/00 |
| Bonkey Fever | ||
| 51 | Don't Ask Me | 2/21/00 |
| The Secret Life of Grotke | ||
| 52 | The Fuss over Finster | 2/27/00 |
| Soccer Boy | ||
| 53 | Fort Tender | 2/29/00 |
| Germ Warfare | ||
| 54 | More Like Gretchen | 3/1/00 |
| Prince Randall | ||
| 55 | Me No Know | 4/30/00 |
| Good Ol' T.J. | ||
| 56 | Chez Vince | 5/7/00 |
| Tucked In Mikey | ||
| 57 | Old Folks Home | 7/17/00 |
| Some Friend | ||
| 58 | The Coolest Heatwave Ever | 9/9/00 |
| No Strings Attached | ||
| 59 | Beyond a Reasonable Scout | 9/16/00 |
| The C Note | ||
| 60 | The Army/Navy Game | 9/23/00 |
| Big Ol' Mikey | ||
| 61 | The Principals of Golf | 11/4/00 |
| All the Principal's Men | ||
| 62 | Lawson and his Crew | 1/6/01 |
| 1a. | The Main Kids try to get all the other kids to help rescue T.J. when Ms. Finster punishes him by making him have no Recess. |
| 1b. | New kid Gus arrives at Third Street Elementary, but has to endure the indignities that a new kid must undergo. |
| 2a. | The kids carry out a crucial experiment to see if it's really true that their future will be boys kissing girls and girls kissing boys. |
| 2b. | The kids stage a protest when Prickly plans to tear down Ol' Rusty to replace with a new jungle gym. |
| 3a. | The Ashleys jinx Gus according to the Playground Rules so that he can't talk until his friends say his name. |
| 3b. | The others try to help out when Mikey wants to be a Safety Ranger. |
| 4a. | The Ashleys try to force Spinelli to be just like them when Spinelli's first name is revealed. |
| 4b. | The kids bring Ms. Finster together with Hank when they find out she has a crush on him. |
| 5a. | Bob installs Gus as a substitute king while he has a tonsilectomy, figuring Gus will be easy to control. But Gus turns into a despot instead. |
| 5b. | The kids, and Vince himself, come to the awful realization that Vince's once popular older brother Chad has grown up to be a geek. |
| 6a. | The kids come up with a plan to keep Gretchen from being transferred to Oppenheimer Elementary for the Incredibly Extremely Gifted. |
| 6b. | The kids stage an elaborate funeral for the 4th. grade class's beloved hamster, wherein they learn about how many lives the hamster has touched. |
| 7a. | Vince completely loses his confidence at playing kickball when Ashley Q beats him in a game. |
| 7b. | A weird little boy keeps tagging along behind the kids, apparently causing a streak of bad luck. |
| 8a. | Jeffrey, an annoying jerk of a boy, insists that Gretchen will be his girlfriend. |
| 8b. | What do the Kindergarteners have planned for T.J. when they capture him? |
| 9a. | Ms. Finster comes up with a new punishment that reduces T.J. to a vegetable. |
| 9b. | Randall accuses Spinelli of hitting him with a rock during a dirt clod war. So the kids put her on trial. |
| 10a. | The kids dream about what the teacher's lounge must be like. |
| 10b. | Loneliness compels Randall to want to make friends with the other kids. |
| 11a. | The kids grow increasingly frustrated when rain keeps then indoors for recess for days. |
| 11b. | At first only Mikey wants to participate in the Thanksgiving can drive competition against the unbeatable Ashleys. But then the other kids join in to beat the Ashleys. |
| 12a. | Principal Prickly needs Mikey to sing the National Anthem at the PTA Spring Fling, but Mikey only sings well in the bathroom. So he brings in a music teacher to bring the Robert Goulet out of Mikey. |
| 12b. | The kids deal with a pompous expert on child research who wants to study them as they play. |
| 13a. | Spinelli will do anything to keep her parents from attending Parents' Night and meeting the others. |
| 13b. | Spinelli is inspired to form a cult based on the Swinger Girl when she thinks she's seen the Swinger Girl swing over the top into another dimension. |
| 14a. | An assignment to write an essay on your best friend causes a fight over who's T.J.'s best friend, and then a break-up of the gang. |
| 14b. | A hypnotist performing for the kids inadvertantly hypnotizes Principal Prickly into thinking he's six years old. |
| 15a. | Spinelli gets labelled a Mama's Girl when she inadvertantly calls Ms. Grotke "mama". |
| 15b. | Ashley A. hooks up with Gretchen when she sins against the clique so gravely as to get thrown out. |
| 16a. | Gus finds a tile of the game Ajimbo, and soon the entire student body gets caught in its evil grasp. |
| 16b. | Gus has to go to the Yard of No Return when he kicks a good kickball over the fence into it. |
| 17a. | Gus winds up the new victim of bully Gelman's wrath. |
| 17b. | All the kids go on a big field trip to MISOOE. But Ol' Smokey, the bus with the Main Kids, breaks down in the middle of nowhere. |
| 18a. | A visit from Principal Prickly's brother Paul leads to a challenge between 3rd. St. and 98 St. kickball teams. |
| 18b. | In the "Pee Wee Pals" program, the Main Kids each have to take care of a kindergartener during recess. |
| 19a. | Substitute teacher Mr. E. captivates all the kids with his command of authority, except T.J. |
| 19b. | Gretchen turns to former yo-yo champ Tommy Tate to learn how to master the yo-yo. |
| 20a. | Gretchen's search for her stolen laptop leads her on a journey among the school's delinquints that ultimately brings about her downfall. |
| 20b. | Mikey wants to be exactly like Vince when Vince saves his life. |
| 21a. | The kids take in a really ratty stray cat that they find near the dumpster, naming it Stuart. |
| 21b. | King Bob orders the kids to build him a pyramid so that all future classes will remember him. |
| 22a. | When the playground goes on the monsticker standard T.J. goes down the path from poverty to wealth. |
| 22b. | The Main Kids wish they could have the overcrowded school to themselves, then surprisingly get their wish. |
| 23. | Mikey is the only fourth grader who still believes in Santa Claus. He tries to convince the others Santa exists in this full-length episode. |
| 24a. | Principal Prickly and Ms. Finster deem T.J.'s word "whomps" as a cuss and punish him for it, starting a scandal that leads all the way to the B.O.E. |
| 24b. | Ms. Finster agrees to babysit Spinelli for the weekend while her parents are away. |
| 25a. | T.J. and Vince manage to convince everyone that the bad haircut they gave Mikey is actually cool. |
| 25b. | Spinelli's parents put her in Mlle. Povlova's dance school, where she teams up with Mikey. |
| 26a. | Principal Prickly and Ms. Finster plot to turn T.J. over to their own side by making him Principal for a Day. |
| 26b. | The Ashleys get back at Spinelli by entering her into the Kiddie Cosmetics Little Miss Blush Beauty Pageant. But her friends talk Spinelli into trying to beat the Ashleys in the pageant. |
| 27a. | On Class Picture Day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken. |
| 27b. | Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person. |
| 28a. | "Sen~or Fusion: the Movie" finally opens and T.J. vows to be there at its first screening. |
| 28b. | The kids rope T.J. into a challenge to play a prank on King Bob before the end of the school day. |
| 29a. | Gus winds up working for the Hustler Kid to pay off a debt, and soon he himself becomes the biggest hustler in the playground. |
| 29b. | The Main Kids make a friend of new kid James Stone and show him all their little schemes, but soon regret that. |
| 30a. | The Main Kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of "El Diablo". |
| 30b. | A Career Day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli. |
| 31a. | The kids find a paper fortune teller on the ground that predicts doom for Gus. |
| 31b. | The kids want to find out who started a rumor that a boy knocked over Mikey's popcorn at the movies and Mikey then threw the boy into the girl's bathroom. |
| 32a. | Secretary of Schools Garrison chooses 3rd. Street School as the place to test his program to bring test scores up by cancelling Recess. |
| 32b. | The kids warn Gus not to break the code by telling Miss Finster the name of the kid who started a food fight. |
| 33a. | Every year the older kids pick kindergarteners to race in the Kindergarten Derby. This year an eager Tubby gets an unwilling Mikey to sponser him in the race. |
| 33b. | Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day withough beating someone in a sport. |
| 34a. | King Bob abandons his throne in his obsessive pursuit of pulling a prank on T.J. in this sequel to "The Big Prank". |
| 34b. | Gus takes a new identity when he discovers that people think he's a different cool kid when he doesn't wear his glasses. Too bad "Guy" can't see a thing. |
| 35a. | T.J. takes charge when Gretchen seems to achieve a dream that T.J.'s always had, to be an astronaut on the space shuttle. |
| 35b. | Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian. |
| 36a. | Prickly finally gets his appointment to Spiro T. Agnew Middle school. But the kids try to make him stay after they meet the new Principal Slicer. |
| 36b. | Randall gets the Main Kids to pretend that they're his friends when his father, Leonard, visits the school on Randall's birthday. |
| 37a. | T.J. shows up in school with a black eye. Everyone makes up wild stories about the heroic acts T.J. must've done to get the shiner. |
| 37b. | T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the Pale Kids in Room 51. |
| 39a. | The bad kids from "The Girl was Trouble" trick Gus into shoplifting candy from Kelso's. |
| 39b. | Second grade prodigy Becky Benson befriends Gretchen to get help for her science fair project. But she has an ulterior motive... |
| 42a. | Spinelli gets too attached to the lucky marble that Vince loans her. |
| 42b. | Digger Dave quits digging and then bosses everyone around. |
| 44a. | Frank Dudikoff, once a legendary kid at Third Street, returns as a teacher in training. |
| 44b. | Randall talks Menlo into using the resources available to him to dominate the school. |
| 46a. | T.J. and Vince are so into the "Barnaby Boys" books that they dress up like the Barnaby Boys and try to solve the mystery of the suspicious substitute janitor, Earl Raymond. |
| 46b. | T.J. discovers a treasure map in an old History textbook. But the Main Kids have to share with other kids in order to get to the treasure. |
| 51a. | Spinelli becomes popular as an advise giver when she sits in for the Guru Kid. |
| 51b. | Ms. Grotke's strange behavior makes the kids think that she's a spy. |
| 52a. | Finster hurts her leg and now she can't keep up with the kids during recess. |
| 52b. | Mikey makes the other kids regret not letting them play on their team for the playground's soccer tourney. |
| 53a. | The bored Main Kids build their own fort. But then Lawson takes it over. |
| 53b. | Gus starts an obsessive crusade to kill all the germs in the world, while Mikey will do anything to save them. |
| 54a. | Spinelli gets peeved with her parents heap so much praise for Gretchen at her expense. |
| 54b. | Randall uses an embarrassing photo to blackmail King Bob into making him Playground Prince. |
| 56a. | Vince gains fame when he discovers that he has natural ability to be a great cook |
| 56b. | Needing to prepare himself for a poet laureate ceremony, Mikey decides to listen to Menlo to learn how to organize himself. |
| 58a. | In the midst of a heatwave the Main Kids struggle to find the backup valve to turn the water fountains on again. |
| 58b. | The Main Kids try to figure out what the Ashleys are up to when they give Spinelli tickets to a wrestling match. |
| 59a. | Mikey and Gus really want to join the Wild Screaming Woodchuck Scouts. But for some reason Phil adamantly doesn't want them to join. |
| 59b. | The Main Kids look all over the school for the person who lost an envelope with a $100.00 bill in it that T.J. found. |
| 60a. | Gus and the Cornchip Girl become good friends, but their fathers, rivals in the military, won't allow their friendship. |
| 60b. | Galileo calculates that Mikey will grow to 50 feet tall within a year. |
| 61a. | Everyone thinks Vince gets favors from Principal Prickly when he volunteers to be Prickly's partner in a golf tournament against Paul Prickly |
| 61b. | The Main Kids suspect a coverup is behind the confiscation of all the school's balls. |
| 62. | Lawson forms a rival group of do-gooders ( recruiting Randall, Menlo, the Swinger Girl, Skeens, and Kurst ) that takes away the Main Kids' glory. Originally meant to the be the series finale. |