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Captain Planet and the Planeteers

1990TV-Y76 seasons6.9 / 10

Eco-villains beware: Captain Planet is here to save the day! With the guidance of Gaia, five Planeteers - representing Earth, Fire, Water, Wind and Heart - come together to defend our planet from environmental destruction. With their powers combined, the team becomes the solution to pollution!

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Synopsis

Eco-villains beware: Captain Planet is here to save the day! With the guidance of Gaia, five Planeteers - representing Earth, Fire, Water, Wind and Heart - come together to defend our planet from environmental destruction. With their powers combined, the team becomes the solution to pollution!

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Episode 1

An Eye for an Eye

25m

Hoggish has set up a new commercial fishing business in the amazon, but when discovers that a group of local river Dolphins are literatly eating into his fishing profits, he schemes to eliminate the problem. Upon being breifed by Gaia, the Planeteers quickly race to make sure the amazon rivers are not made ""Dolphin-Safe"" simply for the sake of progress..

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Written by Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren BrightGuest stars Ed Asner, John Ratzenberger, Tonyo Meléndez, Marcelo Tubert, Frank Welker

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Episode 2

Whoo Gives a Hoot?

25m

Responding to a court order, the Planeteers have only days to collect evidence which proves that Looten Plunder is illegally clearcutting one of our last old growth forests.

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Written by Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren BrightGuest stars Richard Gautier, Perry King, Ed Gilbert, Frank Welker, Vernee Watson

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Episode 3

Frog Day Afternoon

25m

Frogs around the globe are disappearing at an alarming rate! It appears that the scar on Dr. Blight's face is spreading, and she thinks that a concoction of amphibian DNA will regenerate her skin and restore her girlish glamour. Anybody for a froggy frappe?!?

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Written by Nick Boxer, Laren Bright, Sean Catherine Derek, Laura SchrockGuest stars Mary Kay Bergman, Tim Curry, Frank Welker

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Episode 4

Five Ring Panda-monium

25m

The Planeteers join the circus while trying to rescue some stolen pandas.

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Written by Nick Boxer, Michael I. Wagner, Michael I. Wagner, Reed RobbinsGuest stars Paul Williams, Charlie Adler, Robert Ito, Page Leong, Mitzi McCall, Frank Welker

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Episode 5

A Good Bomb Is Hard to Find

25m

Using her latest time travel device, Dr. Blight returns from 20 years in the future back to the present to warn HERSELF that the world has become... peaceloving! In a last ditch attempt to restart the Cold War, the two Blights hijack a load of plutonium from dismantled warheads and escape back into the past to sell nuclear bombs to the highest bidder.

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Written by Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren BrightGuest stars Margot Kidder, Mary Kay Bergman, Dionne Quan, Richard Doyle, Matt Frewer, Tim Curry, Paul Eiding

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Episode 6

Dirty Politics

25m

It's twenty years in the future, and the Eco-villains are older, but certainly none the wiser. What's worse, they're all running for president, and they've kidnapped the future Planeteers so nothing can be done about it! Will anyone be able to stop the Eco-villains from turning the White House into the Blight House?!?

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Written by Nick Boxer, Laren Bright, Sean Catherine Derek, Laura SchrockGuest stars Richard Gautier, Ed Asner, John Ratzenberger, Mary Kay Bergman, Ed Gilbert, Melissa Manchester, Tim Curry, Frank Welker

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Episode 7

Old Ma River

25m

While visiting India to do research on pollution in the sacred Ganges River, the Planeteers and thousands of others come down with a mysterious illness. Only Wheeler, who has been off exploring the city on his own, is not sick. However, when he starts receiving mystical visions from the Hindu gods, Hanuman and Ganesha, his newfound friend Lita wonders how well he really is.

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Written by Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren BrightGuest stars Paula Tiso, Rob Paulsen, Larry Moss, Peter Renaday, Frank Welker

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Episode 8

One of the Gang

25m

When Captain Planet & the Planeteers save a ship from a storm, Senor Cisnernos offers the Planeteers a free vacation at his South American hotel. One of the employees mistakes Ma-Ti as a local riff-raff. But Ma-Ti decides to take a walk away from the good life. When a gang destroys a local restaurant, Captain Planet arrives & puts out the fire riding a surfboard!

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Written by Nick Boxer, Bill Matheny, Sean Catherine Derek, Dan Gottlieb, Laren BrightGuest stars Fernando Escandon, John Mariano, Frank Welker, Ada Maris, Tonyo Meléndez, Chick Vennera, Josh Wiener

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Episode 9

Twelve Angry Animals

25m

The Planeteers are climbing Mount Everest in the Himalayas when they follow a snow leopard and fall into a cavern where they encounter a Yetti among 12 extinct or endangered animals, all of whom can speak, and begin to judge not only the Planeteers, but the entire human race. They go back from the Ice Age and various other time periods where the animals were either hunted or had their habitats destroyed by humans resulting in their extinction or becoming endangered. This episode is used to educate both of the past, present, and future for the viewers it explains how we can have everything one day and lose everything later.

Episode credits

Written by Nick Boxer, Laren Bright, Sean Catherine Derek, Rich Fogel, Mark SeidenbergGuest stars Tony Jay, Charlie Adler, Dorian Harewood, Nancy Linari, Jim Cummings, Frank Welker, Brock Peters

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Episode 10

Never the Twain Shall Meet

25m

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 Ma-ti doesn't want a guided tour. He has delusions of experiencing the Mississippi like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer did in the old days.

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Written by Nick Boxer, Laren Bright, Sean Catherine Derek, Dan GottliebGuest stars Earl Holliman, Greg Eagles, Bibi Osterwald, Frank Welker, Iona Morris

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Episode 11

Delta Gone

25m

Traveling through the lush, African Okavanga Delta on a documentary film-making expedition, the Planeteers come across a makeshift dam, and pipelines which are diverting the life-giving water away from the delta, leaving it a parched desert. In their ultralight planes, the Planeteers and their friend Rick search for the culprits. But when they are shot down by the Eco-villains, it could mean the end of the line for our heroes!

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Written by Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Dan Gottlieb, Laren BrightGuest stars Richard Gautier, Ed Asner, John Ratzenberger, Ed Gilbert, Frank Welker, Robert Foxworth, Dorian Harewood

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Episode 12

Greed Is the Word

25m

Engines are revving up for a giant speedboat race through the Florida waterways. Unfortunately, the race threatens the endangered manatees who live in these backwaters. As usual, the Planeteers try putting to stop the eco-catastrophe. Only, this time they get some unlikely help from Wheeler's favorite TV stars, Danny Dazzleduff and Belinda Bubblebutt from Babe Watch, when they discover that Hoggish Greedly is behind a plan to get rid of the manatees.

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Written by Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Dan Gottlieb, Laren BrightGuest stars Margot Kidder, Ed Asner, John Ratzenberger, Fred Schneider, Jeff Bennett, Richard Gautier, Frank Welker

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Episode 13

101 Mutations

25mfinale

The Planeteers discover Dr. Blight has been experimenting with puppies at a dog pound she's secretly running. Unsuspecting people, including Wheeler's young cousin are adopting unhealthy dogs and it's up to Captain Planet and the Planeteers to put a stop to Blight.

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Written by Nick Boxer, Sean Catherine Derek, Laren BrightGuest stars Mary Kay Bergman, Tim Curry, Frank Welker, Mariann Aalda, David Ackroyd, Darleen Carr, Nick Chinlund, Justin Shenkarow

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

More about Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Cast

Joey DedioWheeler (voice)
LeVar BurtonKwame (voice)
Kath SoucieLinka (voice)
Scott MenvilleMa-Ti (voice)
Janice KawayeGi (voice)
David CoburnCaptain Planet (voice)
Whoopi GoldbergGaia (voice)
Charlie Schlatter

Credits

Created by
Ted Turner
Written by
Sean Catherine Derek, Laren Bright, Doug Molitor, Ben Hurst, Pat Allee, Phil Harnage, Reed Robbins, Ted Pedersen, Steve Hayes, Laura Schrock, Nick Boxer, Martha Moran, J. Larry Carroll, Rich Fogel, Perry Martin, Mark Seidenberg, David Bennett Carren, Lane Raichert, Richard Mueller, Steven Weiss, Paul Dell, Michael Maurer, Sandra Ryan, Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley, Dan DiStefano, David Ehrman, Doug Booth, Rowby Goren

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
113
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • TBSUnited States
  • SyndicationUnited States
  • Turner Program ServicesUnited States
  • DiC EntertainmentUnited States
  • Hanna-Barbera CartoonsUnited States
  • TBS ProductionsUnited States

Themes

superhero