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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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Season 1

6.9/10104 votes
A Hero for Earth
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1990
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
6.3/1075 votes
Rain of Terror
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1990
Skumm and his rat pack threaten to destroy a city with acid rain.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Perry Martin
6.2/1063 votes
Beast of the Temple
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1990
Greedly and Rigger strip-mine Thailand for rubies.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Steve Hayes, Ted Pedersen
6.3/1064 votes
Skumm Lord
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1990
Skumm peddles a polluted drink that turns consumers into rodent zombies.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Martha Moran
6.1/1064 votes
Deadly Ransom
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1990
Captain Planet is held hostage by Nukem, Blight and MAL.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Perry Martin
6.2/1058 votes
The Conqueror
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1990
An aggressive and sneaky Earth spirit named Zarm tricks the teens into disobeying Gaia, sparking a dangerous game that threatens to lead to nuclear war.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Doug Molitor
5.9/1057 votes
Last of Her Kind
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1990
The Planeteers fight to save the African elephants from extinction as Looten Plunder tries to corner the market in ivory.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly
6.0/1058 votes
The Dead Seas
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1990
Greedly and Rigger plot to empty the oceans of fish.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Martha Moran
6.4/1066 votes
Tree of Life
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1990
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
5.9/1058 votes
Volcano's Wrath
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1990
Sludge solves the world's trash problem by dumping everything into a volcano, which then erupts.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Bob Schooley, Mark McCorkle
5.9/1064 votes
Littlest Planeteer
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1990
A little boy helps battle a smog monster.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Dorothy Middleton
5.9/1053 votes
A World Below Us
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/26/1991
A dumping operation threatens an underwater city.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Michael Maurer
5.5/1054 votes
Plunder Dam
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/2/1991
Plunder dams an African river, leaving the locals without the food or water the waterway provided.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Rowby Goren
5.9/1052 votes
Meltdown Syndrome
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/9/1991
Nukem's radioactive presence at a leaking nuclear power plant triggers a meltdown.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Phil Harnage
5.8/1052 votes
Smog Hog
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/1991
Greedly creates a pollution-intensive car but his own son becomes a victim of the resulting smog and pollution.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Martha Moran
5.8/1059 votes
Polluting by Computer
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/23/1991
Sludge and Blight break into government computers and transform all national parks into toxic waste dumps.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Steve Hayes, Ted Pedersen
6.0/1056 votes
Don't Drink the Water
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/1991
Plunder, Skumm and Greedly pollute the nation's water supply.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Dan DiStefano
5.7/1055 votes
Kwame's Crisis
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1991
A depressed Kwame leaves the Planeteers when no one seems to care that Sludge is burying a small town in garbage.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
5.9/1049 votes
Ozone Hole
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/1991
Nukem decimates the ozone layer so he can feast on ultra-violet rays.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Doug Molitor
6.0/1054 votes
The Ultimate Pollution
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 4/20/1991
Looten Plunder provokes tribal warfare so he can sell arms to both sides.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Cliff MacGillivray
5.1/1066 votes
Population Bomb
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/1991
Wheeler is stranded on an island of humanoid mice on the brink of population overload.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Phil Harnage
6.1/1062 votes
Mission to Save Earth (1)
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1991
The teens cross paths with Cold Warrior Commander Clash, but their true opponent is Captain Pollution, a creation of Blight's.
Director: Unknown
Writer: J. Larry Carroll, David Bennett Carren
6.1/1060 votes
Mission to Save Earth (2)
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 5/11/1991
Commander Clash joins the Planeteers to stop the eco-villains and Captain Pollution.
Director: Unknown
Writer: J. Larry Carroll, David Bennett Carren
6.1/1059 votes
Two Futures (1)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/18/1991
A disgruntled Wheeler uses a time machine to travel to the past to stop himself from becoming a Planeteer.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Doug Molitor
6.0/1058 votes
Two Futures (2)
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/25/1991
Wheeler's attempt to keep his former self from joining the Planeteers has grave consequences for the planet.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Doug Molitor
6.1/1060 votes
Heat Wave
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 6/1/1991
Blight creates a mini greenhouse effect over Hope Island, threatening Gaia's life.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown