| # | Episode Summary - Indigo League |
| 1 | Pokémon, I Choose You!
We are introduced to Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town, who by turning the age of 10, can now become a Pokémon trainer. Oversleeping on the first day of his journey, Ash misses his chance to get a regular starting Pokémon, so Professor Oak gives Ash an unfriendly Pikachu. Pikachu, unhappy with its new trainer, begins to trust Ash only after he attempts to save Pikachu from a flock of angry Spearow, and the new team see Ho-oh fly over the horizon as the journey begins. |
| 2 | Pokémon Emergency!
Arriving in nearby Virdian City, Ash must get Pikachu to the Pokémon Center for medical attention after fighting the Spearow in the storm. Ash meets Officer Jenny, who gets him to the Pokémon Center in fast time, and Nurse Joy, who operates on and heals Pikachu. With Pokémon trainer Misty tagging along because of a broken bike, the team must fight off two Pokémon criminals - Jesse and James of Team Rocket, who are trying to steal the center's Pokémon. |
| 3 | Ash Catches a Pokémon
Once in the Virdian Forest, Ash catches a Caterpie and is ecstatic over his first Pokémon capture. Misty, terrified of bugs, does not share in his happiness. Settling down for the night, Pikachu consoles Caterpie. The next morning, a wild Pidgeotto is captured by Ash with Pikachu's help after attacking Caterpie. Team Rocket then emerges, blinding Pikachu and defeating Pidgeotto in battle, causing Caterpie to fight. It amazingly wins with String Shot, and then evolves into Metapod. |
| 4 | Challenge of the Samurai
Still in the Virdian Forest, Ash starts the day by attempting to capture a wild Weedle. A Samurai looking to challenge Ash distracts him from Weedle, and the two battle in a very ridiculous Metapod v. Metapod Hardening battle. The group is ambushed by a Beedrill squad and Ash must rescue Metapod the next morning. When Ash realizes he can't blame others for his mistakes, Metapod evolves into Butterfree and uses Sleep Powder to put the Beedrills out. |
| 5 | Showdown in Pewter City
When Ash and Misty finally arrive at Pewter City, Ash discovers the Pokémon League and wants to begin his quest for the eight League badges. Ash challenges the local Gym Leader, Brock, but his Onix defeats Pikachu easily. With the help of Brock's father Flint, Ash powers up Pikachu for a rematch, nearly winning because of a sprinkler system accidently going off. Brock gives Ash the Boulderbadge because of Ash's kindness and joins the group. |
| 6 | Clefairy and the Moon Stone
The newly formed threesome continue on to Mt. Moon where they discover a pack of Zubat attacking Seymour, a scientist. Pikachu saves Seymoure from the Zubat while Brock catches one for himself, and Seymour explains the Pokémon of Mt. Moon are confused because of the lighting system of Team Rocket, who are looking for the Moon Stone. They are stopped by Ash and a bunch of Clefairy, some of which evolve when the Moon Stone explodes. |
| 7 | The Water Flowers of Cerulean City
When Ash wants to continue Cerulean City, Misty mysteriously disappears. Ash and Brock go to Cerulean anyway, discovering a local robbery has been occurred. As Brock leaves to do "stuff," Ash goes to challenge the Cerulean Gym Leaders, but ends up battling Misty, their sister. Team Rocket interupts, trying to suck up the water Pokémon with a giant vacuum. Pikachu stops the Rockets, and Misty's sisters give Ash a badge for saving the Gym. |
| 8 | The Path to the Pokémon League
With two badges and 10 victories under his belt, egotistical Ash discovers A.J., a strict, undefeated Pokémon trainer with his own Pokémon Gym. A.J. defeats Ash easily, who learns that Pokémon can still be raised effectively even if the trainer's techniques are different. When Team Rocket accidently kidnap A.J.'s Sandshrew, A.J. celebrates his 100th victory against the Rockets, and Ash and A.J. part ways, vowing to meet in the Pokémon league. |
| 9 | The School of Hard Knocks
The kids stumble upon a young trainer named Joe being picked on by older boys; it turns out Joe and his peers are students of Pokémon Technical School. The harsh treatment of Joe makes the group want to talk to Giselle, the top trainer of the class, to set the school straight. The kids learn a lesson when they discover that Pokémon battling is flexible and there's more to it than type advantages when Ash's Pikachu defeats Giselle's Cubone in battle. |
| 10 | Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village
Continuing on to Vermillion, the group comes across a wild Oddish near water. When Ash and Misty try to capture the Pokémon, they are stopped by a Bulbasaur. The Bulbasaur is a helper of Melanie, who runs a hidden rest house for injured Pokémon. When Team Rocket tries to steal the house's Pokémon, Ash and Bulbasaur team up to stop them. Bulbasaur then allows Ash a battle and chance to capture it, and Ash catches his next Pokémon. |
| 11 | Charmander - The Stray Pokémon
Still trying to find their way to Vermillion City, the kids run across an abandoned Charmander waiting on a rock near Route 24. They decide to leave it alone and continue to the PokéCenter, where they find it's trainer, Damien, bragging about abandoning it. The kids rush into a storm to rescue Charmander, who runs off again after being healed. Team Rocket captures Pikachu but are stopped by Charmander, who chooses to join Ash. |
| 12 | Here Comes the Squirtle Squad
Once again in search of Vermillion City, the group happens across a pack of mischievous Squirtles appropriately called the Squirtle Squad. The Squirtle Squad, being influenced by Meowth, holds the kids prisoner until Ash has to race a nearby town to get some medicine for Pikachu. When Ash returns, a forest fire starts, and the trainers works together with the Squirtle Squad, who's leader is saved by, and then joins up with Ash, filling out his party. |
| 13 | Mystery at the Lighthouse
As Ash celebrates collecting his sixth Pokémon, his joy is shot down by Misty, who notes all his Pokémon followed him, causing Ash to run and capture a Krabby on his own. As Ash is sad from Krabby's transfer to Oak, the group come across the Lighthouse owned by Bill, who teaches them a bit about the many different Pokémon in the world. Unfortunately, Bill's Lighthouse is destroyed when a Dragonite that Bill was trying to communicate with is attacked by Team Rocket. |
| 14 | Electric Shock Showdown
As the group finally arrives in Vermillion City, Ash is quick to try to earn his first real Gym Badge. He meets Lt. Surge, user of a Raichu, who Pokés fun at Ash for using an unevolved Pikachu. Surge's Raichu woops Pikachu, facing Ash with the choice of evolving Pikachu. Instead, Ash chooses to try to beat Surge's Raichu with agility instead of power, and Ash prevails over Surge in a very close rematch to win a Thunderbadge. |
| 15 | Battle Aboard the St. Anne
The kids happen upon some free tickets for the luxurious St. Anne from a couple of "cool," schoolgirls. These girls are really Team Rocket in disguise, and entire cruise is set up to be a Rocket takeover. As James buys a useless Magikarp, Ash realizes Butterfree, who he traded to a trainer, was too important to him, and rushes to get it back. However, things get worse as the kids, Jesse and James are trapped aboard the sinking St. Anne! |
| 16 | Pokémon Shipwreck
Team Twerp and Team Rocket find themselves in a dangerous situation when they're trapped aboard the sunken St. Anne cruise ship. They temporarily form a truce and work together to find their way to the ship's hull and escape into the sea. Everyone safely makes it to the surface, but they are stranded in the middle of nowhere. When James grows annoyed of useless Magikarp, he kicks it into the sea, causing it to evolve into Gyarados and blow the group away. |
| 17 | Island of the Giant Pokémon
After being blown away into the sea by Gyarados' Dragon Rage, Team Twerp and Team Rocket wash up safely on a seemingly deserted island. However, the trainers' Pokémon are separated and must fend for themselves while the trainers look for them. Both the humans the Pokémon encounter and are attacked by giant Pokémon, and after everybody reunites with each other, the group discovers they had landed on Pokémon Island, an amusement park. |
| 18 | Beauty and the Beach
This episode was banned everywhere but in Japan because James was given inflatable boobs to try to win a swimsuit contest. The episode was eventually shown in America during the Orange Islands season with the objectionable subject snipped out, plus a couple of other minor changes. The trainers relax in Porta Vista for a swimsuit contest, and when Ash saves the resort from a Gyarados, the people of Porta Vista give him a trophy in his honor. |
| 19 | Tentacool and Tentacruel
Arriving in the port city and resort town of Porta Vista, the heroes meet Nastina. Nastina wants to rid the resort of Tentacool so she can build an ocean hotel and make loads of money. She hires Team Rocket to exterminate the wild Tentacool from the water, but ironically, they cause one Tentacool to evolve and grow huge, threatening to destroy Porta Vista through Meowth. Misty convinces Tentacruel to stop its attack with some help from her new Pokémon, Horsea. |
| 20 | The Ghost of Maiden's Peak
As the kids leave Porta Vista, Brock is depressed over the end of summer and the fact that another year has passed without him finding love. Trying to enjoy a festival, the Ghost of a Maiden from a local folk tale hypnotises James and Brock into loving her, but it turns out that the Maiden is really a Gastly trying to keep old legends alive. The humans fail to defeat Gastly in battle, but it leaves anyway, hating the sunlight, and vows to return next year. |
| 21 | Bye Bye Butterfree
Continuing on to Saffron, Ash discovers that it is currently Butterfree's mating season. Ash and company work hard to help Butterfree find a potential mate, but Team Rocket intervenes and snatches all the Butterfree looking for mates for themselves. Ash, Butterfree and Pikachu team up one last time to stop the Rockets and release all the Butterfree. Ash must then say goodbye to his first Pokémon as Butterfree leaves to mate with its girlfriend. |
| 22 | Abra and the Psychic Showdown
Entering Saffron City, the gang comes across a lost little girl, later revealed to represent local Gym Leader Sabrina's lost childhood. The little girl helps the twerps escape from a Team Rocket trap, and Ash takes on Sabrina for his next badge. Sabrina's Abra evolves into Kadabra and destroys Pikachu due to it's recovery abilities. A man, later revealed to be Sabrina's father, advises Ash to travel to Pokémon Tower for a Ghost Pokémon. |
| 23 | The Tower of Terror
Determined to win a Marshbadge, Ash drags his friends to Pokémon Tower in creepy, deserted Lavendar Town. Upon reaching the tower, Misty and Brock wimp out and refuse to go in; Ash and Pikachu continue in to find a Tower full of traps left by the resident Ghost Pokémon. Ash and Pikachu are "killed," by a falling chandelier and play with the lonely Ghost Pokémon, making friends. Because of this, a Haunter agrees to join Ash and battle Sabrina. |
| 24 | Haunter Versus Kadabra
The trio return to Saffron City so Ash can have a rematch with Sabrina. Sabrina's inner child puts out the stipulation that if Ash loses, they have to stay and play with Sabrina forever. Haunter mysteriously disappears before the match begins, and Misty and Brock are turned into dolls. Ash goes off to find Haunter, and returns for yet another rematch, where Ash wins because Haunter causes Sabrina to laugh and therefore merge her split personalities. |
| 25 | Primeape Goes Bananas
Continuing on to Celadon City, the group makes a quick sneak break. While enjoying some, uh "donuts," a wild Mankey wanders by and steals Ash's official Pokémon League cap, and the group basically attempt to get it back. Team Rocket enter the scene and James ends up kicking the Mankey with his magic boot of evolution, causing it to evolve into Primeape. Instead of running, Ash firmly decides to fight Primeape, and ends its rampage by catching it. |
| 26 | Pokémon Scent-sation!
Arriving in Celadon City, Ash is slowed down over Misty's love of perfume and Brock's love of the girls that wear it. Ash insults perfume and therefore insults Gym Leader Erika, who refuses to let Ash battle for a badge. Team Rocket, in a scheme to get Erika's perfume formula, help Ash get access to the Gym via crossdressing. As "Ash-ley," reveals himself and battles Erika, Team ocket set off a fire and Ash wins the Rainbow Badge by saving Erika's Gloom. |
| 27 | Hypno's Naptime
The trio find themselves in filler anime town Hop Hop Hop Town, where Officer Jenny and a group of parents are in frenzy due to an alarmingly growing amount of missing children. The kids join up with Jenny to deliver that Hypno's Hypnosis waves are hypnotizing the children to act like Pokémon and live in the park. After stopping Team Rocket yet again, a Drowzee is made to counteract Hypno's sleep waves and the children are safely returned to their parents. |
| 28 | Pokémon Fashion Flash
The team travels to Scissor Street, where Brock searches for the world famous Pokémon Breeder Suzie. It turns out Suzie's breeding business is in trouble due to new competition in the form of the flashy Salon Rocket, ran by Team Rocket. Suzie and the kids team up to help the trainers realize that a Pokémon's inner beauty is more important than it's outer beauty, and Brock receives Suzie's Vulpix after Team Rocket is put out of business. |
| 29 | The Punchy Pokémon
While continuing their journey to Fuschia City, the team runs across a Hitmonchan in the middle of the road. The Pokémon belongs to Anthony, a trainer who's spent so much time training for the P-1 Pokémon competition that he's neglected his family. Ash, Brock, Team Rocket and Anthony enter the fighting Pokémon tournament, and in the finals, Ash's Primeape defeats Team Rocket, but Ash chooses to give Primeape to Anthony to "train." |
| 30 | Sparks Fly for Magnemite
Ash and company arrive in appropriately named Gringy City, a polluted area with uncharacteristically apathetic Nurse Joys and Officer Jennies. With Pikachu fallen ill and the power of the Pokémon Center going out, the kids travel to the Power Plant to look for a solution. It turns out Grimer and Muk are clogging up the power source, and as a Magnemite, obsessed with Pikachu, and its kind fight off the Grimer, Ash catches a Muk. |
| 31 | Dig Those Diglett!
The kids enter a mountain area undergoing construction work to build a dam. The man in charge has grown frustrated with the ever-cute Digletts preventing work from completing, and offers a reward to any trainers that can get rid of them. Gary makes a rare appearance, but everybody's Pokémon refuse to fight the Diglett, who are only protecting their habitat. Meanwhile, Ekans and Koffing evolve to exterminate the Diglett, but are stopped by the heroes and Dugtrios. |
| 32 | The Ninja Poké-Showdown
Wandering about in the forest and searching for the Fuschia Gym, the heroes stumble upon a seemingly abandoned ninja house. In reality, the house is really the Fuschia Gym, and loaded with traps. The heroes flow a Venonat to discover Aya, whom Ash defeats in battle. Ash next challenges Koga to a battle, but are interrupted by Team Rocket's attempt to steal the gym's Pokémon. When the battle is resumed, all Koga has left is his Golbat, who Ash's Charmander easily defeats. |
| 33 | The Flame Pokémon-athon!
Searching for the Safari Zone, the heroes stumble across a Pokémon reserve and meet Lara Laramie and her Ponya. Lara invites the heroes to a festival that night, and explains that she's going to enter a Pokémon race the next day. Dario, a Dodrio herder, causes Lara to fall from Ponyta and break her arm. Ash fills in for Lara the next day, as Team Rocket takes out all of the other racers from afar. In the end, Ponyta evolves into Rapidash and narrowly beats Dodrio. |
| 34 | The Kangaskhan Kid
Ash and company finally arrive in the adventurous Safari Zone, but happen to wander into yet another reserve area. After a little confrontation with Officer Jenny, the heroes join her in preventing Team Rocket from poaching Kangaskhan. The group next meet some parents looking for their missing child, and reunite them with the son that doesn't remember them, Tomo. Tomo and his parents join together to throw Team Rocket out of the Safari Zone and live with the Kangaskhan. |
| 35 | The Legend of Dratini
This episode is banned everywhere in the world except Japan. The gang travels to an open section of the Safari Zone where they meet an overprotective, gun-weilding Safari Warden. As Ash off to capture his 30 mysterious Tauros, Team Rocket hold up the Warden with a gun in search of Dratini. Ash and a Dragonair, that as a Dratini was a friend of the Warden, save the Safari Zone from the Rockets. This episode was apparently dubbed, but never aired in America. |
| 36 | The Bridge Bike Gang
Tired of walking, the heroes stumble upon a newly built bridge allowing passengers to travel to the next town. Nurse Joy offers the trio some bikes to pass in exchange that they'll bring medicine to a Shellder in Sunny Town. On the way, the kids encounter Chopper and Kyra, leaders of a Bike Gang, and worshippers of Jesse and James. The Bikers turn on the Rockets when they realize the good guys are travelling through a thunder storm to deliver medicine, and help escort the heroes. |
| 37 | Ditto's Mysterious Mansion
The group stumble upon the abandoned old Imite Theather, ran by Ditto trainer Duplica. Duplica is upset because her Ditto hasn't perfected it's Transformation; it's face looks weird after Transform, ruining Duplica's theater act. Team Rocket appear and steal Ditto in an attempt to pass it off to Giovanni as Dratini, and they actually get it to transform correctly The good guys parody the Rocket motto before Ditto and Pikachu work together to blast off the Rockets. |
| 38 | Electric Soldier Porygon
The most famous of the banned episodes. Flashing lights contained in the episode causing hundreds of Japanese children to fall victim to epileptic seizure and for the episode to banned worldwide. The heroes meet Professor Akihabara and travel into cyber space with his Porygon to fix a virus prohibiting computer transfers between Pokémon centers. Before the heroes fix the problem, Pikachu electrocutes anti-virus missiles that cause the seizure-inducing lights. |
| 39 | Pikachu's Goodbye
Travelling through the woods, the trio discover a group of wild Pikachu with whom Ash's Pikachu quickly makes friends with. After camping out for a while, Ash begins to wonder if he should leave Pikachu behind with its own kind. Team Rocket interrupts to snatch up all the Pikachu for themselves, but are eventually stopped by the heroes. Ash decides that he should leave his Pikachu behind, but it refuses, and stays with its trainer and friend. |
| 40 | The Battling Eevee Brothers
The trio stumble upon Stone Town, where the three Eevee Brothers are holding an evolution party for their brother Mikey's Eevee. The older Eevee Brothers teach the kids about Stone evolution while pressuring Mikey to evolve his Eevee into the Eeveelution they prefer. Team Rocket intervene to steal the Pokémon, stones , and food, but Misty's Horsea leaves behind an ink trail. The Rockets defeat the Eeveelutions, but little Eevee proves itself by winning. |
| 41 | Wake Up, Snorlax!
The twerps find an old hippie loitering the path to the next city, and he demonstrates his PokéFlute abilities. Continuing on, the heroes are distraught to find out that the nearest town has no food due to a local drought. To help the town, the good guys investigate and link the problem to a thorn bush and a sleeping Snorlax blocking the river. Acquiring the hippie's help in using the PokéFlute to wake up Snorlax, Ash and friends save the day once again. |
| 42 | Showdown at Dark City
Reaching Dark City, the trainers find themselves insulted by a group of trainer-hating children. Dark City is in the middle of a war between the Yaz and Kaz Gyms, who are trying to beat each other to become official Pokémon Gyms. Team Rocket are working for Kaz while the twerps make up false aliases for Yaz. In the middle of a full-scale battle between the two, Ash and Nurse Joy, undercover as a Pokémon League agent, command the Gyms to combine and make peace. |
| 43 | The March of the Exeggutor Squad
Continuing to the next town, the trainers meet Melvin the Magician near the Leaf Forest. Melvin self-confidence as a magician is a bit lacking, so Misty agrees to become his assistant. Melvin's Exeggcute hypnotises Ash to weaken Pokémon that Melvin will capture for himself. Eventually, Melvin's Exeggutors all hypnotise each other and start a stampede toward the town. Melvin's fire-producing wand combines with Charmander, who evolves, to stop the stampede. |
| 44 | The Problem with Paras
Lacking proper healing potions, the group make a small pit stop at a quiet village and meet Cassandra, owner of a local remedy store. Cassandra battles Ash with her cowardly Paras, hoping it will evolves so she can make medicine from it's mushrooms. Meowth, who Cassandra earlier healed from a fever, takes Paras under his wing and jobs Team Rocket's Pokémon against it to build it's confidence. Paras evolves and uses its Spores to silence Ash's unruly Charmeleon. |
| 45 | The Song of Jigglypuff
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| 46 | Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon
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| 47 | A Chansey Operation
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| 48 | Holy Matrimony!
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| 49 | So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd
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| 50 | Who Gets to Keep Togepi?
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| 51 | Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden
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| 52 | Princess Versus Princess
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| 53 | The Purr-fect Hero
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| 54 | The Case of the K-9 Caper!
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| 55 | Pokémon Paparazzi
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| 56 | The Ultimate Test
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| 57 | The Breeding Center Secret
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| 58 | Riddle Me This
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| 59 | Volcanic Panic
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| 60 | Beach Blank-Out Blastoise
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| 61 | The Misty Mermaid
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| 62 | Clefairy Tales
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| 63 | The Battle of the Badge
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| 64 | It's Mr. Mime Time
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| 65 | Holiday Hi-Jynx
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| 66 | Snow Way Out!
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| 67 | Showdown at the Poké-Corral
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| 68 | The Evolution Solution
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| 69 | The Pi-Kahuna
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| 70 | Make Room for Gloom
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| 71 | Lights, Camera, Quack-tion
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| 72 | Go West, Young Meowth
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| 73 | To Master the Onixpected!
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| 74 | The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis
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| 75 | Bad to the Bone
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| 76 | All Fired Up!
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| 77 | Round One -- Begin!
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| 78 | Fire and Ice
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| 79 | The Fourth Round Rumble
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| 80 | A Friend Indeed
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| 81 | Friend and Foe Alike
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| 82 | Friends to the End
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| 83 | Pallet Party Panic
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| M1 | Feature Film - Pokémon the First Move: Mewtwo Strikes Back
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