5.6/1043 votes#1 - A New Beginning
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/1/1990
Hydron and Flipshot are sent by Master Sebrian to Eternia to find a champion of good to help them in their fight against the Evil Mutants of Denebria led by Flogg. They have a run-in with Andros and are brought to Skeletor who tricks them into thinking that he's a good guy until He-Man shows up. He-Man and Skeletor's fight is taken to Primus where He-Man proves that he's a good guy by fighting off the Evil Mutants while Skeletor forms an alliance with the Evil Mutants
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6.6/1028 votes#2 - Quest for the Crystals
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/6/1990
During his fight with He-Man, Slush Head destroys the Trithuseum generators on Primus that prevents its core from overheating. The crystals needed to help power the Trithuseum generators upon its rebuilding can only be found in Gorn City on Denebria. He encounters the trader Meliac who Skeletor uses in his plot to defeat He-Man.
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5.7/1024 votes#3 - The Heat
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/7/1990
Slush Head captures the Scientists of Primus as they are working on repairing the Trithuseum generators. Upon learning that they built the shield around Primus, Skeletor sends them to the Quagmi Swamp in Denebria. He-Man, Hydron, and Flipshot head to Denebria to rescue the Scientists and get them back to Primus to repair the Trithuseum generators before Primus' core overheats.
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5.6/1023 votes#4 - Attack on Onnor
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/10/1990
He-Man saves Grot's garden from an attack by Hoove and Karatti. Meeting Werban in the Oasis, Skeletor tricks him into lowering Onnor's shield of protection so that Hoove can lead the Evil Mutants to invade Onnor under the cover of a peace talk.
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5.6/1023 votes#5 - The Ultimate Challenge
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/11/1990
Following the failed attack on Onnor, Skeletor sends a hologram calling out He-Man to face him on the Cameroon Asteroid. While He-Man and Master Sebrian are sure it is a trap, He-Man goes anyway. While He-Man is facing off against Skeletor, Hoove and the Mutant Shuttle Pods attack Primus' main radar station while Crita, Lizorr, and Karatti capture Master Sebrian and Drissi.
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6.7/1024 votes#6 - Sword & Staff
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/12/1990
Skeletor and Quakke find a crystal on Denebria that makes Quakke stronger. Quakke tests his new strength on He-Man, Hydron, and Flipshot during their trip to get oil for the Vasionic Resonator on Denebria and they are saved by Sagitar.
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5.3/1022 votes#7 - The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword...Or Is It?
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired Unknown
Obtaining a painting from a man named Helm, Skeletor and Slush Head stow away on Captain Tipper's ship and heads to a cave in Primus's wastelands and uses a spell to bring the dragon in the painting to life to cause chaos on Primus. He-Man, Hydron, and Flipshot then work to defend Primus from the dragon and other Temperic Oil paintings that Skeletor brings to life.
Director: N/A
Writer: Dorissa Curry
5.7/1021 votes#8 - Glasnost Schmaznost
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/1990
Master Sebrian and Adam get a message from the Galactic Council's leader that they will meet on the planet Enoos. The same message meets Skeletor and Flogg as they plan to sway the Galactic Council to their side even by having B.H. fake a hit on Mara that Skeletor will save her from. When this works and the Galactic Council suggests that both planets send delegations, He-Man, Hydron, and Flipshot head to Denebria where they are led into a trap by Slush Head and Lizorr while Skeletor and B.H. secretly have a plan to have an explosive ore burrow into Primus.
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5.6/1021 votes#9 - The Youngest Hero
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/16/1990
Drissi and Hydron doubt that Caz can join the Primus Space Force. As Flogg leads the Evil Mutants in the next attack, Skeletor and Quakke capture Caz when he tries to stop them and bring him to Denebria where Skeletor uses a special virus to keep him subdued. He will cure Caz of the virus if He-Man surrenders his Power Sword. He-Man comes up with a plan while taking Grot with him.
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5.4/1022 votes#10 - The Festival of Lights
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/14/1990
The Festival of Lights is a tradition where a solar eclipse happens to the Primian Suns and a celebration will occur after that where Caz states to Adam that they celebrate the return of the Suns. As He-Man will be attending an interstellar rodeo run by Buck Westar that comes to Primus, Skeletor plans to enter Primus by taking over Buck Westar's ship and capture the Galactic Guardians one by one until only He-Man and Sagitar are left.
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5.8/1021 votes#11 - The Gift
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/3/1990
At the advice of Skeletor, Flogg contacts Master Sebrian and gives Primus some Zeps as a goodwill gift for peace between Primus and Denebria. Once Primus is filled with Zeps, Skeletor and Flogg activate their remote that turns the Zeps into hideous beasts that attack the Primans. He-Man discovers that the Zeps are actually androids and that there are too many for him to fight all at once.
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5.8/1020 votes#12 - Skeletor's Victory
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/4/1990
Primus has been taken over by the Evil Mutants and the Zeps. As He-Man and Mara have the key to the shield around Primus, Skeletor has captured Master Sebrian, Hydron, and Flipshot and sends B.H., Quakke, and Staghorn to find He-Man. Meanwhile, the Scientists of Primus work to find what makes the Zeps assume their monstrous forms.
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5.9/1020 votes#13 - He-Man in Exile
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/5/1990
At the advice of Flogg, Quakke puts up bounty posters for He-Man's capture as the Evil Mutants and the Zeps look for him. He-Man frees some prisoners from Slush Head as they join up in his resistance. When Skeletor threatens a village, He-Man offers to surrender if they spare the village.
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5.9/1019 votes#14 - The Seeds of Resistance
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 10/8/1990
As the Scientists of Primus work on a way to deactivate the Zeps, Adam and Mara go to where Master Sebrian, Hydron, and Flipshot are being held and free them despite interference by Crita, Slush Head, and the Mutant Troopers. Afterwards, He-Man and Master Sebrian provide a diversion for Skeletor while Mara, Hydron, and Flipshot retake the Starship Eternia.
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5.7/1019 votes#15 - The Battle for Levitan
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 10/9/1990
Skeletor threatens to destroy Levitan if He-Man doesn't surrender. He-Man disguises himself as a Mutant Trooper to get close to Levitan while having a plan to retake Levitan and all of Primus with the help of the Galactic Guardians and the resistance. Though Skeletor will destroy Levitan anyway even if He-Man surrenders.
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5.8/1019 votes#16 - Crack in the World
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 10/17/1990
Tricking the Scientists of Primus with an award that will be presented at a space station, Skeletor and Flogg use a robot to have them decode the formula for Energon. This substance is used to melt and destroy planets and the award given to them is filled with it. The only thing that can destroy Energon is a power that is as evil as Energon.
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5.4/1018 votes#17 - Escape from Gaolotia
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired Unknown
The Evil Mutants have taken over the prison ship Gaolotia. When Caz and Drissi take an Astrosub and get baited to Gaolotia, Skeletor contacts He-Man telling him to come rescue them at Gaolotia. The Sorceress of Castle Grayskull contacts He-Man stating that Skeletor is having Gaolotia placed in the path of the comet Xenon.
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Writer: N/A
5.9/1020 votes#18 - He-Man Mutant
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/17/1990
After the Galactic Guardians capture Quakke and B.H., the Scientists of Primus create a machine called the Mutator that can turn any human into a mutant. When it is tested on He-Man so that he can spy on Skeletor, it changes more than his appearance as destroys the Mutator and rescues Quake and B.H. Not realizing that the mutant is a transformed He-Man, Skeletor names him Cruncher and takes him in storming the Inner Council's chambers.
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5.7/1019 votes#19 - Juggernaut
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/18/1990
A spaceship carrying a little girl arrives on Primus. He-Man and the Galactic Guardians are unaware that the little girl is actually a dangerous cyborg used by Skeletor in his plot to bring down the shield surrounding Primus.
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5.5/1019 votes#20 - Fading Star
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired Unknown
The Galactic Guardians investigate a destroyed ship orbiting Primus and find a Hibernation Capsule containing Dukan who is one of the greatest heroes in Primus' past. Skeletor challenges Dukan to a duel in an abandoned city on Denebria. Suspecting trouble, He-Man, Hydron, and Flipshot secretly follow Dukan.
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- 5.7/1018 votes
#21 - Skeletor's Revenge
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 10/1/1990
The Scientists of Primus create a Super Computer that would link all machines on Primus and the planetary shield. An exiled computer hacker named Mikros collaborates with Skeletor to place a computer virus called the Argazoid into the Super Computer. To combat the Argazoid, the Scientists of Primus use a shrink ray to shrink He-Man, Artilla, Gepple, and Alcon into the computer in order to keep Argazoid from reaching the Vasionic Resonator so that the Evil Mutants can invade.
Director: N/A
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6.0/1019 votes#22 - The Mind Lens
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired Unknown
Skeletor uses the Mind Lens to influence the human will. After causing damage on Primus, Skeletor wants to use the Mind Lens on He-Man.
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Writer: N/A
5.8/1018 votes#23 - Adam's Adventure
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired Unknown
Skeletor uses a brainwave detector to help him find He-Man. When Skeletor abducts a spaceship, He-Man is nowhere to be found.
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5.5/1018 votes#24 - Collision Course
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired Unknown
Skeletor steals the plans for a gravity generator and builds one of his own. He plans to use it to push Primus out of its orbit where its temperature change threatens all life on Primus.
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5.7/1018 votes#25 - Planet of Junk
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired Unknown
Using an image projector found on an asteroid, Skeletor disguises himself and the Evil Mutants as Professor Galactica's Interstellar Circus. They use this cover to kidnap the Scientists of Primus in order to have them work on the weapons found on the asteroid.
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The Best Episodes of The New Adventures of He-Man Season 1
Every episode of The New Adventures of He-Man Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The New Adventures of He-Man Season 1!
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"A New Beginning" is the best rated episode of "The New Adventures of He-Man" season 1. It scored 5.6/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/1/1990. This episode is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "Quest for the Crystals".