G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1983)
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero is a half-hour American animated television series based on the successful toyline from Hasbro and the comic book series from Marvel Comics. The cartoon had its beginnings with two five-part mini-series in 1983 and 1984, then became a regular series that ran in syndication from 1985 to 1986. Ron Friedman created the G.I. Joe animated series for television, and wrote all four miniseries. The fourth mini-series was intended to be a feature film, but due to production difficulties was released as a television mini-series.
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Episode 1 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (1)
Release Date: 1986-09-15A surprise attack by Cobra, using the new BATs, reveals that the Joes have gotten sloppy. General Hawk asks Sergeant Slaughter to help whip the team back into shape. Meanwhile, a series of dreams prompt Dr. Mindbender to concoct a plan to build a new Cobra leader from the DNA of long-dead conquerors. A package downed Night Raven reveals that Zartan has been asked to expand his team of Dreadnoks so he turns to his siblings, Zandar and Zarana for help, and the Joes investigate and discover the plan, only to be cornered by Thrasher and his Thunder Machine.
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Episode 2 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (2)
Release Date: 1986-09-16The Joes send teams out to guard the tombs on Zartan's list, but each team is defeated in turn: by Zarana in Egypt, the Crimson Twins in Paris, the Dreadnoks in the Yucatan, and the Baroness in Transylvania. Duke's team and the Oktober Guard are in a standoff with BATs while defending the tomb of Ivan the Terrible.
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Episode 3 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (3)
Release Date: 1986-09-17Cobra takes DNA from the tombs of Ivan the Terrible and Alexander the Great. Sergeant Slaughter retrieves a DNA pack from Cobra's raid on Sun Tzu's tomb, and from it the Joes surmise that Cobra is building a new breed of soldiers. Dr. Mindbender intends to use Slaughter's DNA as a replacement, and so feigns defeat as a ploy to retrieve the sarcophagus of Genghis Khan and capture Slaughter.
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Episode 4 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (4)
Release Date: 1986-09-18Cobra Commander sabotages Dr. Mindbender's first experiment, and it rises as a hideous monster. Sergeant Slaughter briefly escapes, then is recaptured but manages to destroy his DNA sample. The second attempt is successful, and Serpentor is created. Meanwhile, a Joe search party is sent to Cobra Island to rescue Slaughter and learn more about Cobra's plans.
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Episode 5 - Arise, Serpentor, Arise! (5)
Release Date: 1986-09-19Seargent Slaughter and the rescue team escape Cobra Island, but Serpentor captures Washington D.C. just as the Joes learn about the new leader. But Serpentor's lack of experience in modern warfare puts Cobra at a disadvantage when G.I. Joe stages a counterattack.
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Episode 6 - Last Hour to Doomsday
Release Date: 1986-09-25Lady Jaye disguises herself as the Baroness in order to learn about a Cobra weapon created to form whirlpools and tidal waves.
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Episode 7 - Computer Complications
Release Date: 1986-09-26When the Joes seek to recover a sample of anti-matter from a sunken ship, Zarana is sent to their headquarters to sabotage the operation. She and Mainframe discover they have feelings for each other. In the aftermath of a battle, the USS Flagg is sunk.
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Episode 8 - Sink the Montana
Release Date: 1986-09-29An aging admiral learns that his ship is to be scrapped, and he turns to Cobra for help. Cobra renders his ship impervious to electronic vessels, so G.I. Joe must use the two-hundred-year-old USS Constitution to defeat him.
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Episode 9 - Let's Play Soldier
Release Date: 1986-09-30Cobra discovers an Asian tree sap that brainwashes people, and uses it to enslave the native population. Leatherneck must care for four orphans while the other Joes try to prevent Cobra from marketing the sap as chewing gum.
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Episode 10 - Once Upon a Joe
Release Date: 1986-10-01When an orphanage is accidentally damaged during a battle, Shipwreck and other members from G.I. Joe volunteer to help repair it. While doing so, Shipwreck is dragged into telling the children a fairy tale...a typically cockeyed Shipwreck extravaganza!
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Episode 11 - The Million Dollar Medic
Release Date: 1986-10-02Bree Van Mark, a cute wealthy woman, develops a crush on Lifeline after he rescues her and her father from a sinking yacht during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra. Lifeline discovers that Cobra is after Bree's father, a wealthy industrialist whose holding include a defense company. But the Joes think that Bree is working for Cobra since some of her gifts, including a gold plated helicopter, have backfires. She flies off in a Tomahawk taking Lifeline with her. They head to a cabin in the Rockies and are followed by Cobra. Lifeline, who is a pacifist, must fend off Cobra until the rest of the Joes arrives.
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Episode 12 - Cobrathon
Release Date: 1986-10-06Cobra stages a telethon to raise money for a computer virus that will bring down all the computer systems in the world, as the Joes try to rescue Sci Fi and Lifeline...
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Episode 13 - The Rotten Egg
Release Date: 1986-10-07Leatherneck attends graduation ceremonies at a new academy and discovers it run by former enemy Buck McCann, who is loyal to Cobra. Leatherneck must foil McCann's plan to destroy Parris Island Marine Academy.
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Episode 14 - Glamour Girls
Release Date: 1986-10-08Madame Vail (voice- Mary McDonald Lewis) agrees to sell her youth transference machine, which makes people young (and beautiful), in return for kidnapping some of the world's top models, who's youth and beauty will be transferred to the machine's user. One of these models is Low Light's sister, Una...
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Episode 15 - Iceberg Goes South
Release Date: 1986-10-09The Joes visit an arctic region where Icebergs Girlfriend is collecting samples of animals tissue for her Uncles research at the Tropadome. Icebergs goes to the Trapadome only to be captured by Doctor Mindbenders new mutant animal army...
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Episode 16 - The Spy Who Rooked Me
Release Date: 1986-10-13International superspy Matthew Burke volunteers his services in helping the Joes transport nerve gas to a safe facility.
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Episode 17 - Grey Hairs and Growing Pains
Release Date: 1986-10-14Cobra steals Madame Versalles youth treatment. The Joes try to figure out why and that leads them to the Ageless Care Spa, where lady Jaye, Mainframe and Dial Tone are turned into seven year olds...
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Episode 18 - My Brother's Keeper
Release Date: 1986-10-15Sergeant Slaughter accompanies Sci-Fi to a science fiction convention, where Dr. Mindbender recruits a handicapped scientist to repair his latest weapon. Mindbender's false promises to enable the scientist to walk again lead him to walk all over his brother.
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Episode 19 - My Favorite Things
Release Date: 1986-10-16Wet-Suit and Leatherneck have never, ever got along but their heated rivalry must take a backseat when Serpentor begins collecting artifacts from his former lives to gain power, and Leatherneck is poisoned trying to stop him. Wet-Suit has to prove he doesn't have any hard feelings for Leatherneck, as he and Lifeline risk their lives trying to recover an antidote from Serpentor's blood.
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Episode 20 - Raise the Flagg!
Release Date: 1986-10-20The Joes stumble upon an oil platform being used by Cobra to try to salvage the anti-matter pod that went down with the USS Flagg and the Cobra helicarrier. The Joes investigate, followed by Zartan and the Dreadknocks, but both teams are captured by an insane Cobra cook named LaCar...
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Episode 21 - Ninja Holiday
Release Date: 1986-10-22Sergeant Slaughter is captured by Cobra Commander and goes through a series of blood sports with the prize being to assassinate Serpentor...
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Episode 22 - G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece
Release Date: 1986-10-27There is a Joe/Cobra battle over the Suez Canal when a spacecraft flies overhead and drops a glowing coil. When Joe and Cobra teams are dispatched to investigate, they are sent back to Ancient Greece...
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Episode 23 - The Most Dangerous Thing in the World
Release Date: 1986-10-29Cobra takes advantage of General Hawk going to a NATO meeting in Europe and infiltrates the Department Of Defense's computers and promotes Lifeline, Dial Tone and Shipwreck (who's not even in the army) all to the rank of Colonel. The three can't cooperate and are not quite officer material which creates utter pandemonium at G.I. Joe Headquarters. Cobra capitalizes on the situation and attacks a research lab near the Joes' base. The Joes are defeated easily and fall back to Joe HQ. Hawk arrives in the nick of time and organizes a counter offensive, pushing Cobra back.
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Episode 24 - Nightmare Assault
Release Date: 1986-10-30All of the Joes are having nightmare involving a huge snake attacking them. At first they feel that it is due to the stress of the situation. As the nightmares continue, it begins to affect the Joes performance fighting Cobra. In fact, Cobra is controlling the Joes' dreams in an effort to disable them...
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Episode 25 - Second Hand Emotions
Release Date: 1986-10-31A group of Joes are attending Lifeline's sister's wedding while other Joes are at a nearby weapons depot testing new armor. The Dreadnoks are able to attach small receivers to the back of the Joes' necks and capture Roadblock. Dr. Mindbender uses an organ to send signals to the receivers that controls the Joes emotions...
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Episode 26 - Joe's Night Out
Release Date: 1986-11-10Wet Suit, Leatherneck, Dial Tone and their dates attend the grand opening of a trendy new night club. The club turns out to be on a Cobra rocket and is sent into orbit around earth. Serpentor demands that Dr. Mullaney surrender himself and his nitrogen fuel engine over to Cobra or they will detonate the club. Wet Suit goes outside the club and with Leatherneck's help, disables the bombs. Meanwhile, Dr. Mullaney surrenders to Cobra. The Joes use the Nitrogen engine to bring the Club back to Earth and Dr. Mullaney escapes, when all of the Cobra jets with the new engines crash thanks to the unstable Nitrogen fuel, turning all the Cobra jets into fire bombs.
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Episode 27 - Not a Ghost of a Chance
Release Date: 1986-11-13Lady Jaye and Hawk are on the tv show Twenty Questions (hosted by Hector Remerez(voice- Neil Ross)) debating with Cobra Comm, Serpentor and Dr. Mindbender whether or not Cobra shot down a prototype jet, the Ghost. Meanwhile, both Joe and Cobra forces search for the two pilots who ejected...
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Episode 28 - Sins of Our Fathers
Release Date: 1986-11-18Cobra Commander tries to communicate with the creature in the pit at Destro's ancestral home in Scotland and fails. Meanwhile, Dial Tone is discharged from the Joes and is hired to work on a communications project that turns out to be communicating with the creature. Flint is sent to spy on Dial Tone in disguise. Dial Tone gets the machine to work and Cobra Commander tells it to destroy Serpentor...
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Episode 29 - In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Release Date: 1986-11-19Slipstream in his Conquest intercepts a Cobra message, which contains an important command code. A squadron of Night Raven are sent after him. He and one of the Night Ravens crash land on an remote island Cobra base. The Stratoviper, a lady named Raven, is injured and not very friendly towards Slipstream. But when BATs land on the island and start firing on both of them, the are forced to team up and enter the abandoned Cobra base, with Doctor Mindbender watching...
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Episode 30 - Into Your Tent I Will Silently Creep
Release Date: 1986-11-20The Joes are highly annoyed by Cross Country's country music are glad when his tape deck is destroyed during a Cobra battle. When his new tape deck is stolen back at HQ, he intends to find out what's going on and sets a trap. He spots a robotic rat stealing the tape deck and he follows it to a Cobra meeting of the Coil, a group against Serpentor lead by Cobra Commander...