Recap / Pokémon: The Original Series

The Kanto Region (Generation I)

These are the recap pages for the Pokémon anime produced in connection with Pokémon Red and Blue, and later Pokémon Gold and Silver.

Since the shift to the later platforms, the first five seasons have become known as The Original Series.

Season 1 is based on Red and Blue, and simply known as Pocket Monsters in Japan, or Pokémon in the United States (later retconned as Pokémon: Indigo League).

Ash Ketchum begins his Pokémon journey in the Kanto region, with a strong-willed Pikachu by his side. Along the way, he meets the Gym Leaders Misty and Brock, who become his close friends and traveling companions. The nefarious Team Rocket, specifically the Terrible Trio of Jessie, James and Meowth, takes an interest in the group after witnessing Pikachu's power.

Season One

Season One: The Indigo League (1997 — 1999)

1. "Pokémon — I Choose You!"
2. "Pokémon Emergency!"
3. "Ash Catches a Pokémon"
4. "Challenge of the Samurai"
5. "Showdown in Pewter City"
6. "Clefairy and the Moon Stone"
7. "The Water Flowers of Cerulean City"
8. "The Path to the Pokémon League"
9. "The School of Hard Knocks"
10. "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village"
11. "Charmander — The Stray Pokémon"
12. "Here Comes the Squirtle Squad"
13. "Mystery at the Lighthouse"
14. "Electric Shock Showdown"
15. "Battle Aboard the St. Anne"
16. "Pokémon Shipwreck"
17. "Island of the Giant Pokémon"
18. "Beauty and the Beach"
19. "Tentacool & Tentacruel"
20. "Ghost of Maiden's Peak"
21. "Bye Bye Butterfree"
22. "Abra and the Psychic Showdown"
23. "The Tower of Terror"
24. "Haunter versus Kadabra"
25. "Primeape Goes Bananas"
26. "Pokémon Scent-sation!"
27. "Hypno's Naptime"
28. "Pokémon Fashion Flash"
29. "The Punchy Pokémon"
30. "Sparks Fly for Magnemite"
31. "Dig Those Diglett!"
32. "The Ninja Poké-Showdown"
33. "The Flame Pokémon-athon!"
34. "The Kangaskhan Kid"
35. "The Legend of Dratini" (unaired outside of Japan)
36. "The Bridge Bike Gang"
37. "Ditto's Mysterious Mansion"
38. "Electric Soldier Porygon" (unaired outside of Japan)

Episode 38, "Electric Soldier Porygon", was responsible for a large number of seizures during its first airing in Japan. As a result, the remainder of the season was postponed in order to re-animate the later episodes to avoid a repeat incident. Scheduling conflicts forced the intended episodes 39/40 to be broadcast out of order. Due to this, they are considered to be unnumbered.

• "Holiday Hi-Jynx"
• "Snow Way Out!"

Episode 39, "Pikachu's Goodbye", was not part of the intended run, but was created specifically to be the first post-hiatus episode.

39. "Pikachu's Goodbye"
40. "The Battling Eevee Brothers"
41. "Wake Up Snorlax!"
42. "Showdown at Dark City"
43. "The March of the Exeggutor Squad"
44. "The Problem with Paras"
45. "The Song of Jigglypuff"
46. "Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon"
47. "A Chansey Operation!"
48. "Holy Matrimony!"
49. "So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd"
50. "Who Gets to Keep Togepi?"
51. "Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden"
52. "Princess vs. Princess"
53. "The Purr-fect Hero"
54. "The Case of the K-9 Caper!"
55. "Pokémon Paparazzi"
56. "The Ultimate Test"
57. "The Breeding Center Secret"
58. "Riddle Me This"
59. "Volcanic Panic"
60. "Beach Blank-Out Blastoise"
61. "The Misty Mermaid"
62. "Clefairy Tales"
63. "The Battle of the Badge"
64. "It's Mr. Mime Time"
65. "Showdown at the Po-ké Corral"
66. "The Evolution Solution"
67. "The Pi-Kahuna"
68. "Make Room for Gloom"
69. "Lights, Camera, Quack-tion!"
70. "Go West Young Meowth"
71. "To Master the Onixpected!"
72. "The Ancient Puzzle of Pokémopolis"
73. "Bad to the Bone"
74. "All Fired Up!"
75. "Round One — Begin!"
76. "Fire and Ice"
77. "The Fourth Round Rumble"
78. "A Friend In Deed"
79. "Friend and Foe Alike"
80. "Friends to the End"

The Orange Islands

Season 2 is a filler arc not based on any specific region in the Pokémon video games. In Japan, it is known as Pocket Monsters: Episode Orange Archipelago. In the United States, it is known as Pokémon: Adventures in the Orange Islands.

Following Ash's participation in the Indigo League, he and his friends are tasked by Professor Oak to travel to the Orange Islands to retrieve a mysterious Poké Ball from the region's professor. Brock leaves the group to stay with the beautiful Professor Ivy, and Ash and Misty are joined by a Pokémon Watcher named Tracey.

Season Two

Season Two: Adventures in the Orange Islands (1999)

1. "Pallet Party Panic"
2. "A Scare in the Air"
3. "Poké Ball Peril"
4. "The Lost Lapras"
5. "Fit to be Tide"
6. "Pikachu Re-Volts"
7. "The Crystal Onix"
8. "In the Pink"
9. "Shell Shock!"
10. "Stage Fight!"
11. "Bye Bye Psyduck"
12. "The Joy of Pokémon"
13. "Navel Maneuvers"
14. "Snack Attack"
15. "A Shipful of Shivers"
16. "Meowth Rules!"
17. "Tracey Gets Bugged"
18. "A Way Off Day Off"
19. "The Mandarin Island Miss Match"
20. "Wherefore Art Thou, Pokémon?"
21. "Get Along, Little Pokémon"
22. "The Mystery Menace"
23. "Misty Meets Her Match"
24. "Bound For Trouble"
25. "Charizard Chills"
26. "The Pokémon Water War"
27. "Pokémon Food Fight!"
28. "Pokémon Double Trouble"
29. "The Wacky Watcher!"
30. "The Stun Spore Detour"
31. "Hello, Pummelo!"
32. "Enter The Dragonite"
33. "Viva Las Lapras"
34. "The Underground Round Up"
35. "A Tent Situation"
36. "The Rivalry Revival"

The Johto Region (Generation II)

Seasons 3 through 5 are based on Pokémon Gold and Silver. All three seasons together are known in Japan as Pocket Monsters: Episode Gold and Silver. In the United States, seasons 3 and 4 are known as Pokémon: The Johto Journeys and Pokémon: Johto League Champions, while season 5 is known as Pokémon Master Quest.

Ash and Misty reunite with Brock, while Tracey decides to stay behind with Professor Oak. This time, the group go to Johto, home to many Pokémon that cannot be found in Kanto.

After the Johto league's conclusion, Misty is called back home by her sisters to take over as Cerulean Gym leader, while Brock likewise learns he has business to attend to in Pewter City. Saddened by the departure of his friends but still determined to see his dream of becoming a Pokémon master through, Ash heads to the Hoenn region with Pikachu.

Season Three

Season Three: The Johto Journeys (1999 — 2000)

1. "Don't Touch That 'dile"
2. "The Double Trouble Header"
3. "A Sappy Ending"
4. "Roll On, Pokémon!"
5. "Illusion Confusion!"
6. "Flower Power"
7. "Spinarak Attack"
8. "Snubbull Snobbery"
9. "The Little Big Horn"
10. "The Chikorita Rescue"
11. "Once in a Blue Moon"
12. "The Whistle Stop"
13. "Ignorance is Blissey"
14. "A Bout With Sprout"
15. "Fighting Flyer with Fire"
16. "For Crying Out Loud"
17. "Tanks a Lot!"
18. "Charizard's Burning Ambitions"
19. "Grin to Win!"
20. "Chikorita's Big Upset"
21. "Foul Weather Friends"
22. "The Superhero Secret"
23. "Mild 'n Wooly"
24. "Wired for Battle!"
25. "Good 'Quil Hunting"
26. "A Shadow of a Drought"
27. "Going Apricorn!"
28. "Gettin' The Bugs Out"
29. "A Farfetch'd Tale"
30. "Tricks of the Trade"
31. "The Fire-ing Squad!"
32. "No Big Woop!"
33. "Tunnel Vision"
34. "Hour of the Houndour"
35. "The Totodile Duel"
36. "Hot Matches!"
37. "Love, Totodile Style"
38. "Fowl Play!"
39. "Forest Grumps"
40. "The Psychic Sidekicks!"
41. "The Fortune Hunters"

Season Four

Season Four: Johto League Champions (2000 — 2001)

1. "A Goldenrod Opportunity"
2. "A Dairy Tale Ending"
3. "Air Time!"
4. "The Bug Stops Here"
5. "Type Casting"
6. "Fossil Fools"
7. "Carrying On!"
8. "Hassle in the Castle"
9. "Two Hits and a Miss"
10. "A Hot Water Battle"
11. "Hook, Line, and Stinker"
12. "Beauty and the Breeder"
13. "A Better Pill to Swallow"
14. "Power Play!"
15. "Mountain Time"
16. "Wobbu-Palooza!"
17. "Imitation Confrontation"
18. "The Trouble With Snubbull"
19. "Ariados, Amigos"
20. "Wings 'N' Things"
21. "The Grass Route"
22. "The Apple Corp!"
23. "Houndoom's Special Delivery"
24. "A Ghost of a Chance"
25. "From Ghost to Ghost"
26. "Trouble's Brewing"
27. "All That Glitters!"
28. "The Light Fantastic"
29. "UnBEARable"
30. "Moving Pictures"
31. "Spring Fever"
32. "Freeze Frame"
33. "The Stolen Stones!"
34. "The Dunsparce Deception"
35. "The Wayward Wobbuffet"
36. "Sick Daze"
37. "Ring Masters"
38. "The Poké Spokesman"
39. "Control Freak!"
40. "The Art Of Pokémon"
41. "The Heartbreak of Brock"
42. "Current Events"
43. "Turning Over A New Bayleef"
44. "Doin' What Comes Natu-rally"
45. "The Big Balloon Blow-Up"
46. "The Screen Actor's Guilt"
47. "Right on, Rhydon!"
48. "The Kecleon Caper"
49. "The Joy of Water Pokémon"
50. "Got Miltank?"
51. "Fight for the Light!"
52. "Machoke, Machoke Man!"

Season Five

Season Five: Master Quest (2001 — 2002)

1. "Around the Whirlpool"
2. "Fly Me to the Moon"
3. "Takin' It on the Chinchou"
4. "A Corsola Caper!"
5. "Mantine Overboard!"
6. "Octillery The Outcast"
7. "Dueling Heroes"
8. "The Perfect Match!"
9. "Plant It Now... Diglett Later"
10. "Hi Ho Silver... Away!"
11. "The Mystery is History"
12. "A Parent Trapped!"
13. "A Promise is a Promise"
14. "Throwing in the Noctowl"
15. "Nerves of Steelix!"
16. "Bulbasaur... the Ambassador!"
17. "Espeon, Not Included"
18. "For Ho-Oh the Bells Toll!"
19. "Extreme Pokémon!"
20. "An EGG-sighting Adventure!"
21. "Hatching a Plan"
22. "Dues and Don'ts"
23. "Just Waiting On a Friend"
24. "A Tyrogue Full of Trouble"
25. "Xatu the Future"
26. "Talkin' 'Bout an Evolution"
27. "Rage Of Innocence"
28. "As Cold as Pryce"
29. "Nice Pryce, Baby!"
30. "Whichever Way the Wind Blows"
31. "Some Like it Hot"
32. "Hocus Pokémon"
33. "As Clear as Crystal"
34. "Same Old Song and Dance"
35. "Enlighten Up!"
36. "Will the Real Oak Please Stand Up?"
37. "Wish Upon a Star Shape"
38. "Outrageous Fortunes"
39. "One Trick Phony!"
40. "I Politoed Ya So!"
41. "The Ice Cave!" (unaired outside of Japan)
42. "Beauty is Skin Deep"
43. "Fangs for Nothin'"
44. "Great Bowls of Fire!"
45. "Better Eight Than Never"
46. "Why? Wynaut!"
47. "Just Add Water"
48. "Lapras of Luxury"
49. "Hatch Me If You Can"
50. "Entei at Your Own Risk"
51. "A Crowning Achievement"
52. "Here's Lookin' at You, Elekid"
53. "You're a Star, Larvitar!"
54. "Address Unown!"
55. "Mother of All Battles"
56. "Pop Goes the Sneasel"
57. "A Claim to Flame!"
58. "Love, Pokémon Style"
59. "Tie One On!"
60. "The Ties That Bind"
61. "Can't Beat the Heat!"
62. "Playing with Fire!"
63. "Johto Photo Finish"
64. "Gotta Catch Ya Later!"
65. "Hoenn Alone!"

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