A HERO FOR EARTH
Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, summons four teenagers and a young boy named Ma-Ti from five different corners of the world to help her in the battle to save the planet. For their first assignment, the Planeteers battle Hoggish Greedly, whose oil rig operation is jeopardizing the coastline.
RAIN OF TERROR
The Planeteers take on Verminous Skumm, an evil human-rat who thrives in polluted conditions, whose plan is to burn coal in an abandoned factory to create acid rain.
BEAST OF THE TEMPLE
A mysterious dragon-like creature rampages through the jungles of Thailand, destroying croplands and terrifying the people. Gi's friend Newalk tells the Planeteers that some believe it is Phi Pok, a mythological dragon-beast. Wheeler learns that it is just a machine Hoggish Greedly has invented to scare the villagers into leaving so he can steal their temple's jewels, but he is captured and must contact the others to stop the theft.
SKUMM LORD
Verminous Skumm creates a substance that, when placed in water, will mutate its drinker into a rat-resembling character who willingly serves him. The Planeteers go to stop him, but Wheeler falls into a vat of it, and Linka and Gi are splashed, so the others must hurry to recover an endangered plant Ma-Ti's friend the Shaman believes may cure them. Meanwhile, Skumm plans to place the liquid in Ma-Ti's village water supply, then the Amazon to infect the country and perhaps even the world.
DEADLY RANSOM
Mad scientist Dr. Blight and radioactivity-dependent mutant Duke Nukem deliver a fake bomb threat to the Planeteers through Blight's smart computer MAL, who arrive and are forced to call Captain Planet. He disables the machine that's supposed to make everything work, but in freeing the Planeteers from a forcefield is captured. The villains say they'll only release him if the Planeteers deliver a lifetime's supply of radioactive waste - in which case not even Captain Planet could do much for the world.
THE CONQUEROR
Zarm, an alien being, lands on Earth and gives Planeteers iron fists which greatly amplify their powers. The fists corrupt our heroes, and they nearly destroy the Earth in the process. It's up to Ma-ti and Gaia to stop Zarm's evil ploy.
LAST OF HER KIND
Wheeler plans to buy Linka an ivory necklace for her birthday, but Kwame recommends anything except that for a gift. Meanwhile, Looten Plunder is wiping out the elephant population of Africa, Kwame's native land, in order to gain a quick profit in the ivory trade. Wheeler learns firsthand the true cost of ivory trinkets, as he and the other Planeteers help return a baby elephant to its mother and battle to save the elephants from extinction.
THE DEAD SEAS
Hoggish Greedly and Rigger scheme to catch and sell all the fish in the ocean with a fleet of illegal drift net fishing boats. When Greedly steals their rings, the Planeteers are forced to use their initiative to retrieve them and save thousands of marine animals from the eco-villains' deadly nets.
TREE OF LIFE
Dr. Blight cuts down a magical tree that contains all the powers of Nature. With this power now at her disposal, even Captain Planet may not be strong enough to stop her from destroying the forest.
VOLCANO'S WRATH
Sly Sludge, who claims to have solved the world's problems of waste management by inventing a shrink ray that reduces garbage, is making big bucks by having countries ship their garbage to him for disposal. However, Sludge is secretly only dumping the garbage into a volcano on Laipuno Island. When the volcano erupts, Captain Planet and the Planeteers must save the islanders from the lava flow.
LITTLEST PLANETEER
A boy named Jason tries to help the Planeteers fight Dr. Blight's latest creation - a Smog Blob monster. But the challenge may be too much for him to handle.
A WORLD BELOW US
After Gi is rescued from Sly Sludge's mechanical octopus, she is taken to a secret underwater city known as Oceanus, which is being threatened by Sludge's illegal toxic dumping. When the dome around Oceanus begins to burst, flooding the city, Captain Planet and the Planeteers must race against time to save the people of this underwater paradise.
PLUNDER DAM
Looten Plunder dams an African river and installs a large hydroelectric power plant, cutting off water supplies to the villages. Gaia warns that only carefully engineered dams are beneficial. The villagers soon realize that Plunder's electricity is not a fair trade for the food and water that the river provided. With their crops dying and thirst-crazed elephants on the rampage, they enlist the help of the Planeteers to stop Plunder's scheme. The Planeteers then build a wisely placed dam to balance proper river flow with electrification of the village.
MELTDOWN SYNDROME
Duke Nukem enters a nuclear power plant with a radiation-leak while the manager is seeing reporters instead of repairing it. He breaks into the machinery and prepares to trigger a meltdown to give himself strength. The Planeteers arrive to stop him, but Dr. Borzon mistakes them for more reporters and locks them in a cramped room full of radiation where their rings don't work. They need Captain Planet to prevent Nukem's creating a worldwide fallout, but first must save themselves and regain their powers.
SMOG HOG
Hoggish Greedly steals a factory to mass-produce horribly polluting vehicles. But the resulting smog goes so far out of control, that eventually Greedly himself has to ask Captain Planet for help in order to save his son's life.
POLLUTING BY COMPUTER
Sly Sludge, Dr. Blight and her computer, MAL, hack into the government's computer system to falsify the Planeteers' records and clean Sly Sludge's background check as he appears to be a committed environmentalist.
DON'T DRINK THE WATER
Four of the main eco villains (and their henchmen) join forces in a plot to pollute a city's water supply so they can sell their bottled water to thirsty citizens at outrageous prices. Captain Planet and the Planeteers set out on a mission to find pure water and break up the "Pollution Syndicate".
KWAME'S CRISIS
Sly Sludge is dumping trash on an unsuspecting town, but no one cares, which causes Kwame to lose hope in humanity, and therefore his ability to summon Captain Planet. It's up to one little girl to restore Kwame's faith and save the day.
OZONE HOLE
Duke Nukem enters Antarctica with stolen factory-equipment, fridges, and ACs to cause chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) to enlarge the hole in the ozone so he will get the radioactivity he needs to survive. The Planeteers arrive to prevent Earth from suffering for good, but when Linka, Kwame, and Gi are trapped by Nukem, they have to deal with the cold weather and his radiation at the same time, so have to think fast to get out in time to save the planet.
THE ULTIMATE POLLUTION
Looten Plunder instigates a war between two desert villages so that he can sell firearms to both sides. When the Planeteers try to expose his scam, he imprisons them in a toxic trap. With bombs exploding around them, it is up to two young boys from the opposing villages to make their parents see sense, free the Planeteers and help stop the destruction.
POPULATION BOMB
The Planeteers learn that the world is very overpopulated and some countries try to slow it down. Wheeler, annoyed at the idea of anyone recommending how many children to have, goes out windsurfing despite an approaching storm. He is blown off-course and is washed up on an island with a miniature city. The inhabitants, genetically affected mice with human characteristics including overpopulation and its resulting polluted land, capture Wheeler for food. Wheeler also learns the mouse civilization is a dictatorship whose junta plans to invade and colonize Hope Island.
MISSION TO SAVE EARTH: PART 1
5 of the main eco-villains steal the Planeteers' rings and abandon them on an island inhabited by Commander Clash, a soldier with a cold war mentality. Clash appears to be their most dangerous opponent to date, until Captain Pollution, summoned by evil duplicates of the Planeteers' rings created by Dr. Blight, appears and traps them.
MISSION TO SAVE EARTH: PART 2
The Planeteers befriend Commander Clash and convince him to help them retrieve their rings and use his military skills in the battle against Captain Pollution.
TWO FUTURES: PART 1
When a burnt-out Wheeler finds himself in a life-or-death situation, he openly wishes he never became a Planeteer. Dr. Blight manipulates him into changing history to relieve himself of his duties, but Wheeler soon learns he's also changed the past, present, and future for the worse.
TWO FUTURES: PART 2
Wheeler, faced with the dystopian future which he has unwittingly brought upon Earth, decides to find the other Planeteers (who now are 35 years older) and convince them to work together to save the planet.
HEAT WAVE
Dr. Blight attempts to destroy Hope Island by turning it into a huge greenhouse surrounded by a force field. Gaia and the Planeteers are trapped inside the force field, and cannot summon Captain Planet. Will this be the end of them?
MIND POLLUTION
Visiting her cousin Boris in Washington, D.C., Linka finds out he is under the influence of a designer drug known as 'Bliss', peddled by Verminous Skumm. Boris spiked Linka's food with Bliss, turning her into an addict, and the other Planeteers must try to help her break her addiction while also trying to stop drug-fueled riots from breaking out across the city but they are too late to save Boris. This is one of the darkest Captain Planet episodes, showing not only the heavy corruption of one of the series' protagonists, but also the death of her cousin Boris.
THE GARBAGE STRIKES
To make fast cash from a trash strike, Sly Sludge steals an untested microbe from Dr. Helix, a scientist admired by Gi. The microbe was supposed to be a technological fix for the problem of overflowing landfills, but it simply absorbs trash to become a city-devouring garbage monster.
DOMES OF DOOM
It's up to the Planeteers to stop Looten Plunder after he hoodwinks the world into signing over its forests to his care, then covers them with giant domes and sells the cooled, clean air from these "air conditioners of the planet" at astronomical prices.
SEND IN THE CLONES
Kwame befriends Leela, a schoolgirl on the island of Mogahl whose parents keep having children, hoping for another son. They get their wish when Looten Plunder and Dr. Blight, looking for cheap labor, turn their cloning ray on Leela's brother Vico, who doubles in number each time he eats. Soon Vico numbers in the millions and, along with an accidentally cloned locust swarm, threaten the island's food supply.
THE PREDATOR
In the Florida Keys, Ma-Ti has a brush with what he thinks is a giant man eater, though Gi reveals that it is a harmless basking shark. But panic spreads through the resort town, which hires Argos Bleak to eradicate all the sharks in the bay. When stinging jellyfish, which the sharks used to feed on, swarm the beach, the townspeople learn that predators have an important role in the ecosystem.
THE ARK
The Planeteers find themselves whisked aboard an interstellar Noah's Ark, while trying to save endangered tigers from Hoggish Greedly and Dr. Blight's forest-destroying Monster Golf Cart in India. The alien zookeeper named Collector thinks humans are an endangered species, whose habitat is about to be destroyed.
ISLE OF SOLAR ENERGY
The Planeteers stumble across the island of Dr. Apollo, an American scientist who has perfected incredible devices for storing and transmitting solar power. They discover that the laboratory assistant is actually Leadsuit, who is helping Duke Nukem subvert solar technology to produce a radioactive weapon.
THE CORAL KILLER
Hoggish Greedly and Rigger teach Tacio, a struggling Filipino fisherman, how to go dynamite fishing, without telling him the irreversible damage it does to the fish population and to the coral reef. It is all a cover for Greedly's underwater Reef Ripper, which is harvesting the shattered coral. But Gi takes Tacio's wife, Marcaria, underwater, and then to an impoverished, wave-battered island nearby, to show what can happen when a protective reef is gone.
THE BIG CLAM-UP
The people of San Francisco are collapsing with symptoms that suggest a whole range of pollution poisoning. As the Planeteers follow clues to solve this mystery, Ma-Ti, who has been reading 1940s detective novels, keeps imagining himself as a private eye. Ma-Ti proves a poor sleuth at first, but eventually traces the source of the illness to Verminous Skumm, who is serving seafood tainted by storm drain runoff in his restaurant, The Sinking Ship. This is the episode where the Planeteers are tortured.
AN INSIDE JOB
Sly Sludge and four of the Planeteers learn first hand the terrible effects of untreated sewage when MAL and Dr. Blight shrink the EcoSub (and them) to microscopic size and put them into polluted water, which Kwame unwittingly drinks. The Planeteers must battle hideous water-borne parasites in Kwame's body so that he can recover, and restore themselves to proper size.
THE FINE PRINT
Looten Plunder and Argos Bleak exploit an agricultural worker's hidden shame - illiteracy - by putting the man in charge of spraying pesticides. He can't read the written warnings, and as a result he uses too much pesticide, creating a lethal cloud that threatens a nearby town.
OFF ROAD HOG
Pete, a dirt bike enthusiast, loves off-road racing with Hoggish Greedly and Rigger, until Ma-Ti and desert guide Joshua Stone show him how alive this "barren" desert really is, and how much damage off-road vehicles do to it. Pete and the Planeteers swoop in on hang gliders to stop Greedly's ORV race, but Captain Planet is needed to save everyone from a flash flood.
TROUBLE ON THE HALF SHELL
The Planeteers are present for the testing of JASON, a robot that observes wildlife and the environment, and transmits the data to its home base. The tests are being done on the Galapagos Islands, which is where Hoggish Greedly, Verminous Skumm and his rats have crash landed, since their ship was thrown off course from a storm. Now, they're hungry, and consider feasting on tortoise eggs to fill their appetites. The Planeteers must fly to the Galapagos to save the eggs, and remove the rats from the environment to restore the balance of its ecosystem.
STARDUST
Gi and Linka are livid when Wheeler belittles their favorite rock singer, Sky Runner, but it looks as though Wheeler may be right when they come upon a land-ravaging surface mining operation run by Hoggish Greedly, but bankrolled by none other than their idol.
THE BLUE CAR LINE
Gaia becomes suspicious when air pollution suddenly skyrockets in an Australian city with one of the best mass transit systems in the world. The Planeteers investigate and discover that Looten Plunder and Argos Bleak are behind the problem. They are making it appear that the transit line is haunted, allowing them to profit from a massive freeway system and auto-related businesses.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Linka and Ma-Ti visit a friend, Juan, in Central America. While there, Juan's parrot, El Profesor, leads them to a secluded "bird paradise" when a giant, metallic bird appears. All the birds, including El Profesor, follow it, as do Linka and Ma-Ti, who soon find themselves locked in a giant aviary, courtesy of Hoggish Greedly, who is running an exotic bird smuggling venture.
SUMMIT TO SAVE EARTH, PART ONE
At the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the Planeteers are impressed by the proposed ecology measures, until the world leaders suddenly reverse their positions - victims of Zarm's treachery, who has united Hoggish Greedly, Looten Plunder, Sly Sludge, Duke Nukem, Verminous Skumm, and Dr. Blight under his leadership. He then tricks the Planeteers into giving up their rings and zaps Gaia into human form, aging her and destroying the planet simultaneously. The Planeteers' only hope is to find Commander Clash.
SUMMIT TO SAVE EARTH, PART TWO
After discovering that it is ten years later outside Zarm's ship, the Planeteers race to find Commander Clash before Gaia ages into dust. He returns with them and fights Zarm, but is defeated and opts to return to his island. The Planeteers refuse to give up and are recaptured and taunted by Zarm. He is just about to decimate Ma-Ti when Clash reappears and saves Gaia and the Planeteers.
LOSING GAME
Kwame takes the Planeteers to Africa to meet an old friend from his tribe, Dr. Mabutu, who is experiencing trouble on his game ranch. The trouble is Dr. Blight, whose experiments turn ordinary cattle into "raging bulls", which threaten to destroy the entire region. When they go on a rampage, it is up to Captain Planet to hit the trail and corral the "bum steers".
A TWIST OF FATE
During an earthquake, a blow to Wheeler's head leaves him lost from the others and suffering from amnesia. He finds himself literally in the shoes of a homeless man, and learns that the only difference between himself and them is a simple twist of fate. Wheeler regains his memory and returns to help the other Planeteers call Captain Planet to save the girl who saved his life.
THE GREAT TREE HEIST
The Planeteers travel to the Northwest after hearing about an old growth forest which is literally disappearing into thin air. After Wheeler sets out to investigate, along with an attractive local teenage bird watcher, Linka spots a "flying saucer" but they then discover that Hoggish Greedly is the pilot. They discover Greedly's scam -"Sucking up" five-hundred-year-old trees to make pressed board furniture.
SCORCHED EARTH
The Planeteers again confront Zarm when he inhabits the body of a national dictator and implements a "Scorched Earth" policy to rid his country of interloping environmental activists eager to prevent development on the beach and forest areas. Zarm is revealed to have been behind every dictator in human history.
HATE CANAL
Verminous Skumm uses tainted cheese to infect Venetian canal rats with a deadly disease, which they then begin to spread throughout the city.
RADIANT AMAZON
Sly Sludge and Duke Nukem collaborate to dump toxic waste in the Amazon rainforest, imperiling Ma-Ti's village. Ma-Ti returns to see the Shaman and when the Planeteers arrive, they find the village in flames. Although they are able to extinguish the blaze, Ma-Ti is filled with anger. He slips away to capture the villains, but is captured himself, and it is up to the other Planeteers to save him.
FARE THEE WHALE
The Planeteers are shocked to see a mother whale killed during a whaling expedition engineered by Dr. Blight and Looten Plunder, but they are even more shocked to learn that it is legal, due to a loophole in the international laws, allowing whaling for the purpose of research. They set out to prove that Blight's research for a "whale repellent" is bogus, and are helped by a young Japanese teenager who is trying to dissuade his whaler father from working for Blight and Plunder.
UTOPIA
After being chided for watching futuristic thriller movies, Kwame suddenly finds himself and his fellow Planeteers fighting for survival in a surreal, gang-dominated world ruled by Skumm and Dr. Blight. When Dr. Blight turns the other Planeteers into punks, Kwame's only ally is Darian, leader of Utopia, the last unpolluted refuge on the planet. Just when things look hopeless and even Captain Planet can't prevail, Kwame awakens to find it was just a nightmare... or was it?
GREENHOUSE PLANET
When Dr. Blight convinces the President of the United States to let her create a fuel for a spaceship trip to Venus, the Planeteers try to change his mind by showing him the accelerated greenhouse effects from fuel's emissions. MAL however takes control of the rocket and sends Kwame, Ma-Ti and the President to crash land on Venus while an underpowered Captain Planet must save the rest of the Planeteers.
A CREEP FROM THE DEEP
The Planeteers must stop a rampaging giant squid from threatening a small fishing town after its food supply is killed off by Sly Sludge's illegal waste dumping operation.
THE DEADLY GLOW
The Planeteers are called into action to stop Duke Nukem from stealing radioactive minerals and using them for his own sinister purposes, and to save a town from being exposed to lethal amounts of radiation.
A PERFECT WORLD
Dr. Blight takes on a scientist, who is in a wheelchair, but what Dr. Blight doesn't count on is the Planeteers calling Captain Planet, who infects Blight's computer and gives MAL a computer virus.
THE DREAM MACHINE
Carlos, an Hispanic farm boy on a small island, becomes jealous of his cousin's return from the big city. He is given the power to wish for anything he wants from Zarm, who calls himself the Dream Maker. To impress a girl that he likes and to get back at his cousin, Carlos wishes for things that will gain her interest. Soon the whole town discovers the Dream Maker, and they all want something big. Blinded by greed, the townspeople fail to realize that their natural resources are being drained in a flagrantly careless and destructive manner in order to create the things they wish for. They soon learn the effects of this, but the Planeteers need Captain Planet to get rid of Zarm, and quell a near war between the townspeople and the villagers in the hills, who also want a piece of the Dream Maker.
BITTER WATERS
Sky Runner returns to ask the Planeteers for help after Looten Plunder tricks his people into selling their lands for urban development.
THE GUINEA PIGS
Dr. Blight's minions have been capturing animals for her experiments and it's up to the Planeteers to stop her.
OK AT THE GUNFIGHT CORRAL
Hoggish Greedly, Rigger, and Sly Sludge travel back in time to create the biggest trash crisis in the Earth's history, and the only one who can stop them is Captain Planet.
CANNED HUNT
Hoggish Greedly is behind a "canned" hunt, and captures Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
HOG TIDE
Gaia tells the Planeteers about Captain Planet's first adventure in the 1940s, when he and the Planeteers before them stopped Hoggish Greedly's grandfather, Don Porkaloin from building developments too close to the ocean. To prepare for a Hurricane Kira, Porkaloin's lounge singer/scientist Betty Blight (Dr. Blight's grandmother) uses her moon manipulator to bring the hurricane to his shores. When the Planeteers of that time are formed, Captain Planet is summoned to save the day.
A FORMULA FOR HATE
When a high school basketball player named Todd Andrews finds out he has HIV/AIDS, Verminous Skumm starts rumors about the disease that turn Todd's schoolmates against him, hoping to spread the disease further.
IF IT'S DOOMSDAY, THIS MUST BE BELFAST
The Planeteers go on separate missions across the world to prevent the detonation of three separate nuclear bombs in three major conflict zones between warring factions. Verminous Skumm is behind the plot of inciting hatred to get people into nuking each other. The main story sees Wheeler arrive in Northern Ireland where the conflict is between the Protestants and the Catholics. Kwame and Linka travel to South Africa where the blacks and whites are raging battles. Gi and Ma-Ti travel to Israel where tensions are high between Palestinians and Jews. The episode's portions set in Belfast have become a popular viral internet meme; its wildly inaccurate accents and depictions of the Troubles have been met with large degrees of mirth from Northern Ireland inhabitants, when originally released in the US it was viewed by the Northern Ireland government and banned from release in the third season run in Northern Ireland.
THE NIGHT OF THE WOLF
When Looten Plunder introduces the "Robo-Wolf", can the real wolves put a stop to it?
A MINE IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE PART ONE
While the Planeteers argue about their priorities concerning different ecological problems, Sly Sludge dumps waste in a salt mine. Pausing their dispute Gaia assigns the Planeteers to intervene. Shortly after another ecological disaster takes place close to Commander Clash's island. Not being able to handle both at the same time, the Planeteers decide to summon Captain Planet for managing the latter, while themselves chasing after Sludge. However they do not notice, that the island's contamination revived Captain Pollution, who instantly starts a fight against Captain Planet. To make things worse, the Planeteers fall into Sly Sludge's trap, who traps them in the mine. This episode reveals some of Ma-Ti's past and thereby some of his motives for environmentalism.
A MINE IS A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE PART TWO
Captain Planet destroys Captain Pollution for good by throwing him in a natural lava vat. In addition, Kwame, Gi, Wheeler, and Linka each reveal some of their own past.
I JUST WANT TO BE YOUR TEDDY BEAR
Hoggish Greedly is behind a mystery involving Louisiana black bears. The Planeteers call Captain Planet who puts an end to Greedly's evil plots.
MISSING LINKA
Linka's Grandmother suffers from an undiagnosed illness, causing Linka to leave the Planeteers and return to her home town. Because half the town is affected, she investigates the reason of the problem. Wheeler, unable to abandon her, secretly stays in town – and helps Linka, as soon as the situation gets dangerous to her. Meanwhile the other Planeteers worry about getting her back. The Planeteers combine their powers to call Captain Planet to save Linka's town.
THE UNBEARABLE BLIGHTNESS OF BEING
Dr. Blight succeeds in constructing a machine, which switches the minds of two affected bodies. Using this machine, she gets into the body of Gaia (as well as Gaia gets into hers), in this way gaining Gaia's powers of nature and also fooling the Planeteers. Imprisoned in Blight's body, Gaia has to find and convince the Planeteers, if she wants her own body back.
WHEELER'S ARK
The Planeteers struggle with trying to return endangered species to their habitats as they are being destroyed by the eco-villains and other polluters. They end up rescuing far more animals than returning, to Gaia's dismay.
SEA NO EVIL
Gi is invited to a dolphin research center in which provides dolphins to Hoggish Greedly, who is behind a number of dolphins getting hurt due to his use of them to collect toxic waste from a submarine.
FUTURE SHOCK
Zarm travels to a heavily polluted future timeline and rounds up the great-great-great-grandchildren of 3 eco-villains from the future to take on Captain Planet and the Planeteers. They are no match for the villains from the future. They call Captain Planet, who gets trapped in a toxic acid bubble. Gaia summons the Planeteers from an unpolluted alternate future, who call their future Captain Planet. In the end, a small action from Ma-Ti ends up securing the cleaner future, causing the polluted timeline to vanish.
I'VE LOST MY MAYAN
Transported to ancient Maya, Ma-Ti is captured and mistaken for the son of environmentally minded rebels. Special Guest Star: Hector Elizondo as Shanoub.
TALKIN' TRASH
In this story about street gangs, Wheeler gets a letter from his hometown in New York with some bad news: his father, whom Wheeler never had a close relationship with, is ill. So Wheeler heads back to his hometown, where he bumps into his old friends. Among the friends Wheeler bumps into is Trish, who now goes by the nickname of "Trash", who has turned to crime. Her boss is none other than Verminous Scum.
THE ENERGY VAMPIRE
Duke Nukem and Dr. Blight wreak havoc in Canada. Only Captain Planet can stop Nukem before he destroys the Earth. This episode parodies many classic horror films: Blight's hair makes her look like the Bride of Frankenstein, where Duke Nukem has bolts like Frankenstein's monster on his neck, Leadsuit walks around like Igor after an injury, and Duke even acts like King Kong at the end.
BOTTOM LINE GREEN
The Planeteers go undercover to investigate a series of mysterious explosions at a plant. It looks like the owner's son is behind them, but Hoggish Greedly is behind the explosions, and the Planeteers call Captain Planet, who puts an end to the mystery, and captures Greedly.
GORILLAS WILL BE MISSED
Goki, a boy from the future where gorillas are extinct, is given a virtual reality goggle by a mysterious woman that sends him into the past around the time when Looten Plunder tries to get rid of some gorillas. With Goki's help, the Planeteers call Captain Planet to stop him. At the end, Goki receives the power of Earth as a Planeteer, and the woman is revealed to be Gaia.
BUG OFF
Vermenous Skumm plans to terrorize the earth with his wicked weevils. But Captain Planet stops him.
YOU BET YOUR PLANET
This episode features a game show, You Bet Your Planet, in which the Planeteers competed against the Eco Villains. The game show is hosted on an alien planet, with aliens for the audience and the host Lexo Starvak, and a big mouth for the announcer. The prize is the fate of Captain Planet.
GOING BATS, MAN
The Planeteers investigate a movie producer named Robin Plunder (who turns out to be the nephew of Looten Plunder) when the bats are being framed for terrorizing people. Captain Planet stops Robin in his tracks and expose his bat-discrediting plot.
JAIL HOUSE FLOCK
The Planeteers are shocked when Hoggish Greedley got a permit from an Army Corp of Engineers official to build houses by wetlands. When they tried to stop them, Greedley has them and Captain Planet arrested and thrown in jail. Greedley tricks the hick Sheriff that the Planeteers escaped from jail. So the Planeteers get some evidence to expose Greedley and free Captain Planet from jail.
HIGH STEAKS
Looten Plunder is behind a plan to ruin an environmental sustainable ranching operation. The Planeteers call Captain Planet, who defeats Plunder and Plunder is hauled off to jail-again.
PLANETEERS UNDER GLASS
A scientist constructed a simulation of a condensed version of Earth, featuring different biodomes. It was an experiment to demonstrate the consequences of pollution and how it will destroy the world, simulating a few centuries in ninety minutes. The Planeteers are visiting the land with the scientist and plan to leave after 30 minutes, but Dr. Blight locks them in. The Planeteers cannot use their rings individually because the simulated world has an effect on them, but they can combine them to summon Captain Planet. However Captain Planet cannot survive long in the world due to the intense pollution. The Planeteers and the scientist must find a way out, before it is too late.
ORANGU-TANGLE
The Slaughters, a poaching mother/son team, abduct and sell baby orangutans, who need their mother to survive. When the police can't stop the Slaughters, the Planeteers call Captain Planet to stop the Slaughters.
NO HORSING AROUND
Hoggish Greedly is behind an attempt to get rid of the horses as well as Ma-Ti and his native American friend, but is stopped by Captain Planet.
TEERS IN THE 'HOOD
This episode dealt with gang violence, guns, and the peace messages of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, and Mahatma Gandhi, as well as their assassinations. An old friend of Gi's, a teacher, is caught up in a gang war and nearly killed, so the Planeteers infiltrate the two feuding gangs and try to put a stop to the cycle of violence, which may prove easier said than done.
TWILIGHT OZONE
This exciting fifth series opener starts with a mystery. Animals are going blind. The Planeteers discover Duke Nukem is behind the blindness. They call Captain Planet. Planet gets a pipe and takes Nukem off. The sun gets hotter, and Nukem gives Planet a double dose of radiation, and the 2 fall to the ground. Nukem zaps a ray out of his hand at Captain Planet, who gets weak. He returns the Planeteers powers. Later, the Planeteers call Captain Planet again, and Planet reveals that he never gets burned twice. Planet captures Duke Nukem, and returns the Planeteers' powers.
HOLLYWASTE
The Planeteers meet Dr. Blight's do-goody sister Bambi Blight who will be starring in an environmentally friendly movie. Unfortunately, Dr. Blight plans to ruin it. She binds and gags her sister and takes her place. However Bambi is able to escape and stop her sister's plan to destroy Captain Planet.
THE GHOST OF PORKALOIN PAST
Hoggish Greedly inherits his grandfather's estate. But when he gets a hotel, he uses the cover as a legal operation but is stopped by Captain Planet. The groundskeeper Boaris is revealed to be Greedly's grandfather in disguise.
DISORIENTED EXPRESS
Dr. Blight kidnaps wealthy philanthropist Ella Salvador with the intention of preventing the implementation of a new smog reducing railway system in overcrowded Latin American cities. Only Captain Planet can stop Dr. Blight.
HORNS A' PLENTY
The Planeteers split up to stop 2 plots involving rhinoceros horns: Looten Plunder and Argos Bleak distributing them and the Slaughter Family poaching rhinos for their horns. Upon learning that they have the same goal in rhino horns, Looten and Argos bust out Mame and Stalker to set up a trap for the Planeteers.
A RIVER RAN THROUGH IT
Hoggish Greedly starts a war between workers in a town. The Planeteers call Captain Planet, who puts an end to the feud when he captures Greedly.
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Dr. Blight makes Gaia mortal and leaves Captain Planet and the Planeteers powerless.
LITTLE CROP OF HORRORS
A vine designed by nature to control the rate of erosion is altered by Dr. Blight using a stolen growth enhancement ray which she stole from Dr. Georgina Carbor. When the vine mutates into a plant monster when placed in Dr. Blight's eco-system, it's up to Captain Planet to stop it.
IN ZARM'S WAY
Zarm makes a bet with Gi after she claims that children are not born with hate, placing two neighboring children in a computer simulation where they can shape the world via thought, along with the shrunken Planeteers, threatening to expose the children to a traffic accident if Gi loses. Zarm allows the kids' feuding parents to influence them, causing the children to turn on each other, but the Planeteers and Captain Planet show them the error of their ways. Last appearance of Zarm.
NO SMALL PROBLEM
Sly Sludge shrinks the Planeteers and sends them to a dump. There, they build a plane, but the shrinking ray is wearing off, and the Planeteers call Captain Planet, who saves the Planeteers, and closes down Sludge's operations. Last appearances of Sly Sludge and Ooze.
NUMBERS GAME
It's Wheeler's birthday, and a trip to Coney Island is delayed due to an eco emergency. So instead they go to an Eco Park. Wheeler, who is tired, falls asleep in the tunnel of love trip with Linka. He dreams that he is a father with 8 kids and one on the way. Hope Island is destroyed by over consumption, but the other Planeteers and Captain Planet don't care anymore.
NOTHING'S SACRED
Vermanous Skumm steals an artifact from a museum, but is returned by Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
WHO'S RUNNING THE SHOW?
Doctor Blight, Duke Nukem, Verminous Skumm, and Hoggish Greedly hijack a national television network and fill it with their own pro-pollution propaganda, the Planeteers arrive to cut their transmission and schemes short, but things escalate when Duke Nukem insists on dropping a nuclear missile for the cameras. Last appearance of Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem.
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
Hoggish Greedly is behind a scheme to wipe out all the river dolphins in existence, but the Planeteers call Captain Planet, who stops Greedly.
WHOO GIVES A HOOT?
The Planeteers have three days to prove that Looten Plunder is cutting down old growth forests. Wheeler falls into the river, and the Planeteers call Captain Planet, who rescues Wheeler. Later, our heroes lose the battle as Looten Plunder and the Pinshead Brothers cuts down more growth forest. This is a rare episode in which the Planeteers lose, and the eco-villain comes out on top. Plunder walks away to destroy more trees. Special Guest Star: Perry King as Ray.
FROG DAY AFTERNOON
Dr. Blight steals frogs from their habitat, but are returned with encouragement from Captain Planet, who ties Blight up.
FIVE RING PANDA-MONIUM
The Planeteers join the circus to rescue some abused animals after they were abducted by the Slaughters. Special Guest Star: Paul Williams as Kujo.
A GOOD BOMB IS HARD TO FIND
The Planeteers attempt to prevent past and future versions of Doctor Blight from selling a nuclear bomb to a German dictator strongly implied to be Adolf Hitler. This episode implies Doctor Blight is ultimately responsible for the Hiroshima bombings as the result of a paradox.
TWELVE ANGRY ANIMALS
The Planeteers are trapped in a terrible blizzard while journeying up Mount Everest. They are led by a wisecracking snow leopard named 'Heather' into an ice cavern where they think they will be safe. But, as it turns out, the cavern is actually a courtroom, and the Planeteers (as well as the rest of humanity) are judged for committed crimes against their fellow species. The Planeteers are all taken back to the times when the species were either hunted or had their homes devastated, resulting in endangerment or worse, extinction.
DIRTY POLITICS
In the future, Dr. Blight's daughter, Betsi Blight, comes to the past to help the Planeteers stop Dr. Blight from winning the US Presidency.
ONE OF THE GANG
After saving a rich man's life in a boat storm, Señor Cisneros treats the Planeteers to a stay at his luxurious hotel. When a hotel police mistakes Ma-Ti as a local riffraff, Ma-Ti decides to clear his head & visit the poor community. He meets up with a boy who can't read & is threatened by a gang who burns his parent's store.
OLD MA RIVER
The Planeteers travel to India. All of them get sick except for Wheeler, who decides to investigate the sickness in the city with the help of an Indian woman named Lita.
DELTA GONE
Looten Plunder and Hoggish Greedly try to destroy the African wetlands with their mining and cattle business, but are stopped by Captain Planet and the Planeteers. last appearance of Looten Plunder.
NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET
The Planeteers head South to meet their pal Milton who plans to show them all he's doing to preserve the endangered Mississippi River. But Wheeler and Ma-ti don't want a guided tour; they have delusions of experiencing the Mississippi like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer did in the old days. Special Guest Star: Earl Holliman as Milton.
GREED IS THE WORD
Hoggish Greedly is behind a scheme to get rid of the manatees, but the Planeteers call Captain Planet, who defeats Greedly and saves the manatees.
101 MUTATIONS
Dr. Blight is running a puppy mill selling sick animals.