All Episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Browse all episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
All Episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Browse all episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
Season 1
N/A/100 votesThe M.A.S.S. Device: The Cobra Strikes (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1983
Cobra seizes control of a new satellite for use with a new transportation device, and Duke is captured in the attempt. The G.I. Joe team learns that they must build their own device to defeat Cobra.
Director: Dan Thompson
Writer: Ron Friedman
N/A/100 votesThe M.A.S.S. Device: Slave of the Cobra Master (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1983
The Joes travel to the arctic to retrieve rare minerals to fuel their MASS device, but Cobra ambushes them, and Snake Eyes is presumed dead. Duke manages to escape the Cobra base with the help of a slave girl, but he is injured and cannot remember the base's location.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Ron Friedman
N/A/100 votesThe M.A.S.S. Device: The Worms of Death (3)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1983
Snake Eyes returns home with the help of a wolf and a blind man. The Joes and Cobras battling for undersea elements must join forces to escape giant tubeworms on the ocean floor.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Ron Friedman
N/A/100 votesThe M.A.S.S. Device: Duel in the Devil's Cauldron (4)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/1983
G.I. Joe tries to throw off Cobra with a false surrender while mounting a mission to the Ring of Fire for the third element. Destro sabotages the operation but is pursued by Scarlett.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Ron Friedman
N/A/100 votesThe M.A.S.S. Device: A Stake in the Serpent's Heart (5)
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/1983
Destro returns to Cobra base and seizes control of the operation from the Commander. The now-captured Scarlett and the slave girl organize a slave revolt. Duke's memories under sensory deprivation lead the Joes to the Cobra base where a final battle takes place. Cobra Commander is captured and taken to prison, but Destro escapes. The battle is over but not the war!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Ron Friedman
N/A/100 votesThe Revenge of Cobra: In the Cobra's Pit (1)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/10/1984
A Cobra attack on a Joe convoy results in the capture of Duke and Snake Eyes and the theft of a laser core which Destro uses to power his new weapon, the Weather Dominator. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander is briefly captured but rescued by Zartan.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Revenge of Cobra: The Vines of Evil (2)
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/11/1984
Flint and Mutt, stranded by the weather dominator, hire Shipwreck to ferry them out of Cobra territory. Meanwhile, the Joes develop an energy mirror to fight the dominator's attacks, but Destro smashes them with a hailstorm. During the battle, Destro's weapon breaks, and the three pieces scatter over the globe.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesThe Revenge of Cobra: Amusement Park of Terror (5)
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/1984
Cobra steals the Joes' piece of the dominator and assaults Zartan's base. Now in possession of all three pieces, Destro seeks to rebuild the weather dominator. The Joes locate the Cobra Temple and attack it.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Pyramid of Darkness: The Further Adventures of G.I. Joe (1)
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/16/1985
Cobra briefly attacks a Joe shuttle launch long enough to load it with its own forces. Shipwreck and Snake Eyes are lost in Cobra territory, and Zartan uses the shuttle to commandeer a space station and destroy Joe Headquarters from space. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander reveals a plan to deprive most of the world of electricity.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Pyramid of Darkness: Rendezvous in the City of the Dead (2)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/17/1985
With G.I. Joe headquarters nearly destroyed, the Joes establish a temporary base on the USS Flagg. Joes on the space station try to warn the team of Cobra's plan to plant cubes at strategic locations to create an electricity-inhibiting pyramid over the northern hemisphere.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesCountdown for Zartan
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/23/1985
Cobra kidnaps a French scientist named Dr. Emil Mettier, and Zartan replaces him before he arrives at the World Wide Defense Center to complete their database on terrorism. Spirit is suspicious of the doctor, and when he investigates, he is confronted, then captured by Storm Shadow. Freedom escapes, and leads Lady Jaye, Recondo, Doc, Gung-Ho and Stalker back to the Defense Center, only to discover that Zartan has replaced the doctor and has set up a bomb. While the Joes search for the bomb, Gung-Ho locks Zartan in a prison cell in plain view of Zartan's countdown watch, which unbeknownst to Zartan, Gung-Ho has set it two minutes ahead. Zartan is fooled, and reveals the location in time for the bomb to be disarmed. Zartan escapes, and Spirit and the real Dr. Mettier are saved from death by laughing gas by Storm Shadow. Cobra launches one more futile attack, the Joes counter it, and all's right with the world.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesRed Rocket's Glare
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/24/1985
Extensive Enterprises uses biker gangs to terrorize Red Rocket diners, then buys them back at a lower price and replaces the diners' rocket props with real rockets. But Roadblock's family, unaware of EE's connections to Cobra, refuses to sell their restaurant.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSatellite Down
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/25/1985
When Cobra uses a tractor beam to steal a spy satellite recently placed in space by the Joes, Breaker forces the satellite to crash in the jungles of Africa, but a tribe of hominid Primords complicates Joe and Cobra's efforts to recover the technology.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
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N/A/100 votesCobra's Creatures
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 9/30/1985
Mutt, Junkyard, & Ripcord are kidnapped by Cobra, so that the evil scientist, Dr. Lucifer, can test his new invention, High Freq, a device which controls the minds of animals and insects, on Junkyard. Cobra use it to gain control of an army of animals to take over the world, and send Junkyard hunting after Mutt. In exchange for High Freq, Cobra agrees to break Dr. Lucifer's love, Dr. Attilla, out of jail. GI Joe learns of this, and has Scarlett pose as Attilla, but it's obvious to Lucifer she is not Attilla, and Scarlett is captured. Snake-Eyes and Spirit come to the rescue, using Timber and Freedom to sneak into Cobra's jungle castle and rescue Ripcord and Scarlet, and stop High Freq.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Funhouse
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 10/1/1985
Flint, Dusty, Bazooka, Alpine, and others have to break into a temple to stop Cobra from its next plan to take over the world. When the temple turns out to be a fun house with obstacles of death, the Joes have to find their way to Cobra Commander and save the day!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesTwenty Questions
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 10/2/1985
Investigative reporter Hector Ramirez believes that Cobra is not a real threat and that G.I. Joe is a drain on taxpayers' money. But Shipwreck takes him on an unauthorized mission into Cobra territory to prove their danger.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Greenhouse Effect
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/3/1985
A Crimson Guard steals a container filled with experimental rocket fuel, causing plants to grow to gargantuan sizes. Destro convinces Cobra Commander that the plants could be used in combat. Harvey 15 Bullock 6
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSynthoid Conspiracy (1)
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 10/7/1985
Cobra attempts to cripple the Joes from within by replacing leaders and committee members with artificial beings known as synthoids. The synthoids cut G. I. Joe's budget and eventually order the team to disband.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Phantom Brigade
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 10/9/1985
Cobra Commander recruits an elderly Gypsy woman to use three small artifacts, which allow them to command three ghosts to attack the Joes. The Baroness and a phantom World War One pilot help the Joes recover the artifacts.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesCobra's Candidate
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 10/11/1985
Cobra backs a candidate for mayor and uses street thugs to intimidate voters and drum up public sympathy for Cobra's would-be mayor. The gang turns on Cobra when a brother of one of the youths is nearly burned in a fire.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSpell of the Siren
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 10/25/1985
The Baroness discovers a conch shell whose song hypnotizes men. She uses the shell to seize control of Cobra and capture most of the Joes. One of the Crimson Twins aids Scarlett, Lady Jaye, and Cover Girl in rescuing their companions.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesWorlds Without End (2)
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 11/5/1985
The G.I. Joe team gets sent to another dimension in which Cobra took over the world.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Martin Pasko
N/A/100 votesEau de Cobra
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 11/6/1985
An ancient Babylonian manuscript on secret potions is stolen from the British Museum. Meanwhile, Zartan leads Cobra troopers on a search for a rare fungus to help create an irrestible perfume to make a famous Greek shipping tycoon fall prey to the Baroness' charm and put his entire task force in Cobra's control.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesCobra Claws Are Coming to Town
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 11/7/1985
Cobra makes a generous donation to the Joes' toy drive: a battalion of Cobra troops, miniaturized to look like toys. Once inside Joe Headquarters, the Cobra forces sabotage the defenses, open the gates, and let the rest of the Cobra forces inside. The Joes have to use Cobra's vehicles to stop Cobra's attack on the city using the Joe's own vehicles.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Gods Below
Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 11/11/1985
A mission to rescue an archeologist from Cobra's clutches leads the Joes on a strange supernatural journey through the tunnel of an ancient Pharaoh's tomb to a confrontation with Osiris, the Egyptain god of the dead.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesFlint's Vacation
Season 1 Episode 53 - Aired 11/13/1985
When Flint goes to visit relatives in a small community by the sea, he learns that Cobra forces have set up the town as a mind-controlling base. By night, Cobra controls the residents and the citizens become an army of slave laborers, forced to construct a secret underwater base.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesHearts and Cannons
Season 1 Episode 54 - Aired 11/14/1985
A Joe transport plane is caught in a storm, forcing the pilot to ditch his cargo, a valuable Mauler tank, over the desert. Dusty and Footloose volunteer to stay with the tank until it can be retrieved. They inadvertently parachute onto a Cobra proving ground and discover the evil organization's latest innovation: a metal alloy that's impervious to any conventional weapon! With tanks and planes constructed of this alloy, Cobra could attack the Joe team – or anyone else – without fear. With a battalion of Cobras hot on their heels, can Dusty and Footloose survive the track across the hostile desert to warn the Joes?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Traitor (1)
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 11/25/1985
Dusty's mother has become very sick, and Duke orders Dusty to go home. When Dusty finds out his mother is having financial problems he turns to Tomax and Xamot for money, even if it means giving out G.I. Joe classified information!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Traitor (2)
Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 11/26/1985
G.I.Joe finds out Dusty is the traitor giving out classified information, and they order him to go to jail! Cobra springs him out, but what will happen when Dusty can sense the G.I. Joe's every move, and steals top secret chemicals to destroy G.I. Joe once and for all?!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesPit of Vipers
Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 11/27/1985
G.I. Joe is placed under the command of a new computer, Watchdog, which directs Joes to Cobra targets. The computer is under Cobra's control, being used to spread Joe forces thin and leave headquarters vulnerable to attack.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Wrong Stuff
Season 1 Episode 59 - Aired 11/28/1985
Cobra uses a shuttle to steal all communication satellites. That means the only television network available is the Cobra Network Television which provides programs promoting their social messages such as Father's No Beast and new endings to classic movies. G.I. Joe first send three Joes up in Skystrikers powered by rocket boosters to take out Cobra's satellite. They discover that it is really a space station and are blasted back down to earth. Next they have a space training program to select a group of Joes to go back up. Their Skystrikers are destroyed again by the Space Station, but the group sneaks inside. Being better trained, they defeat the Dreadnoks and destroy the Space Station, escaping in a Cobra Shuttle, thus saving the wonderful world of television.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Invaders
Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 11/29/1985
The Joes join forces with a Soviet operation team called ""The October Guard"" to save the world from what seems to be an invasion from outer space. But what is it about this flying saucer threat that seems so daunting? Do the space creatures really exist?
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesCold Slither
Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 12/2/1985
Cobra stakes out a rock concert & uses a rock group to put subliminal messages into the minds of the audience. When the Joe team breaks up their plans, they even get into the act by performing their theme song as ""The Average Joe Band"".
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThe Great Alaskan Land Rush
Season 1 Episode 62 - Aired 12/3/1985
When the last surviving heir of the Russian Imperial Alaskan Colony Company shows up and claims to own Alaska, the Joes suspect it is a Cobra plot to wrench away America's largest state. The only way to disapprove the claim is for the Joes to go to Alaska and find the colony's Imperial Seal. Three problems: the seal has been missing for over a hundred years, the Russians are looking for the seal so they can reclaim Alaska, and Cobra is determined to stop them both!
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesSkeletons in the Closet
Season 1 Episode 63 - Aired 12/11/1985
Lady J receives a strange message from England, informing her she is the heir to an ancient manor. When she arrives, she finds herself thrust into a sinister mystery involving a strange hooded cult, secret passages, and the truth behind Destro's silver mask.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
N/A/100 votesThere's No Place Like Springfield (1)
Season 1 Episode 64 - Aired 12/12/1985
Cobra drugs Shipwreck to make him think he is in his hometown of Springfield, 6 years in the future. Cobra is vanquished forever, G.I.Joe is disbanded, he is married to his lost sweetheart, Mara (who is cured of her aquatic transformatin) and they have a daghter.
Director: Unknown
Writer: Unknown
