The Best Episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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7.2/10(37 votes)
#1 - No Place Like Home
S5:E711/19/1994
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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Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
7.2/10(40 votes)
#2 - Little Crop of Horrors
S5:E811/26/1994
Blight's experimental plant turns violent, threatening an entire village.
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Writer:Laura Schrock
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Writer:Laura Schrock
6.9/10(101 votes)
#3 - A Hero for Earth
S1:E19/15/1990
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
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Writer:Billy Ruebin
6.9/10(37 votes)
#4 - Hollywaste
S5:E29/17/1994
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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Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
6.9/10(39 votes)
#5 - Dirty Politics
S6:E611/18/1995
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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Writer:Laura Schrock
6.8/10(38 votes)
#6 - The Deadly Glow
S3:E39/26/1992
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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Writer:Doug Molitor

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6.8/10(34 votes)
#7 - A River Ran Through It
S5:E611/12/1994
The Planeteers are drawn into a controversial battle between loggers and fishermen.
Director:Unknown
Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
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Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
6.8/10(31 votes)
#8 - Nothing's Sacred
S5:E122/25/1995
Skumm steals a sacred Indian relic, infuriating Ma-ti.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Doug Booth
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Writer:Doug Booth
6.7/10(38 votes)
#9 - OK at the Gunfight Corral
S3:E810/31/1992
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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Writers:Pat Allee, Ben Hurst
6.7/10(45 votes)
#10 - Canned Hunt
S3:E911/7/1992
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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Writers:Pat Allee, Ben Hurst
6.7/10(39 votes)
#11 - 101 Mutations
S6:E135/11/1996
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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Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
6.6/10(39 votes)
#12 - Bitter Waters
S3:E610/17/1992
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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6.6/10(32 votes)
#13 - Gorillas Will Be Missed
S4:E132/5/1994
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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Writers:Doug Molitor, Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
6.6/10(33 votes)
#14 - Disoriented Express
S5:E410/1/1994
Blight kidnaps the benefactor of a smog-reducing railway system.
Director:Unknown
Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
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6.6/10(32 votes)
#15 - Twelve Angry Animals
S6:E92/3/1996
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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Writers:Rich Fogel, Mark Seidenberg
6.6/10(31 votes)
#16 - Never the Twain Shall Meet
S6:E102/10/1996
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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Writer:Sean Catherine Derek
6.6/10(31 votes)
#17 - Greed Is the Word
S6:E122/24/1996
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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Writers:Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
6.5/10(31 votes)
#18 - Bottom Line Green
S4:E1211/27/1993
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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6.5/10(34 votes)
#19 - Planeteers Under Glass
S4:E194/23/1994
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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Writers:Jim Katz, Von Williams
6.5/10(35 votes)
#20 - Twilight Ozone
S5:E19/10/1994
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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Writers:Lane Raichert, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
6.5/10(39 votes)
#21 - Old Ma River
S6:E711/25/1995
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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6.4/10(62 votes)
#22 - Skumm Lord
S1:E410/6/1990
Skumm peddles a polluted drink that turns consumers into rodent zombies.
Director:Unknown
Writer:Martha Moran
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Writer:Martha Moran
6.4/10(63 votes)
#23 - Tree of Life
S1:E911/10/1990
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
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Writer:Michael Maurer
6.4/10(39 votes)
#24 - A Perfect World
S3:E410/3/1992
The Planeteers are given a tour of a new "Perfect World," a world with no pollution, clean farming and little potential for environmental backlash. All is created within a computer environment, but Dr. Blight and MAL infect this would-be "paradise" with a shot of viral pollution...
Director:Unknown
Writers:Steve Hayes, Ted Pedersen
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Writers:Steve Hayes, Ted Pedersen
6.4/10(31 votes)
#25 - One of the Gang
S6:E81/27/1996
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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Writers:Bill Matheny, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright