List of Captain Planet episodes
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The following is a list of episodes from the animated Captain Planet franchise. The series was the second longest running cartoon of the 1990s, producing 113 episodes. The final 13 episodes of the show were only shown in Europe, and never in the United States of America. Those 13 episodes are now being shown on Boomerang, and began, appropriately, on Earth Day, April 22, 2006.
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[edit] Captain Planet and the Planeteers
[edit] Season one (1990-1991)
- 1. A Hero For Earth - Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, summons five teenagers from five different corners of the world to help her in the battle to save the planet. For their first assignment, the Planeteers battle Hoggish Greedly, whose oil rig operation is jeopardizing the coastline.
- 2. Last Of Her Kind - Wheeler plans to buy Linka an ivory necklace for her birthday, much to Kwame's anger. Meanwhile, Plunder is wiping out the elephant population of Africa in order to gain a quick profit in the ivory trade. Wheeler learns firsthand the true cost of ivory trinkets, as he and the other Planeteers help return a baby elephant to its mother and battle to save the African elephant from extinction. First appearance of Looten Plunder and Argos Bleak.
- 3. The Dead Seas - Hoggish Greedly and Rigger scheme to catch and sell all the fish in the ocean with a fleet of illegal drift net fishing boats. When Greedly steals their rings, the Planeteers are forced to use their initiative to retrieve them and save thousands of marine animals from the eco-villains' deadly driftnets.
- 4. Polluting By Computer - Dr. Blight and Sly Sludge break into the government's computer system in order to obtain phony legal documents allowing them to change all the national parks into giant landfills. First appearances of Dr. Blight, MAL and Sly Sludge.
- 5. Population Bomb - Knocked unconscious after a surfing accident, Wheeler has a dream in which he is marooned on a strange island inhabited by a race of humanoid mice who are destroying their environment by overpopulation and overconsumption.
- 6. The Ozone Hole - Duke Nukem destroys the ozone layer over Antarctica so he can feast on the sun's dangerous UV rays. Captain Planet and the Planeteers battle to protect the Earth from Nukem's deadly radiation. First appearance of Duke Nukem and Leadsuit.
- 7. Beast Of The Temple - The Planeteers travel to Thailand in order to prevent Greedly and Rigger from surface mining for rubies and terrorizing the people.
- 8. Rain Of Terror - The Planeteers are forced to battle Verminous Skumm and his rat pack, who threaten to destroy a city with a giant cloud of acid rain. First appearance of Verminous Skumm.
- 9. Volcano's Wrath - Sludge, who claims to have solved the world's trash problem, is secretly dumping the garbage into a volcano on Laipuno Island. When the volcano erupts, Captain Planet and the Planeteers must save the islanders from the lava flow. First appearance of Ooze.
- 10. Skumm Lord - Verminous Skumm contaminates the water supplies of South America with a toxin-filled drink known as "rat rot", which turns its victims into "rodent zombies." A rainforest medicine man tells the Planeteers about a rare plant that cures "rat rot," and they set out to find the plant amid devastating deforestation in the area where the plant is found. Luckily, Captain Planet is able to find the plant before the forest is cut down.
- 11. Deadly Ransom - Dr. Blight, MAL and Duke Nukem hold Captain Planet prisoner in Antarctica, demanding that the Planeteers give them a lifetime supply of nuclear waste in return for his safety.
- 12. Tree Of Life - Dr. Blight and her robojacks chop down a sacred tree known to villagers as the "Tree of Life" and Blight harnesses the tree's powers for herself. With her new powers, Blight plans destroy the ancient redwood forests.
- 13. A World Below Us - After Gi is rescued from Sly Sludge's mechanical octopus, she is taken to a secret underwater city known as Oceanus, which is being threatened by Sludge's illegal toxic dumping. When the dome around Oceanus begins to burst, flooding the city, Captain Planet and the Planeteers must race against time to save the people of this underwater paradise.
- 14. Littlest Planeteer - When the Planeteers stop a bus full of elementary school students from diving off a cliff, nine-year-old Jason, one of the students, follows the Planeteers home and idolises Wheeler. When Jason steals Wheeler's ring and tries to single-handedly battle Dr. Blight's newly-created smog monster, which feeds on air pollution, Jason learns what it really means to be a Planeteer.
- 15. The Conqueror - The Planeteers are led astray by the promise of power from Zarm, a warlike Earth spirit. He tricks the Planeteers (all but Ma-Ti) into disobeying Gaia and starting a sinister game that could lead to nuclear war and, ultimately, global destruction. A wary Ma-Ti tells Gaia and she reveals that if the Planeteers desert her, she will become mortal, and die. First appearance of Zarm. Special guest voice: Sting as Zarm.
- 16. The Ultimate Pollution - Looten Plunder instigates a war between two desert villages so that he can sell firearms to both sides. When the Planeteers try to expose his scam, he imprisons them in a toxic trap. With bombs exploding around them, it is up to two young boys from the opposing villages to make their parents see sense and free the Planeteers and help stop the destruction.
- 17. Meltdown Syndrome - When a scientist tries to cover up a leak at a nuclear power plant, Duke Nukem zeros in on the "hot spot" and triggers a meltdown reaction. With time running out, Captain Planet and the Planeteers are forced to cool off the reactor before an explosion occurs and contaminates the planet.
- 18. Don't Drink The Water - Looten Plunder, Dr. Blight, Verminous Skumm and Hoggish Greedly join forces in a plot to pollute a city's water supply. Captain Planet and the Planeteers set out on a mission to find pure water and break up the "Pollution Syndicate."
- 19. Heat Wave - Dr. Blight uses a smog-spewing barge and a huge dome to create a greenhouse effect over Hope Island. With Gaia's life in danger, the Planeteers enlist the help of a giant whale to break free from Blight's heat wave and call Captain Planet.
- 20. Plunder Dam - Looten Plunder dams an African river and installs a large hydroelectric power plant, cuttting off water supplies to the villages. The villagers soon realize that Plunder's electricity is not a fair trade for the food and water that the river provided. With their crops dying and thirst-crazed elephants on the rampage, they enlist the help of the Planeteers to stop Plunder's scheme.
- 21. Kwame's Crisis - Sly Sludge is burying a small town under garbage and the townspeople don't seem to care. Feeling he can't make a difference, Kwame leaves the Planeteers, but a young girl's single-handed recycling effort restores his faith, and with her help he attempts to save the Planeteers from Sludge's giant trash compactor.
- 22. Smog Hog - Greedly hijacks Jane Goodair's environmentally friendly automobile factory in order to manufacture his Road Hog, a smog-spewing nightmare. The city is soon choking on exhaust fumes. When his own son, Greedly Jr., falls ill from the pollution, Greedly must turn to Captain Planet and the Planeteers for help. Captain Planet makes Greedly Jr. an honorary Planeteer. Special guest voice: Phyllis Diller as Jane Goodare
- 23. Mission To Save Earth Part One - The eco-villains steal the Planeteers' rings and abandon the them on an island inhabited by Commander Clash, a soldier with a cold war mentality. Clash appears to be their most dangerous opponent to date, until Captain Pollution (summoned by evil duplicates of the Planeteers' rings, created by Dr. Blight) appears and traps them.
- 24. Mission To Save Earth Part Two - The Planeteers befriend Commander Clash and convince him to help them retrieve their rings and use his military skills in the battle against Captain Pollution.
- 25. Two Futures Part One - Wheeler's New Year's Eve party is interrupted when the Planeteers are needed to prevent Dr. Blight and Greedly from traveling back in time to speed up global warming. When an accident traps Wheeler alone in an ice cavern with Dr. Blight, Wheeler decides to use Blight's time machine to go back in time and stop himself from becoming a Planeteer.
- 26. Two Futures Part Two - Traveling back in time so that he never becomes a Planeteer, Wheeler jeopardizes the survival of life on Earth. When Gaia gives him the chance to go into the future and see the consequences of his actions, Wheeler realizes how much he, along with every individual, contributes to the future of the planet.
[edit] Season two (1991-1992)
- 27. The Garbage Strikes - To make fast cash from a trash strike, Sly Sludge steals an untested microbe from Gi's scientist idol, Dr. Helix. The microbe was supposed to be a technological fix for the problem of overflowing landfills, but it simply absorbs trash to become a city-devouring garbage monster.
- 28. Domes Of Doom - Looten Plunder, disguised as a philanthropist, hoodwinks the world into signing over its forests to his care, then sets up giant domes and sells the cooled, clean air from these "air conditioners of the planet." Ma-Ti uncovers his plan, but Bleak kidnaps him. Wheeler must find a way out through the "clean air hose" from the dome. Then he helps the others summon Captain Planet to carry off the domes and restore Earth's air.
- 29. Mind Pollution - Visiting her cousin Boris in Washington, D.C., Linka finds out he is under the influence of a designer drug known as 'Bliss', peddled by Verminous Skumm. Bliss turns its users into zombies who will do anything for another fix. Boris slips some Bliss into Linka's food, turning her into an addict, and the other Planeteers must flee from the zombies while also trying to help Linka regain her will power.
- 30. Send In The Clones - Kwame befriends Leela, a schoolgirl on the island of Mogahl whose parents keep having children, hoping for another son. They get their wish when Looten Plunder and Dr. Blight, looking for cheap labor, turn their cloning ray on Leela's brother Vico, who doubles in number each time he eats. Soon Vico numbers in the millions and, along with an accidentally cloned locust swarm, threaten the island's food supply, until Captain Planet converts Blight's device into a Decloning Ray.
- 31. The Ark - The Planeteers find themselves whisked aboard an interstellar Noah's Ark, while trying to save endangered tigers from Hoggish Greedly and Dr. Blight's forest-destroying Monster Golf Cart in India. The alien zookeeper thinks humans are an endangered species, whose habitat is about to be destroyed. The Planeteers risk death in the vacuum of space to return to Earth, and their dedication convinces the alien that humanity is not doomed after all. He returns them to India, where they summon Captain Planet to destroy the Monster Golf Cart.
- 32. The Predator - In the Florida Keys, Ma-Ti has a brush with what he thinks is a giant man eater, though Gi reveals that it is a harmless basking shark. But panic spreads through the resort town, which hires Argos Bleak to eradicate all the sharks in the bay. Then, when stinging jellyfish (which the sharks used to feed on) swarm the beach, the townspeople learn that predators have an important role in the ecosystem. After escaping their sinking EcoCopter, the other Planeteers rescue Gi and Ma-Ti (and the Basking Shark) from Bleak.
- 33. Isle Of Solar Energy - The Planeteers stumble across the island of Dr. Apollo, an American scientist who has perfected incredible devices for storing and transmitting solar power. They discover that the laboratory assistant is acutally Leadsuit, who is helping Duke Nukem subvert solar technology to produce a radioactive weapon. The Planeteers summon Captain Planet, who defeats the gamma ray beam and Nukem ends up contained inside the melted lab. Dr. Apollo receives an electric shock that erases his memory of his solar inventions, but sets out to rediscover the secrets.
- 34. The Coral Killer - Hoggish Greedly and Rigger teach Tacio, a struggling Filipino fisherman, how to go dynamite fishing, without telling him the irreversible damage it does to the fish population and to the coral reef. It is all a cover for Greedly's underwater Reef Ripper, which is harvesting the shattered coral. But Gi takes Tacio's wife Marcaria underwater, and then to an impoverished, wave-battered island nearby, to show what can happen when a protective reef is gone. Captain Planet disassembles the Reef Ripper and uses it to start a new coral reef.
- 35. The Big Clam-Up - The people of San Francisco are collapsing with symptoms that suggest a whole range of pollution poisoning. As the Planeteers follow clues to solve this mystery, Ma-Ti (who is reading 1940s detective novels) keeps imagining himself as a private eye in black-and-white sequences. Ma-Ti proves a poor sleuth at first, but eventually he tracks down Verminous Skumm who is serving seafood tainted by storm drain runoff in his restaurant, The Sinking Ship.
- 36. Off Road Hog - Pete, a dirt bike enthusiast, loves off-road racing with Hoggish Greedly and Rigger, until Ma-Ti and desert guide Joshua Stone show him how alive this "barren" desert really is, and how much damage off-road vehicles do to it. Pete and the Planeteers swoop in on hang gliders to stop Greedly's ORV race, but Captain Planet is needed to save everyone from a flash flood.
- 37. An Inside Job - Sludge and four of the Planeteers learn first hand the terrible effects of untreated sewage when MAL and Dr. Blight shrink the EcoSub (and them) to microscopic size and put them into polluted water, which Kwame unwittingly drinks. The Planeteers must battle hideous water-borne parasites in Kwame's body so that he can recover, and restore them to proper size. They accidentally enlarge a parasite as well, and must summon Captain Planet to toss the giant worm into the shrinking ray.
- 38. A Twist Of Fate - During an earthquake, a blow to Wheeler's head leaves him lost from the others and suffering from amnesia. He finds himself literally in the shoes of a homeless man, and learns that the only difference between them is a simple twist of fate.
- 39. Trouble On The Half Shell - Hoggish Greedly and Verminous Skumm are shipwrecked on one of the Galapagos Islands, where some of Skumm's mutated rats start stealing eggs from an endangered tortoise nest. The invading species threatens to wipe out the ecosystem, but with the help of JASON, a robot remote-controlled by a kid at a New York museum, the Planeteers track down Skumm and Greedly, and Captain Planet puts an end to the destruction.
- 40. The Fine Print - Looten Plunder and Argos Bleak exploit an agricultural worker's hidden shame - illiteracy - by putting the man in charge of spraying pesticides. He can't read the written warnings, and as a result he uses too much pesticide, creating a lethal cloud that threatens a nearby town.
- 41. Star Dust - Gi and Linka are livid when Wheeler belittles their favorite rock singer, but it looks as though Wheeler may be right when they come upon a land-ravaging, surface mining operation run by Hoggish Greedly, but bankrolled by none other than their idol - Sky Runner! Stunned, they confront the star, who turns out to be innocent and knows nothing of Greedly's destruction. Sky Runner goes after Greedly, who tosses him into an underground mine.
- 42. The Blue Car Line - Gaia becomes suspicious when air pollution suddenly skyrockets in an Australian city with one of the best mass transit systems in the world. The Planeteers investigate and discover that Looten Plunder and Argos Bleak are behind the problem. They are making it appear that the transit line is haunted, allowing them to profit from a massive freeway system and auto-related businesses.
- 43. Birds Of A Feather - Linka and Ma-Ti visit a friend, Juan, in Central America. While there, Juan's parrot, El Profesor, leads them to a secluded "bird paradise" when a giant, metallic bird appears. All the birds, including El Profesor, follow it, as do Linka and Ma-Ti, who soon find themselves locked in a giant aviary, courtesy of Hoggish Greedly, who is running an exotic bird smuggling venture. El Profesor escapes and leads Kwame, Wheeler and Gi back to the aviary, where they summon Captain Planet, who closes down Greedly's "fly-by-night" operation.
- 44. Radiant Amazon - Sludge and Nukem collaborate to dump toxic waste in the Amazon rainforest, imperiling Ma-Ti's village. Ma-Ti returns to see the Shaman and when the Planeteers arrive, they find the village in flames. Although they are able to extinguish the blaze, Ma-Ti is filled with anger. He slips away to capture the villains but is captured himself.
- 45. The Great Tree Heist - The Planeteers travel to the Northwest after hearing about an old growth forest which is literally disappearing into thin air. After Wheeler sets out to investigate, along with an attractive local teenage bird watcher, Linka spots a "flying saucer" but they then discover that Hoggish Greedly is the pilot. They discover Greedly's scam -"Sucking up" five-hundred-year-old trees to make pressed board furniture.
- 46. Fare Thee Whale - The Planeteers are shocked to see a mother whale killed during a whaling expedition engineered by Dr. Blight and Looten Plunder, but they are even more shocked to learn that it is legal, due to a loophole in the international laws, allowing whaling for the purpose of research. They set out to prove that Blight's research for a "whale repellent" is bogus and are helped by a young Japanese teenager who is trying to dissuade his whaler father from working for Blight and Plunder.
- 47. Summit To Save Earth Part One - At the Earth Summit in Brazil, the Planeteers are impressed by the proposed ecology measures, until the world leaders suddenly reverse their positions - victims of Zarm's treachery, who has united all the other Eco-Villains under him. He then tricks the Planeteers into giving up their rings and zaps Gaia into human form, aging her and destroying the planet simultaneously. The Planeteers' only hope is to find Commander Clash.
- 48. Summit To Save Earth Part Two - After discovering that it is ten years later outside Zarm's ship, the Planeteers race to find Commander Clash before Gaia ages into dust. He returns with them and fights Zarm, but is defeated and opts to return to his island. The Planeteers refuse to give up and are recaptured and taunted by Zarm. He is just about to decimate Ma-Ti when Clash reappears and saves Gaia and the Planeteers.
- 49. Losing Game - Kwame takes the Planeteers to Africa to meet an old friend from his tribe, Dr. Mabutu, who is experiencing trouble on his game ranch. The trouble is Dr. Blight, whose experiments turn ordinary cattle into "raging bulls", which threaten to destroy the entire region. When they go on a rampage, it is up to Captain Planet to hit the trail and corral the "bum steers".
- 50. Scorched Earth
- 51. Hate Canal
- 52. Utopia
[edit] Season three (1992-1993)
- 53. Greenhouse Planet
- 54. A Creep From The Deep
- 55. The Deadly Glow
- 56. A Perfect World
- 57. The Dream Machine
- 58. Bitter Waters
- 59. The Guinea Pigs
- 60. OK At The Gunfight Corral
- 61. Canned Hunt
- 62. Hog Tide
- 63. A Formula For Hate - The story involved a high school basketball player (named Todd) who is accused of having HIV-AIDS and the villain Verminous Skumm brainwashing the school into thinking that the disease can be spread through casual contact.
- 64. If It's Doomsday, This Must Be Belfast
- 65. The Night Of The Wolf
[edit] The New Adventures Of Captain Planet
[edit] Season four (1993-1994)
- 66. A Mine Is A Terrible Thing To Waste Part One
- 67. A Mine Is A Terrible Thing To Waste Part Two
- 68. I Just Want To Be Your Teddybear
- 69. Missing Linka
- 70. The Unbearable Blightness Of Being
- 71. Wheeler's Ark
- 72. Sea No Evil
- 73. Talkin' Trash
- 74. Future Shock
- 75. Gorillas Will Be Missed
- 76. I've Lost My Mayan
- 77. The Energy Vampire
- 78. Bottom Line Green
- 79. You Bet Your Planet
- 80. Bug Off
- 81. Orangu-Tangle
- 82. Jail House Flock
- 83. Planeteers Under Glass
- 84. High Steaks
- 85. Going Bats, Man
- 86. 'Teers In The Hood - This episode dealt with gang violence, guns, and the peace messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Mahatma Gandhi, as well as their assassinations. It was a break from the formula of most episodes: No Eco Villains appeared nor was pollution the concern (A Formula for Hate almost broke from the show’s usual patterns, though Verminous Skumm was the cause of the problems). The episode centered around the shooting of a school teacher caught in gang crossfire. As the teacher was a friend of Gi’s, the five went undercover in the high school the two rival gangs went to.
- 87. No Horsing Around
[edit] Season five (1994-1995)
- 88. Twilight Ozone
- 89. Hollywaste
- 90. Disoriented Express
- 91. Ghost Of Porkaloin Past
- 92. No Place Like Home
- 93. Horns A' Plenty
- 94. Little Crop Of Horrors
- 95. A River Ran Through It
- 96. In Zarm's Way
- 97. Nothing's Sacred
- 98. Who's Running The Show
- 99. No Small Problem
- 100. Numbers Game
[edit] Season six (1995-1996)
It is notable that in season six, the opening spiel was replaced by a new rap theme. Also, the Planeteers' clothes were updated to look more modern and the animation improved considerably. This season also wasn't aired in the United States until many years after the show's cancellation. Most of the episodes finally made their U.S. debut on Boomerang in 2006 as part of an Earth Day marathon.
- 101. 5-Ring Panda-Monium
- 102. An Eye For An Eye
- 103. 101 Mutations
- 104. Whoo Gives A Hoot
- 105. Frog Day Afternoon
- 106. A Good Bomb Is Hard To Find
- 107. Twelve Angry Animals
- 108. Dirty Politics
- 109. One Of The Gang
- 110. Old Ma River
- 111. Delta Gone
- 112. Never The Twain Shall Meet
- 113. Greed Is The Word
[edit] Trivia
- The 3rd season (1992) episode entitled “A Formula for Hate” was the first time that an American animated cartoon show dealt with the issue of AIDS education.
