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In 1989 the two most famous plumbers from Brooklyn burst out of the Nintendo game world and onto television screens across America. The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! aired weekday afternoons and brought Mario, Luigi,

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Season 1

6.5/10153 votes
The Bird! The Bird!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1989
While crossing the Land of Ice, Toad gets kidnapped by a Giant Birdo who thinks the Mushroom is her missing baby.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Reed Shelly, Bruce Shelly
6.8/1091 votes
King Mario of Cramalot
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/1989
With the help of the wizard Mervin, Mario pulls the Golden Plumber's Helper from the magic sink and saves the Land of Cramalot from evil King Koopa.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Perry Martin
6.9/1087 votes
Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/6/1989
Koopa the Kid has kidnapped the Princess and hidden her in the Old West, and when Mario and Luigi ride into town to save her they find Koopa has branded them wanted outlaws with rewards on their heads.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Phil Harnage
6.7/1077 votes
Mario's Magic Carpet
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/7/1989
The Marios wage a wild magic carpet battle to save the Princess from being forced into King Koopa's harem.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Rowby Goren
7.2/1042 votes
The Ringer
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/8/1989
When Ganon learns that there is to be an Amateur Magician's Contest in the Castle of Hyrule, he sees his chance.
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Bob Forward
6.6/1062 votes
Rolling Down the River
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/11/1989
Mario and Luigi disguise themselves as Riverboat Gamblers to rescue the Princess who is held captive on Captain Koopa's sidewheeler, "The Sinister Star".
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
6.8/1062 votes
The Great Gladiator Gig
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/12/1989
Our heroes think they are going to a benefit Spaghetti Dinner at the Linguini Empire Colosseum, but it's all a plot by the evil Emperor Augustus Septemberus Octoberus Koopa to feed the Marios to the lions.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Jack Olesker
6.9/1066 votes
Mario and the Beanstalk
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/13/1989
When the Marios buy some magic garbanzo beans they are lead up the beanstalk to face a Giant Koopa.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: George Atkins
6.7/1061 votes
Love 'Em and Leave 'Em
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/14/1989
The dreaded Queen Rotunda of Rotundaland falls in love with Mario when she mistakenly drinks a love potion and tries to force him into marriage.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Ehrman, Sean Roche
7.2/1032 votes
Cold Spells
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/15/1989
When it's spring cleaning time in the castle, Link pretends to have a cold in order to get out of doing work.
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Phil Harnage
6.7/1063 votes
The Great BMX Race
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/18/1989
To save Toad's life, Mario and Luigi are tricked into a disaster-strewn Boy's Motor Cross bicycle race with three of Koopa's sneakiest minions.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Tony Marino
6.6/1050 votes
Stars in Their Eyes
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/19/1989
Our heroes get chased to the Planet Quirk where Koopa has enslaved the natives and then puts the Marios into slavery, too.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Eleanor Burian-Mohr, Jack Hanrahan
6.9/1050 votes
Jungle Fever
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/20/1989
Mario, Luigi, The Princess, and Toad hack their way through the Ama-Zone Jungle searching for Sheldon the Witch Doctor, but Koopa gets to him first.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Larry Alexander
7.2/1056 votes
Brooklyn Bound
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/21/1989
The Marios finally find a way back to Brooklyn -- and are faced with a big decision when Koopa captures the Princess just at the moment they can return home.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
6.6/1036 votes
The White Knight
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 9/22/1989
When the handsome Prince Facade shows up in Hyrule, Zelda cannot keep her eyes off of him, and Link is green with jealousy.
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Bob Forward
6.4/1052 votes
Toad Warriors
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 9/25/1989
King Koopa steals every drop of spaghetti sauce in Car Land, but our heroes come to the rescue of the Mushroom Colonists when Toad turns super and saves the day.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Phil Harnage
6.4/1048 votes
The Fire of Hercufleas
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/26/1989
The Marios seek the help of the legendary hero Hercufleas, but find it's the hero himself who needs help to recover the "Great Balls of Fire" stolen by King Koopa.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley
6.8/1061 votes
Count Koopula
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 9/27/1989
Our heroes are lured into a spooky castle in the Land of Turtlevania where Count Koopula plans to turn the Princess into a spaghetti-sauce-sucking vampire.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Phil Harnage
6.9/1050 votes
Pirates of Koopa
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 9/28/1989
Long John Koopa kidnaps the Princess and is auctioning her off to his fellow pirates when our heroes arrive in pirate disguises.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Ted Pedersen
6.6/1027 votes
Kiss 'N Tell
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 9/29/1989
When Link rescues a fair maiden from a ferocious dragon, he gets a kiss as his reward. But the maiden is one of Ganon's evil creatures in disguise, and Link is turned into a frog!
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Phil Harnage
6.7/1057 votes
Two Plumbers and a Baby
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 10/2/1989
When Koopa misuses the Fountain of Youth to turn the Princess into a baby, the Marios get stuck with a big babysitting problem.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Ehrman, Sean Roche
6.8/1048 votes
The Adventures of Sherlock Mario
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 10/3/1989
When Professor Koopa-arity kidnaps the brilliant criminologist Herlock Sholmes, the Marios turn detective.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Perry Martin
6.7/1048 votes
Do You Princess Toadstool Take This Koopa...?
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 10/4/1989
Koopa threatens to turn the Marios into rocks unless Princess Toadstool agrees to marry him.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
6.8/1044 votes
The Pied Koopa
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 10/5/1989
King Koopa acquires a magic flute that makes him irresistible to the children of Pastaland and he leads them all to his castle until the Marios come to their rescue.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Phil Harnage
6.4/1025 votes
Sing for the Unicorn
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 10/6/1989
You'd think a King would be safe standing on top of his own castle. But not when Ganon has managed to capture a flying Unicorn!
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Bob Forward
6.9/1046 votes
Koopenstein
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 10/9/1989
Dr. Koopenstein starts the trouble by trying to steal the Marios' brains for his new invention, and then he really turns into a monster.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Phil Harnage
7.3/1046 votes
On Her Majesty's Sewer Service
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 10/10/1989
When Princess Toadstool's chief spy (James Blond) is zapped by Koopa, Mario and Luigi turn secret agent.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Tony Marino
6.8/1052 votes
Mario and Joliet
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 10/11/1989
Our heroes arrive for the wedding of Romero and Joliet, only to find Koopa has reignited the feud between the two lovers' families.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Michael A. Medlock, David Tischman
6.7/1050 votes
Too Hot to Handle
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 10/12/1989
Koopa has imprisoned the Fire God of Lavalava Land and forces the natives to sacrifice the Princess Toadstool to the local volcano.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Peter Norris, Brad Wilson
6.3/1027 votes
That Sinking Feeling
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 10/13/1989
Ganon has a new toy: an Overworld Magnet, capable of pulling any object in the Overworld down into the Underworld.
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Dennis O'Flaherty
6.4/1047 votes
Hooded Robin and His Mario Men
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 10/16/1989
The Marios arrive in Sharewood Forest and help the Hooded Robin recover the gold coins that the rich Sheriff of Koopingham has stolen from the poor.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley
6.7/1045 votes
20,000 Koopas Under the Sea
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 10/17/1989
Our heroes travel to Oceanworld where they discover Captain Koopa-Nemo is using a super submarine to terrorize the Mushroom People.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
6.7/1043 votes
Mighty McMario and the Pot of Gold
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 10/18/1989
When a Leprechaun our heroes meet in Shamrock Land asks them to help recover his Pot O'Gold Coins stolen by Koopa, the Marios can only say "yes".
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Brooks Wachtel
6.9/1052 votes
Mario Meets Koop-zilla
Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 10/19/1989
Koopa has eaten Dr. T. Garden's secret weapon -- Super Sushi -- and has been transformed into the huge monster "Koopzilla" who is terrorizing the city of Sayonara.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Perry Martin
7.3/1032 votes
Doppelganger
Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 10/20/1989
When Zelda finds a huge and beautiful mirror in her room, she naturally assumes that it is a present from Link. But in fact it is a present from Ganon -- as Zelda soon discovers!
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Eve Forward, Bob Forward
6.3/1055 votes
Koopa Klaus
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 10/23/1989
When the evil Koopa Claus (Bah Humkoop!) tries to stop Christmas, the Marios come to Santa's rescue and Toad learns the true spirit of giving.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Jack Olesker
6.7/1040 votes
Mario and the Red Baron Koopa
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 10/24/1989
When Koopa teams up with the dreaded sky turtle Lakatu, our heroes head for an aerial dogfight in their flying carpet biplane.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: John Vornholt, Steve Robertson
6.8/1046 votes
The Unzappables
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 10/25/1989
Mario and his friends travel to Mobsterland where they discover the city is being terrorized by the notorious gangster Al Koopone.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Perry Martin
6.8/1046 votes
Bad Rap
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 10/26/1989
Koopa kidnaps the King of Rapland where everyone speaks in rap rhyme and it's up to the rapping Marios to save the day.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Kevin O'Donnell, Cassandra Schafhausen
7.5/1041 votes
Underworld Connections
Season 1 Episode 40 - Aired 10/27/1989
Ganon's evil creatures attack the castle and break the Triforce into three pieces.
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Bob Forward
6.4/1041 votes
The Mark of Zero
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 10/30/1989
Mario and Luigi come to El Desertland's rescue against the evil Capitan El Koopa by donning black masks and capes to become the legendary heros "Zero" and "Zero Plus One".
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Jack Olesker
6.5/1043 votes
The Ten Koopmandments
Season 1 Episode 42 - Aired 10/31/1989
Our heroes travel to Desertland where they discover Koop-Tut has enslaved the Desertlanders and is enforcing an evil set of rules known as the Ten Koopmandments.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Perry Martin
6.7/1043 votes
The Koopas Are Coming! The Koopas Are Coming!
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 11/1/1989
Our heroes come to the rescue of General George Washingtoad by helping him cross the Delawide River to defeat the Redcoat Koopa's army.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Ted Pedersen
6.7/1039 votes
The Trojan Koopa
Season 1 Episode 44 - Aired 11/2/1989
When King Koopa holds the Princess captive in his impregnable island fortress, the Marios get inside by hiding in a wooden "Trojan Koopa."
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley
6.2/1027 votes
Stinging a Stinger
Season 1 Episode 45 - Aired 11/3/1989
Link rescues an old man named Sleazenoze from attackers in the woods, and as a reward, the old man gives Link a brand-new fancy sword in exchange for his old one.
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Bob Forward
6.4/1041 votes
Quest For Pizza
Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 11/6/1989
When Caveman Alley Koopa poisons Mario, his three friends have to find a way to make pre-historic pizza to save his life.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Martha Moran
6.9/1039 votes
The Great Gold Coin Rush
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 11/7/1989
The Marios discover the Mother Lode of Gold Coins, but -- Klaimjump Koopa rides in and takes over.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
6.2/1037 votes
Elvin Lives
Season 1 Episode 48 - Aired 11/8/1989
The Marios, the Princess, and Toad arrive in Sock Hop Land to save the music king Elvin Parsley from Greaser Koopa.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
6.9/1037 votes
Plummers Academy
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 11/9/1989
In a flashback to their days of Basic Draining at the Brooklyn Academy of Plumbing, Mario and Luigi tell of their troubles with Drain Sergeant Kooperman and why the President of the United States called them to the White House.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Martha Moran
7.0/1024 votes
Hitch in the Works
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 11/10/1989
When Ganon captures Zelda, he has a most evil plot in mind: using the Crystal of Control he has just discovered, he will force Zelda to marry him -- and then Hyrule will be under his control!
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Bob Forward
6.6/1040 votes
Karate Koopa
Season 1 Episode 51 - Aired 11/13/1989
Our heroes return to the oriental city of Sayonara where they combat Karate Koopa and his Ninja Ninjiis with the martial art of Plumb-Fu.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Schwartz
6.6/1038 votes
Mario of the Apes
Season 1 Episode 52 - Aired 11/14/1989
Mario loses his memory in the middle of the jungle and is adopted by two apes who rename him Marzan.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley
6.4/1052 votes
Princess, I Shrunk the Mario Brothers
Season 1 Episode 53 - Aired 11/15/1989
When Toad accidentally spills a shrinking potion on the Marios they must overcome the perils of giant Troopas, drain pipes filled with monster-sized bugs, and Koopa's big feet.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Bennett Carren, J. Larry Carroll
6.5/1038 votes
Little Red Riding Princess
Season 1 Episode 54 - Aired 11/16/1989
Our heroes have come to Winterland so the Princess can visit her grandmother, but Koopa sees her crossing the forest all alone and plays big bad wolf.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Jack Olesker
7.3/1027 votes
Fairies in the Spring
Season 1 Episode 55 - Aired 11/17/1989
When King Harkinnian decides to build a Royal Water Park for the enjoyment of all his subjects during the hot weather, it seems like a simple enough project. But a hitch rapidly develops when the water park construction suffers a a series of strange attacks by water creatures!
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Marsha Forward, Bob Forward
7.0/1039 votes
The Provolone Ranger
Season 1 Episode 56 - Aired 11/20/1989
Mario teams up with a friendly mushroom Indian named Pronto to rescue his friends from Billy The Koopa in the Wild West.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley
6.6/1038 votes
Escape From Koopatraz
Season 1 Episode 57 - Aired 11/21/1989
The Marios, the Princess, and Toad are captured by Koopa and sent to his island dungeon Koopatraz where they engineer a daring escape.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Phil Harnage
6.8/1042 votes
Mario of the Deep
Season 1 Episode 58 - Aired 11/22/1989
Koopa has moved his underhandedness under the sea, has captured King Neptune, and is forcing the Mermushrooms to loot the sunken ships of gold coins.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Perry Martin
6.8/1039 votes
Flatbush Koopa
Season 1 Episode 59 - Aired 11/23/1989
The Marios return to Brooklyn to find that Koopa has taken over and renamed the City Kooplyn.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Martha Moran
7.1/1024 votes
The Missing Link
Season 1 Episode 60 - Aired 11/24/1989
Ganon, attempting to capture Link with a magical zapblast, succeeds in capturing his body, but not his spirit.
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Bob Forward
6.7/1037 votes
Raiders of the Lost Mushroom
Season 1 Episode 61 - Aired 11/27/1989
Indiana Mario and his friends travel to Jungleland in search of a legendary golden statuette -- "The Lost Mushroom."
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Perry Martin
6.8/1038 votes
Crocodile Mario
Season 1 Episode 62 - Aired 11/28/1989
Our heroes arrive in Down Under Land and have to save the Outback Mushroom People from Kangaroo Koopa and an army of crocodiles.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: David Schwartz
6.9/1041 votes
Star Koopa
Season 1 Episode 63 - Aired 11/29/1989
Our heroes are chased through space by Darth Koopa and thrown into the Intergalactic Insinkerator.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Phil Harnage
7.0/1054 votes
Robo Koopa
Season 1 Episode 64 - Aired 11/30/1989
Koopa forces the brilliant scientist Dr. Nerdnick to turn him into a half-robot, half-Koopa monster.
Director: Dan Riba
Writer: Kevin O'Donnell, Cassandra Schafhausen
8.4/1061 votes
The Moblins Are Revolting
Season 1 Episode 65 - Aired 12/1/1989
When Ganon's evil creatures suffer yet another humiliating defeat at the hands of Link, they decide that Ganon's stupid plans are to blame.
Director: John Grusd
Writer: Eve Forward