• Air date: 17 Sep '01 26 episodes
      The Zack Files is a science fiction television program that revolves around a young boy, played by Robert Clark, who is a magnet for paranormal activity and attends Horace White High School for Boys along with his three friends Cam, Gwen, and Spencer. Zack manages to get himself into trouble with his paranormal adventures and it is up to his friends to help him set things straight. The series is based on a series of books with the same name, written by Dan Greenburg. In August 2004, Goldhill Home Media released the first season on DVD.
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. Blast from the Past

      17 Sep '01
      Zack wanted to stay and work on his project with Spencer and Cam, so he tried to trick Floyd, by turning the clock handles back to a certain time but they were transported into the past where they meet a boy. When they returned to their own time, the boy from the past came with them. So now, Zack, Spencer, and Cam has to return the kid back to his time before it's too late.
    • 2. Searching for Zack Greenburg

      24 Sep '01
      Zack has a record of the lowest mark at Horace Hyde White, producing an F-minus on a physics quiz, so when Spencer downloaded an internet physics tutorial to help Zack's intelligence, Zack's headphones were plugged into the modem, making Zack a genius. Spencer's goal was to win the Physics competition, but when Zack came in, he was even better than Spence at Science. This almost led to a break up of friendship.
    • 3. The Terrible Truth

      01 Oct '01
      When Zack, Cam, and Spence join to figure out more digits after the decimal for pi, they surf the net to check out information about a new rock star. But when Ms. Arlington arrives, and checks what they were doing, Zack lost himself in the bracelet on Arlington's wrist. Then he could not lie and told everything what the boys were doing, and telling the truth to everyone. Cam and Spence must get him back to normal before blabbers out information that would get them into more trouble.
    • 4. Groovin'

      08 Oct '01
      Gwendolyn is hosting a party and she needs a DJ, so Vernon and Zack tries out. While Zack was trying to practise on his (terrible) DJ skills, he spun a record backwards, and hears something, a message. Spencer was there to stop him, but he did not stop the transfer of DNA to Zack that made him a ""Cool Dude"" Beatnik from the 1960's. During the tryouts, the people did miserably. But when Zack came on the scene, he made a dazzling performance and impressed Gwen, so she let him become the DJ.
    • 5. What's Eating Zack Greenburg?

      15 Oct '01
      When Zack and his friends go on a camping trip, Zack's father decides to join them to give them tips. Zack, trying to get away from his father wanders into the woods with Spence and Cam. But they were suddenly zapped into another world, and they must try to find a way out.
    • 6. In Your Dreams

      22 Oct '01
      When Spencer was doing an experiment on Zack for his sleeping habits for the science fair, Spence discovers that Zack can enter other people's dreams. Zack fell asleep after Vernon did, so Zack invaded Vernon's dream. The case is that Zack invade other people's dreams when both are sleeping near each other, and as a result, Zack does not sleep well. Zack enters Gwen's dream for Spencer's experiment for the Science Fair and to get tickets for the concert for Cam, Gwen thinks that Zack is ""the
    • 7. Captain Sonic

      05 Nov '01
      Zack creates a comic book about his ears, because he did not like everyone saying that he had big ears. It turns out that Zack destroys the comic and everyone thinks that it was about Zack and Sarah, so Vernon goes to repair it and humiliated Zack by presenting in front of a large audience.
    • 8. Zack Zero

      12 Nov '01
      While Zack along with his classmates, visited the museum for a school trip, Zack touched a field phone which gave him shell shock, just like a soldier who had also used a phone in World War I. Now, whenever Zack is exposed to an old object, his personality transforms into the owner of the object. Spencer and Cam must find a way to reverse the effect before Zack touches an object that did not have an owner or existed before the Holocene Period, where humans were not alive yet.
    • 9. Zack Girl

      19 Nov '01
      When Daniel Greenburg accidentally buys Girl Power deodorant for Zack while shopping, and Zack uses it, he becomes a girl! Now, Vernon is flirting with Zack, while Gwen starts plucking his eyebrows. And even worse for Zack, Cam is going on a date with Sarah. Zack decides to find out how to change back into a boy after he gets some secret information from Gwen and Sarah.
    • 10. Dead Men Do Wear Plaid

      26 Nov '01
      When Zack's soccer team, coached by Daniel Greenburg who is more interested exercise and fun than winning games, they started to lose too many games. This made Red MacDonald, who coached the Horace Hyde team in the past, angry and possesses Zack's father to coach the team, so they go back to a winning streak to get ready for the playoffs. The Scottish man, wearing a kilt, made the team practise so much until they all start to play really well. When Zack was getting in the way of Red, he
    • 11. The Frog Prince

      03 Dec '01
      One minute Cam is making fun of Zack, the next minute he is a frog! Spence and Zack must turn Cam back into a human before Vernon takes his place on the swim team.
    • 12. Things to Do at Horace Hyde When You Are Dead

      07 Jan '02
      A boy named Gilbert, has come back to finish unfinished business when he was alive. And now, Zack is the only one who can see him, so Zack is being blamed for all the pranks Gilbert is setting up. Pranks are pulled all over Zack's house and the entire school. Zack, Spencer, and Cam must find out what Gilbert wants before he gets Zack expelled, kicked out by his father, or being killed.
    • 13. Bionic Zack

      14 Jan '02
      Zack develops super-human strength to save his father's life. But instead of going back to normal after his adrenaline cools down, Zack gets stronger. So strong he's dangerous!
    • 14. Attack of the Zack-uum

      21 Jan '02
      Daniel Greenburg hates Zack making messes, and he wants Zack to take responsibility and clean up before he does anything else. When Spencer and Cam visits, Zack says he lost his dad's medallion. Cam checks the vacuum, but he turned on the vacuum, and Spencer and Zack are sucked into the Vacuum into the vacuum bag. Cam must find a way for Spencer and Zack to get out of the bag, but it is dangerous for them to just cross through the opening at the top of the bag because there might be a
    • 15. Once and Future Zack

      28 Jan '02
      Sarah ends her relationship with Zack. Zack discovers a sword in a stone, and pulls it out. Then Merlin appears, who is usually ""an old guy with the blue hat"", is now in the form of a teenager, and reveals that he was trapped in the stone and continued to grow younger instead of older. No one can see Merlin, except for Zack, and no one else could pull out the sword out of the stone except for Zack. Zack decides to ask for getting back together with Sarah, so Merlin grants him his wish if he
    • 16. Kleptomanizack

      10 Feb '02
      When Zack decided to visit the Music store to purchase a copy of a CD that would impress Sarah, but Cam was there and suggesting too many CDs. Zack was only able to buy one or two, but Cam kept on stuffing CDs into his hands, and when there was no more places to add more, Cam decided to stuff them into Zack's pockets. When Zack purchased one of the CDs and was ready to leave, the alarm went off, Zack glowed, and Cam told him about the CD that he put in his pockets. Zack was caught and the
    • 17. Zack Times Two

      17 Feb '02
      Zack started joining almost every club at Horace Hyde, and he becomes overworked when he had to attend every club and finish all his projects. When a new mirror enters the school, he discovered that another Zack had entered their dimension from the mirror. Zack Two worked on the projects for all the clubs, while Zack One did the leftovers. Zack Two began signing Zack up for even more clubs, and Spencer and Cam had to try and send Zack Two back, before Zack One had so many things on his
    • 18. Pop!

      24 Feb '02
      Zack's mother returns to Zack and his father so she could spend some time with Zack. Zack gets in the middle of arguments of who would keep Zack, because his father wanted Zack to spend time with him to watch games while eating dinner, while his mother wanted to talk to him during dinner and see what has been happening in his life. When Zack drinks an Orange Fizzy Pop, he had the ability to transport from different locations, which interested Spencer. He began some tests, and when Zack told
    • 19. Zack and White

      03 Mar '02
      During an election with Gwen, Cam and other candidates, Zack and Spencer did not know who to vote for. Spencer decided to try an experiment with Zack by putting him in a tub of water and see what Zack does during his sleep, and what kinds of interesting material is in his dreams. In his dreams, Zack visits a world where it was only black and white, and everyone was the lame, and the same. No one wanted to exaggerate anything, and Zack had done many things that were against the law, and Zack
    • 20. Little Big Zack

      10 Mar '02
      Zack's fear of growing up causes him to regress back to childhood when he discovers that he is going to have a Bar Mitzva Celebration at his church. Zack actually transformed back to when 7 years old, and he started acting like a child while Spencer try to figure out how to get the teenage Zack back. Zack's Bar Mitzva was getting nearer while Zack stayed in school and fooled around, causing trouble for Spence and Cam. Spence needed to make Zack feel more grown up and ready to accept the
    • 21. The Eyes of Gwen Killerby

      17 Mar '02
      During the robot creation contest, Zack found out he was looking at something else when he put on a special kind of glasses that Spence was going to use for his robot. Spence's challenge was to win the contest with the robot's ability to ""burp"" the alphabet, and a big contender was Gwen, who made her robot play the violin. Zack discovered that someone was sabotaging Spence's robot. Zack had to wear the ridiculous glasses all day to see if the sabotager strikes again. Spence decides to stay
    • 22. Zack Greenburg's Day Off

      24 Mar '02
      Zack falls into Mr. Munk after walking through the door, and Zack just disappeared and he finds himself inside Mr. Munk's body. He was controlling every movement of the headmaster's body. He gathers up his team, Spencer and Cam and tells them the great news. He started his fun by getting Vernon in trouble, and then, he told the students that that they could fool around during breaks between classes. He then returned to Mr. Munk's office, and continues to document fake and funny information about
    • 23. Almost Famous Almost

      31 Mar '02
      When Zack was practising playing the guitar, he was given a chance to try on Spencer's interactive gloves which gives him a feeling of playing a guitar. Then the gloves began to go crazy, and Spencer was able to release it from Zack's clutches, and they discovered that Zack became an amazing guitar player but he can only play well in his room. When Cam sent Zack's guitar-playing video, it attracts a famous music star who is looking for a member that would replace him in his band. Zack's father
    • 24. The Zack Show

      07 Apr '02
      Zack discovers that his life is a reality TV show, seen on another planet. One of the crewmembers of viewing this show visits Earth to tell Zack that he has bad ratings and Zack has to make sure that he continues to receive viewers or his planet would be wiped out. Zack must try to pick a fight with Vernon, Cam has to go on a date with Gwen, and Spencer needs to make more interesting experiments so they would be more exciting. Each one of them gradually disappeared because there was no use for
    • 25. Who Did You Say I Was?

      14 Apr '02
      As the Season Finale, Zack's records were sent out the window when he participated in a fight with Vernon, and Zack lost his entire memory. Zack's friends must retrieve the Zack Files and tell him all of the most important Zack Files to give Zack a chance to retain all his memory. Clips of previous episodes in Season One and Season Two were viewed in attempt to get Zack to become himself again, and once he saw his record files that Vernon had retrieved to announce to Zack that he was one of