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The Best Episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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The Best Episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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...

Seasons6

  1. Background image for Dirty Politics
    6.7/10(38 votes)

    #1 - Dirty Politics

    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?!?

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    Director:Unknown
  2. Background image for Old Ma River
    6.4/10(37 votes)

    #2 - Old Ma River

    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.

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  3. Background image for Twelve Angry Animals
    6.4/10(30 votes)

    #3 - Twelve Angry Animals

    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.

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  4. Background image for Never the Twain Shall Meet
    6.4/10(29 votes)

    #4 - Never the Twain Shall Meet

    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.

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  5. Background image for Greed Is the Word
    6.4/10(29 votes)

    #5 - Greed Is the Word

    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.

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  6. Background image for 101 Mutations
    6.4/10(37 votes)

    #6 - 101 Mutations

    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.

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  8. Background image for One of the Gang
    6.2/10(29 votes)

    #7 - One of the Gang

    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!

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  9. Background image for Whoo Gives a Hoot?
    6.0/10(36 votes)

    #8 - Whoo Gives a Hoot?

    S6:E2

    Responding to a court order, the Planeteers have only days to collect evidence which proves that Looten Plunder is illegally clearcutting one of our last old growth forests.

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  10. Background image for A Good Bomb Is Hard to Find
    6.0/10(32 votes)

    #9 - A Good Bomb Is Hard to Find

    S6:E5

    Using her latest time travel device, Dr. Blight returns from 20 years in the future back to the present to warn HERSELF that the world has become... peaceloving! In a last ditch attempt to restart the Cold War, the two Blights hijack a load of plutonium from dismantled warheads and escape back into the past to sell nuclear bombs to the highest bidder.

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  11. Background image for An Eye for an Eye
    5.9/10(32 votes)

    #10 - An Eye for an Eye

    S6:E1

    Hoggish has set up a new commercial fishing business in the amazon, but when discovers that a group of local river Dolphins are literatly eating into his fishing profits, he schemes to eliminate the problem. Upon being breifed by Gaia, the Planeteers quickly race to make sure the amazon rivers are not made ""Dolphin-Safe"" simply for the sake of progress..

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  12. Background image for Delta Gone
    5.8/10(31 votes)

    #11 - Delta Gone

    S6:E11

    Traveling through the lush, African Okavanga Delta on a documentary film-making expedition, the Planeteers come across a makeshift dam, and pipelines which are diverting the life-giving water away from the delta, leaving it a parched desert. In their ultralight planes, the Planeteers and their friend Rick search for the culprits. But when they are shot down by the Eco-villains, it could mean the end of the line for our heroes!

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    Director:Unknown
  13. Background image for 5-Ring Panda-Monium
    5.7/10(37 votes)

    #12 - 5-Ring Panda-Monium

    S6:E4

    The Planeteers join the circus while trying to rescue some stolen pandas.

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  14. Background image for Frog Day Afternoon
    5.1/10(39 votes)

    #13 - Frog Day Afternoon

    S6:E3

    Frogs around the globe are disappearing at an alarming rate! It appears that the scar on Dr. Blight's face is spreading, and she thinks that a concoction of amphibian DNA will regenerate her skin and restore her girlish glamour. Anybody for a froggy frappe?!?

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    Director:Unknown
  15. Background image for Deadly Ransom
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Deadly Ransom

    S1:E5

    Captain Planet is held hostage by Nukem, Blight and MAL.

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    Director:Unknown
  16. Background image for A Hero for Earth
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #15 - A Hero for Earth

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  17. Background image for Rain of Terror
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Rain of Terror

    S1:E2

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

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    Director:Unknown
  18. Background image for Beast of the Temple
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    #17 - Beast of the Temple

    S1:E3

    Greedly and Rigger strip-mine Thailand for rubies.

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    #18 - Skumm Lord

    S1:E4

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

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    Director:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Conqueror
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Conqueror

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  21. Background image for Last of Her Kind
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    #20 - Last of Her Kind

    S1:E7

    The Planeteers fight to save the African elephants from extinction as Looten Plunder tries to corner the market in ivory.

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  22. Background image for The Dead Seas
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Dead Seas

    S1:E8

    Greedly and Rigger plot to empty the oceans of fish.

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    Director:Unknown
  23. Background image for Tree of Life
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Tree of Life

    S1:E9

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

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    Director:Unknown
  24. Background image for Volcano's Wrath
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Volcano's Wrath

    S1:E10

    Sludge solves the world's trash problem by dumping everything into a volcano, which then erupts.

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  25. Background image for Littlest Planeteer
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Littlest Planeteer

    S1:E11

    A little boy helps battle a smog monster.

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    Director:Unknown
  26. Background image for A World Below Us
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    #25 - A World Below Us

    S1:E12

    A dumping operation threatens an underwater city.

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    Director:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"Dirty Politics" is the best rated episode of "Captain Planet and the Planeteers". It scored 6.7/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Laura Schrock, it aired on 11/18/1995. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "Old Ma River".