Season 1 Episode Guide http://www.tv.com/captain-planet-and-the-planeteers/show/2579/episode_guide.html Pilot. A Hero for Earth Community Score - 8.7 Great First aired: 9/15/1990 Production Code: 001 ---------------------------------------------- In this first exciting episode, the nasty Hoggish Greedly and his sidekick, Rigger, use a devastating land-blaster oil rig to tap into an oil fieid under the sea bed. The distruption is enough to awaken Gaia, earth's spirit, from her long slumber. She soon learns to her horror that Greedly's merciless deeds are not uncommon in the world today, Earth is suffering terribly from all kinds of environmental damage every day. Refusing to sit back and do nothing again, Gaia calls forth five special young people from all five corners of the globe, and provides each of them with rings that control the four elments of the earth, plus the hearts of it's inhabitants. Kwame-From Africa, controls the power of Earth Wheeler-From North America, controls the power of Fire Linka-From Russia, controls the power of wind Gi-From Asia, controls the power of Water Mat-Ti-From South America, controls the power of Heart After a quick introduction to Gaia, their powers, and each other, the Planeteers race to stop Greedly's land blaster from doing further harm to the ocean, and to the wild life on shore. But the battle is not easy, and soon the planeteers find the situation is too much for them to handle alone, then Gaia instructs them to combine their powers as one. They do so, and earth's greatest champion is born..CAPTAIN PLANET! Planet immediately puts an end to Greedly's oil harvesting, but the villain and Rigger escapes to fight another day, Captain Planet tells the Planeteers that he will always be there should they need him. THE POWER IS YOURS! 2. Rain of Terror Community Score - 8.9 Great First aired: 9/22/1990 Production Code: 008 ---------------------------------------------- Verminous Skumm turns a shut down coal factory into an acid rain making station by using a special acid rain making chemical. This chemical speeds up the acid rain process. The Planeteers go to shut Skumm down, but without the help of Ma-Ti. Ma-Ti has developed a size complex, and is feeling down because he feels he is too small. When the Planeteers are trapped, Ma-Ti must find a way to get past his complex to save his friends. They use teamwork to summon Captain Planet, but Skumm still manages to get away. Writer: Perry Martin Director: Will Meugniot 3. Beast of the Temple Community Score - 9.1 Superb First aired: 9/29/1990 Production Code: 007 ---------------------------------------------- Upon looking at the destruction of rice patties in Thailand on Planet-vision, the Planeteers are prompted to race to the location to investigate. They soon discover that Hoggish Greedly and Rigger are using the country's ancient, legendary Phi Pok dragon beast to instill fear and create destruction as a cover for their strip mining operation. They're robbing temple ruins of its gems. 4. Skumm Lord Community Score - 6.6 Fair First aired: 10/6/1990 Production Code: 010 ---------------------------------------------- Venomous Skumm introduces his new formula, rat rot, into the local water system. It transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into mutant rats. Skumm's goal is to turn the earth into a planet-wide vermon carrier. His plot can only be countered by the Planeteers and Captain Planet, but not before some of them accidentally get a dose as well. 5. Deadly Ransom Community Score - 6.6 Fair First aired: 10/13/1990 Production Code: 011 ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Blight and Duke Nukem stage a phony bomb threat to lure the Planeteers into the Arctic. After they summon Captain Planet, the villains are able to trap him and hold him for ransom, with the potentially critical cost to earth for his freedom is looming in the balance..... 6. The Conqueror Community Score - 9.8 Superb First aired: 10/20/1990 Production Code: 015 ---------------------------------------------- A comet hurtles towards earth, crashing into a deep forest and creating a devastating fire. The Planeteers exstinguish the danger with the aid of Captain Planet, and then they investigate what caused such a thing. Stumbling across the asteroid, the Planeteers are shocked to discover it is in fact, a spaceship, and that it carries an occupant, Zarm. This "peaceful alien" has traveled from his home planet to provide the Planeteers with powers with which they could easily save the planet without constantly depending on Captain Planet to do it for them. Taking the form of Iron Gauntlets, these powers increase the Planeteer's original capabilities a hundred fold. But with such mighty gifts, there must always come a price, the heroes of earth soon become corrupted by this power, and Zarm, (in reality, the exiled predecessor to Gaia), takes advantage of their new-found lust for glory. He tells them to destroy a nuclear missle base, which will undoubtly lead to disaster. He also captures Captain Planet. The only people who can stop Zarm now are Mati, (the only Planeteer to refuse Zarm's offer), and Zarm's succesor Gaia, but is it too late for the Planeteers, and Captain Planet? Writer: Perry Martin Director: Will Meugniot 7. The Last of Her Kind Community Score - 7.8 Good First aired: 10/27/1990 Production Code: 002 ---------------------------------------------- The Planeteers go to Africa to defend its elephant population against Looten Plunder. They also meet a baby elephant along the way, and protect it from Plunder's poaching before he kills it and uses it's tusks to forge and distribute dozens of Ivory trinkets. 8. The Dead Seas Community Score - 9.0 Superb First aired: 11/3/1990 Production Code: 003 ---------------------------------------------- Hoggish Greedly has set up a super drift net in the sea, trapping all sea life. Gi sees this on Planet-Vision, and storms out of the crystal chamber, tripping over Kwame. He refuses to let her take Greedly alone, so they both go to stop him. Eventually, Captain Planet is needed, and this provides Greedly with the break he needs: capture the Planeteers and their rings, to prevent summoning him again. 9. Tree of Life Community Score - 8.3 Great First aired: 11/10/1990 Production Code: 012 ---------------------------------------------- Dr. Blight and her robojacks chop down the "Tree of Life" and she taps the trees extraordinary powers to become Super-Blight. With her new powers Blight will destroy the ancient redwood forests, unless Captain Planet and the Planeteers can stop her. 10. Volcano's Wrath Community Score - 8.3 Great First aired: 11/17/1990 Production Code: 009 ---------------------------------------------- Sly Sludge thinks he has the answer to the world's trash problem: dump all the garbage into a Volcano on Laipuno Island, using it as an incinerator. Knowing the natives object to this, he pulls a phony trash shrinking scam as a cover. The volcano soon erupts, and the Planeteers and Captain Planet have to rescue the Island natives. 11. Littlest Planeteer Community Score - 5.7 Mediocre First aired: 11/24/1990 Production Code: 014 ---------------------------------------------- Jason, a 9 - year old boy, desperately wants to be a hero, and nearly pays dearly to accomplish this when he takes Wheeler's ring to try to prove his heroic worth as a Planeteer. Eventually, he and the Planeteers battle and defeat Dr. Blight and her devastating Smog creature. 12. A World Below Us Community Score - 8.5 Great First aired: 1/26/1991 Production Code: 013 ---------------------------------------------- Gi is knocked unconscious while investigating ocean pollution. She is rescued by an inhabitant of a secret underwater city called Oceanus. Since Sly Sludge's illegal toxic dumping operation is polluting the surrounding waters, both the sea life and the underwater city are in danger of being destroyed. The Planeteers must race against time to find Gi, and use teamwork to save the people of this underwater paradise. 13. Plunder Dam Community Score - 8.4 Great First aired: 2/2/1991 Production Code: 020 ---------------------------------------------- Looten Plunder cons an African village into thinking his installation of a dam and hydroelectric power plant will bring a more pleasant way of life to the villagers. The villagers don't realize that he has actually cut off the water supply, devastating their crops, killing water life, and leaving land animals thirsty. The Planeteers must stop Plunder and help the villagers return to a more familiar way of living. 14. Meltdown Syndrome Community Score - 8.1 Great First aired: 2/9/1991 Production Code: 017 ---------------------------------------------- Duke Nukem infiltrates a Nuclear power plant and triggers a meltdown. The Planeteers have to cool the plant down before the Planet is covered in the most dangerous form of fallout... 15. Smog Hog Community Score - 5.7 Mediocre First aired: 2/16/1991 Production Code: 022 ---------------------------------------------- Hoggish Greedly gets his nephew a smog hog for his birthday. The locals see it, and decide they want one of their own, and Greedly suddenly sees dollar signs. He hijacks a factory, run by Dr. Goodair, the creator of a fuel-efficient automobile, so he can assemble more smog hogs to be sold. The only ones capable of stopping him in his tracks are the Planeteers. Guest star: Charlie Schlatter (Hoggish Greedly, Jr.) 16. Polluting by Computer Community Score - 7.4 Good First aired: 2/23/1991 Production Code: 004 ---------------------------------------------- Dr Blight and Sly Sludge hack into government computers and reclassify America's nature reserves as toxic waste dumps. An...
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