4.7/1038 votesLoading...#1 - A Twist of Fate
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/29/1992
During an earthquake, a blow to his head leaves Wheeler lost from the others and suffering from amnesia. He finds himself literally in the shoes of a homeless man, and learns that the only difference between them is a simple twist of fate. A bang to the head restores Wheeler's memory, and he helps summon Captain Planet to rescue Teresa from a slum fire. Teresa and some shantytown residents decide to return to the countryside to pool their skills and make life better there.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 4.8/1040 votesLoading...
#2 - Utopia
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 4/11/1992
After watching too many B-rated cyborg and gang movies , Kwame falls asleep. Shortly after, the Planeteers are called to go on a mission, where they're sucked into a freak tornado. They are then attacked by robots and have to eject from the Geo-Cruiser, separating Kwame from the others. Kwame lands into a perfect world where trash is non-existent, and is camouflaged by garbage. Meanwhile, Blight and Skumm have taken over the world with vigilante robots and gangs, and have captured the other Planeteers. They are also turned into gang members, and threaten to reak havoc on the environment. Kwame, with the aid of a new friend, must come up with a way to convince his friends that violence is not in their hearts. Once everything is back on track, the tornado returns, and wakes Kwame from what was a nightmare. He turns on the news, only to discover that gangs and violence are not far from what happened in his dream if it continues....
Director: N/A
- 4.8/1043 votesLoading...
#3 - You Bet Your Planet
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/26/1994
The Planeteers had a weird dream about being on a weird game show called "You Bet Your Planet" and they play against the eco-villians, who will win this horror game at the end?
Director: N/A
Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
- 4.9/1044 votesLoading...
#4 - Off Road Hog
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1991
Pete, a dirt bike enthusiast, tags along with Hoggish Greedly and Rigger, until Ma-Ti and desert guide Joshua Stone show him how alive the "barren" desert really is. They must get ahead of Greedly's ORV race to save the desert from being destroyed.
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Molitor
- 5.0/1040 votesLoading...
#5 - The Fine Print
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1991
While the Planeteers learn about organic farming, Plunder exploits Joe, a man who cannot read, by tricking him into signing a contract allowing the distribution of pesticides on a farm that he manages.
Director: N/A
Writer: Phil Harnage
- 5.0/1038 votesLoading...
#6 - The Great Tree Heist
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1992
The Planeteers travel to the Northwest after hearing about an old growth forest which is, literally, disappearing into thin air. After Wheeler goes off to investigate with a pretty local teenage bird watcher, Linka spots a "flying saucer" but Kwame recognizes the pilot . . . Hoggish Greedly! They discover Greedly's scam - "Sucking up" 500-year-old trees to make pressed board furniture. Outraged, they try to stop him, but his "Tree Trasher" may be too much for them.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.0/1039 votesLoading...
#7 - Radiant Amazon
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/28/1992
Sly Sludge and Duke Nukem dump toxic waste in the Amazon rain forest, imperiling Ma-Ti's village. Ma-Ti returns to the village with Planeteers and find it in flames. When they fail to stop the fire, Ma-Ti hunts the culprits alone.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ted Pedersen, Steve Hayes
- 5.0/1041 votesLoading...
#8 - Hog Tide
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1992
In this story, we supposedly learn of Captain Planet's REAL first adventure... Gaia recounts how Hoggish Greedly's "Godfather" grandpa, Don Porkaloin, built Decco developments too close to the oceans threatning the sea-life. What shocks the Planeteers is that Gaia reveals she brought forth eco-warriors - 1940s counterparts of the present day Planeteers - to stop Don Porkalion. These Planeteers could also summon Captain Planet, who went about de-constructing Porkaloin's deccos. The Planeteers are left confused about whether or not Gaia's story was real, totally missing the point about building too close to the water.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.0/1036 votesLoading...
#9 - Frog Day Afternoon
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1995
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?!?
Director: N/A
Writer: Laura Schrock
- 5.1/1057 votesLoading...
#10 - 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: N/A
Writer: Phil Harnage
- 5.1/1044 votesLoading...
#11 - Who's Running the Show?
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/13/1995
The villains hijack a television station to expound their violent and anti- environmental message.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laura Schrock
- 5.2/1040 votesLoading...
#12 - Domes of Doom
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1991
Ma-ti is fooled when Looten Plunder disguises himself as a scientist, promising to clear the air all over the world, including his tribe's village in the rainforest. After Wheeler and the tribe are trapped inside one of Plunder's domes, and Ma-ti is captured after discovering Plunder's scheme, the remaining Planeteers have to find them both and bring Plunder down.
Director: N/A
Writer: Nick Boxer, Sandra Ryan
- 5.2/1048 votesLoading...
#13 - An Inside Job
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1991
Sludge and four of the Planeteers learn first hand the terrible effects of untreated sewage when MAL and Dr. Blight shrink the EcoSub (and them) to microscopic size and put them into polluted water that Kwame unwittingly drinks. The Planeteers must battle hideous water-borne parasites in Kwame's body so that he can recover, and restore them to proper size.
Director: N/A
Writer: Paul Dell, Steven Weiss
- 5.2/1042 votesLoading...
#14 - A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (1)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1993
The Planeteers argue what to do. Either go to Africa & save the animals or go to North America to save a rainforest. Gaia tells them that's there's an emergency at Commander Clash's island. And also that Looten Plunder's up to no good as well.vAt the island, Captain Pollution returns to fight Captain Planet causing destruction around the world. Meanwhile, the Planeteers try to stop Plunder, but Plunder puts them in a trap inside the cave with no way out.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
- 5.2/1042 votesLoading...
#15 - A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste (2)
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1993
The Planeteers are still trapped in the mine while Captain Planet is still fighting Captain Pollution. As they try to get out of the mine, Kwame, Linka, Wheeler & Gi reveal their childhood stories along the way. When they got out, the Planeteers nail Plunder with help from federal agents. Then they go back to Commander Clash's island to help Captain Planet out. Captain Planet beats Captain Pollution by soaking him into some clean lava. And Pollution is gone again!
Director: N/A
Writer: Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright
- 5.2/1036 votesLoading...
#16 - Bug Off
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/1994
Verminous Skumm unleashes a hoard of Superbugs, an offshoot of boll weevils resistant to pesticide
Director: N/A
Writer: Reed Robbins
- 5.3/1047 votesLoading...
#17 - 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: N/A
Writer: Rowby Goren
- 5.3/1040 votesLoading...
#18 - The Garbage Strikes
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1991
To make a fast buck from a trash strike, Sly Sludge steals an untested microbe from Gi's scientist hero, Dr. Helix. It was supposed to be a technological fix for the problem of overflowing landfills, but it simply absorbs trash to become a city-devouring garbage blob. The blob must be stopped before it grows out of control.
Director: N/A
Writer: Phil Harnage
- 5.4/1037 votesLoading...
#19 - The Predator
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1991
In the Florida Keys, Ma-Ti has a brush with what he thinks is a giant man eating shark, though Gi reveals that it is a harmless Basking Shark. When a local overhears and misinterprets their conversation, panic spreads throughout the resort town, whose mayor then hires Argos Bleak to eradicate all the sharks in the bay. Then, when stinging jellyfish (that the sharks used to feed on) swarm the beach, the townspeople learn that predators have an important role in the ecosystem. After escaping their sinking EcoCopter that was shot down by Bleak, the other Planeteers rescue Gi and Ma-Ti (who were captured earlier by Bleak) . . . and the Basking Shark . . . from bloodthirsty Bleak.
Director: N/A
Writer: Phil Harnage
- 5.4/1043 votesLoading...
#20 - The Ark
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1991
An alien (named Collectore) with good intentions abducts the Planeteers, convinced that the Planet Earth is doomed and decides to collect human specimens and include them in his menegerie of assorted alien life forms. The Planeteers must convince the Alien that Earth can be saved before Dr. Blight and Hoggish Greedly can destroy a forest, permanently eliminating the tiger population....
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Molitor
- 5.4/1036 votesLoading...
#21 - Stardust
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1992
Gi and Linka are livid when Wheeler belittles their favorite rock singer, but it looks as though Wheeler may be right after they come upon a land-ravaging, strip-mining operation run by Hoggish Greedly, but bankrolled by none other than their idol - Sky Runner! Stunned, they confront the star, who turns out to be innocent, but they still have to stop Greedly before the small mining town is destroyed.
Director: N/A
- 5.4/1044 votesLoading...
#22 - Greenhouse Planet
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1992
Blight convinces the president that global warming doesn't exist. Will a trip to Venus sway the leader?
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Molitor
- 5.5/1049 votesLoading...
#23 - 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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.5/1036 votesLoading...
#24 - Losing Game
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1992
The Planeteers return to Kwame's homeland, Africa, to investigate strange happenings with cattle that was reported by his long-time friend and brother figure, Dr. Mabutu. Little do they know, Dr. Blight is there, scheming to convince a tribe leader (also a friend of Mabutu) to allow the injection of a serum that turns bulls into super steers in order to resolve their meat supply woes. Not only does this threaten the condition of the land, via excessive grazing, but the serum causes awkward side effects, which eventually does wear off. The Planeteers, with a hand from Captain Planet, manage to rid the land of Blight and MAL.
Director: N/A
Writer: Phil Harnage
- 5.5/1040 votesLoading...
#25 - Scorched Earth
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1992
A roofless dictator decimates the land to fight the opposition, with total disregard to the environment and human life. But there is more to the story than meets the eye. The dictator is really an old foe of the Planeteers in disguise.
Director: N/A
Writer: Doug Molitor
The Worst Episodes of Captain Planet and the Planeteers
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Worst Episodes Summary
"A Twist of Fate" is the worst rated episode of "Captain Planet and the Planeteers". It scored 4.7/10 based on 38 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/29/1992. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Utopia".