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.

The Fire of Hercufleas

Louis Albano

Danny Wells

Harvey Atkin

John Stocker

Jeannie Elias

Dan Riba

Mark McCorkle

Bob Schooley

Count Koopula

Toad Warriors

While crossing the Land of Ice, Toad gets kidnapped by a Giant Birdo who thinks the Mushroom is her missing baby.

The Bird! The Bird!

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.

King Mario of Cramalot

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.

Butch Mario & the Luigi Kid

The Marios wage a wild magic carpet battle to save the Princess from being forced into King Koopa's harem.

Mario's Magic Carpet

When Ganon learns that there is to be an Amateur Magician's Contest in the Castle of Hyrule, he sees his chance.

The Ringer

Mario and Luigi disguise themselves as Riverboat Gamblers to rescue the Princess who is held captive on Captain Koopa's sidewheeler, "The Sinister Star".

Rolling Down the River

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.

The Great Gladiator Gig

When the Marios buy some magic garbanzo beans they are lead up the beanstalk to face a Giant Koopa.

Mario and the Beanstalk

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.

Love 'Em and Leave 'Em

When it's spring cleaning time in the castle, Link pretends to have a cold in order to get out of doing work.

Cold Spells

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.

The Great BMX Race

Our heroes get chased to the Planet Quirk where Koopa has enslaved the natives and then puts the Marios into slavery, too.

Stars in Their Eyes

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.

Jungle Fever

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.

Brooklyn Bound

When the handsome Prince Facade shows up in Hyrule, Zelda cannot keep her eyes off of him, and Link is green with jealousy.

The White Knight

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.

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.

Long John Koopa kidnaps the Princess and is auctioning her off to his fellow pirates when our heroes arrive in pirate disguises.

Pirates of Koopa

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!

Kiss 'N Tell

When Koopa misuses the Fountain of Youth to turn the Princess into a baby, the Marios get stuck with a big babysitting problem.

Two Plumbers and a Baby

When Professor Koopa-arity kidnaps the brilliant criminologist Herlock Sholmes, the Marios turn detective.

The Adventures of Sherlock Mario

Koopa threatens to turn the Marios into rocks unless Princess Toadstool agrees to marry him.

Do You Princess Toadstool Take This Koopa...?

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.

The Pied Koopa

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!

Sing for the Unicorn

Dr. Koopenstein starts the trouble by trying to steal the Marios' brains for his new invention, and then he really turns into a monster.

Koopenstein

When Princess Toadstool's chief spy (James Blond) is zapped by Koopa, Mario and Luigi turn secret agent.

On Her Majesty's Sewer Service

Our heroes arrive for the wedding of Romero and Joliet, only to find Koopa has reignited the feud between the two lovers' families.

Mario and Joliet

Koopa has imprisoned the Fire God of Lavalava Land and forces the natives to sacrifice the Princess Toadstool to the local volcano.

Too Hot to Handle

Ganon has a new toy: an Overworld Magnet, capable of pulling any object in the Overworld down into the Underworld.

That Sinking Feeling

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.

Hooded Robin and His Mario Men

Our heroes travel to Oceanworld where they discover Captain Koopa-Nemo is using a super submarine to terrorize the Mushroom People.

20,000 Koopas Under the Sea

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".

Mighty McMario and the Pot of Gold

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.

Mario Meets Koop-zilla

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!

Doppelganger

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.

Koopa Klaus

When Koopa teams up with the dreaded sky turtle Lakatu, our heroes head for an aerial dogfight in their flying carpet biplane.

Mario and the Red Baron Koopa

Mario and his friends travel to Mobsterland where they discover the city is being terrorized by the notorious gangster Al Koopone.

The Unzappables

Koopa kidnaps the King of Rapland where everyone speaks in rap rhyme and it's up to the rapping Marios to save the day.

Bad Rap

Ganon's evil creatures attack the castle and break the Triforce into three pieces.

Underworld Connections

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".

The Mark of Zero

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.

The Ten Koopmandments

Our heroes come to the rescue of General George Washingtoad by helping him cross the Delawide River to defeat the Redcoat Koopa's army.

The Koopas Are Coming! The Koopas Are Coming!

When King Koopa holds the Princess captive in his impregnable island fortress, the Marios get inside by hiding in a wooden "Trojan Koopa."

The Trojan Koopa

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.

Stinging a Stinger

When Caveman Alley Koopa poisons Mario, his three friends have to find a way to make pre-historic pizza to save his life.

Quest For Pizza

The Marios discover the Mother Lode of Gold Coins, but -- Klaimjump Koopa rides in and takes over.

The Great Gold Coin Rush

The Marios, the Princess, and Toad arrive in Sock Hop Land to save the music king Elvin Parsley from Greaser Koopa.

Elvin Lives

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.

Plummers Academy

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!

Hitch in the Works

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.

Karate Koopa

Mario loses his memory in the middle of the jungle and is adopted by two apes who rename him Marzan.

Mario of the Apes

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.

Princess, I Shrunk the Mario Brothers

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.

Little Red Riding Princess

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!

Fairies in the Spring

Mario teams up with a friendly mushroom Indian named Pronto to rescue his friends from Billy The Koopa in the Wild West.

The Provolone Ranger

The Marios, the Princess, and Toad are captured by Koopa and sent to his island dungeon Koopatraz where they engineer a daring escape.

Escape From Koopatraz

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.

Mario of the Deep

The Marios return to Brooklyn to find that Koopa has taken over and renamed the City Kooplyn.

Flatbush Koopa

Ganon, attempting to capture Link with a magical zapblast, succeeds in capturing his body, but not his spirit.

The Missing Link

Indiana Mario and his friends travel to Jungleland in search of a legendary golden statuette -- "The Lost Mushroom."

Raiders of the Lost Mushroom

Our heroes arrive in Down Under Land and have to save the Outback Mushroom People from Kangaroo Koopa and an army of crocodiles.

Crocodile Mario

Our heroes are chased through space by Darth Koopa and thrown into the Intergalactic Insinkerator.

Star Koopa

Koopa forces the brilliant scientist Dr. Nerdnick to turn him into a half-robot, half-Koopa monster.

Robo Koopa

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.

The Moblins Are Revolting

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, Princess Toadstool and King Koopa more thrilling adventures as cartoon characters. And if that weren't enough, each episode also contained live-action segments featuring Mario and Luigi running their Brooklyn plumbing shop - all before they were flushed down a drainpipe into the Mushroom World.

The Fire of Hercufleas

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