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The Best Episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Every episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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...
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Best Episodes Summary

"No Place Like Home" is the best rated episode of "Captain Planet and the Planeteers". It scored 7.3/10 based on 33 votes. Directed by N/A 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".

  • No Place Like Home
    7.3/1033 votes
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    #1 - No Place Like Home

    Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/1994

    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: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • Little Crop of Horrors
    7.3/1036 votes
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    #2 - Little Crop of Horrors

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/1994

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Laura Schrock

  • The Deadly Glow
    6.9/1034 votes
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    #3 - The Deadly Glow

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1992

    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: N/A

    Writer: Doug Molitor

  • Hollywaste
    6.9/1032 votes
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    #4 - Hollywaste

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1994

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • Dirty Politics
    6.9/1035 votes
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    #5 - Dirty Politics

    Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1995

    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: N/A

    Writer: Laura Schrock

  • Nothing's Sacred
    6.8/1027 votes
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    #6 - Nothing's Sacred

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 2/25/1995

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Doug Booth

  • A Hero for Earth
    6.7/1089 votes
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    #7 - 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: N/A

    Writer: Billy Ruebin

  • OK at the Gunfight Corral
    6.7/1036 votes
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    #8 - OK at the Gunfight Corral

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1992

    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: N/A

    Writer: Pat Allee, Ben Hurst

  • Canned Hunt
    6.7/1042 votes
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    #9 - Canned Hunt

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1992

    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: N/A

    Writer: Pat Allee, Ben Hurst

  • Gorillas Will Be Missed
    6.7/1028 votes
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    #10 - Gorillas Will Be Missed

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/1994

    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: N/A

    Writer: Doug Molitor, Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • A River Ran Through It
    6.7/1029 votes
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    #11 - A River Ran Through It

    Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/1994

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • 101 Mutations
    6.7/1035 votes
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    #12 - 101 Mutations

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 5/11/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • Bitter Waters
    6.6/1035 votes
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    #13 - Bitter Waters

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/17/1992

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Bottom Line Green
    6.6/1027 votes
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    #14 - Bottom Line Green

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/1993

    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: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • Disoriented Express
    6.6/1029 votes
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    #15 - Disoriented Express

    Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/1/1994

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • Twelve Angry Animals
    6.6/1028 votes
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    #16 - Twelve Angry Animals

    Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 2/3/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: Rich Fogel, Mark Seidenberg

  • Never the Twain Shall Meet
    6.6/1027 votes
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    #17 - Never the Twain Shall Meet

    Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 2/10/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek

  • Greed Is the Word
    6.6/1027 votes
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    #18 - Greed Is the Word

    Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 2/24/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • Planeteers Under Glass
    6.5/1030 votes
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    #19 - Planeteers Under Glass

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 4/23/1994

    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: N/A

    Writer: Jim Katz, Von Williams

  • Old Ma River
    6.5/1035 votes
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    #20 - Old Ma River

    Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/1995

    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: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright

  • A Perfect World
    6.4/1034 votes
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    #21 - A Perfect World

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1992

    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: N/A

    Writer: Ted Pedersen, Steve Hayes

  • One of the Gang
    6.4/1027 votes
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    #22 - One of the Gang

    Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/1996

    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: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright, Bill Matheny

  • Orangu-Tangle
    6.3/1029 votes
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    #23 - Orangu-Tangle

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 4/30/1994

    The Planeteers fight off poachers to save an infant orangutan and it's mother.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: David Ehrman

  • Twilight Ozone
    6.3/1029 votes
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    #24 - Twilight Ozone

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/10/1994

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright, Lane Raichert

  • Tree of Life
    6.2/1060 votes
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    #25 - 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: N/A

    Writer: Michael Maurer