Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990) Season 1
Eco-villains beware: Captain Planet is here to save the day! With the guidance of Gaia, five Planeteers - representing Earth, Fire, Water, Wind and Heart - come together to defend our planet from environmental destruction. With their powers combined, the team becomes the solution to pollution!
01 The spirit of the Earth, Gaia, summons five teenagers to join her in battling ecological destruction and pollution. Their first fight is to keep Hoggish Greedly's oil rig from destroying a coastline.
9/15/1990
02 Skumm and his rat pack threaten to destroy a city with acid rain.
9/22/1990
03 Greedly and Rigger strip-mine Thailand for rubies.
9/29/1990
04 Skumm peddles a polluted drink that turns consumers into rodent zombies.
10/6/1990
05 Captain Planet is held hostage by Nukem, Blight and MAL.
10/13/1990
06 An aggressive and sneaky Earth spirit named Zarm tricks the teens into disobeying Gaia, sparking a dangerous game that threatens to lead to nuclear war.
10/20/1990
07 The Planeteers fight to save the African elephants from extinction as Looten Plunder tries to corner the market in ivory.
10/27/1990
08 Greedly and Rigger plot to empty the oceans of fish.
11/3/1990
09 Blight gains powers from the "Tree of Life" and threatens to use her new strength to destroy the redwood forest.
11/10/1990
10 Sludge solves the world's trash problem by dumping everything into a volcano, which then erupts.
11/17/1990
11 A little boy helps battle a smog monster.
11/24/1990
12 A dumping operation threatens an underwater city.
1/26/1991
13 Plunder dams an African river, leaving the locals without the food or water the waterway provided.
2/2/1991
14 Nukem's radioactive presence at a leaking nuclear power plant triggers a meltdown.
2/9/1991
15 Greedly creates a pollution-intensive car but his own son becomes a victim of the resulting smog and pollution.
2/16/1991
16 Sludge and Blight break into government computers and transform all national parks into toxic waste dumps.
2/23/1991
17 Plunder, Skumm and Greedly pollute the nation's water supply.
3/2/1991
18 A depressed Kwame leaves the Planeteers when no one seems to care that Sludge is burying a small town in garbage.
3/9/1991
19 Nukem decimates the ozone layer so he can feast on ultra-violet rays.
4/13/1991
20 Looten Plunder provokes tribal warfare so he can sell arms to both sides.
4/20/1991
21 Wheeler is stranded on an island of humanoid mice on the brink of population overload.
4/27/1991
Mission to Save Earth (1) 22 The teens cross paths with Cold Warrior Commander Clash, but their true opponent is Captain Pollution, a creation of Blight's.
5/4/1991
Mission to Save Earth (2) 23 Commander Clash joins the Planeteers to stop the eco-villains and Captain Pollution.
5/11/1991
24 A disgruntled Wheeler uses a time machine to travel to the past to stop himself from becoming a Planeteer.
5/18/1991
25 Wheeler's attempt to keep his former self from joining the Planeteers has grave consequences for the planet.
5/25/1991
26 Blight creates a mini greenhouse effect over Hope Island, threatening Gaia's life.
6/1/1991
