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The Best Episodes of The New Adventures of Lucky Luke

Every episode of The New Adventures of Lucky Luke ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The New Adventures of Lucky Luke!

Best episode
S1E36 Jackpot for the Daltons
7.725 votes
Worst episode
S1E25 Don Quixote del Texas
6.229 votes
Top season
Season 1
6.8avg
Binge time
19h 4m
52 episodes

Seasons1

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 36 - Jackpot for the Daltons
    7.7/10(25 votes)
    S1:E36

    Lightning renders dumbo Averill smart enough to lead a Daltons escape and evil, seizing command from Joe and aiming to rob Fort Knox. While Lucky Luke sets chase, the lightning wears off, so Joe goes looking for more electricity to reproduce the effect, but can only recur to a rain-dancing Indian medicine-man.

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  2. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 48 - The Great Nose of Talisman
    7.5/10(27 votes)
    S1:E48

    A professor's archaeological dig finds a great Ancient king's tomb. On his way to Santa Fé University through Schnozzola (big nose) Indian territory with the mummy, which carries a legendary talisman, he attracts thieves and an undertaker, fascinated by the lost embalming technique. The Indians, descended from the king's people, believe the talisman brings a brave chief supreme power. They decide to seize it, but the medicine-man wants to rule himself- or not just him? Lucky Luke escorts the professor.

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  3. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 15 - Cuff Love
    7.3/10(37 votes)
    S1:E15

    The Daltons planned to escape by staging a trampoline act in the celebration for the prison's anniversary, but Lucky shoots that act down. Averell asks him for his escape artist act, as volunteer cuffed to Joe, but to both's horror the handcuffs can't be opened and nobody has a key, they were left by peddler Longneck who took off- the unwilling pair sets chase, while Joe keeps trying in vain to get rid of Lucky. General Custer has engaged Longneck to manufacture a tank in the same, allegedly unbreakable alloy. The other Dalton brothers escape and follow, looking for Joe... Written by KGF Vissers

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  4. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 41 - Dalton Junior
    7.3/10(23 votes)
    S1:E41

    After yet another escape, the Daltons are handed a baby by a mother, who rides away as diversion 'chased by villains'. Although the boy clearly bonds only with him, Joe first dumps noisy Junior on the old farmers, who adopt the godsend, then changes his mind to steal the baby back hoping it's worth a royal ransom.

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  5. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 26 - The Mare
    7.2/10(28 votes)
    S1:E26

    When Lucky Luke's boisterous tomcat friend, Calamity Jane, is officially wanted (dead or alive) for crimes committed by Phil Fast Finger, assuming her loud red-hair posture, Lucky agrees to help her escape. So now the crook catcher is hunted down with her by every bounty hunter- and trace the real culprit, to which end he masquerades with her as the respectable couple Jones. Their stage coach gets trough an attack by Indians, the rivaling bounty hunters catch up, and so does Phil.

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  6. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 33 - Kid and the gang
    7.1/10(24 votes)
    S1:E33

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  8. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 3 - Lucky Luke meets Lucky Luke
    7.0/10(44 votes)
    S1:E3

    Elmer Rotten, criminal par excellence and, master of disguise has turned himself into none other than yours truly, Lucky Luke. What better way to heist, rip off and bleed the wild west of its last penny?! Suddenly the “real” Lucky Luke becomes the most wanted man in the frontier and he finds himself having to hunt down...himself! Of course Rintindumb, the stupidest dog in the West is utterly convinced that Elmer Rotten is the “real” Lucky Luke! And faithful old pooch that he is, nobody, but nobody is going to lay a paw on his master!

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  9. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 4 - Hurray for Holly Woods
    7.0/10(43 votes)
    S1:E4

    Lucky meets the brothers Lumière, and saves the French pioneers of cinematography on their way to Holly Woods, still equally unknown then, from such diverse dangers as a bear and a malicious businessman and his dogsbody Jack who try to sabotage their entertainment breaking trough, or on second thought steal their unique camera. Meanwhile their demo movies were destroyed, so Wild West folk must act in a new one...

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  10. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 2 - Lucky Luke vs Sherlock Holmes
    7.0/10(37 votes)
    S1:E2

    Exasperated by Queen Victoria’s unbearable superiority complex, President Grant decides to challenge “her majesty” to a contest: Lucky Luke VS Sherlock Holmes.

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  11. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 8 - The Dalton's Treasure
    7.0/10(34 votes)
    S1:E8

    The Daltons have just escaped from the federal penitentiary along with A.B. Faria, an old, wheel-chair bound prisoner who claims he knows where the legendary treasure of Cibola is hidden. The fugitives are so discreet that pretty soon everyone west of the Mississippi knows about the treasure, including the Federal government who hires Lucky Luke to chase down the convicts...and find the treasure. Lucky Luke spies on our favorite friends from a distance as they’re dragged from one end of Arizona to the other by an old man with a memory shot full of holes. And to cap it off, the Daltons have to protect old pops from all of the crooks who are drawn to the treasure like flies to #@*!!. The mythical city of Cibola is finally uncovered...but once they see it, nobody is going to fight over the famed treasure!

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  12. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 13 - The Last of the Buffalo
    7.0/10(31 votes)
    S1:E13

    Out west, things are a mess! Not a single buffalo on the horizon1 The federal government quickly takes action and decides to bring the noble beast back to its natural habitat. The news spreads like wildfire amongst the hunters and they claw at each other to get first dibs at prime rib. Lucky Luke who has been chosen to guide the last pair of buffaloes back to the prairies of Wyoming, is going to go head-on with Buffalo Bill and J.J. Misdeal, the fastest fingers in West. But he is also going to have to reason with the Indians who have been deprived for too long of their favorite game. The whole thing would be just another day’s work for our lonely cowboy if those dang furry critters weren’t so civilized...

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  13. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 11 - The Clown Princess
    7.0/10(30 votes)
    S1:E11

    When Lucky attends a small-town horse rodeo, two fat wallets convince several contenders to bow out with 'leg cramp', leaving the Moldavian twins Bogdan and Todor, mistaken for Canadians, who are knocked down and out in no time, but ex-aequo. After the brothers bribe the sheriff for a chance to hunt down a criminal, Lucky takes charge and finds out they are rival crown princes on a contest for the right to succeed their uncle, king Slobko of Moldavia, consisting of three parts: rodeo, arresting a crook and scalping an Indian, but Lucky protects the peaceful No Joke tribe... Written by KGF Vissers

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  14. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 20 - Ghosts and bagpipes
    7.0/10(30 votes)
    S1:E20

    When three red-headed hulks wearing kilts and Scots berets muscle into O'City's saloon bar, Luck Luke chokes on his lemonade! This reaction sets off an brawl, giving the local Irish a perfect excuse to try and knock the brains out of the new lads in skirts. Later, when Lucky Luke is invited to stay at the Scots' castle, he finds himself embroiled in an intrigue involving the McCloud clan, the local Irish and native Indians. He'll have to deal with Lord Bloody's ghost, make peace with the Great Spirit of the Plains, and keep the Indians peaceful with the unexpected help of a Rugby match : child's play for Luke, compared to the next dilemma he's faced with: how to swallow haggis with dignity!

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  15. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 45 - The Daltons Against Billy the Kid
    7.0/10(22 votes)
    S1:E45

    When (young) Billy the Kid is jailed in the same prison as the Daltons, both legends escape. They are hell-bent to outdo the rival, and foremost to get Lucky's scalp, even ignoring rich preys along their respective paths. Lucky manages to play them against each-other and jails all five. But the locals are so into betting on various sides that they decide to free all crooks. In this way they can continue the ultimate contest for the worst Wild West criminal, in which their respective supporters intervene.

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  16. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 9 - The Flying Cowboy
    6.9/10(38 votes)
    S1:E9

    Lucky Luke chases master-bank-robber Black Peppermint who left his nickname-memento. This brings him to Slumberville, a town which treasures its weirdness, including a reverend who keeps crashing onto the roofs of saloon, church or bank in flying machines financed by baron von Flaps, who hopes for a big military order from Fort Large. When the reverend breaks a leg, only Lucky volunteers as stand-in test-pilot, soon finding out the real criminal intent...

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  17. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 34 - High flying Daltons
    6.9/10(23 votes)
    S1:E34

    The brothers Walter and John decide to spring the Daltons from jail by hot air balloon in order to prove even the most-feared gang can't crack their custom-order safes on board a train. Of course once free, nasty Joe decides to rob the Trick Gulch bank instead, where Lucky -who guessed so- waits for the Daltons, but the balloon rescues them, yet they throw the pilot out. Indians think the balloon is the stolen sun, Rataplan mistakes it for a toy-ball.

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  18. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 44 - The war of the Docs
    6.9/10(23 votes)
    S1:E44

    Lucky arrives as travel companion of qualified Chinese doc Li Ping Ping in mine town Diggers Point. There teacher Vicky had cornered the medical market, which is also claimed by peddler quack Dr Toxys. Luke accepts to serve as exemplary patient for both Li's acupuncture and Vicky's Western medicine, which attracts customer, Luke helps prove the quack's malice and disprove his attempt to discredit both rivals. When the mine collapses, all medical help is needed, and the cause of the epidemic found.

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  19. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 52 - The Schoolmaster
    6.9/10(23 votes)
    S1:E52

    After Congress declares the American republic can only become a great nation by schooling its people, Lucky saves a haughty, pedantic East coast teacher who immigrates to civilize the West and arrests three crooks who were robbing the teacher. The ignorant town-folk soon mistrust the hot-head educator. The local crime baron Jolly Potbelly forbids turning the saloon into a school for both adults and youth. Lucky stays as protector and armed truancy-fighter, but is ordered on the benches too as 'role model', later even as substitute.

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  20. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 46 - Crown Witness
    6.9/10(22 votes)
    S1:E46

    A judge requires Lucky to escort New York zoology professor, Oscar Tinyboots, a snail expert, to St. Bob, Kansas. He's the star witness against Smiley Laughter, having killed a protected animal. Smiley, a gangster, has never lost a trial because he has all the witnesses murdered. Oscar's bossy wife, Mimi, and Luke escort Oscar, first masquerading as soldiers. When the leave, the platoon commander tries to catch the deserters, so they venture into tribal Indian land. There the humble snail suddenly becomes vital.

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  21. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 47 - A Bone for the Daltons
    6.9/10(21 votes)
    S1:E47

    During excavation work to connect the prison with Washington via underground cable, a Platfeet settlement and graveyard is discovered. Lucky has the work stopped while a famous archaeologist examines the site and both confirms and even claims it proves Indians and Europeans have a common ancestor. Alas the Indians find out and lay siege to the fort. The Daltons escape, but realizing the find is a treasure, Joe is determined to break back in and steal it before escaping again, but neither proves easy. The defense includes moving the whole prison, while the contractor has his own drastic 'solution', which pleases only Rataplan. Written by KGF Vissers

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  22. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 1 - Liki Liki
    6.8/10(45 votes)
    S1:E1

    When Lee-Chow, a laundry entrepreneur in the Chinese quarter of a small town sprung along the railroad expansion which brought them into America, realizes they can't cope themselves with the criminal Purple Dragon triad gang which extorts 'protection money', he sends his humble and willing nephew Chin-Chin to search for 'Liki Liki', whom the boy teaches how to pass as Chinese. Finding uncle disappeared, only fellow entrepreneur Ho-Tang says in private kidnapped by the Purple Dragon, the two run the laundry and fight off the triad, only to find the sheriff on the wrong side, presiding over the brave yellow boy's lynching. Lucky saves him, now it's time to deal with the gang itself...

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  23. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 5 - Flower Power for the Daltons
    6.8/10(44 votes)
    S1:E5

    When Russian immigrant Vladimir's anti-capitalist rhetoric is about to get him lynched by the insulted rancher's cowboys, Lucky saves him from the noose by shooting down their weapons- and trousers. The escaped Daltons stole only one horse to remain inconspicuous, but loose it; when they come to Vladimir's cabin to steal his donkey, the Marxist's madness extends to invite the 'victims of unjust laws' to join the Utopian lawless society Freedonia he is planning, based solely on natural friendliness, and refuses to let Luke take the crooks back to jail, so Lucky decides...

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  24. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 18 - Unlucky In Love
    6.8/10(30 votes)
    S1:E18

    Lucky saves the Donahue sisters from the Backward Indians, who do everything the other way around- or is that the other way around? Next Lucky takes them on their way to California, where they have fiancés also from Dublin, to Independance, a gold-diggers bachelor town, where two girls, however tomcat, cause quite a stir and more. There are two strangers who seem suspiciously uninterested, but follow the trio the next morning over Backward territory, with surprise results for everybody... Written by KGF Vissers

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  25. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 24 - Justice for the Daltons
    6.8/10(28 votes)
    S1:E24

    Newly escaped from prison, the Daltons bump into Brad Alimony, a lawyer from the East Coast. This erudite fellow has a fail-proof plan to keep the four cronies out of jail. He can have every one of their sentences annulled… providing they pay. Questionable methods, but a legal method to clear the Daltons. Joe is reluctant to pay the lawyer's fees, but can't see any other way around it. So the Dalton's find that for once, they've got the Law on their side. Lucky Luke - on their trail yet again - ends up being accused and sentenced for harassment. Thankfully our hero knows a few loop-holes himself… legal ones of course!

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  26. The New Adventures of Lucky Luke Season 1 Episode 30 - A Cannon for the Daltons
    6.8/10(24 votes)
    S1:E30

    US Cavalry Colonel Oswald has orders to test fat Bertha, the White House's top-secret artillery pet project. Alas he looses control over it after the Daltons saw it, so they escape to get hold of it, but so want Indian chief Oochi Coochie and the now dismounted troopers. Lucky must arrest the Daltons again at risk of being bombed to Kingdom come, and the Colonel gets a surprise visit.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Jackpot for the Daltons" is the best rated episode of The New Adventures of Lucky Luke. It scored 7.7/10 from 25 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 27, 2002. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Great Nose of Talisman".

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