8.0/1079 votesLoading...#1 - Wish Upon a Starfish
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/23/1993
Ariel wants legs so she can dance but no one believe's in her dream. She gets discouraged until she meets another mermaid called Gabriella who wants to sing so they go to a magical starfish who can make their dreams come true.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.9/1081 votesLoading...#2 - Charmed
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1992
Ariel finds a beautiful human bracelet, and when she wears it she can't take it off. Knowing that her father hates human things she decides not to go home until she finds the key to take it off.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron, James A. Markovich
7.9/1074 votesLoading...#3 - Red
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/1992
After Ariel's party King Triton feels that he's too old, so his glowing glowfish gets Triton a magical age stone that turns Triton into a little boy called Red. Later on Ariel and Sebastian find out and they trace the jewel to a magic sorcess who only old King Triton can beat.
Director: N/A
Writer: Emily Dwass
7.9/1064 votesLoading...#4 - Metal Fish
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1993
Ariel wants to learn more about humans, so she goes to a humanalogist who makes her day when he tells her that a human is coming under the sea in a metal submarine shaped like a fish.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.7/1085 votesLoading...#5 - The Evil Manta
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1992
The city of Atlantica is a wonderful place to live in, but when Ariel releases an evil manta from imprisonment he spreads the path of prejudice for the creatures of Atlantica. Everybody separates from each, but Ariel and Flounder stay together and work things out in Atlantica.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tony Marino, Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.7/1062 votesLoading...#6 - Heroes
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1994
King Triton, and the other residents from Atlantica are very happy to know that their hero Apollo is returning to Atlantica. Ariel and Flounder ask Triton who he is, and Triton explains. 20 years ago Atlantica was in a battle between the Octipins who contained a triton that was more magically than King Triton's triton. Apollo, in the vines snuck up on them and broke it. After the story Apollo appears. He and Ariel go on an adventure, but Ariel and Flounder soon find out that his victory over the Atlanticans was an accident. Ursula revives the Octipins and gives them 8 magic tritons, and now Apollo becomes a hero for real.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.6/1088 votesLoading...#7 - Whale of a Tale
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1992
Ariel finds an abanded baby whale, and decides to take care of it and be it's Mother. She names him Spot, but when Spot causes mass destruction around the kingdom Ariel decides to teach it how to survive in the wild.
Director: N/A
Writer: Peter S. Beagle
7.6/1093 votesLoading...#8 - Stormy
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1992
Ariel wants to ride a wild seahorse called Stormy but her father dosen't so she sneaks off and rides off with him in the wild.
Director: Mircea Mantta
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.6/1067 votesLoading...#9 - Thingamajigger
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1992
Prince Eric drops one of his boots down to the sea, and when Ariel finds it she thinks its a wonderful human thingamajigger, but Triton thinks its dangerous. Soon terrible things start to happen and every sea creature thinks that the thingamajigger is the cause, so every bad guy wants it to take over Triton's kingdom, but Ariel goes to the surface and finds out what they really do.
Director: N/A
Writer: Chuck Menville
7.6/1067 votesLoading...#10 - Beached
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1992
Ariel and her big sister Arista get into a big arguement, so they can't go to the carnival. Everything gets all out of hand but when some gators try to rob the kingdom Ariel and Arista learn the true value of sisterhood and teamwork.
Director: N/A
Writer: Alicia Marie Schudt
7.5/1071 votesLoading...#11 - Message in a Bottle
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1992
A lonely dragon writes a message in a bottle. Ariel finds it and visits him, he decides to come to Ariel's house but King Triton won't allow it until he saves them from some evil sea creatures.
Director: N/A
Writer: Lynn Lefler
7.5/1062 votesLoading...#12 - Tail of Two Crabs
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1993
Sebastian's old perfect friend from his childhood comes to town. When Sebastian gets angry because he's so perfect, Sebastian becomes a pawn in Ursula's plan to take over the kingdom.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.5/1059 votesLoading...#13 - Land of the Dinosaurs
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1994
Ariel suggests that her family takes a trip up to the frozen north, but something else lies beneth the ice. Dinosaurs, and Ariel thinks that they're adorable so she free's them with her father's triton, but they seem more harmful than adorable. Later on King Triton stops them and after that he uses his triton to destroy all the ice and discover the dinosaurs' home. Now the dinosaur's can roam the land freely thanks to Ariel's curiosity.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.5/1066 votesLoading...#14 - Ariel's Treasures
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1994
Ariel treasures her items from the humans of above. She shows her items to Gabriella and she loves them too, but someone else saw Ariel's treasures to. Ursula, and now she's using her evil spells to take control over Ariel's treasure's so they can destroy Atlantica.
Director: N/A
Writer: Emily Dwass
7.4/1069 votesLoading...#15 - Trident True
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/27/1992
Ariel and her little sea friends get King Triton gifts for Father's day. She goes to a cave to get a glowing seashell and they get trapped in by an octupus so Urchin uses the triton to beat him but loses it in the process.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tony Marino
7.4/1065 votesLoading...#16 - Against the Tide
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1993
Ursula's evil spells haven't been working lately because of a bad luck creature. Ariel finds the creature and brings him home, but Ursula still wants to destroy the bad luck creature and whoever owns him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.4/1056 votesLoading...#17 - Island of Fear
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1994
Once again Sebastian gets kidnapped, but this time a mad scientist kidnaps Sebastian for his crab experiments.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.4/1052 votesLoading...#18 - The Beast Within
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1994
On one of Ariel's adventures makes Flounder turn into a howling hairfish. They go to a magical fish and she tells them that the cure its to be srowded in silver. There's no such thing as silver under the sea, so Ariel uses silverfish instead.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1090 votesLoading...#19 - The Great Sebastian
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1992
Sebastian thinks that he's the best crab under the sea, but when King Triton wants him to deliver a document to Sharkania he shows his fear.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1076 votesLoading...#20 - Urchin
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1992
A poor merboy named Urchin tries to make friends in Atlantica, but when he meets the wrong friends( The Lobster Mobster Squad) it takes a good friend like Ariel to set him right.
Director: Mircea Mantta
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1061 votesLoading...#21 - Resigned to It
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1993
After overhearing King Triton talk about him Sebastian thinks that he got fired as the King's trusted advisor. He searches for a new job but gets rehired in the end.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1062 votesLoading...#22 - Calliope Dreams
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1993
King Triton wants Ariel to learn how to play the calliope, but Ariel wants to learn how to play the harp. She tries to learn the calliope and her bad playing wakes up an old ancient evil sea monster.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.3/1058 votesLoading...#23 - Save the Whale
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1993
Spot the whale returns and before Ariel and the others can rejoice the circus people take him away to join the act with all the other abused animals.
Director: N/A
Writer: Laraine Arkow, Dev Ross
7.3/1066 votesLoading...#24 - Giggles
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1993
Ariel laughs at everything, even things serious so a sorceror blowfish cast a spell on Ariel so when she laugh's seaquakes will rise.She gets sick of it so when she meets up with thisblowfish she teaches him the power of laughter.
Director: N/A
Writer: Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron
7.2/1083 votesLoading...#25 - Double Bubble
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1992
Ariel and her friends have to babysit some baby mertwins, but when they cause mischief they provide Ariel with some double trouble.
Director: Mircea Mantta
Writer: Laraine Arkow, Marie Sager, David Schwartz
The Best Episodes of The Little Mermaid
Every episode of The Little Mermaid ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Little Mermaid!
Disney's The Little Mermaid is an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation based on the 1989 Disney film of the same...
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Top Episode Ratings Summary
"Wish Upon a Starfish" is the best rated episode of "The Little Mermaid". It scored 8/10 based on 79 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Tedd Anasti, Patsy Cameron, it aired on 10/23/1993. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Charmed".