• Air date: 06 Sep '99 10 episodes
      The show revolves around the lives of 8-year-old Arthur Read, an anthropomorphic aardvark, his friends and family, and their daily interactions with each other.
  • List of Episodes (10)
    • 1. D.W.'s Library Card / Arthur's Big Hit

      06 Sep '99
      A).D.W. discovers that she can get her own library card and feel the power as Arthur has, but she can not write her own name. When she does and waits a week for a book to come in, she borrows it but never reads it because she thought she might destroy it. B).Arthur, after working hard hours of building a model airplane, D.W. throws it out the window to see if it flew, and the model exploded. Arthur became extremely mad and striked D.W.
    • 2. Hide and Snake / Muffy's New Best Friend

      13 Sep '99
      A).While the kids played hide and seek, a snake showed up and Arthur brought it home. The thing that they discovered was that it was a poisonous snake and it was loose in Arthur's house. B).Francine, tired of playing with Muffy because she never played soccer hangs out with Jenna, so Muffy searches for a new friend.
    • 3. Buster's Breathless / The Fright Stuff

      20 Sep '99
      A).D.W. obtained poison ivy while playing a game, so Buster recaps his problem with asthma and how everyone was afraid of him being injured or getting themselves injured. B).The girls prank the boys and the girls invite them to Muffy's celebration for the new ""Scare Your Pants Off Club Books"". The boys were really mad and they tried to pull a prank on the girls but they did not know that Muffy and Francine was also pulling a trick.
    • 4. The Contest / Prove It

      27 Sep '99
      A) The Contest Written by Ken Scarborough Storyboard by Robert Yap Arthur and his friends enter a contest that they have to wait 5 years to find out who wins. B) Prove It Written by Joe Fallon Storyboard by Jeremy O'Neil When D.W. makes up a fake science museum, she makes up science to go with it! Can Arthur and the Brain stop her before she convinces everyone that snakes used to have feet?
    • 5. The Blizzard / The Rat Who Came to Dinner

      04 Oct '99
      A).A blizzard strikes Elwood City and all the kids have to return home but before they do, they have to hand in their report which Francine did not finish so she had to write a longer report over the snowstorm days while the adults are scrambling all over the city, losing electricity and supplies. B).Mr. Ratburn's house ceiling collapsed because of the weight from the snow on his roof, so he stays over at Arthur's house, and the surprising thing is that he began to like Mr. Ratburn.
    • 6. D.W. Tale Spins / Prunella Gets it Twice

      11 Oct '99
      A).Grandma Thora tells D.W. a myth and this gave D.W. an idea to show to Arthur that she would make a better story than the ""Veggiemorphs"" using mythologies in her own version. B).Prunella receives a Polly Locket for her birthday from her sister but she also gets one from Francine and Prunella did not like the gift so this made Francine unhappy, so Ghosts visit Prunella to tell her about how Francine worked so hard to get the doll.
    • 7. Binky Barnes, Wingman! / To Beat or Not to Beat

      18 Oct '99
      A).Binky Barnes has a favourite pastime when Bug Week comes along - Butterflies, he worked very hard to collect these bugs for his report especially a hard blue-coloured kind. B).There's a huge racket going on, on the roof of Francine's apartment but the kids realized it was Francine and now they must try to stop Francine from playing the drums and singing at the same time for the Talent Show.
    • 8. 1001 Dads / Prunella's Prediction

      25 Oct '99
      A).Arthur believes that Buster is sad because Buster could not bring his dad to the Father's Day Picnic to have a fun time because his dad is divorced so Arthur tries to help him by ""borrowing"" a father for Buster just for that day. B).Flashpants! That was all that Prunella wanted and when she gets a hint from her sister, Rubella, she was excited about getting them for her birthday, but the gift was not what she suspected.
    • 9. What is that Thing? / Buster's Best Behavior

      01 Nov '99
      A).Arthur and his friends are facing impossible tasks, and they encounter a device that could help them fix all those problems, but they do not know what it is. B).Buster and Arthur feel like that they are boring and they think they are not good at anything, so they try to imitate each others' lifestyle.
    • 10. My Music Rules / That's a Baby Show!

      08 Nov '99
      A).Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Saxophonist Joshua Redman were invited by Grandma Thora and D.W, Arthur and his friends. They battle over what kind of music is better than the rest-Classical or Jazz. B).When Arthur was about to watch Bionic Bunny, he realized that the show after Mary Moo Cow was weird and Fascinating, but all his friends think it is the babiest show of all time. What can Arthur do now?