5.0/103 votesLoading...#1 - My Darling Nadia
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 2/22/1991
Jean writes a song for Nadia. Actually, our pals burst out into song while various clips from the show play out.
Director: Tadayuki Uda, Akio Satsukawa
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
5.5/103 votesLoading...#2 - The Island of the Witch
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 12/14/1990
After surviving a typhoon, Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King discover another island drifting mysteriously toward them. Exploring it, the children find Ayerton, a flaky scientist who they met on the battleship in Episode 3.
Director: Tadayuki Uda
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
6.0/103 votesLoading...#3 - The Floating Island
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 12/21/1990
Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King are reunited with Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson. Together they all decide to live as a family on the new island, which Jean theorizes is moving.
Director: Renji Kawabata
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
6.3/103 votesLoading...#4 - King vs. King
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 1/11/1991
A violent row between Sanson and Hanson turns into a race between two mechanical lions resembling King(!).
Director: Shigeto Makino
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
6.3/103 votesLoading...#5 - King's Rescue
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 2/15/1991
When King gets captured by Grandis' ex-fiancee, our pals set off to save him.
Director: Renji Kawabata
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
6.7/103 votesLoading...#6 - The Tower of Babel
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/25/1990
Imprisoned by the wicked Gargoyle, Nadia is forced to admit that she gave her Blue Water to Jean before turning herself in (to save Marie and King from a horrible fate). As the search for Jean is on, the boy desperately tries to find her. Simultaneously, Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson, who have also been imprisoned by the soldiers, break out of their prison cell and attempt to escape. While Gargoyle tours Nadia around his base, he showcases Neo-Atlantis's secret weapon, a tower known as Babel with the power to obliterate an entire island!
Director: Hiroyuki Sasaki
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
6.7/103 votesLoading...#7 - Run, Marie, Run!
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 7/13/1990
Marie and King run off to explore the island, when they find themselves both lost and pursued by Gargoyle's soldiers. Sanson comes to their rescue.
Director: Takeshi Mori
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
6.7/103 votesLoading...#8 - The Valley of Dinicthys
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 7/20/1990
Marie and Nadia become sick from a dangerously fatal tropical fever. To save them from death, Nemo charts course for an underground reef, where he takes Jean, Sanson, and Hanson on a quest to find the cure. Coming back, however, they have to deal with a territorial, eel-like Dinicthys....
Director: Yukio Suzuki
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
6.7/103 votesLoading...#9 - Nemo's Best Friend
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/14/1990
Nemo takes Jean and Nadia on a tour of his secret base, where he introduces the children to his closest friend, a talking whale named Irion, who hints at Nadia's responsibility to hold the Blue Water.
Director: Renji Kawabata
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
6.7/103 votesLoading...#10 - Young Drifters
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 11/9/1990
Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King are shipwrecked on a deserted island. They decide to make it their home for a while.
Director: Takeshi Mori
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
6.7/103 votesLoading...#11 - King, the Lonely Lion
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 12/7/1990
King gets jealous of Jean and Nadia becoming more intimate and runs away. Jean sets off to find him... but not before Nadia goes ballastic upon realizing that he does not remember the kiss she gave him (he had been stoned from the hallucinogetic mushrooms).
Director: Renji Kawabata
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
6.7/103 votesLoading...#12 - Nadia's Love
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 2/8/1991
Having escaped their former island home, our pals crash-land into an African tribal village, where they are instantly captured... until one of its citizens recognizes Nadia.
Director: Hiromitsu Hoshino
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
6.7/103 votesLoading...#13 - To the Sky
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 4/5/1991
The New Nautilus and Gargoyle, now aboard Red Noah, face off in a spectacular duel of pyrotechnics, lasers, and, ultimately, wills. Midway through, both crafts head into outer space. After finally breaking in, Nemo, Jean, and Electra confront Gargoyle, who now has Nadia under his control.
Director: Masayuki
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
7.0/103 votesLoading...#14 - Marie's Island
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 5/11/1990
Jean, Nadia, and King are shot down over a strange island where they find themselves outrunning a squadron of sinister masked soldiers. In their struggle to survive, they find an orphan girl, Marie, who lost her parents to the soldiers.
Director: Koji Masunari
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
7.0/103 votesLoading...#15 - Mission to Rescue Nadia
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 6/1/1990
In a surprising turn of events, Grandis and her boys join forces with Jean to save Nadia, Marie, and King from Gargoyle. Their escape attempt nearly backfires, until the Nautilus shows up to save them....
Director: Takeshi Mori
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
7.0/103 votesLoading...#16 - Nemo's Secret
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 6/8/1990
Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King are taken aboard the Nautilus with their new enemies-turned allies, Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson. Technophiles Jean and Hanson are thrilled to be aboard the Nautilus. Grandis becomes dangerously smitten with Captain Nemo, much to Sanson's consternation. Nadia, meanwhile, is very suspicious about the submarine and its crew, particularly Nemo, who reacts with surprise upon seeing her for the first time....
Director: Yukio Suzuki
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
7.0/103 votesLoading...#17 - Jean's New Invention
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 8/31/1990
Jean is tired of being treated like a child by the Nautilus crew. Hoping to cheer him up, Nadia suggests Jean to build another aircraft. Inspired, he sets off to do just that. At first he is determined to construct the new helicopter by himself, but then realizes he still needs the support of some grown-ups. With Hanson's help, Jean completes the craft and takes Nadia on a very delightful test flight. While airborne, Jean promises that he will one day take Nadia to Africa....
Director: Takeshi Mori
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
7.0/103 votesLoading...#18 - Nautilus vs. Nautilus
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/7/1990
En route to Captain Nemo's home base of Antarctica, the Nautilus finds itself attacked by a territorial Nautilus shellfish.
Director: Shigeto Makino
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
7.0/103 votesLoading...#19 - Lincoln Island
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 11/16/1990
Now that they are settled into their new island home (which they dub "Lincoln Island", Jean uses his knowledge and technology to bring a little civilization. Nadia, on the other hand, wants to live with nature... only to discover that doing so is a lot harder than she ever dreamed of.
Director: Shigeto Makino
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
7.0/103 votesLoading...#20 - The First Kiss
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 11/30/1990
As a result of Nadia's foolishness, the children only have meat for food. This infuriates Nadia so much that she declares to starve... until she becomes desperate to eat a can of rotten spinach, getting sick. Jean sets off to find a cure, only to become intoxicated by hallucinogetic mushrooms(!). Overwhelmingly grateful, and stupidly unaware that Jean is not himself, she gives him his first real kiss....
Director: Shigenori Awai
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
7.0/103 votesLoading...#21 - Labyrinth in the Earth
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 1/25/1991
Four months afterward, the Gratan is nearly repaired, and soon our pals will set off for Africa. But first Jean and Nadia go off on a hike which leads them to a mysterious underground cavern that turns out to be more than they suspected. The exploration culminates when Nadia falls into a trance and vanishes behind a wall, leaving her clothes in Jean's arms! During all this, Ayerton tries to make his move on Grandis.
Director: Takeshi Mori
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
7.0/103 votesLoading...#22 - The Secret of Blue Water
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 3/1/1991
Finally, our pals arrive at Nadia's real homeland--Tartessos. As they tour through its long forgotten ruins, our heroine finally reveals her darkest secrets... including who she is. How will all this affect her relationships with everyone, especially Jean?
Director: Hiromitsu Hoshino, Mahiro Maeda
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
7.0/103 votesLoading...#23 - Emperor Neo
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 3/29/1991
Gargoyle takes Nadia before the puppet leader of Neo-Atlantis, Emperor Neo, who reveals that he has a strong connection with both Nadia and Nemo. Eight time zones away, Nemo and the others plan to fight Gargoyle in a final duel. Throughout, both Jean and Nadia learn about the origins of the Atlanteans.
Director: Shigeto Makino
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami
7.3/103 votesLoading...#24 - The Little Fugitive
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/20/1990
With Grandis and her two accomplices, Sanson and Hanson, in pursuit, Jean takes Nadia back to his home in LeHarve. His grumpy aunt refuses to take Nadia in, but Jean lets Nadia stay at his own house. The following day, Jean and Nadia set off for Africa in one of his aeroplanes. They do not get far, however, when Jean's invention fails and falls into the sea....
Director: Shoichi Masuo
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
7.3/103 votesLoading...#25 - The Riddle of the Giant Sea Monsters
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/27/1990
Jean, Nadia, and King are rescued by an American battleship in pursuit of sea monsters, who have apparently been responsible for sinking ships. That night, the battleship is attacked, and Jean, Nadia, and King are thrown overboard....
Director: Masayuki
Writer: Hisao Ohkawa
The Worst Episodes of Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
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Worst Episodes Summary
"My Darling Nadia" is the worst rated episode of "Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water". It scored 5/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Tadayuki Uda, Akio Satsukawa and written by Hisao Ohkawa, Yasuo Tanami, it aired on 2/22/1991. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Island of the Witch".