Season 1 The Indigo League

 

Season 1, Episode 1: Pokémon, I Choose You!

Original Air Date—8 September 1998Ash starts his Pokémon journey off to a rough start when he receives his first Pokémon, the reluctant Pikachu.

                                                                                                                                                                  

Season 1, Episode 2: Pokémon Emergency!

Original Air Date—9 September 1998Ash and Pikachu make it to Viridian City. As Pikachu rests in the Pokemon Center, after being attacked by Spearow, the Center gets attacked by Pokemon thieves calling themselves, Team Rocket.

Season 1, Episode 3: Ash Catches a Pokémon

Original Air Date—9 September 1998Ash catches his very first Pokemon, a Caterpie. However, Misty has a problem with bug Pokemon and rejects Caterpie's presents.

Season 1, Episode 4: Challenge of the Samurai

Original Air Date—11 September 1998While still traveling through the Viridian Forest, Ash and Misty find a Pokemon trainer named Samurai, who has been challenging all of the trainers from Pallet Town.

Season 1, Episode 5: Showdown in Pewter City

Original Air Date—14 September 1998Ash challenges Brock, the Pewter City gym leader.

Season 1, Episode 6: Clefairy and the Moon Stone

Original Air Date—15 September 1998With Brock as their new traveling companion, Ash, Misty, and Pikachu head for Mount Moon, where they discover a group of Clefairy and the legendary Moon Stone.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Water Flowers of Cerulean City

Original Air Date—16 September 1998The gang head for Cerulean City. But Misty mysteriously disapproves. When they arrive, they find out that the gym is run by Misty's sisters.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Path to the Pokémon League

Original Air Date—17 September 1998With two badges, Ash begins to get cocky. He challenges A.J., a trainer that no one has been able to beat, because of his Sandshrew.

Season 1, Episode 9: The School of Hard Knocks

Original Air Date—18 September 1998The gang come across a Pokemon school, where the kids learn how to become trainers and get into the Pokemon League without badges.

Season 1, Episode 10: Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village

Original Air Date—21 September 1998While lost in the woods on their way to Vermillion City, Ash and friends come across a little village where wounded Pokemon come to heal. The village is guarded by a courageous Bulbasaur.

Season 1, Episode 11: Charmander: The Stray Pokémon

Original Air Date—22 September 1998Ash and friends find a lone Charmander that's waiting for it's trainer to return. At the Pokemon Center, they discover it's trainer actually abandoned it.

Season 1, Episode 12: Here Comes the Squirtle Squad

Original Air Date—23 September 1998The gang arrives in a town that's disturbed by a gang of Squirtles who have been abandoned by their trainers.

Season 1, Episode 13: Mystery at the Lighthouse

Original Air Date—24 September 1998The gang find the lighthouse of the Pokemon researcher, Bill, who is trying to solves the mystery of the mysterious Dragonite.

Season 1, Episode 14: Electric Shock Showdown

Original Air Date—25 September 1998The gang finally make it to Vermillion City!! But the gym leader, Lieutenant Surge, is big and brutal with his Raichu. Will Pikachu be able to defeat his evolved form?

Season 1, Episode 15: Battle Aboard the St. Anne

Original Air Date—28 September 1998With three badges down, Ash and the gang's next stop is the gym in Saffron City. But first, they decide to take a cruise on the Saint Anne, where trainers cruise for free. Unknown to the trainers, the cruise is a trap set by Team Rocket.

Season 1, Episode 16: Pokémon Shipwreck

Original Air Date—29 September 1998The Saint Anne has capsized and sunk with Ash, the gang, and Team Rocket trapped inside. Now, both sides must put aside their differences in order to escape.

Season 1, Episode 17: Island of the Giant Pokémon

Original Air Date—30 September 1998The trainers, the Pokemon, and Team Rocket find themselves stranded on a mysterious island that is populated by giant Pokemon.

Season 1, Episode 18: Beauty and the Beach

Original Air Date—24 June 2000

Season 1, Episode 19: Tentacool and Tentacruel

Original Air Date—1 October 1998When a town is terrorized by a school of Tentacool and one giant Tentacruel, it's up to our heroes to bring balance between humans and Pokémon.

Season 1, Episode 20: The Ghost of Maiden's Peak

Original Air Date—2 October 1998The ghost of a beautiful maiden bewitches both Brock and James. Will our heroes and Team Rocket be able to save them from a Gastly fate?

Season 1, Episode 21: Bye Bye Butterfree

Original Air Date—5 October 1998On their way to Saffron City, our heroes come to the spot where Butterfree gather to find mates and travel together across the sea in order to have babies. Ash lets out his own Butterfree and helps it to try and find a mate of its own. It eventually finds one, a uniquely pink Butterfree, and attempts to impress it. However, Butterfree is rejected immediately and flies off heartbroken. The group help Butterfree to be more confident and try again, but to no avail. To make matters worse, Team Rocket enters in a brand new chopper and net just about every Butterfree, including the pink one. Ash's Butterfree chases after them as our heroes follow, but will it be able to stop Team Rocket on it's own and save its beloved? And when the time comes, will Ash have the courage needed to finally say good-bye?

Season 1, Episode 22: Abra and the Psychic Showdown

Original Air Date—6 October 1998The gang make it to Saffron City and challenge the psychic gym leader, Sabrina. However, there is more than just a trainer badge at stake: the gangs' freedom.

Season 1, Episode 23: The Tower of Terror

Original Air Date—7 October 1998The gang find out that in order to defeat Sabrina's psychic Pokemon, they need a ghost Pokemon. They travel to Lavender Town.

Season 1, Episode 24: Haunter Versus Kadabra

Original Air Date—8 October 1998Haunter willingly travels back to Saffron City with Ash and the gang to help them against Sabrina and free her from her psychic prison.

Season 1, Episode 25: Primeape Goes Bananas

Original Air Date—9 October 1998Ash finds out that he's falling behind his rival, Gary, once again. When a Mankey shows up at their camp, Ash tries to catch it and ends up making it angry.

Season 1, Episode 26: Pokémon Scent-sation!

Original Air Date—12 October 1998Ash challenges Erika, the Celadon City gym leader.

Season 1, Episode 27: Hypno's Naptime

Original Air Date—13 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 28: Pokémon Fashion Flash

Original Air Date—14 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 29: The Punchy Pokémon

Original Air Date—15 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 30: Sparks Fly for Magnemite

Original Air Date—16 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 31: Dig Those Diglett

Original Air Date—19 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 32: The Ninja Poké-Showdown

Original Air Date—20 October 1998Ash and friends arrive at the Fushia Gym only to find that no one is home except for a lonely Venonat who leads them into a bunch of traps. At first they meet Ai who is Venonat's trainer and Ai's brother who is the leader of the Fushia Gym. Team Rocket finds the Fushia Gym in an attempt to steal some rare and unusual Pokémon but all they manage to gather up is a bunch of Voltorb. Misty's Phsyduck lets itself out of its poke ball and tries to battle Team Rocket on its own. Can Ash and crew save the Pokemon of the Fushia Gym before Team Rocket can take off with them.

Season 1, Episode 33: The Flame Pokémon-athon!

Original Air Date—21 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 34: The Kangaskhan Kid

Original Air Date—22 October 1998The group enters into the Safari Zone, but they still are not in far enough to catch the Pokémon there. They are brought in by a Jenny who is the Safari Zone ranger. They see poachers on the map in the cabin and ask if they can come along with Jenny. She lets them and they go to find it is Team Rocket trying to get the Kangaskhan. They make the catch, but are stopped by a kid who protects the Kangaskhan. After this, two people land in a helicopter, who are searching for their son Tommy. They show Jenny the picture and she identifies him as the same kid who lives with the Kangaskhan. They go and find him, but he doesn't remember his real parents until his father clubs him on the head. Once he remembers, he still wants to stay with the Kangaskhan and he runs off. Team Rocket is then trying a new trick. They are in a fake Kangaskhan and they pretend that it is injured. The others come to help and then they come out to shoot tranquilizer at the other Kangaskhan. They are defeated by the parents who crash their plane into the fake Kangaskhan to blow it up. The parents then get out of the debris and tell Tommy that they will stay with him with the Kangaskhan.

Season 1, Episode 35: The Bridge Bike Gang

Original Air Date—23 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 36: Ditto's Mysterious Mansion

Original Air Date—26 October 1998The group is seeking shelter from the storm and they find it in an old theater house, House of Imitate. They meet a girl named Duplica who has a talent for pretending to be other people. They also meet her Ditto who has a problem; it cannot transform it's face. She tells them about her problems and they try to help her. Eventually, Team Rocket steals Ditto and try to make it transform into various things. They are very harsh on Ditto to make it transform perfectly and it succeeds under the pressure they put it under. They give Meowth to Duplica pretending it is Ditto, but she is not fooled and eventually gets back the real Ditto. Now that Ditto can transform perfectly, Duplica can put on her shows...

Season 1, Episode 37: Pikachu's Good-Bye

Original Air Date—26 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 38: The Battling Eevee Brothers

Original Air Date—27 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 39: Wake Up Snorlax

Original Air Date—28 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 40: Showdown at Dark City

Original Air Date—29 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 41: The March of the Exeggutor Squad

Original Air Date—30 October 1998

Season 1, Episode 42: The Problem with Paras

Original Air Date—13 February 1999

Season 1, Episode 43: The Song of Jigglypuff

Original Air Date—20 February 1999

Season 1, Episode 44: Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon

Original Air Date—27 February 1999

Season 1, Episode 45: A Chansey Operation

Original Air Date—6 March 1999

Season 1, Episode 46: Holy Matrimony!

Original Air Date—13 March 1999

Season 1, Episode 47: So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd

Original Air Date—20 March 1999

Season 1, Episode 48: Who Gets to Keep Togepi?

Original Air Date—27 March 1999

Season 1, Episode 49: Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden

Original Air Date—3 April 1999

Season 1, Episode 50: Princess Versus Princess

Original Air Date—4 September 1999

Season 1, Episode 51: The Purr-fect Hero

Original Air Date—11 September 1999

Season 1, Episode 52: The Case of the K-9 Caper

Original Air Date—10 April 1999

Season 1, Episode 53: Pokémon Paparazzi

Original Air Date—17 April 1999

Season 1, Episode 54: The Ultimate Test

Original Air Date—24 April 1999

Season 1, Episode 55: The Breeding Center Secret

Original Air Date—1 May 1999

Season 1, Episode 56: Riddle Me This

Original Air Date—18 September 1999

Season 1, Episode 57: Volcanic Panic

Original Air Date—18 September 1999

Season 1, Episode 58: Beach Blank-Out Blastoise

Original Air Date—20 September 1999

Season 1, Episode 59: The Misty Mermaid

Original Air Date—23 September 1999Misty's sisters aren't drawing in as many crowds as they used to. They decide to try a new ballet, underwater, called "The Magical Mermaid", with Misty as the mermaid.

Season 1, Episode 60: Clefairy Tales

Original Air Date—25 September 1999

 

Season 1, Episode 61: The Battle of the Badge

Original Air Date—25 September 1999

Season 1, Episode 62: It's Mr. Mime Time

Original Air Date—27 September 1999

Season 1, Episode 63: Holiday Hi-Jynx

Original Air Date—11 December 1999

Season 1, Episode 64: Snow Way Out

Original Air Date—18 December 1999

Season 1, Episode 65: Showdown at the Po-ké Corral

Original Air Date—30 September 1999

Season 1, Episode 66: The Evolution Solution

Original Air Date—2 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 67: The Pi-Kahuna

Original Air Date—2 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 68: Make Room for Gloom

Original Air Date—4 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 69: Lights, Camera, Quack-tion!

Original Air Date—8 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 70: Go West Young Meowth

Original Air Date—9 October 1999When Ash & Co. heads to Hollywood to attend the premiere of the movie "Pokemon in Love," Meowth reminisces about his past experiences in the city.

Season 1, Episode 71: To Master the Onix-pected

Original Air Date—11 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 72: The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis

Original Air Date—14 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 73: Bad to the Bone

Original Air Date—16 October 1999Ash and his friends offer to help a Pokémon League competitor retrieve his stolen Gym Badges from Team Rocket.

Season 1, Episode 74: All Fired Up!

Original Air Date—23 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 75: Round One: Begin!

Original Air Date—30 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 78: Fire and Ice

Original Air Date—6 November 1999

Season 1, Episode 79: Friend and Foe Alike

Original Air Date—27 November 1999

Season 1, Episode 80: A Friend in Deed

Original Air Date—20 November 1999

Season 1, Episode 81: Friends to the End

Original Air Date—27 November 1999

Season 1, Episode 82: Pallet Party Panic

Original Air Date—4 December 1999