7.5/10554 votes#1 - Dia de Los Dangerous!
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/7/2004
When the Venture Family visits Tijuana for a lecture Dr. Venture is giving at the (community) University of Mexico, the dastardly Monarch weaves a cocoon of villainy that leaves the Venture brothers trapped in his clutches.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.3/10509 votes#2 - Careers in Science
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 8/14/2004
The Venture family must travel to space to repair an orbiting space station that Dr. Venture's father built in the 1970s, but a mysterious space phantom could be haunting the station!
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
7.7/10456 votes#3 - Home Insecurity
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/21/2004
To protect the Venture compound while Brock is on his yearly mountain survival sabbatical, Dr. Venture builds a panic room and a robotic bodyguard, which are soon put to the test.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.5/10440 votes#4 - The Incredible Mr. Brisby
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/28/2004
Dr. Venture is offered a job by theme park owner and cartoon magnate Roy Brisby, who won't take no for an answer in his quest for worldwide entertainment dominance.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.8/10437 votes#5 - Eeney, Meeney, Miney… Magic!
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 9/4/2004
Dr. Venture's new experiment has the entire family interested--not to mention trapped inside! The Ventures' strange new neighbor, master of mysticism Dr. Orpheus, may be the only one who can help them escape.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.4/10468 votes#6 - Ghosts of the Sargasso
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 9/11/2004
On a scientific expedition in the Bermuda Triangle, Doc's experimental equipment awakens and possibly enrages the submerged ghost of Major Tom, a test pilot who crashed in an experimental aircraft designed by Doc's father.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer
8.0/10412 votes#7 - Ice Station Impossible!
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 9/18/2004
Dr. Venture, Pete White and Master Billy Quizboy are invited to take part in a top secret government think tank run by supergenius Professor Impossible.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
7.6/10407 votes#8 - Mid-Life Chrysalis
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/25/2004
The Monarch sends Dr. Girlfriend undercover to seduce Dr. Venture in order to inject him with a body-altering serum.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer
8.0/10409 votes#9 - Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/2/2004
The Monarch finally has the Venture family right where he wants them hanging upside down above the Amazon river! But his victory is postponed when Dean suffers a strange but fairly common injury, acute testicular tortion.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.2/10431 votes#10 - Tag-Sale – You're It!
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 10/9/2004
Always short on cash, Dr. Venture decides to unload some of his father's old scientific equipment in a huge yard sale that attracts fellow scientists and super-villains alike.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.1/10395 votes#11 - Past Tense
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 10/16/2004
When Brock and Dr. Venture are kidnapped from the funeral of a college friend, the boys enlist the aid of the original Team Venture: a group of superscience adventurers who worked for their grandfather in the sixties.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch
8.0/10398 votes#12 - The Trial of the Monarch
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/23/2004
The Monarch is on trial for the one crime he may not have committed, under mysterious circumstances stemming from his bitter breakup with Dr. Girlfriend.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Doc Hammer
8.3/10396 votes#13 - Return to Spider-Skull Island
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 10/30/2004
Dr. Venture finally learns the secret of his recurring womb nightmares when a stomach tumor turns out to be something far more sinister. In a fit of jealousy over their mistaken belief their father is pregnant, the boys run away from home.
Director: Christopher McCulloch
Writer: Christopher McCulloch, Doc Hammer
The Best Episodes of The Venture Bros. Season 1
Every episode of The Venture Bros. Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Venture Bros. Season 1!
Hank and Dean Venture, with their father Doctor Venture and faithful bodyguard Brock Samson, go on wild adventures facing megalomaniacs, zombies, and suspicious ninjas, all...
Genres:AnimationComedyAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Adult Swim
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Dia de Los Dangerous!" is the best rated episode of "The Venture Bros." season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 554 votes. Directed by Christopher McCulloch and written by Christopher McCulloch, it aired on 8/7/2004. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Careers in Science".