• Air date: 08 Sep '90 26 episodes
      The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 is an American animated television series based on the video game Super Mario Bros. 3. It aired on NBC with Captain N: The Game Master in a programming block titled Captain N & The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 from September 8, 1990 through December 1, 1990. Unlike its predecessor The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, the series has no live-action segments. DIC Entertainment produced this series while Nintendo provided the characters and power-ups.
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. Sneaky Lying Cheating Giant Ninja Koopas

      08 Sep '90
      Koopa turns Kooky, Bully, Big Mouth, and Cheatsy into gigantic ninjas to apprehend Prince Hugo of Giant Land.
    • 2. Reptiles in the Rose Garden

      15 Sep '90
      Koopa warps the White House, along with the President and the First Lady, to his castle and makes Kootie Pie Empress of America.
    • 3. Reign Storm

      22 Sep '90
      When Princess Toadstool and Toad take a vacation in Hawaii, Kooky uses a robot princess to try and take over the Mushroom Kingdom.
    • 4. Toddler Terrors of Time Travel

      29 Sep '90
      Kooky and Koopa try to go back in time to stop the Super Mario Bros. from ever going down the drain in Brooklyn, but their plan backfires, turning them all into babies.
    • 5. Mind Your Mummy Mommy, Mario

      06 Oct '90
      Hip and Hop kidnap the sarcophagus of a prince whom Mario resembles. Their actions awaken the prince's mother, who believes Mario is her son.
    • 6. The Beauty of Kootie

      13 Oct '90
      While stealing oil from the sultan of Desert Hill, Cheatsy turns Kootie Pie into a human so she can fool Mario.
    • 7. A Toadally Magical Adventure

      20 Oct '90
      Toad loses a magic wand to the Koopas.
    • 8. Misadventures in Babysitting

      27 Oct '90
      Mario and Luigi wind up babysitting a brat from Brooklyn who finds his way into the Mushroom Kingdom.
    • 9. Oh, Brother!

      03 Nov '90
      When Mario and Luigi get fed up with each other, Luigi soon finds himself having to save his brother from Koopa and Kooky.
    • 10. Misadventure of Mighty Plumber

      10 Nov '90
      Koopa brings TV hero Mighty Plumber to life and tricks him into robbing the Pipe Land Treasury.
    • 11. Princess Toadstool for President

      17 Nov '90
      When Princess Toadstool challenges Koopa to an election over leadership of the Mushroom Kingdom, Kooky uses a nice guy potion on Koopa to make all the voters like him
    • 12. Never Koop a Koopa

      24 Nov '90
      In order to show Cheatsy how to be just as rotten as he is, Koopa lures Mario and friends to his castle and threatens to blow them up using a big army of Bomb-Ombs.
    • 13. Dadzilla

      01 Dec '90
      Fed up with Koopa's ways, Kootie Pie and Big Mouth bring a Hollywood movie monster to life and convince him he's their real dad.
    • 14. Tag Team Trouble

      20 Oct '90
      Mario and Luigi enter a wrestling match so they can give the prize money to Toad to make up for a donation to the Mushroom Orphanage he believes he lost.
    • 15. Do the Koopa

      27 Oct '90
      Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool seek the Doom Dancer Music Box in Koopa's Castle, but when the Koopas find out, they go after it themselves.
    • 16. Kootie Pie Rocks

      27 Oct '90
      Koopa kidnaps Milli Vanilli and forces them to perform exclusively for Kootie Pie.
    • 17. Crimes R Us

      03 Nov '90
      Koopa recruits a criminal from the Real World to teach the Koopalings how to commit crimes.
    • 18. Life's Ruff

      03 Nov '90
      Hip and Hop turn Luigi and the King of Ice Land into dogs and run off to cause mayhem in Florida.
    • 19. Up, Up, and a Koopa

      10 Nov '90
      Kooky uses his new "Raiser Upper" machine to levitate everything in the Mushroom Kingdom to the sky.
    • 20. 7 Continents for 7 Koopas

      10 Nov '90
      After trapping the Super Mario Bros. and Toad in the Mushroom World, Koopa orders his kids each to take over one of Earth's seven continents.
    • 21. Mush-Rumors

      17 Nov '90
      When a Real World family drives into the Mushroom Kingdom, the Mushroom People and the Koopas mistake them for aliens.
    • 22. The Ugly Mermaid

      17 Nov '90
      While wearing a Frog Suit, Mario almost drowns, but he is saved by Holly Mackerel, a mermaid princess. Holly falls in love with Mario and tries to marry him.
    • 23. True Colors

      24 Nov '90
      Kooky and Cheatsy use a special paint to turn all the Mushroom People either red or blue and trick the two colors into hating each other.
    • 24. Recycled Koopa

      24 Nov '90
      When the Koopalings are forced to dispose of their garbage, they have it dropped on the Mushroom Kingdom and later Brooklyn.
    • 25. The Venice Menace

      01 Dec '90
      Koopa gets another present for Kootie Pie - this time he plans to use his Doom Sub to chase everyone out of Venice, Italy then warp the entire city to Dark Land so Kootie Pie can have her own water park. The Mario Bros. are approached in Desert Land by an Italian gondolier and since Mario has a passion for the country of Italy, they couldn't resist. Armed with Frog Suits, can they stop Koopa in time?