Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Season 1

Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Season 1

Season 1

Network
DatesSep 15, 1990 - Jun 1, 1991
Next Season

Episodes

A Hero for Earth
Season 1Episode 130 min

A Hero for Earth

Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, summons four teenagers and a young boy named Ma-Ti 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.

Sep 15, 1990
Rain of Terror
Season 1Episode 230 min

Rain of Terror

Ma-Ti battles self-esteem issues as the Planeteers try to stop Verminous Skumm from destroying a city with a giant cloud of acid rain. First appearance of Verminous Skumm.

Sep 22, 1990
Beast of the Temple
Season 1Episode 330 min

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.

Sep 29, 1990
Skumm Lord
Season 1Episode 430 min

Skumm Lord

When Verminous Skumm contaminates the water supplies of South America with a disease known as "rat rot", which turns its victims into rat-human hybrids, it's up to Kwame and Ma-Ti to find a cure when the other Planeteers become infected.

Oct 6, 1990
Deadly Ransom
Season 1Episode 530 min

Deadly Ransom

Dr. Blight and Duke Nukem hold Captain Planet prisoner inAntarctica, demanding that the Planeteers give them a lifetime supply of nuclear waste in return for his safety. Without their powers, the Planeteers must mount a daring rescue in order to save Captain Planet.

Oct 13, 1990
The Conqueror
Season 1Episode 630 min

The Conqueror

The Planeteers are led astray by the promise of power fromZarm, awar-like god who had been Gaia's predecessor as the Spirit of the Earth. Zarm dazzles the Planeteers into telling them that they can create an environmentalutopiaon Earth and gets them to follow him instead of Gaia, save for Ma-Ti, whose loyalty to Gaia is the strongest. With the Planeteers split up, Gaia becomes mortal and increasingly weaker. Can Ma-Ti convince the Planeteers that Zarm's true intent is to instigate anuclear war?

Oct 20, 1990
Last of Her Kind
Season 1Episode 730 min

Last of Her Kind

Wheeler plans to buy Linka an ivory necklace for her birthday, but Kwame recommends anything except that for a gift. Meanwhile, Looten Plunder is wiping out the elephant population of Africa, Kwame's native land, 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 elephants from extinction.

Oct 27, 1990
The Dead Seas
Season 1Episode 830 min

The Dead Seas

Hoggish Greedly and Rigger scheme to catch and sell all thefishin theoceanwith a fleet of illegaldrift netfishing 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 nets.

Nov 3, 1990
Tree of Life
Season 1Episode 930 min

Tree of Life

Dr. Blight and herrobojackschop 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 grows gigantic and a match for Captain Planet, then plans to destroy the ancientredwood forests.

Nov 10, 1990
Volcano's Wrath
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Volcano's Wrath

Sly Sludge, who claims to have solved the world's problems ofwaste managementby inventing a shrink ray that reduces garbage, is making big bucks by having countries ship their garbage to him for disposal. However, Sludge is secretly only dumping the garbage into avolcanoon Laipuno Island. When the volcano erupts, Captain Planet and the Planeteers must save the islanders from thelavaflow.

Nov 17, 1990
Littlest Planeteer
Season 1Episode 1130 min

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 idolizes Wheeler. When Wheeler suffers fromsecond degree burnswhich renders him unable to use his ring, Jason steals Wheeler's ring and tries to single-handedly battle Dr. Blight's newly createdsmogmonster, which feeds on air pollution, Jason learns what it really means to be a Planeteer. Later on, Captain Planet makes Jason an honorary Planeteer.

Nov 24, 1990
A World Below Us
Season 1Episode 1230 min

A World Below Us

After Gi is rescued from Sly Sludge's mechanicaloctopus, 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.

Jan 26, 1991
Plunder Dam
Season 1Episode 1330 min

Plunder Dam

Looten Plunderdamsan Africanriverand installs a largehydroelectric power plant, cutting off water supplies to the villages. Gaia warns that only carefully engineered dams are beneficial. 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. The Planeteers then build a wisely placed dam to balance proper river flow with electrification of the village.

Feb 2, 1991
Meltdown Syndrome
Season 1Episode 1430 min

Meltdown Syndrome

When ascientisttries to cover up a radiation leak at anuclear power plant, Duke Nukem zeros in on the "hot spot" and triggers ameltdown. With time running out, Captain Planet and the Planeteers are forced to cool off the reactor before an explosion occurs and contaminates the planet. When the scientist admits that he supported nuclear power on the basis it was clean and plentiful in an attempt to solve theenergy crisis, the Planeteers recommend he instead researchgeothermal power.

Feb 9, 1991
Smog Hog
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Smog Hog

Greedly hijacks Jane Goodair's environmentally friendlyautomobilefactoryin order to manufacture his Road Hog, a smog-spewing nightmare, and 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.

Feb 16, 1991
Polluting by Computer
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Polluting by Computer

Sly Sludge, Dr. Blight and her computer, MAL, hack into the government'scomputersystem in order to obtain phony legal documents allowing them to change all thenational parksinto gianttoxic wastedumps. In addition, they falsify thecriminal recordsof the Planeteers and cleans up Sly Sludge'sbackground checkto make him look like a committed environmentalist.

Feb 23, 1991
Don't Drink the Water
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Don't Drink the Water

Four of the main echo villians (and their henchmen) join forces in a plot to pollute a city's water supply so they can sell their bottled water to thirsty citizens at outrageous prices. Captain Planet and the Planeteers set out on a mission to find pure water and break up the "Pollution Syndicate".

Mar 2, 1991
Kwame's Crisis
Season 1Episode 1830 min

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 gianttrash compactor.

Mar 9, 1991
Ozone Hole
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Ozone Hole

Duke Nukem destroys theozone layeroverAntarcticawithC.F.C. gasesso he can feast on thesun's dangerousUV rays.Captain Planetand the Planeteers battle to protect the Earth from Nukem's deadly radiation.

Apr 13, 1991
The Ultimate Pollution
Season 1Episode 2030 min

The Ultimate Pollution

Looten Plunder instigates a war between two desert villages so that he can sellfirearmsto 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, free the Planeteers and help stop the destruction.

Apr 20, 1991
Population Bomb
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Population Bomb

The Planeteers learn that the world is very overpopulated and some countries try to slow it down. Wheeler, annoyed at the idea of anyone recommending how many children to have, goes out windsurfing despite an approaching storm. He is blown off-course and is washed up on an island with a miniature city. The inhabitants, genetically affected mice with human characteristics including overpopulation and its resulting polluted land, capture Wheeler for food. Wheeler also learns the mouse civilization is a dictatorship whose junta plans to invade and colonize Hope Island.

Apr 27, 1991
Mission to Save Earth (1)
Season 1Episode 2230 min

Mission to Save Earth (1)

5 of the main eco-villains steal the Planeteers' rings and abandon them on an island inhabited by Commander Clash, a soldier with acold warmentality. Clash appears to be their most dangerous opponent to date, untilCaptain Pollution, summoned by evil duplicates of the Planeteers' rings created by Dr. Blight, appears and traps them.

May 4, 1991
Mission to Save Earth (2)
Season 1Episode 2330 min

Mission to Save Earth (2)

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.

May 11, 1991
Two Futures (1)
Season 1Episode 2430 min

Two Futures (1)

The Planeteers' mission to prevent Dr. Blight and Greedly from travelling back in time to speed upglobal warmingtakes a turn for the worse. When Wheeler gets chastised for messing up, he doubts his own worth as a Planeteer. Dr. Blight sweet talks Wheeler into forgetting the Planeteers, and has MAL send Wheeler back in time and alter his past. Wheeler accepts and convinces his past self to get rid of his Planeeter ring. However, Wheeler is then sent forward 35 years into the future (2026),where he sees first hand how his actions end up drastically changing the future.

May 18, 1991
Two Futures (2)
Season 1Episode 2530 min

Two Futures (2)

Traveling back in time so that he never becomes a Planeteer, Wheeler jeopardizes the survival of life on Earth. Gaia told Wheeler that after he traveled back in time to get rid of his Fire ring, he has changed the history and when Wheeler asks Gaia that why somebody was chosen to become Planeteer instead of Wheeler, Gaia reminds him that he was supposed to set an example for countless others and since he declined to be a Planeteer, the Planeteers went their separate ways and there was no Captain Planet. After Wheeler changed his past, Dr. Blight sent Hoggish Greedly and Rigger back in time to the 1950s to take advantage of lower environmental standards. When Gaia gives him the chance to go into the future and see the consequences of his actions, he sees all sorts of environmental disasters. He also meets aged versions of his fellow Planeteers who are struggling by themselves to fend off problems, as well as a powerful and super-rich Hoggish Greedly and Rigger who have taken over Hope Island, made Gaia die as her hut is now a toxic waste dump and made Hope Island into Las Vegas type Glitter and Glamour place. Wheeler realizes how much he, along with every individual, contributes to the future of the planet.

May 25, 1991
Heat Wave
Season 1Episode 2630 min

Heat Wave

Dr. Blight attacks Hope Island by encasing it in a dome then using her smog-spewing barge to create agreenhouse effect. With Gaia's life in danger, the Planeteers enlist the help of a giantwhaleto break free from Blight's heat wave and call Captain Planet.

Jun 1, 1991

Recently Updated Shows

Recently updated shows that might be of your interest.
The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch
Running

The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

Gaining full and unprecedented access to one of the most infamous and secretive hotspots of paranormal and UFO-related activities on earth, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch will feature a team of scientists and experts who will conduct a thorough search of this infamous 512-acre property located in Utah's Uinta Basin. They will attempt to find out the truth behind more than 200 years of mysteries - involving everything from UFO sightings and paranormal activities to animal mutilations and Native American legends of a shape-shifting creature known simply as The Skinwalker.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Running

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

In Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, 15 questions need to be answered by the contestants to win the 1 million dollar prize.

The Snake
Running

The Snake

The Snake will follow 15 people from various professions trying to manipulate their way to becoming that week's snake, who decides who stays and who leaves the show, through a series of challenges. Each week, the winner of each challenge earns control of ‘The Saving Ceremony', an elimination that is about who will save certain contestants with people making friends, faking friends, or sparking romantic connections with the winner taking home $100,000.

Teen Titans Go!
Running

Teen Titans Go!

Teen Titans Go! is a character-driven comedy series focuses on the funny that happens in between saving the world and living together as teenagers without adult supervision. The comedic mayhem of the animated series is punctuated by pranks and the occasional need to fight crime, but it will also deal with the everyday issues of adolescence. With epic staring contests to decide who does the laundry, a series of quests and battles to construct the perfect sandwich or fighting crime in Jump City, one thing is for sure, these Titans will always be ready for an adventure inside the house and out.

Rick and Morty
Running

Rick and Morty

Rick is a mentally gifted, but sociopathic and alcoholic scientist and a grandfather to Morty; an awkward, impressionable, and somewhat spineless teenage boy. Rick moves into the family home of Morty, where he immediately becomes a bad influence.