| # |
Title |
U.S Air Date |
Production Code |
| 1 |
"Whale of a Tale" |
September 11, 1992 |
4313-007 |
| Ariel befriends a baby killer whale that was separated from his family because of human poachers. (Note: the title is also that of a song from Disney's 1954 movie 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea). |
| 2 |
"The Great Sebastian" |
September 12, 1992 |
4313-001 |
| Sebastian tells Triton that he is capable of making a deal with the Sharkanians (an underwater empire), but in truth, he is petrified of them and Ariel and Flounder must tag along to help him make the process go smoothly. |
| 3 |
"Stormy" |
September 19, 1992 |
4313-002 |
| Ariel rides a wild seahorse against her father's wishes and gets lost in the wilderness with the seahorse. |
| 4 |
"Urchin" |
September 26, 1992 |
4313-003 |
| Ariel befriends an orphaned merboy. (Note: this is the first appearance of Urchin). |
| 5 |
"Double Bubble" |
October 3, 1992 |
4313-004 |
| Ariel babysits two mischievous mertwins; Lobster Mobster attempts to steal the mother's pearl necklace. |
| 6 |
"Message in a Bottle" |
October 10, 1992 |
4313-005 |
| Ariel befriends Simon, a lonely sea dragon, after she, Sebastian and Flounder discover his message he sent in a bottle. |
| 7 |
"Charmed" |
October 17, 1992 |
4313-008 |
| Ariel puts on a human bracelet and then can't take it off. When she tries to use the key to take it off, she gets trapped by a giant whirlpool and in a horrible underwater nightmare when she runs away from home. |
| 8 |
"Marriage of Inconvenience" |
October 24, 1992 |
4313-009 |
| Ariel believes her father King Triton is setting her up for an arranged marriage with a snobbish merprince. She and her friends go great lengths to prevent this from happening. |
| 9 |
"The Evil Manta" |
October 31, 1992 |
4313-011 |
| Ariel unwittingly frees a dark figure known as the Evil Manta, who tries to take over Atlantica using deception and lies. |
| 10 |
"Thingamajigger" |
November 7, 1992 |
4313-006 |
| When a pirate's boot falls into the sea, Ariel, Sebastian and Flounder try to figure out what it is. Some mistake it as a weapon. (Note: In this episode, Prince Eric, along with Max, his sheepdog, makes his first appearance) |
| 11 |
"Red" |
November 14, 1992 |
4313-012 |
| A magic spell turns King Triton into a merboy, and Ariel has to play mother to him. |
| 12 |
"Beached" |
November 21, 1992 |
4313-013 |
| Before a family trip to a carnival, Ariel and Arista get into a fight and are 'beached' (grounded); two gators attempt to steal the royal treasure. |
| 13 |
"Trident True" |
November 28, 1992 |
4313-014 |
| Ariel looks for the perfect Father's Day gift to give King Triton, but it leads her to misfortune, when a giant octopus traps them in a cave, except Urchin. And Urchin attempts to steal the trident so he can save the day. |
| 14 |
"Eel-Ectric City" |
December 5, 1992 |
4313-010 |
| A party-crazed mermaid named Pearl takes Ariel and her sister Alana to Eel-Ectric City instead of to her house, while Sebastian and Flounder follow. |
| # |
Title |
U.S Air Date |
Production Code |
| 15 |
"Resigned to It" |
September 18, 1993 |
4313-015 |
| Sebastian quits his job as King Triton's royal advisor and tries to make a new life for himself. |
| 16 |
"Calliope Dreams" |
September 25, 1993 |
4313-016 |
| King Triton buys Ariel a very large present--a sea calliope, an instrument resembling an organ. However, she would rather play her human harp than listen to the loud chords of the calliope that wake the killer seaclops. (In this episode, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has a cameo appearance). |
| 17 |
"Save the Whale" |
October 2, 1993 |
4313-019 |
| Spot, the killer whale from the pilot episode, returns. Spot and Sebastian get captured by a crazed circus owner, and Ariel has to save them. |
| 18 |
"Against the Tide" |
October 9, 1993 |
4313-018 |
| Ariel rescues a Bad-Luck Creature, putting all of Atlantica in a panic, and must make her own luck when Ursula comes after the creature. |
| 19 |
"Giggles" |
October 16, 1993 |
4313-017 |
| A grumpy sorcerer blowfish's magic spell causes Ariel to create seaquakes whenever she laughs. |
| 20 |
"Wish upon a Starfish" |
October 23, 1993 |
4313-020 |
| Ariel befriends a mermaid who can't speak. Both of them decide to seek out the magical Wishing Starfish to make their heart's dreams come true. (Note: this is the first appearance of Gabriella. Also, the title is a play on a song from the animated film Pinocchio). |
| 21 |
"Tail of Two Crabs" |
October 30, 1993 |
4313-021 |
| Sebastian feels threatened by an old arch-rival who is better than him at everything, while Ursula works on a plan to turn Triton, Ariel, and others into sea worms. |
| 22 |
"Metal Fish" |
November 6, 1993 |
4313-022 |
| A human explorer boards a primitive submarine to explore the undersea realm, and crosses paths with Ariel. |
| 23 |
"T'ank You for Dat, Ariel" |
December 11, 1993 |
4313-023 |
| Ariel enters a magic cave to become a sea witch and uses her powers to make Sebastian a great big crab. Unfortunately, she is not quite specific about the size she wishes Sebastian to attain. |
| # |
Title |
U.S Air Date |
Production Code |
| 24 |
"Scuttle" |
September 17, 1994 |
4313-024 |
| Ariel meets Scuttle for the first time and must use his help to rescue Sebastian from a gang of pirates. This marks the second appearance of Prince Eric. |
| 25 |
"King Crab" |
September 24, 1994 |
4313-025 |
| Sebastian realizes that his parents are coming to visit and must try to create a huge scheme to make it appear that he is the king of Atlantica like he wrote in his letters to them. |
| 26 |
"Island of Fear" |
October 1, 1994 |
4313-026 |
| A mad scientist captures Sebastian, and tries to use him for sinister experiments. |
| 27 |
"Land of the Dinosaurs" |
October 8, 1994 |
4313-027 |
| During a trip to the north pole Ariel finds frozen dinosaurs and thaws them with her father's trident. Somehow they are aquatic and cause chaos before King Triton makes a refuge for them on land. |
| 28 |
"Heroes" |
October 15, 1994 |
4313-028 |
| Apollo, a great Atlantican hero comes to visit and Ariel wants to go on an adventure with him and learns that he is not all he's cracked up to be. |
| 29 |
"The Beast Within" |
October 22, 1994 |
4313-029 |
| Flounder is bitten by a howling hairfish and starts to turn into one. |
| 30 |
"Ariel's Treasures" |
October 29, 1994 |
4313-030 |
| Gabriella returns to visit Ariel as she shows her all of her new human things. However, Ursula's spell causes her treasures to go crazy and begin attacking innocent fish and merpeople. Prince Eric makes his third appearance. |
| 31 |
"A Little Evil" |
November 26, 1994 |
4313-031 |
| The Evil Manta returns and introduces his son, who he wants to be just as evil as he is. Unfortunately, when his son befriends Ariel and goes to school with her, he starts to get other "good" ideas in his head. |
