Season 1

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  6.9/10100 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

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  6.2/1070 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

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  6.0/1060 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

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  6.3/1060 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

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  5.9/1061 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

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  6.0/1055 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

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  5.8/1054 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

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  5.9/1056 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

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  6.2/1061 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

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  5.7/1054 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

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  5.8/1060 votes

  Littlest Planeteer

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/24/1990

  A little boy helps battle a smog monster.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Dorothy Middleton

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  5.7/1049 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

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  5.3/1050 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

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  5.6/1048 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

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  5.6/1049 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

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  5.7/1056 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

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  5.8/1053 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

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  5.6/1052 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

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  5.6/1046 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

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  5.9/1051 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

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  5.0/1063 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

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  6.2/1058 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

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  6.1/1056 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

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  6.0/1056 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

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  5.8/1055 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

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  6.0/1056 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