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A young trainer sets out to catch and battle fantastical creatures, chasing his dream of becoming a Pokémon Master with loyal companions.
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- 23mEpisode 1
Pokémon - I Choose You!
A ten-year-old from Pallet Town sets out on his first day as a Trainer with dreams of becoming a Pokémon Master, and the Pikachu he is given wants nothing to do with him.
- 23mEpisode 2
Pokémon Emergency!
Ash carries a badly hurt Pikachu into Viridian City, where the Pokémon Center is already on alert for thieves — and Jessie, James, and Meowth are circling.
- 23mEpisode 3
Ash Catches a Pokémon
A Caterpie takes a liking to Ash in Viridian Forest, though Misty wants nothing to do with Bug types, and the little Pokémon has a dream of its own.
- 23mEpisode 4
Challenge of the Samurai
A boy calling himself Samurai interrupts Ash's battle with a Weedle and challenges him instead, setting up a stubborn standoff between two Metapod.
- 23mEpisode 5
Showdown in Pewter City
Ash and Misty reach Pewter City and meet Flint, a gruff local who points them toward the Pokémon Center, while Team Rocket falls into its own trap.
- 23mEpisode 6
Clefairy and the Moon Stone
At Mt. Moon, Team Rocket is hunting the rare Moon Stone and the Clefairy that guard it, and a scientist named Seymour leads Ash, Misty, and Brock underground.
- 23mEpisode 7
The Water Flowers of Cerulean City
Ash goes after the Cascade Badge in Cerulean City, but Misty is oddly reluctant to come along, and the town is buzzing about a break-in at the gym.
- 23mEpisode 8
The Path to the Pokémon League
On the road to Vermilion City, Ash meets AJ, an unsanctioned Gym Leader with ninety-eight wins and no losses, and a Sandshrew trained hard enough to prove it.
- 23mEpisode 9
The School of Hard Knocks
Lost in a thick white mist, Ash goes looking for firewood and finds a boy surrounded by classmates from an elite Pokémon academy.
- 23mEpisode 10
Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village
A break by a pond turns tense when a mysterious Bulbasaur steps in to protect a wild Oddish from Ash and Misty.
- 23mEpisode 11
Charmander - The Stray Pokémon
A Charmander waits alone on a rock for a trainer who is not coming back, while at the Pokémon Center a hotshot named Damian brags about leaving it behind.
- 23mEpisode 12
Here Comes the Squirtle Squad
A pack of prank-loving Squirtle drops Ash and his friends into a pit, and Officer Jenny arrives with a longer history of trouble with the squad.
- 23mEpisode 13
Mystery at the Lighthouse
A huge shadow takes shape in the sea mist near a remote lighthouse, and Team Rocket is lurking nearby with a scheme of its own.
- 23mEpisode 14
Electric Shock Showdown
Lt. Surge and his Raichu overpower Pikachu at the Vermilion Gym, leaving Ash to choose between raw power and the speed his partner already has.
- 23mEpisode 15
Battle Aboard the St. Anne
Two friendly strangers hand Ash and his friends tickets to a luxury cruise aboard the St. Anne, where trainers gather to trade and Team Rocket works a disguise.
- 23mEpisode 16
Pokémon Shipwreck
The St. Anne capsizes with Ash, his friends, and Team Rocket trapped inside, forcing both sides to work together to reach the surface.
- 23mEpisode 17
Island of the Giant Pokémon
A Dragon Rage attack scatters everyone at sea, and Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Meowth wash up on an island where the Pokémon are enormous.
- 23mEpisode 18
Beauty and the Beach
After wrecking an old man's boat in Porta Vista, Ash and his friends work off the debt, and Misty enters a beauty contest with Jessie in the running.
- 23mEpisode 19
Tentacool & Tentacruel
Ash and his friends reach Hutber Port, home to a ferry line to the mainland and to the Tentacool and Tentacruel crowding the waters around it.
- 23mEpisode 20
The Ghost of Maiden's Peak
On the way to Saffron City, Ash and his friends stop at a port town in the middle of its summer festival, where talk keeps returning to the ghost of Maiden's Peak.
- 23mEpisode 21
Bye Bye Butterfree
A flock of Butterfree crosses the ocean overhead, and Brock explains that mating season has begun, which puts Ash's own Butterfree at a crossroads.
- 23mEpisode 22
Abra and the Psychic Showdown
Ash reaches the Saffron Gym despite a stranger's warning to stay out, and finds a training hall for psychics run by its cold Gym Leader, Sabrina.
- 23mEpisode 23
The Tower of Terror
Team Rocket flees a haunted tower after meeting the Ghost Pokémon inside, leaving Ash and Pikachu to go in alone, where Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar want playmates.
- 23mEpisode 24
Haunter Versus Kadabra
One of the ghost Pokémon from the tower follows Ash and his friends home, and it may be exactly what he needs against the Saffron City Gym Leader.
- 23mEpisode 25
Primeape Goes Bananas
On the road to Celadon City, Ash and his friends run into a Mankey with a famously short temper, and they manage to set it off.
- 23mEpisode 26
Pokémon Scent-sation!
Thrown out of the Celadon Gym for badmouthing perfume, Ash sneaks back in disguised as a girl, while Team Rocket works a plan of its own on Erika's secret fragrance.
- 23mEpisode 27
Hypno's Naptime
Children are disappearing from a town where the adults have been curing their insomnia with a Hypno, and the side effect is stranger than anyone realized.
- 23mEpisode 28
Pokémon Fashion Flash
Team Rocket opens a Pokémon grooming salon as a front for theft, and Brock is smitten with Suzy, a famous breeder whose Vulpix is groomed to perfection.
- 23mEpisode 29
The Punchy Pokémon
Ash sets out to catch a Hitmonchan and meets Rebecca, who wants her father home, which means putting Primeape in the ring against him at a fighting tournament.
- 23mEpisode 30
Sparks Fly for Magnemite
Passing through the industrial haze of Gringey City, Pikachu starts twitching and sparking, its cheek sacs behaving as though badly overcharged.
- 23mEpisode 31
Dig Those Diglett!
Ash joins a crew of Trainers hired to keep Diglett off a construction site, until it becomes clear what the Diglett and Dugtrio are actually defending.
- 23mEpisode 32
The Ninja-Poké Showdown
The Fuchsia Gym turns out to be a ninja's lair, and Ash has to get through a maze of traps before anyone gives him a shot at the badge.
- 23mEpisode 33
The Flame Pokémon-athon!
The Laramie ranch holds a race once a year to measure how far everyone's Pokémon have come, and Ash talks his way into a place at the start line.
- 23mEpisode 34
The Kangaskhan Kid
Ash and his friends join Officer Jenny on the trail of Pokémon poachers, deep in a forest where a Kangaskhan herd lives.
- 23mEpisode 35
The Legend of Dratini
Ash and Team Rocket turn the Safari Zone into a contest over who can bag the most Pokémon, while the warden is pressured into revealing where Dratini lives.
- 23mEpisode 36
The Bridge Bike Gang
A long bike bridge is the only way into the next town, and Ash and his friends are well short of the money to rent a ride across.
- 23mEpisode 37
Ditto's Mysterious Mansion
Shelter from the weather turns out to be the Copycat House, where the owner's Pikachu is not a Pikachu at all but a Ditto.
- 23mEpisode 38
Cyber Soldier Porygon
Pokémon sent through a Center's transfer machine are never arriving, and Professor Akihabara's Porygon can follow them inside the system to find out why.
- 23mEpisode 39
Pikachu's Goodbye
Ash and his friends come across a colony of wild Pikachu living free in a secluded stretch of woods, and Ash's partner watches them very closely.
- 23mEpisode 40
The Battling Eevee Brothers
In the woods the group finds an Eevee tied to a tree beside a plate of food and water, bait left by someone who has not gone far.
- 23mEpisode 41
Wake Up, Snorlax!
A village is going hungry because its river has run dry, and the blockage upstream turns out to be a very large, very asleep Snorlax.
- 23mEpisode 42
Showdown at Dark City
In the middle of a desert, Ash and his friends wander into Dark City, a town with no other name and no reason left for anyone to visit.
- 23mEpisode 43
The March of the Exeggutor Squad
A carnival magician whose act keeps failing hypnotizes Ash and sends his Exeggcute to round up a crowd of Exeggutor, with the whole carnival in the way.
- 23mEpisode 44
The Problem with Paras
Out of medicine, Ash and his friends stop at a shop whose owner cannot keep it stocked because her Paras is too weak, so they take over its training.
- 23mEpisode 45
The Song of Jigglypuff
Resigned to camping in the desert, Ash and his friends spot neon light on the horizon and walk into a glittering city that has no business being there.
- 23mEpisode 46
Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon
Grampa Canyon is famous for its scenery, but the crowds streaming toward it today have come for what is buried in the rock.
- 23mEpisode 47
A Chansey Operation
A road accident leaves more injured Pokémon than the Center can hold, and Ash and his friends are drafted in to help Nurse Joy and her Chansey treat them.
- 23mEpisode 48
Holy Matrimony!
A strange sign posted at the entrance to a small village stops Ash and his friends in their tracks before they have taken a step inside.
- 23mEpisode 49
So Near, Yet So Farfetch'd
Ash's Pokédex turns up Farfetch'd, an odd-looking Pokémon that never puts down its leek, and one of them is closer than he thinks.
- 23mEpisode 50
Who Gets to Keep Togepi?
The egg Ash found hatches into a Togepi, and since nobody can agree on who should keep it, the group settles the question with a small tournament.
- 23mEpisode 51
Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden
Bulbasaur's bulb begins to glow, and a checkup at the Pokémon Center finds nothing wrong at all, which is exactly what worries Ash.
- 23mEpisode 52
Princess vs. Princess
The Pokémon Girls' Festival brings Misty and Jessie to the same shops and then the same battle tournament, both after a doll set they wanted as children.
- 23mEpisode 53
The Purr-fect Hero
On Children's Day, Ash and his friends visit a school where one boy wants nothing but to meet a Meowth, having been saved from a Spearow by a wild one.
- 23mEpisode 54
The Case of the K-9 Caper!
Ash and Pikachu join police Growlithe drilling against a mock robber, until Team Rocket turns up and a voice mix-up has the Growlithe taking orders from thieves.
- 23mEpisode 55
Pokémon Paparazzi
A shutter click sends Ash diving for cover, and the photographer behind it, Todd, has been hired by Team Rocket to capture Pikachu, a job he has misunderstood.
- 23mEpisode 56
The Ultimate Test
Ash signs up for the exam that admits Trainers to the Pokémon League, a route to the tournament that does not run through a single gym.
- 23mEpisode 57
The Breeding Center Secret
Misty leaves Psyduck at a breeding center and finds the place is a front, run by Rocket agents Butch and Cassidy, with the group framed for the theft.
- 23mEpisode 58
Riddle Me This (1)
Ash, Brock, and Misty travel to Cinnabar Island, where the Volcano Badge is waiting, if Ash can work out where the gym is hiding.
- 23mEpisode 59
Volcanic Panic (2)
Ash finally locates the Cinnabar gym, a battlefield suspended over a pool of molten lava, with the Volcano Badge on the far side of it.
- 23mEpisode 60
Beach Blank-Out Blastoise
A Wartortle tells the group about Blastoise, the ruler of a small island who will not wake, and Squirtle takes up its old role as squad leader to investigate.
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- Type
- series
- Rating
- TV-Y
- Released
- 1997
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Family, Drama, Anime