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The Best Episodes of Dragon Tales Season 1

Every episode of Dragon Tales Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dragon Tales Season 1!

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Two siblings, Max and Emmy, find an enchanted dragon scale capable of transporting them to a whimsical fantasy land inhabited by colorful anthropomorphic dragons by reciting a rhyme. They befriend four friendly dragons Cassie, Ord,

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 9 - Pigment of Your Imagination
    8.8/10(21 votes)

    S1:E9

    The group runs out of paint as they are finishing their I-Love-My-Mommy Day gifts. They set off for Rainbow Canyon to find more colors. However, when their map breaks, they must work as a team to put the pieces back together.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  2. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 8 - Calling Dr. Zak
    8.7/10(21 votes)

    S1:E8

    During practice for the Dragon Land talent show, Zak gets a thorn stuck in his foot after accidentally stepping on a Spiny-Pine and has to go to Dr. Booboogone, but he's very worried since has never been to the doctor before and is frightened. However, Dr. Booboogone shows that doctors are only there to help.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  3. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 15 - A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
    8.5/10(21 votes)

    S1:E15

    Ord wants to give his mother a very special birthday gift, so the Doodle Fairy draws a map to a meadow full of Giggle Flowers.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  4. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 2 - The Forest of Darkness
    8.4/10(37 votes)

    S1:E2

    When Ord becomes afraid of the dark, his friends show him that even a little light takes the darkness away and that there is nothing to fear after all.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writers:Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser

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  5. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 4 - Goodbye, Little Caterpoozle
    8.4/10(24 votes)

    S1:E4

    Cassie has a new pet Caterpoozle called Poozie. When Cassie finds Poozie wrapped in some white stuff, everybody thinks she died. However, it is later discovered that Poozie changed into a Butterfairy.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  6. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 5 - Knot a Problem
    8.4/10(20 votes)

    S1:E5

    Max becomes clumsy when it comes on learning how to tie knots and has lots of trouble on learning how to tie one. But when Whinny, the carousel pony, is missing and the dragons rescue her, Max discovers that knots are not a big problem after all.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  7. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 10 - Zak's Song
    8.4/10(20 votes)

    S1:E10

    Melodious Do-Re-Mi birds flee in fright when the dragons and kids loudly join their early morning concert. Confident Zak knows that his gentle song will bring them back, but everyone else keeps ignoring him and scaring them away with their loud noises.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Scott Guy

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  8. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 12 - The Fury is Out on This One
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    S1:E12

    Max is enraged after losing Dragon Tag and throws a pod whipping it at a tree, releasing a Fury, a little creature who grows bigger when someone gets angry. To stop him from getting even bigger, Emmy and the dragons help Max control his anger.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Bob Carrau

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  9. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 1 - To Fly with Dragons
    8.0/10(48 votes)

    S1:E1

    After moving to a new house, a 6-year-old girl named Emmy and her little 4-year-old brother named Max find a magical dragon scale that takes them to Dragon Land, a place where they meet magical dragon friends, Cassie, Ord, Zak and Wheezie the 2-headed dragon, and Quetzal the teacher at their School in the Sky.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writers:Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser

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  10. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 17 - Emmy's Dream House
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    S1:E17

    A Purple Goo Cloud is going to rain all over Dragon Land, so everyone builds a tree house to shelter. However, Emmy becomes bossy and wants everything to be done her own way, until she learns how to share with her friends and give them what they want.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  11. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 25 - Not Separated at Birth
    8.0/10(18 votes)

    S1:E25

    Zak and Wheezie have had enough of always having to do what the other wants to do and wish they became separated from each other, so Quetzal gives them crystals that separates them. However, when they build a musical playground, they discover that they actually need each other more than previously thought.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Laurie Bauman Arnold

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  12. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 28 - Cassie Loves a Parade
    8.0/10(19 votes)

    S1:E28

    Cassie is excited about the School-in-the-Sky Parade, but she gets very upset and feels left out when her name is not picked and realizes she cannot ride on the Book Float. She feels sorry for herself until she meets Cosmo, a flower who also got rejected from the parade.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Bob Carrau

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  13. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 11 - Snow Dragons
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    S1:E11

    Quetzal tells Max and Ord to meet him at the Snow Dragon in the Stickleback Mountains, but they get lost in the snow on the way.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Laurie Bauman Arnold

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  14. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 14 - The Big Sleepover
    7.9/10(18 votes)

    S1:E14

    Zak and Wheezie are having a sleepover, but Cassie is too homesick to go. Bringing something familiar from home helps, especially when she finds out how much fun sleepovers really are.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Bob Carrau

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  15. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 16 - The Talent Pool
    7.9/10(19 votes)

    S1:E16

    Cassie notices that all her friends have special talents except her, so she goes to the Talent Pool to finds a talent. However, the Pool turns out to be grumpy and refuses to give Cassie a talent.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writers:Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser

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  16. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 6 - Ord's Unhappy Birthday
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    S1:E6

    It’s Ord’s birthday, but his friends don't have time to play with him. Feeling sad, Ord seeks out Quetzal who tells him to share his feelings with his friends. Afterwards, everybody gives him the best birthday ever, and little did he know that his friends were planning to make a surprise party for him.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  17. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 21 - Sky Pirates
    7.8/10(19 votes)

    S1:E21

    The friends help an air pirate, Captain Scallywag, find buried treasure.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  18. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 7 - Tails You Lose
    7.7/10(22 votes)

    S1:E7

    Emmy dislikes losing, and while everyone plays freeze dance, she is always the first one to be eliminated from the game by being called out. Emmy decides to quit the game and heads home early, but Quetzal shows her that playing can be more fun than winning.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writers:Robert Schechter, Alicia Marie Schudt

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  19. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 13 - The Giant of Nod
    7.7/10(20 votes)

    S1:E13

    Zak and Wheezie practice for tonight's concert hosted by Quetzal at Singing Springs, but they war over various songs they wanted to play and disturb the nap of a twelve-inch creature known eponymously as "The Giant of Nod". He desperately throws them in a tree trunk, so it's up to them to save the gang so they can make it to the concert.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writers:Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser

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  20. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 29 - A Cool School
    7.7/10(19 votes)

    S1:E29

    Max is nervous about his first day of school until Emmy takes him to the School in the Sky where Quetzal advises them, "When you're stuck, don't give up! Try something new".

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writers:Cliff Ruby, Elana Lesser

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  21. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 3 - To Kingdom Come
    7.6/10(23 votes)

    S1:E3

    Ord's selfishness by refusing to share anything with his friends at a beach party, especially a "wishing shell" he finds, sends him and then everyone else to a strange and unfamiliar land called “Kingdom Come” with no way home, since the owner, Mounsieur Marmadune, also refuses to share the key with them to let them out. However, Ord later learns that sharing with friends can make any wish come true.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Bob Carrau

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  22. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 20 - A Liking to Biking
    7.4/10(18 votes)

    S1:E20

    Ord finds riding a bike for the first time is too hard and quits. Luckily, his friends lend a helping hand and Ord tries over and over again until he succeeds.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Lane Raichert

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  23. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 31 - It Happened One Nightmare
    7.1/10(17 votes)

    S1:E31

    The carnival has come to Dragon Land but the dragons are sleepy and cannot be very active since Ord has invited them for a sleepover at his house and he has a terrible nightmare which gives him trouble with his sleeping, causing everyone else to stay awake all night.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:Jeffrey Scott

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  24. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 18 - Dragon Sails
    7.0/10(18 votes)

    S1:E18

    The friends embark on full sail to Rainbow Canyon, but Ord is too big for the boat and feels bad until he saves his friends from going out of a cave and over a waterfall.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writers:Robert Schechter, Alicia Marie Schudt

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  25. Dragon Tales Season 1 Episode 35 - Quibbling Siblings
    7.0/10(17 votes)

    S1:E35

    Zak wants the rare Jugglebug for show and tell, but Wheezie is so noisy, she scares it away. With Max and Emmy's help the dragons find that working together gets the job done.

    Director:Tim Eldred
    Writer:James Greenberg

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Pigment of Your Imagination" is the best rated episode of "Dragon Tales" season 1. It scored 8.8/10 based on 21 votes. Directed by Tim Eldred and written by Jeffrey Scott, it aired on 9/10/1999. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Calling Dr. Zak".