Many of the things on "Captain Planet" are repeated twice in the article, in the Story section and the section after that. Doctor Barbara "Babs" Blight – one of the Eco-villains, a beautiful scientist, often found experimenting in various ways regarding how to take over the planet. [26] Five years later, Michael Reaves revised the concept as Dark Planet or Planet. Various toys from the New Adventures waves are not as likely to be well known. Captain Planet appeared in a special crossover episode of the Cartoon Network series OK K.O.! Ha! The whole series was made available on Amazon Instant Video. He lived at Dr. Blight’s puppy mill until he and his mother were adopted by Joey. Ha! They enjoy the destruction they cause to the planet and the harm they bring to obtain wealth, land, or power. Though Gaia looks after the Planeteers and obviously views them as children to her mother-like figure, she rarely gives them personal advice. [22] The "Planeteer Pack" special is no longer available. A clip from Season One of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, more information at: http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257373 Its lyrics were written by show producer Nick Boxer[12] and is performed by Murray McFadden and Timothy Mulhollan. In the beginning of the episodes, Gaia uses her "Planet Vision" in the Crystal Chamber to discover where the most devastating destruction is occurring (in most episodes one or more of the Eco-Villains is behind it) and sends the Planeteers to help solve the problem. This is then followed by a rap from the voice actors of the Planeteers. Tiger Toys, owners of the action figure license, also created an LCD hand-held game. Actor Allusion: "Gorillas Will Be Missed" had Kwame (LeVar Burton) trying on a futuristic visor. Boris turns to Skumm's drug, Bliss, in order to cope with his problems. When troubles got difficult, the Planeteers combine the five powers to summon Captain Planet. The concept allowed schools and organizations around the world to present their environmental projects to the Foundation and receive seed money to grow their ideas. The DiC seasons' synth-rock soundtrack was replaced by a large number of orchestral pieces, and while the end credits theme was retained, the ending sequence now showcased footage from the Hanna-Barbera episodes. She has trusted five young humans with rings of power that wield control over the elements and can summon forth one of Gaia's own ancient creations, a reformed titan now called Captain Planet. His costume is the same color and style as Planet's, but the globe on his chest is torn in the middle. Factory under license from Turner and Warner Home Video released a DVD set of the complete first season in the U.S. on April 19, 2011. Each Eco-villain received a specific ring which had the opposite power of the Planeteers: Each of the evil rings has malevolent faces on them, in contrast to the more element-themed Planeteer rings. His voice is similar to Captain Planets, but it has a California Valley twang to it. Play as Captain Planet and his Planeteers is this platform game. 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Television, Television shows adapted into video games, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2017, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 16 January 2021, at 00:04. Genesis / 32X / SCD - Captain Planet and the Planeteers - The #1 source for video game sprites on the internet! Ha! As with many popular cartoons, Captain Planet had a line of action figures and vehicles. Captain Pollution is weakened when he is in contact with pure elements such as clean water or sunlight, while he gains power from contact with pollutants, being able to absorb pollutant and emit radioactive rays (and is later shown to gain limitless power when in contact with pollutants after his resurrection). 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[20] A Commodore 64 game was in development but never released. However, in cases of serious problems, Gaia gains corporeal form, which puts her in danger of death. This series revealed more of the past of each of the characters and expanded on it dramatically. DIC's main home video distributor Buena Vista Home Video would also release single-episode VHS releases as well. A separate side-scrolling game was developed by Novalogic for the Mega Drive/Genesis, but only saw release in Europe and Australia.[19]. Green Aesop. Captain Pollution resembles Captain Planet, but his skin is pale yellow and covered in brown lesions. She brought the Planeteers to her home, Hope Island to help her in the battle to save Earth. It would be darker and more violent, with people frequently being killed. 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Episodes 3.1 Season 1 (1990-1991) 3.2 Season 2 (1991-1992) 3.3 Season 3 (1992) 3.4 Season 4 (1993-1994) 3.5 Season 5 (1994-1995) 3.6 Season 6 (1995-1996) 4 Trivia Captain Planet is your ordinary hero saving the polluting day. The episode "The Power Is Yours" aired on October 9, 2017. The Earth-Spirit Gaia had decided that the time had come to take a more direct part in protecting Earth and its peoples. Gaia is the Spirit/Goddess of Earth. | Ma-Ti. [8] Once his work is done, Captain Planet returns to the planet, and leaves viewers with the message: "The power is yours!" The Planeteers use transportation (usually a flying machine called a Geo-Cruiser) based on solar power to avoid causing pollution themselves. The Planeteers are tasked with helping defend the planet from environmental disasters and making efforts to educate humankind to keep others from happening. The episode titled "A Formula for Hate" (1992) was also unusual for the series in that it was the first episode in an American children's animated series to directly deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic. ", and when he disappears, he declares "The polluting power is yours!". | Let's Be Heroes, with David Coburn reprising his role as Captain Planet and LeVar Burton reprising his role as Kwame. Captain Planet has to stop Nukem before he destroys the Earth. Linka. The first occurred in 1996 when Boxer and Pyle wrote a film adaptation of Captain Planet originally titled Planet. "[14] As of 2017[update], the organization's board is chaired by Laura Turner Seydel, daughter of Ted Turner; the board includes Barbara Pyle.[15]. When the modern-day Planeteers combine their powers to summon the elemental warrior, this incarnation takes on the appearance of a superhero, who … The collector's market is small, the toys being somewhat rare on eBay. What can we do better now? Ha! It is akin to New Kids On The Block's "Step By Step". Photos of the Captain Planet and the Planeteers (Show) voice actors. In a September 2012 interview with Barbara Pyle and co-developer Nicholas Boxer, it was stated that the Hope Island was located near the Bahamas.[11]. The Planeteers will actually make use of their powers instead of standing around like whiny morons who give up easily and want Captain Planet … His hair is red and styled in a Widow's peak and he has red eyes. She claims to have been asleep for the entire 20th Century and awakens to see a more polluted world than when she was last awake, however this is contrasted with a flashback episode to the 1920s where people get guidance from Gaia. Multiple attempts have been made to create a film adaptation of the series. With David Coburn, LeVar Burton, Joey Dedio, Janice Kawaye. For the video game based on this TV series, see, Captain Planet Zooms to the Rescue of the Environment, Washington Post – September 16, 1990, Captain Planet and the Planeteers (video game), "Barbara Pyle, with Ted Turner and Robert Larkin III created the animated action series Captain Planet and the Planeteers", "An Aging Superhero Wins a Life Beyond Reruns", "Captain Planet: Here He Comes to Save the Day", "Children's Television Programming Report", "We are Barbara Pyle and Nick Boxer, Co-creators and Exec. Big Good: Though she does rely on others to do her work. The following is a list of episodes from the Captain Planet and the Planeteers animated series. Ha! Captain Pollution is destroyed by Captain Planet who throws Pollution in the water destroying him. Fisher Queen. Captain Planet 12. The show was the second longest-running cartoon series of the 1990s, with a production of 113 episodes. Captain Planet will appear very little, if at all, and the show would just be called "The Planeteers". The series ran twelve issues, cover dated October 1991 through October 1992. [3] Both series continue today in syndication. It included a scene of Linka's cousin Boris jumping through a window and dying from a drug overdose. The five Planeteers, five Eco-Villains, Commander Clash, and several versions of Captain Planet, each with a different gimmick or paint scheme, were released, along with several vehicles. Other attempts at a film version were made in 2007,[28] 2011,[29][30] and 2013,[31] but none of these versions came to pass. This was explained by the fact that the characters thought of drug addiction as "pollution of the mind". It turns out that the ordeal is something that Wheeler dreamed up, though it serves as a warning for the audience about sustainability and over-consumption. He's last seen sinking in and apparently dies. [33], This article is about the TV series. Captain Planet appears as a playable character in the fighting game Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion for Nintendo 3DS, Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360. His skin is crystal blue, and he wears a wide red collar that covers most of his chest, nape, and shoulders and has a yellow globe sign on it, red gloves, red trunks that have a black belt with a gold buckle on the front, and red boots. During the end credits, James Coburn, in character as Looten Plunder, utters the line "You'll pay for this, Captain Planet.". Wheeler. The Eco-Villains are a small group of antagonists who cause danger to the planet through pollution, deforestation, poaching, and other environmentally unsafe activities. The toys were of average poseability, with the common five points – neck, shoulders, and hips. "Population Bomb" (1991) continued the trend of tackling controversial subject matter atypical for a children's cartoon, in this instance the problem with overpopulation. However, the script was lost when Turner and Warner Bros. merged in 1996. Our world is in peril. [27] The film reached the design stage before it was abandoned. The game, which involved a good deal of shooting, received negative reviews from game critics and thus a Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) version of the game was cancelled. Captain Planet and the Planeteers was a 1990-1996 TV Series distributed by DiC, then Hanna-Barbera Productions. Shout! Linka refers to Boris as her favorite cousin, describing him as "charming" when Wheelerprompts a slight comparison. The Captain Planet Foundation (CPF) was founded in 1991, when series producer Barbara Pyle negotiated a percentage of the show's merchandising revenue to empower young people. At the beginning of the episode Mind Pollution, it's evident that Boris is troubled. Various episodes were constructed to touch on relevant themes to a modern audience. She is introduced in the first episode, A Hero for Earth. In situations that the Planeteers cannot resolve alone, they can combine their planetary powers to summon the titular Captain Planet (voiced by David Coburn), who is Ma-Ti's magnified heart power in the form of a holographic superhero android human bomb that possesses all of the other Planeteers' magnified powers plus a power mullet. It would be darker and more violent, with people frequently being killed. The ending theme (maintained by both DIC and Hanna-Barbera's versions) is considered one of the most memorable parts of the series due to its catchy main chorus and rock track ("Captain Planet, he's our hero, gonna take pollution down to zero"). Killed Off for Real: He is destroyed for good after his second defeat, which makes him the first and only Captain Planet villain to actually die in the series. The animation style was altered. The episode titled "Mind Pollution" (1991) was notable[16] for dealing with the issue of drug abuse. Flying Brick: The only powers he shares with Captain Planet are that he's incredibly strong and he can fly. | But in his very first appearance, his boots were missing for the first two episodes. 34 images (& sounds) of the Captain Planet and the Planeteers cast of characters. Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1990 to 1996) underwent several small revisions over the course of its run -- it was renamed The New Adventures of Captain Planet during its 1993 to 1996 run, which co-incided with a change in production companies -- but the tone of the show always focused on the environment, often with an Aesop about the environment near the close of each episode. Captain Planet and the Planeteers is an American animated environmentalist television program, based on an idea by Ted Turner.12 The show was produced by Andy Heyward, Robby London, Barbara Pyle and Nicholas Boxer. In the two-part episode "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste", Captain Pollution is brought back to life by toxins of the five evil rings that seep into the planet. Lava Pit: Meets his end when Captain Planet drops him into a lava pit. Seeing the Earth in its profound environmental peril, Gaia (Whoopi Goldberg), goddess of the Earth, summons five kids from around the world to become the Planeteers, an opposing force to fight back and educate others in the need to be environmentally responsible. According to Barbara Pyle, the inspiration for the five Planeteers came from real people that she met during the show's pre-production in 1989. This was a platform game and was briefly bundled with the Amiga 500 "Cartoon Classics" pack released in 1991. His real name is unknown, as he is only referred to as “pup”. [17] Using mice as substitutes for humans, the episode sets Wheeler on a Gulliver's Travels style adventure where he encounters a tribe of sentient mice who are destroyed by overpopulation and irresponsible leadership. She sends five magic rings to five special young people: Kwame, from Africa, with the power of Earth... From North America, Wheeler, with the power of Fire... From the Soviet Union/Eastern Europe, Linka, with the power of Wind. Filming & Production The Captain Planet Foundation still sells a small number of them online, however. There may have also been further foreign variations of certain toys which may be even more difficult to catalog. Skumm Lord (Season 1, Episode 4) In contrast to Planet's generous and altruistic nature, Pollution is lazy, and arrogant, seeing himself as a god and his creators as servants rather than partners. This promotional DVD contained the episodes "A River Ran Through It", "A Perfect World", "Gorillas Will Be Missed", and "The Big Clam Up". After that, your next thought will undoubtedly be about the incredibly important 1993-1996 cartoon Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Let's Be Heroes. She favors technology and chemicals in order to carry out her evil deeds. Gaia (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in 1990–1992, Margot Kidder in 1993–1996), is the spirit of the planet who sends five magic rings – four with the power to control an element of nature and one controlling the element of Heart – to five chosen youths across the globe. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. "You Bet Your Planet" had the Planeteers and the villains competing on a game show run by an alien- the announcer (a floating pair of lips) was voiced by Gene Wood. The heroes battled Dr. Blight (accompanied by a silent MAL). A sequel series, The New Adventures of Captain Planet, ran for three seasons. Pyle and Boxer demanded that the series' merchandise be made sustainably; because of this, several of the companies producing Captain Planet-themed merchandise had to completely overhaul their means of production to manufacture recycled and recyclable products. Verminous Skumm is quick to take advantage of the fact Boris is alone in a new city with very few friends. Typically Planet only manifests to deal with the bigger crisis and then departs, but a few storylines have explored him existing beyond these moments, such as when he was summoned while Kwame and Ma-Ti were in space, with the result that the energy from their rings that created Planet could not return to its source, resulting in Planet being forced to operate on a human level, such as requiring a crowbar and handcuff keys to rescue the rest of the team. Four small vehicles were also sold through a Burger King promotion. Gaia (voiced by Whoopi Goldberg in 1990–1992, Margot Kidder in 1993–1996), is the spirit of the planet who sends five magic rings – four with the power to control an element of nature and one controlling the element of Heart – to five chosen youths across the globe. The two descriptions of the character Captain Planet are as follows. In the beginning of the series, Gaia assembles a modern-day team of "Planeteers" from several nations. David Perry and Nick Bruty developed a ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC game using the license, a 3-level shoot 'em up. Captain Planet and the Planeteers Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. In the beginning of the series, Gaia assembles a modern-day team of "Planeteers" from several nations. [18] In the episode, Skumm brainwashes a local community into thinking the virus can be spread through casual contact and thus causing people to hate and fear a young man, infected with HIV, named Todd Andrews (voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, with his mother voiced by Elizabeth Taylor). 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