Pokémon

- Season 1

(1997)

Ash starts his Pokémon journey off to a rough start when he receives his first Pokémon, the reluctant Pikachu.

Ash 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.

Ash catches his very first Pokemon, a Caterpie. However, Misty has a problem with bug Pokemon and rejects Caterpie's presence.

While 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.

Ash challenges Brock, the Pewter City gym leader.

With 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.

The gang head for Cerulean City. But Misty mysteriously disapproves. When they arrive, they find out that the gym is run by Misty's sisters.

With 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.

The gang come across a Pokemon school, where the kids learn how to become trainers and get into the Pokemon League without badges.

While 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.

Ash 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.

The gang arrives in a town that's disturbed by a gang of Squirtles who have been abandoned by their trainers.

The gang find the lighthouse of the Pokemon researcher, Bill, who is trying to solves the mystery of the mysterious Dragonite.

The 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?

With 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.

The 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.

The trainers, the Pokemon, and Team Rocket find themselves stranded on a mysterious island that is populated by giant Pokemon.

After accidentally wrecking the boat of a local restaurant owner, Ash and the gang help him pay off a few debts by entering a beach beauty contest.

When 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.

The 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?

It's the Butterfree Mating Season. Ash decides to let his Butterfree have a chance at love. Saying good bye may be harder than it seems for both of them.

The 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.

The gang find out that in order to defeat Sabrina's psychic Pokemon, they need a ghost Pokemon. They travel to Lavender Town.

Haunter willingly travels back to Saffron City with Ash and the gang to help them against Sabrina and free her from her psychic prison.

Ash 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.

Ash challenges Erika, the Celadon City gym leader.

All the children are missing and the pokemon are all weak. Ash and friends need to find the mysterious sleep waves and where they are coming from in order to find the lost children.

The Rocket-Dan plans a scheme to steal many Pokémon by opening a grooming shop. Satoshi and his friends meet Yuki, a famous Pokémon breeder.

While moving on his journey, Ash feels a need to catch a new Pokémon. But while trying to catch Hitmonchan they meet a girl named Rebecca who asks for their help to get her father back. To help, Ash uses his Primeape against her father in a fighting Pokemon tournament. Will he win?

The group arrives in Gunjo City where everything is dark and gloomy. A Coil follows Pikachu everywhere ever since he caught a peculiar illness, but it is the Betobeta and Betobeton that are causing trouble in a local Power Plant.

Satoshi finds himself among a group of Pokémon Trainers hired to protect a construction site from the interfering ground Pokémon, Digda. The construction is shut down after it is revealed that the Digda and Dugtrio are trying to protect their home. Musashi's Arbo and Kojiro's Dogas evolve into Arbok and Matadogas respectively.

Ash battles Koga, the Fuchsia City gym leader.

The gang enter the Safari Zone and find a Pokemon ranch, run by Lara, who's planning to enter a yearly Pokemon race, with her Ponyta. But when Lara gets injured, Ash decides to ride Ponyta instead.

While traveling through the Safari Zone, the gang help a married couple find their lost son, who is being raised by a family of Kangaskhan.

Satoshi wants to capture the rare Pocket Monster Miniryu, but the gun happy warden doesn't want him to have it.

The gang are asked to deliver medicine to a sick Pokemon in Sunny Town. But they'll have to cross a bridge that is run by a tough bike gang.

During a storm, Satoshi and his friends arrive at a mysterious Mansion. While there, Satoshi meets Imite, a girl who is an expert at impersonation, and she happens to own Metamon, a Pokémon that can transform into any Pokémon. However, Metamon cannot seem to figure out how to change its face, a fact that stopped Imite's variety show. As they all try to help Metamon perfect its transformation, the Rocket-Dan tries to steal the Metamon so it can transform into a Miniryu which they can give to the boss.

In the process of investigating a virus in the Pokémon Transport system, Ash and company become unwitting beta testers for a Human Transport System.

The group come into a forest where it is quiet and peaceful. They notice a large group of Pikachu that Satoshi's Pikachu tries to make friends with. After saving a young Pikachu from drowning and rescuing the herd from the Rocket-Dan, Satoshi's Pikachu is welcomed among the other Pikachu as one of their own. Saddened by this sudden distance, Satoshi tries to leave Pikachu behind (to Kasumi and Takeshi's shock and dismay), thinking that in the long run, it is going to be better off with its own kind. As they attempt to leave the forest with Satohshi still standing his ...

The gang come across a tied up Eevee. When they try to return it to it's owner, they find out that the owner's older brothers are trying to make it evolve.

Ash and the gang come to a village where there is no food, because the river is dry and plants can't grow. They decide to investigate the problem and discover that the water is being blocked by a sleeping Snorlax.

The gang arrive in a place called Dark City to find that two rival gyms have been terrorizing the place with their feud.

When at a carnival, Satoshi and his friends meet a magician who is really losing his touch and fails in his own magic show. In his effort to get better, he decides to hypnotize Satoshi and uses his Pokémon Tamatama to capture loads of Nassy. But the Nassy end up hypnotizing themselves and the Rocket-Dan and almost destroy the entire carnival. Luckily, they are saved by Hitokage, who evolves into a disobedient Lizardo.

Having run out of medicine, Satohsi and his friends go to a local shop to get some Potions. However, they don't have much due to the owner's Paras being weak. Satoshi and his friends decide to help out the owner by training her Paras, hoping that it can evolve into Parasect.

Entering Neon Town, a bustling Metropolis where everyone is tired and rude, Satoshi and his friends find a Purin who is too shy to sing its hypnotic song. Realizing they can kill two birds with one stone, Kasumi tries to teach the Purin to sing while the Rocket-Dan attempts to record the song so they can use it against Satoshi. Everyone falls asleep, including Satoshi and his friends and the Rocket-Dan, and a miffed Purin uses the marker hidden in her microphone to draw on everyone's sleeping faces.

Ash and friends get caught up in a Pokémon Fossil rush. During the rush, extinct Pokémon get discovered as still alive and a new Pokémon is discovered in the form of an egg.

After Pikachu gets an apple stuck in its throat, Satoshi and his friends rush it to a Pokemon Center. After being treated, they hear of a traffic accident (caused by Rocket Dan) that has left many Pokemon injured. Satoshi and the gang are recruited to help treat all the Pokemon that cant fit in the Pokemon Center.

After finding a missing person sign featuring Kojiro, Satoshi and his friends decide to find Kojiro and inform him of his parents' death. However Kojiro's parents turn out to be alive, and their death was only a decoy to get him to return home to the rich Rumika, a girl Kojiro was arranged to marry from when he was a little child. Kojiro has left because Rumika is terrifying, so everyone tries to save Kojiro from this fate, including Kojiro' old pet Gardie, Gar-chan.

When Kasumi's Monster Balls are stolen by Kamonegi, Satoshi and the gang investigate to try to find the thief and get all the stolen things back.

The mysterious egg finally hatches to reveal an unknown Pokemon, named Togepi. Now the gang begins to fight over who gets to be it's trainer.

Bulbasaur is close to evolving and Ash is very excited. But Bulbasaur is beginning to fear that evolving is the only thing Ash cares about.

Ash and Brock allow Misty to use their Pokémon when she has to compete against Jessie at the Queen of the Princess Festival.

Ash and his friends arrive at a small school on Kids Day. One of the children believes Meowth is the Pokémon who had once saved him from a Beedrill.

When Satoshi and his friends see a group of Gardie training against a Policeman posing as a robber, Satoshi decides for him and Pikachu to do the same training to become the best they can be. However, when the Rocket-Dan comes to steal them, Officer Junsa, Satoshi and the gang's voice gets changed, causing the Gardie to think that the Rocket-Dan are the Officers as they use their ears to follow command.

The gang meet a Pokemon photographer, named Todd, who wants to get a photo of Pikachu.

Ash takes the Pokemon League Admissions Exam in order to prove that his skills are improving.

Ash and the gang discover that a new breeding centre is a cover for a diabolical scheme by Team Rocket's new members, Butch and Cassidy.

Ash, Misty, and Brock meet Gary on their way to Cinnabar Island.

Ash has a rematch against Blaine's Magmar with Charizard.

Ash, Misty, and Brock follow Squirtle and a Wartortle to a turtle island.

Misty'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.

A mysterious space ship full of Clefairy lands near the city and starts taking common items from peoples' homes.

Ash's eighth badge is at hand. But he'll be surprised at who he has to battle.

On their way back to Pallet Town, the gang encounter a Mr. Mime, who escaped from the circus.

Ash, Brock and Misty try to get a Jynx back to it's trainer in the North Pole. Meanwhile, Team Rocket try to capture the Jynx and steal all of the Christmas presents.

Satoshi and his friends are trapped in a snowstorm. Takeshi suggests that the group uses his Iwark to create a bivouac. They are about to start when a strong gust of wind blows Pikachu away, and Satoshi tries to save him. After saving Pikachu who is about to fall off a cliff, Satoshi finds himself separated from the rest of the group. He and his other Pokémon must brave out the rest of the storm together in a cave.

Back in Masara Town, Satoshi finds Shigeru, already there, waiting to partake in the Pokémon League. Always having a bitter rivalry with Shigeru, Professor Orchid tells them both the meaning of Pokémon. Meanwhile, the Rocket-Dan is trying to get inside the lab to steal the Pokémon.

Ash mom and friends are going to go to Seafoam Islands. Misty and Brock are going to go surfing. Ash goes to Oaks lab to discover that Oak is trying to find out why Slowpoke evolves into Slowbro.

Ash spends the day surfing instead of training and is saved from drowning by a man named Victor and his Pikachu, Puka. Victor is a surfer who wants to ride the great wave Humunga Dunga.

Ash and his friends go to the nearby greenhouse to get some flowers for his mom. While there, they meet Florinda and her Gloom.

A big time movie director wants to make a movie with just Pokémon and he wants Psyduck to be the star.

When Ash & Co. heads to Hollywood to attend the premiere of the movie "Pokemon in Love," Meowth reminisces about his past experiences in the city.

As the Pokemon League draws closer, Ash and the gang seek advice from Bruno, a member of the Elite Four.

While training, our heroes discover some ancient ruins. Relics found at the site summon ancient Pokémon, that, according to ancient legend, will destroy everything.

Ash and his friends offer to help a Pokémon League competitor retrieve his stolen Gym Badges from Team Rocket.

On there way to the Pokemon League, the gang volunteer to help carry the Pokemon League torch which is said to have come from the legendary bird, Moltres.

Ash's first Pokemon League battle is on the Water Field. He decides to use Krabby for the first time.

For the second round Satoshi battles in the rock arena. Satoshi's last Pokémon, Zenigame, defeats his foe's last Pokémon, Nidorino, and he, victorious, moves on to Round 3. In the third round, Satoshi faces a trainer named Seiji in the ice arena. Both trainers are left with 2 Pokémon each. Seiji uses Parshen and Windie. In the end, Satoshi is victorious and he moves on to Round 4.

Ash's fourth match is on the Grass Field. But his opponent has a well trained Bellsprout.

Ash makes a new friend, named Richie. After Team Rocket steals the Pokemon from all of their trainers, Ash and Richie work together to get them back.

Ash must battle his new friend, Richie, if he wishes to move to the next step of the Pokemon League.

His loss against Richie is leaving Ash depressed. But after Richie loses his next battle, Ash learns that you need to learn from your mistakes to be a better trainer.