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The Best Episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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Eco-villains beware: Captain Planet is here to save the day! With the guidance of Gaia, five Planeteers - representing Earth, Fire, Water, Wind and Heart - come together to defend our planet from environmental destruction.

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 5 Episode 7 - No Place Like Home
    7.2/10(37 votes)

    S5:E7

    Gaia is transformed into a homeless person through Blight's experiments, but if she's not back on Hope Island by sunrise, the Earth will lose its spirit.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  2. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 5 Episode 8 - Little Crop of Horrors
    7.2/10(39 votes)

    S5:E8

    Blight's experimental plant turns violent, threatening an entire village.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Laura Schrock

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  3. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 6 Episode 6 - Dirty Politics
    7.0/10(39 votes)

    S6:E6

    It's twenty years in the future, and the Eco-villains are older, but certainly none the wiser. What's worse, they're all running for president, and they've kidnapped the future Planeteers so nothing can be done about it! Will anyone be able to stop the Eco-villains from turning the White House into the Blight House?!?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Laura Schrock

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  4. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 1 Episode 1 - A Hero for Earth
    6.9/10(104 votes)

    S1:E1

    The spirit of the Earth, Gaia, summons five teenagers to join her in battling ecological destruction and pollution. Their first fight is to keep Hoggish Greedly's oil rig from destroying a coastline.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Billy Ruebin

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  5. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 5 Episode 2 - Hollywaste
    6.9/10(37 votes)

    S5:E2

    Strange accidents on a film set point to Dr. Blight's starlet sister Bambi.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  6. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 5 Episode 6 - A River Ran Through It
    6.8/10(35 votes)

    S5:E6

    The Planeteers are drawn into a controversial battle between loggers and fishermen.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  7. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 5 Episode 12 - Nothing's Sacred
    6.8/10(31 votes)

    S5:E12

    Skumm steals a sacred Indian relic, infuriating Ma-ti.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Doug Booth

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  8. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 3 Episode 3 - The Deadly Glow
    6.7/10(37 votes)

    S3:E3

    The Planeteers have little time to track down a radioactive isotope that was released by two capsules from an old chemotherapy machine. But where there's radioactivity, there's Duke Nukem, and he's already got his hands on one of the capsules. Now the Planeteers must find the two little children that took the other capsule before Nukem does.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Doug Molitor

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  9. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 3 Episode 8 - OK at the Gunfight Corral
    6.7/10(38 votes)

    S3:E8

    The Planeteers travel back in time of pursuit of Hoogish Gredly and Sly Sludge, who intend to purchase the Grand Canyon decades before it becomes a landmark and use it as a land-fill

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Pat Allee, Ben Hurst

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  10. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 3 Episode 9 - Canned Hunt
    6.7/10(44 votes)

    S3:E9

    The Planeteers are vacationing on a cruise, where they meet Trevor, a big game hunter. Linka, totally misunderstanding Trevor's reasoning for enjoying hunting, takes an immediate disliking to him. They soon discover that Greedly is running a bogus "hunting" business, where tamed animals are being used (and slaughtered) to allow his clients to enjoy the ultimate hunting experience. The Planeteers and Captain Planet are captured, but Trevor comes to the rescue and helps turn the tables on Greedly.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Pat Allee, Ben Hurst

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  11. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 5 Episode 4 - Disoriented Express
    6.7/10(33 votes)

    S5:E4

    Blight kidnaps the benefactor of a smog-reducing railway system.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  12. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 6 Episode 10 - Never the Twain Shall Meet
    6.7/10(32 votes)

    S6:E10

    The Planeteers head South to meet their pal Milton who plans to show them all he's doing to preserve the endangered Mississippi River. But Ma-ti doesn't want a guided tour. He has delusions of experiencing the Mississippi like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer did in the old days.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Sean Catherine Derek

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  13. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 3 Episode 6 - Bitter Waters
    6.6/10(39 votes)

    S3:E6

    When visiting Skyrunner (from "Stardust"), the Planeteers come across a faulty irrigation project, engineered by Looten Plunder, who has manipulated the Tribe into allowing him to put the project into effect. Blinded by promises of riches, new jobs, and a good harvest, the Tribe must be convinced by the Planeteers that the project is more destructive than productive, before Plunder drains them of their water, and thier livelihood.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 4 Episode 13 - Gorillas Will Be Missed
    6.6/10(32 votes)

    S4:E13

    An African boy from the future uses a virtual reality game and opens a door to the past where Looten Plunder is behind gorillas being poachered. He helps the Planeteers. The Planeteers call Captain Planet when things get out of hand.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Doug Molitor, Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  15. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 6 Episode 7 - Old Ma River
    6.6/10(39 votes)

    S6:E7

    While visiting India to do research on pollution in the sacred Ganges River, the Planeteers and thousands of others come down with a mysterious illness. Only Wheeler, who has been off exploring the city on his own, is not sick. However, when he starts receiving mystical visions from the Hindu gods, Hanuman and Ganesha, his newfound friend Lita wonders how well he really is.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  16. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 6 Episode 9 - Twelve Angry Animals
    6.6/10(32 votes)

    S6:E9

    The Planeteers are climbing Mount Everest in the Himalayas when they follow a snow leopard and fall into a cavern where they encounter a Yetti among 12 extinct or endangered animals, all of whom can speak, and begin to judge not only the Planeteers, but the entire human race. They go back from the Ice Age and various other time periods where the animals were either hunted or had their habitats destroyed by humans resulting in their extinction or becoming endangered. This episode is used to educate both of the past, present, and future for the viewers it explains how we can have everything one day and lose everything later.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Rich Fogel, Mark Seidenberg

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  17. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 6 Episode 12 - Greed Is the Word
    6.6/10(31 votes)

    S6:E12

    Engines are revving up for a giant speedboat race through the Florida waterways. Unfortunately, the race threatens the endangered manatees who live in these backwaters. As usual, the Planeteers try putting to stop the eco-catastrophe. Only, this time they get some unlikely help from Wheeler's favorite TV stars, Danny Dazzleduff and Belinda Bubblebutt from Babe Watch, when they discover that Hoggish Greedly is behind a plan to get rid of the manatees.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  18. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 6 Episode 13 - 101 Mutations
    6.6/10(39 votes)

    S6:E13

    The Planeteers discover Dr. Blight has been experimenting with puppies at a dog pound she's secretly running. Unsuspecting people, including Wheeler's young cousin are adopting unhealthy dogs and it's up to Captain Planet and the Planeteers to put a stop to Blight.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  19. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 4 Episode 12 - Bottom Line Green
    6.5/10(31 votes)

    S4:E12

    A man who owns a small french fry company, his son is under the influence of Hoggish Greedly and Rigger not to have is father turn the factory "eco" friendly. When some strange accidents occur, the planeteers think the son is behind them, since the son and the father never got along, but they soon learn it was Greedly.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  20. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 4 Episode 19 - Planeteers Under Glass
    6.5/10(34 votes)

    S4:E19

    A scientist invites the Planeteers to participate in a new eco-experiment, but they all soon fall victim to another scientist - Dr. Blight, who makes one minor change to the experiment - they can't get out!

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Jim Katz, Von Williams

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  21. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 5 Episode 1 - Twilight Ozone
    6.5/10(35 votes)

    S5:E1

    The team explores the Outback, and the scientists who are experimenting with lifeforms that thrive on deadly levels of UV radiation.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Lane Raichert, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  22. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 1 Episode 9 - Tree of Life
    6.4/10(66 votes)

    S1:E9

    Blight gains powers from the "Tree of Life" and threatens to use her new strength to destroy the redwood forest.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Maurer

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  23. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 6 Episode 8 - One of the Gang
    6.4/10(31 votes)

    S6:E8

    When Captain Planet & the Planeteers save a ship from a storm, Senor Cisnernos offers the Planeteers a free vacation at his South American hotel. One of the employees mistakes Ma-Ti as a local riff-raff. But Ma-Ti decides to take a walk away from the good life. When a gang destroys a local restaurant, Captain Planet arrives & puts out the fire riding a surfboard!

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Bill Matheny, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

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  24. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 1 Episode 2 - Rain of Terror
    6.3/10(75 votes)

    S1:E2

    Skumm and his rat pack threaten to destroy a city with acid rain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Perry Martin

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  25. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 1 Episode 4 - Skumm Lord
    6.3/10(64 votes)

    S1:E4

    Skumm peddles a polluted drink that turns consumers into rodent zombies.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Martha Moran

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Best Episodes Summary

"No Place Like Home" is the best rated episode of "Captain Planet and the Planeteers". It scored 7.2/10 based on 37 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright, it aired on 11/19/1994. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Little Crop of Horrors".