Season 1

1990-09-15 · 25m

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.

1990-09-22 · 25m

Skumm and his rat pack threaten to destroy a city with acid rain.

1990-09-29 · 25m

Greedly and Rigger strip-mine Thailand for rubies.

1990-10-06 · 25m

Skumm peddles a polluted drink that turns consumers into rodent zombies.

1990-10-13 · 25m

Captain Planet is held hostage by Nukem, Blight and MAL.

1990-10-20 · 25m

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.

1990-10-27 · 25m

The Planeteers fight to save the African elephants from extinction as Looten Plunder tries to corner the market in ivory.

1990-11-03 · 25m

Greedly and Rigger plot to empty the oceans of fish.

1990-11-10 · 25m

Blight gains powers from the "Tree of Life" and threatens to use her new strength to destroy the redwood forest.

1990-11-17 · 25m

Sludge solves the world's trash problem by dumping everything into a volcano, which then erupts.

1990-11-24 · 25m

A little boy helps battle a smog monster.

1991-01-26 · 25m

A dumping operation threatens an underwater city.

1991-02-02 · 25m

Plunder dams an African river, leaving the locals without the food or water the waterway provided.

1991-02-09 · 25m

Nukem's radioactive presence at a leaking nuclear power plant triggers a meltdown.

1991-02-16 · 25m

Greedly creates a pollution-intensive car but his own son becomes a victim of the resulting smog and pollution.

1991-02-23 · 25m

Sludge and Blight break into government computers and transform all national parks into toxic waste dumps.

1991-03-02 · 25m

Plunder, Skumm and Greedly pollute the nation's water supply.

1991-03-09 · 25m

A depressed Kwame leaves the Planeteers when no one seems to care that Sludge is burying a small town in garbage.

1991-04-13 · 25m

Nukem decimates the ozone layer so he can feast on ultra-violet rays.

1991-04-20 · 25m

Looten Plunder provokes tribal warfare so he can sell arms to both sides.

1991-04-27 · 25m

Wheeler is stranded on an island of humanoid mice on the brink of population overload.

1991-05-04 · 25m

The teens cross paths with Cold Warrior Commander Clash, but their true opponent is Captain Pollution, a creation of Blight's.

1991-05-11 · 25m

Commander Clash joins the Planeteers to stop the eco-villains and Captain Pollution.

1991-05-18 · 25m

A disgruntled Wheeler uses a time machine to travel to the past to stop himself from becoming a Planeteer.

1991-05-25 · 25m

Wheeler's attempt to keep his former self from joining the Planeteers has grave consequences for the planet.

1991-06-01 · 25m

Blight creates a mini greenhouse effect over Hope Island, threatening Gaia's life.