The Best Episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 1

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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Writer: Billy Ruebin

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

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Writer: Michael Maurer

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

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Writer: Martha Moran

The teens cross paths with Cold Warrior Commander Clash, but their true opponent is Captain Pollution, a creation of Blight's.

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Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll

Commander Clash joins the Planeteers to stop the eco-villains and Captain Pollution.

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Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll

Greedly and Rigger strip-mine Thailand for rubies.

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Writer: Ted Pedersen, Steve Hayes

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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Writer: Doug Molitor

Greedly and Rigger plot to empty the oceans of fish.

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Writer: Martha Moran

A disgruntled Wheeler uses a time machine to travel to the past to stop himself from becoming a Planeteer.

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Writer: Doug Molitor

Blight creates a mini greenhouse effect over Hope Island, threatening Gaia's life.

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

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Writer: Perry Martin

Plunder, Skumm and Greedly pollute the nation's water supply.

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Writer: Dan DiStefano

Looten Plunder provokes tribal warfare so he can sell arms to both sides.

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Writer: Cliff MacGillivray

Wheeler's attempt to keep his former self from joining the Planeteers has grave consequences for the planet.

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Writer: Doug Molitor

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

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Writer: Perry Martin

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

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Writer: Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly

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

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Writer: Bob Schooley, Mark McCorkle

A little boy helps battle a smog monster.

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Writer: Dorothy Middleton

A dumping operation threatens an underwater city.

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Writer: Michael Maurer

Greedly creates a pollution-intensive car but his own son becomes a victim of the resulting smog and pollution.

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Writer: Martha Moran

Nukem decimates the ozone layer so he can feast on ultra-violet rays.

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Writer: Doug Molitor

Nukem's radioactive presence at a leaking nuclear power plant triggers a meltdown.

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Writer: Phil Harnage

Sludge and Blight break into government computers and transform all national parks into toxic waste dumps.

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Writer: Ted Pedersen, Steve Hayes

A depressed Kwame leaves the Planeteers when no one seems to care that Sludge is burying a small town in garbage.

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Plunder dams an African river, leaving the locals without the food or water the waterway provided.

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Writer: Rowby Goren