• Air date: 10 Sep '94 13 episodes
      Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an American animated environmentalist television program created by Ted Turner, Robert Larkin III, and Barbara Pyle, produced by Pyle, Nicholas Boxer, Andy Heyward and Robby London, and developed by Pyle, Boxer, Heyward, London, Thom Beers, Bob Forward, Phil Harnage and Cassandra Schafhausen. The series was produced by Turner Program Services and DIC Entertainment and it was broadcast on TBS from September 15, 1990 to December 5, 1992. A sequel series, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, was produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Program Services, and was broadcast from September 11, 1993 to May 11, 1996. Both series continue today in syndication. The program is a form of edutainment and advocates environmentalism. In February 2009, Mother Nature Network began airing episodes and unreleased footage of Captain Planet and the Planeteers on its website. In September 2010, the Planeteer Movement was launched with the assistance of Pyle as a means for fans of the...
  • List of Episodes (13)
    • 1. Twilight Ozone

      10 Sep '94
      While studying the effects of ozone depletion, the Planeteers encounter scientists in the Australian Outback who are experimenting on new life forms that thrive on deadly levels of UV radiation. And when their prize specimen, Duke Nukem, goes on a radioactive rampage, the Planeteers are forced to give him the slip, slap, slop!
    • 2. Hollywaste

      17 Sep '94
      The Planeteers go to Hollywood to appear in a environmental thriller, and find out that big-budgets can lead to big waste. With the Planeteers trying to clean up Hollywood's act, a series of strange accidents occur... and the #1 suspect is none other than movie star Bambi Blight, Dr. Blight's younger sister!
    • 3. The Ghost of Porkaloin Past

      24 Sep '94
      When Hoggish Greedly inherits his grandpappy Don Porkaloin's estate, he builds a water wasting golf resort in the desert. The Planeteers join forces with Porkaloin's faithful old groundskeeper to try and pull the plug on the big pig but soon find themselves in over their heads.
    • 4. Disoriented Express

      01 Oct '94
      Dr. Blight kidnaps the wealthy benefactor of a new smog reducing railway system, and threatens to sabotage the entire project. Can Captain Planet and the Planeteers save the project's leader and go be in time to stop the train system from being derailed ?
    • 5. Horns a'Plenty

      05 Nov '94
      The Planeteers face off against Lottin Plunder and Mama Slaughter , who have joned forces with a group of poachers determined to pick off the horns of endangered Rhynos
    • 6. A River Ran Through It

      12 Nov '94
      Hoggish Greedly and Rigger use some slippery sabotage tricks to ignite a war between two opposing sides of loggers and salmon fishermen, can the Planeteers make the two sides see eye to eye?
    • 7. No Place Like Home

      19 Nov '94
      Dr. Blight abducts Gaia and transforms her into a homeless person, the Planeteers and the now powerless Captain Planet must locate Gaia and return her to Hope Island by sunrise or the Earth will lose it's spirit
    • 8. Little Crop of Horrors

      26 Nov '94
      A vine designed by nature to control the rate of erosion is altered by Dr. Blight, using a stolen growth enhancement ray which she "apprpriated" from a research lab. Blight then introduces the mutated vine into a new eco-system, where it transforms into a giant, ravenous plant, hungry, it sets it's sights on a nearby villiage. Can the Planeteers cut this plant down to size?
    • 9. In Zarm's Way

      04 Feb '95
      Zarm returns yet again, this time to test how "good" humans are, he tells Gi that, in order to save two children whose lives are at stake, she must somehow convince him of the goodness in human beings. Pushing his experiment up a notch, Zarm uses the power of hatred emitting from the parents of the children to transform the once; innocent kids into REAL "Little Terrors"
    • 10. No Small Problem

      11 Feb '95
      The Planeteers threaten to expose Sly Sludge's latest operation: To captilise on a recent landfill crisis and promote and distribute his new Garbage reducer, a device which can shrink garbage! Determined to prevent the eco-warriors from spoiling his plans, Sly shrinks them down with the reducer. Casting them off into a virtual "sea" of refuge, sly now beleives that the Planeteers are now too SMALL a problem to deal with his BIG ambitions. [Bad Joke there] But the Planeteers are reseliant, even i
    • 11. Numbers Game

      18 Feb '95
      It's Wheelers Birthday, and a trip to Coney Island is delayed due to a eco emergency, so instead they go to an Eco Park. Wheeler, who is tired, falls asleep on a tunnel of love trip with Linka, and dreams he is a father with 6 kids, and one on the way, and Hope Island is destroyed by over comsuption, and the planeteers and Captain Planet don't care anymore. Wheeler wakes up, and discovers it was only a dream, or was it?
    • 12. Nothing's Sacred

      25 Feb '95
      Ma-Ti must rely on the spirits of his native american anecestors in order to find Venomous Skumm, who has stolen a sacred relic
    • 13. Who's Running the Show?

      13 May '95
      The planateers are watching a comedy show that teaches people how to take better care of the earth, something which angers the eco-villians immensely. They head down to the studios and take over the show, turning it into something that caters more to what they do best: laying waste to Earth! Can Captain Planet pull the plug on this bogus broadcast?