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The Best Episodes of G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 1 - The M.A.S.S. Device: The Cobra Strikes (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - The M.A.S.S. Device: The Cobra Strikes (1)

    S1:E1

    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

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  2. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 2 - The M.A.S.S. Device: Slave of the Cobra Master (2)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The M.A.S.S. Device: Slave of the Cobra Master (2)

    S1:E2

    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

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  3. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 3 - The M.A.S.S. Device: The Worms of Death (3)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The M.A.S.S. Device: The Worms of Death (3)

    S1:E3

    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

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  4. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 4 - The M.A.S.S. Device: Duel in the Devil's Cauldron (4)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - The M.A.S.S. Device: Duel in the Devil's Cauldron (4)

    S1:E4

    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

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  5. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 5 - The M.A.S.S. Device: A Stake in the Serpent's Heart (5)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The M.A.S.S. Device: A Stake in the Serpent's Heart (5)

    S1:E5

    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

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  6. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 6 - The Revenge of Cobra: In the Cobra's Pit (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Revenge of Cobra: In the Cobra's Pit (1)

    S1:E6

    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

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  7. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 7 - The Revenge of Cobra: The Vines of Evil (2)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Revenge of Cobra: The Vines of Evil (2)

    S1:E7

    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
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  8. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 8 - The Revenge of Cobra: The Palace of Doom (3)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Revenge of Cobra: The Palace of Doom (3)

    S1:E8

    As Flint, Mutt, and Shipwreck return to Joe Headquarters, the Joes and Cobras head to the Island of No Return and the jungle Palace of Doom to retrieve parts of the weather dominator.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 9 - The Revenge of Cobra: Battle on the Roof of the World (4)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Revenge of Cobra: Battle on the Roof of the World (4)

    S1:E9

    As G.I. Joe and Cobra race to retrieve the three parts, Zartan ensures that each side acquires one piece, and then steals the laser core at the Roof of the World.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 10 - The Revenge of Cobra: Amusement Park of Terror (5)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Revenge of Cobra: Amusement Park of Terror (5)

    S1:E10

    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.

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  11. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 11 - The Pyramid of Darkness: The Further Adventures of G.I. Joe (1)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - The Pyramid of Darkness: The Further Adventures of G.I. Joe (1)

    S1:E11

    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
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  12. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 12 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Rendezvous in the City of the Dead (2)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Rendezvous in the City of the Dead (2)

    S1:E12

    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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  13. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 13 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Three Cubes to Darkness (3)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Three Cubes to Darkness (3)

    S1:E13

    The Joes rush to prevent Cobra from planting its huge cubes as Shipwreck and Snake Eyes try to evade detection.

    Director:Unknown
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  14. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 14 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls (4)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls (4)

    S1:E14

    Quick Kick joins Alpine and Bazooka, and the Crimson Twins turn the tables on Cobra Commander by taking control of the space station and the Pyramid of Darkness.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 15 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Knotting Cobra's Coils (5)
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - The Pyramid of Darkness: Knotting Cobra's Coils (5)

    S1:E15

    As the Cobra leaders struggle for control of their organization, Quick Kick and Shipwreck lead the Joes in an assault on Cobra forces to destroy their pyramid-creating abilities.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 16 - Countdown for Zartan
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Countdown for Zartan

    S1:E16

    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
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  17. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 17 - Red Rocket's Glare
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Red Rocket's Glare

    S1:E17

    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
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  18. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 18 - Satellite Down
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Satellite Down

    S1:E18

    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
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  19. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 19 - Cobra Stops the World
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Cobra Stops the World

    S1:E19

    Cobra attacks crucial oil derricks, pipelines, and tankers, seeking to control the world's fuel supplies. But G.I. Joe use Cobra Commander's remote-control attacks to pinpoint his location.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 20 - Jungle Trap
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Jungle Trap

    S1:E20

    Cobra kidnaps scientist Dr. Shakur in order to harness the energy of Earth's core and cause volcanic eruptions, but the Joes work through a number of traps to raid Cobra's jungle base and destroy Cobra's newest weapon.

    Director:Unknown
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  21. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 21 - Cobra's Creatures
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Cobra's Creatures

    S1:E21

    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
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  22. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 22 - The Funhouse
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Funhouse

    S1:E22

    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

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  23. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 23 - Twenty Questions
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Twenty Questions

    S1:E23

    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
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  24. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 24 - The Greenhouse Effect
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Greenhouse Effect

    S1:E24

    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
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  25. G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Season 1 Episode 25 - Haul Down the Heavens
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Haul Down the Heavens

    S1:E25

    The Joes travel to the arctic regions at the top of the world in order to stop Cobra from using the Aurora Borealis to melt the ice and flood coastal cities around the world.

    Director:Unknown
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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The M.A.S.S. Device: The Cobra Strikes (1)" is the best rated episode of "G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero" season 1. It scored 7/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Dan Thompson and written by Ron Friedman, it aired on 9/12/1983. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The M.A.S.S. Device: Slave of the Cobra Master (2)".