8.2/10169 votesLoading...#1 - Day of the Dragon
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/17/2001
Shendu retrieves all twelve talismans and transforms into a humanoid dragon. Now, he is on the loose and ready to destroy the entire continent of Asia. Jackie, Uncle, and Jade must find the demon and annihilate it before Asia is dismantled. Uncle makes a magic potion that allows Jackie to penetrate Shendu's skin to steal the twelve talismans back.
Director: Jane Wu
Writer: Alexx Van Dyne
8.2/10127 votesLoading...#2 - The Powers That Be (2)
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 7/8/2005
Captain Black, the J-Team, and some old adversaries put their differences aside to come together in order to stop Drago who is on the verge of conquering the entire world.
Director: Kirk Van Wormer
Writer: Steven Melching
8.0/10159 votesLoading...#3 - The Tiger and the Pussycat
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/10/2001
The Tiger Talisman splits the dark and light sides of Jackie in two, which makes it easy for Valmont to trick his dark side into working for the Dark Hand. The light Jackie could not do anything, he does not want to fight, while the dark Jackie steals the 12 talismans from Section 13. Both halves fight for the talisman, but Valmont gets to it first and uses it to turn Shendu into it's old self again, an alive, giant dragon demon.
Director: Bryan Andrews
Writer: David Slack
7.9/10112 votesLoading...#4 - The Eighth Door
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 2/9/2002
Before Bai Tza can use another flood, Uncle uses a gourd from one of the Immortals to seal her away again. Unfortunately, Jade steps too close to the chi spell and is dragged into Bai Sa's portal. Meanwhile, the Demon Sorcerers communicate with and confront Shendu. In order to escape punishment, he promises that all seven of the Demons can use his own Portal – the only one left – to come back to Earth. A race against time ensues as the Chans work from both sides to both recover Jade and close the last portal for good.
Director: Gary Hartle
Writer: Hilary Bader
7.9/10103 votesLoading...#5 - A Jolly J-Team Xmas
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/2002
Daolon Wong has captured Santa Claus, who possess good chi in abundance, on Christmas Eve. Jackie, Jade, Uncle prepare for Christmas, with Uncle and Capt. Black trying to convince Jade that Santa is real. An Elf comes to Uncle for help in locating the kidnapped Santa. El Toro and Viper are called into action to help. Tohru, Jade and Paco substitue for Santa in making deliverys that night while Jackie, El Toro and Viper free Santa. Jackie and company go up against Daolon and his evil animated snowmen. Tohru makes a 'nick-of-time' rescue in the sleigh, and is humbled to be sitting beside the Jolly Ol' Elf himself. It's a Merrry Christmas for our heros!
Director: Michael Goguen
Writer: Alexx Van Dyne
7.9/1095 votesLoading...#6 - Re-Enter the Dragon
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 3/8/2003
Daolon Wong releases Shendu from his etheiral enprisonment in exchange for the talisman power of the Dragon - Combustion. Jackie, Uncle, Jade and Thoru attempt to stop Shendu's return to earth but fail. Shendu goes back on his deal w/ Dalon and absorbs the Dragon power for himself, and then drains Dalon of the tailsman powers he holds. Shendu persues Jackie back to Section 13 where the other talisman animals are. Before Shendu can absorb their powers, Jackie and Jade flee with the animals. Shendu stops Jackie and Jade at the zoo. Depsite Jackie's heroics, Shendu absorbs all of the talisman powers. Before Shendu can finally destroy Jackie, Uncle, Thoru and Section 13 arrive chanting a chi-spell (that Uncle got from Daolon Wong). The spell returns Shendu to his 'original' statue form and the talismans pop-out from his body. The talismans and Shendu are locked up in Section 13's vault for good.
Director: Christopher Berkeley
Writer: David Slack
7.9/1093 votesLoading...#7 - It's All in the Game
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/2004
Uncle has fashioned a locater for the activated relics. As Jade watched a game show called, ""The International Island Challenge,"" the locater senses the next relic, which is the prize on the game show: the gourd containing the Water Demon's chi. Jade pleads Jackie to let them enter the contest held on Boru Island, but Jackie explains that this is a serious mission. However, on the set, the producer mistakes Jackie, Uncle, Jade, and Tohru as a competing family. They must face off against the Dusseldorf family, but they fail in the first task when Tohru falls off the bridge after being pelted by coconuts. However, it is Uncle who is voted out of the family, but he manages to stay on the island for the night after complaining about his supposed fear of flying. In the second round, neither family wins the bug-eating contest, so they must race in the tie-breaking round. When Jackie, Tohru, and Jade near the finish line, Drago appears, manages to obtain the Water Demon chi, and creates a tid
Director: Jay Oliva
Writer: Marsha Griffin
7.8/10113 votesLoading...#8 - Demon World (1)
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 2/16/2002
Shendu alters the Book of Ages, and changes history. In a world where demons rule, Jade remembers how things were, and must convince her Uncles to help her set things right.
Director: Christopher Berkeley
Writer: David Slack
7.8/10114 votesLoading...#9 - Demon World (2)
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 2/23/2002
Jade, Uncle, and Jackie escape from Shendu's palace with a few talismans taken from Shendu. Using Jade's memories of the Immortal symbols, they embark on a mission to find the other members of the J-Team and manage to banish half of the Demons in the process. Realizing what has transpired, Shendu and the other three remaining Demons make a final stand at Australia to prevent history from being corrected.
Director: Sean Song
Writer: David Slack
7.8/1093 votesLoading...#10 - A Night at the Opera
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 4/5/2003
Valmont returns and gives Tohru a magic potion that causes the man-giant to loose his memory. He awakens at Valmonts hideout, and 'remembers' who he is - #1 Enforcer. Uncle creates a locater spell for the missing Tohru and the gang tracks him to India. Tohru believing Jackie to be his enemy, engages him in battle. Triumpant, Valmont and Tohru continue to the Temple of the Golden Elephant. At the temple, Jackie attempts to stop Tohru from stealing a jewel encrusted elephant that will finance the Dark Hand back into action. The removal of the Elephant causes stone statues in the temple to animate. Tohru and Jackie work together to defeat the animated statues while Valmont hides. While Tohru has not regained his memory he relaizes that Jackie helped him while Valmont would sacrifice him, and he aligns himself with Jackie. In attempting to get Tohru under his control again, Valmont accidently spray himself with the amniesia potion and is turned over to the authorities.
Director: Seung Eun Kim
Writer: Adam Beechen, Alexx Van Dyne
7.7/1088 votesLoading...#11 - Attack of the J-Clones
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 5/3/2003
The J-Team attends the re-dedication of the San Francisco Museum's collection of Jade (the stone, not the niece) and when the collection disappears again, Viper is accused of the theft. El Toro is later caught in the act of stealing more jade. Jackie chases the masked man and Jade discovers that the theif is A CLONE! Capt. Black interviews Chang (who is in prison) and they discover that Chang is also a clone. The real Chang, and his alchemist Yip, watche from a hidden lair, sending the Jackie clone into Section 13. Jackie-Clone is not able to subdue and replace the real Jackie and flees before being captured. Uncle creates a magic power that will determine who is a clone and who is not - and they discover that Paco is a clone! Impersonating their clones, the J-Team infiltrates Chang's hideouts to rescue Paco. Detected, the J-Team is attacked by the J-Team-clones but Uncle finds a way to over-ride the magic clones and turn them on Chang and Yip.
Director: Michael Goguen
Writer: Michael Jelenic
7.7/1095 votesLoading...#12 - Ninja Twilight
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 2/14/2004
Jackie, Uncle, Tohru, and Jade discover that they have overlook something in the ancient writings by making the horrible mistake of placing the final oni mask along side the other eight in Section 13. By doing this, they have released Tarakudo and his generals from the masks that bind them. The entire world begins to be engulfed in total darkness as the shadokahn are now free to walk the earth.
Director: Brandon Vietti
Writer: Eddie Guzelian
7.7/10101 votesLoading...#13 - Relics of Demons Past
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/2004
Drago breaks out of Section 13 on a mission to absorb the demon chi that is held in the original artifacts used to defeat the demons so many years ago. He finds the Enforcers at a petting zoo and transforms them into dragon-human hybrids. Drago locates the fan that holds the chi of the Wind Demon. Meanwhile, Jade gets into the nasty habit of burping. Jackie and Captain Black hunt Drago down to a Chinese-themed car wash, where the fan is located. Unbeknownst to everyone, Jade absorbs the demon chi. At school, her burps create powerful wind storms, and she begins to transform into a frog. Drago attacks Jade at school in order to absorb the chi, but Uncle and Tohru arrive to capture it instead. Drago fires the Enforcers and turns them back into their old human selves after they prove that they are weak and useless.
Director: David Hartman
Writer: Greg Klein, Tom Pugsley
7.6/10249 votesLoading...#14 - The Dark Hand
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/2000
Captain Black hires Jackie Chan to a secret government agency - Section 13, to track down the artifacts pursued by the Dark Hand, a crime organization far darker than anyone could have known. Also, Jackie's 11-year-old niece came to visit from Hong Kong and finds herself willing to help in the fight against evil. Jackie must gather up all 12 magical talismans that the Dark Hand had started retrieving before the Dark Hand does.
Director: Bryan Andrews
Writer: John Rogers
7.6/10143 votesLoading...#15 - The Rock
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/2000
Jackie is poisoned by the Dark Hand and will give him the antidote for the talismans. Jade steals all the talismans, while the Dark Hand destroys the antidote. When Jackie fully turns to stone, the Horse Talisman heals him.
Director: Bryan Andrews
Writer: Alexx Van Dyne
7.6/10115 votesLoading...#16 - Jade Times Jade
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/13/2001
Shendu and the Dark Hand find a clue to the first gate that will enable him to release his sister, the Mountain Demon. Jackie goes to Japan to stop them, while Uncle begins to train his new apprentice, Tohru. Meanwhile Jade causes havoc with a duplication spell.
Director: Christopher Berkeley
Writer: Eddie Guzelian
7.6/10114 votesLoading...#17 - Shanghai Moon
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 11/10/2001
The Dark Hand must travel into space to free Tso Lan, the Moon Demon. Jackie and Jade travel along as stowaways on their stolen shuttle and must hold off the demon so Tohru can arrive on the reserve shuttle with the Chi Spell ingredients. With Uncle handling the incantations from NASA Mission Control, they must seal the Demon Sorcerer back in the void before he uses his gravity-manipulating powers to change the face of Earth forever.
Director: Michael Chang
Writer: Alexx Van Dyne
7.6/10109 votesLoading...#18 - The Lotus Temple
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 11/12/2001
Jackie searches for the Lotus Temple. Jade gets lost and finds the temple. She also encounters a young girl who is cursed. Jade promises to help her break the curse.
Director: Michael Chang
Writer: Jan Strnad, Steven Melching
7.6/10116 votesLoading...#19 - Armor of the Gods
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 11/17/2001
Jackie is excavating some ancient armor when Uncle reveals it is the Armor of the Gods. This ancient suit of armor was worn by the Eight Immortals in their battles against the Demon Sorcerers. It proves quite convenient when the Dark Hand travels to Spain to find the portal of Dai Gui, the Earth Demon. However, sealing Dai Gui is complicated, as Jade used a sleeping potion on Uncle because of his constant complaining.
Director: Sean Song
Writer: Ken Goin
7.6/10107 votesLoading...#20 - Enter the Cat
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 3/2/2002
Jackie finds a highly valued cat statue. Anyone who is scratched by it is magically transformed. Forced to steal it back for a gangster when Jackie is tossed into a jail cell, Jade is able to retrieve the statue, but gets scratched by it in the process. Uncle had been researching into the Cat’s legend, and says that the cure lies within. Jackie soon has an epiphany, and decides the Cat is too dangerous to be in a museum. So he smashes the statue, thus releasing a purple-colored gas that cures Valmont and Jade. With that, Jackie then realizes that “The antidote lies within” meant that the antidote was inside the statue itself (and not within a person, despite what he thought at first).
Director: Michael Chang
Writer: Dean Stefan, Hilary Bader
7.6/1096 votesLoading...#21 - The Powers Unleashed
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/2002
The Enforcers and Daolon Wong both break into Section 13 in search of the talismans. Uncle capture the Dark Chi warriors in a magical urn. Jackie destroys the talismans rather than allowing them to fall into the wrong hands. Doing so unleashes the powers of the talismans from their physical containers, sending the powers to reside inside the decendents of the 12 animals of the Zodiac. Dalon Wong later turns the Enforcers into his new Dark Chi Warriors. The first power that Jackie and team track is the power of Imortality, which leads them to a local dog show. Making off with the dogs before Daolon can harm them, the team encounters the new Enforcers/Dark Chi Warriors in the park. Jackie and company defeat the Dark Chi Enforcers and save the noble canine.
Director: Michael Goguen
Writer: David Slack
7.6/1094 votesLoading...#22 - Aztec Rat Race
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/2002
Jackie, Jade, Uncle, El Toro and Paco track the talisman power of the Rat (reanimation) to Mexico. Finding the rat in an acient Aztec temple, El Toro accidently causes the rat's powers to accidently bringing a statue of the God Quetzalcoatl to 'life'. God Q mistakes Jade for the Goddess Chiuacoatl. In attempting to save Jade, El Toro is mistaken by God Q for Xoloti who takes souls to the underworld. God Q captures out heros on the outskirts of a nearby village. Daolon arrives to take the rat for himself. Jade manages to change the marking on Daolon's forehead to resemble that of Xolotl and convinces God Q that Daolon is the real enemy, not El Toro. Grabbing the rat from Daolon, Jade runs into the village and animates the Super Moose plush toys being sold there. The Super Mooses free Jackie and the others. God Q defeate Daolon and learn how he was brought to life, and agrees to be returned to a statute.
Director: Michael Chang
Writer: Adam Beechen
7.6/1091 votesLoading...#23 - Animal Crackers
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 2/15/2003
Daolon Wong releases Shendu from his etheiral enprisonment in exchange for the talisman power of the Dragon - Combustion. Jackie, Uncle, Jade and Thoru attempt to stop Shendu's return to earth but fail. Shendu goes back on his deal w/ Dalon and absorbs the Dragon power for himself, and then drains Dalon of the tailsman powers he holds. Shendu persues Jackie back to Section 13 where the other talisman animals are. Before Shendu can absorb their powers, Jackie and Jade flee with the animals. Shendu stops Jackie and Jade at the zoo. Depsite Jackie's heroics, Shendu absorbs all of the talisman powers. Before Shendu can finally destroy Jackie, Uncle, Thoru and Section 13 arrive chanting a chi-spell (that Uncle got from Daolon Wong). The spell returns Shendu to his 'original' statue form and the talismans pop-out from his body. The talismans and Shendu are locked up in Section 13's vault for good.
Director: Michael Goguen
Writer: Adam Beechen
7.6/10100 votesLoading...#24 - The Masks of the Shadowkhan
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/2003
Daolon Wong's failed attempt to escape from prison through the use of magic reawakens Tarakudo, the king of the shadowkahn who is bent on recovering all nine oni masks that imprison his generals. Tarakudo attempts to free himself and his minions so that they can unleash total darkness upon the earth.
Director: Frank Squillace
Writer: Michael Jelenic
7.6/1088 votesLoading...#25 - Samurai Ratso
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/2003
Ratso obtains the next Oni mask and has summoned a new deadlier type of Shadowkahn with sharp metallic claws and razor pointed feet that appear to be unstoppable. Meanwhile, Uncle begins to doubt himself as believes he is no longer useful to the group because he is not well versed in Japanese legend and magic.
Director: Seung Eun Kim
Writer: Duane Capizzi, Louis Hirshorn, Joelle Sellner
The Best Episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures
Every episode of Jackie Chan Adventures ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Jackie Chan Adventures!
Jackie Chan teams up in this animé-style adventure with his 11-year-old niece, Jade, traveling the globe to locate a dozen magical talismans before the sinister...
Genres:Action & AdventureAnimationComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:The WB
Best Episodes Summary
"Day of the Dragon" is the best rated episode of "Jackie Chan Adventures". It scored 8.2/10 based on 169 votes. Directed by Jane Wu and written by Alexx Van Dyne, it aired on 3/17/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Powers That Be (2)".