Overview of 'VR Troopers' Season 1

Episode 1 - The Battle Begins (1)

Release Date: 1994-09-03

On their way to meet Professor Hart, Ryan, Kaitlin and J.B. are attacked from the air by Air Striker and Fighterbot and on the ground by Skugs.

Episode 2 - The Battle Begins (2)

Release Date: 1994-09-10

Kaitlin and J.B. locate Ryan in the quarry and hurry to his rescue. After a Skug fight, he is brought back to the lab and repaired.

Episode 3 - Error in the System

Release Date: 1994-09-14

Grimlord crashes the lab's computer system to retrieve the secret of Mass Inter-Reality Travel. The Troopers call an ambush by Skugs.

Episode 4 - Lost Memories

Release Date: 1994-09-15

The kids try to help a homeless lady with amnesia. Tao cooks, students pass out flyers, and Kaitlin runs the woman's photo in the newspaper.

Episode 5 - Battle for the Books

Release Date: 1994-09-16

Ziktor wants to destroy all books that teach about solar energy. He starts with Mr. Reese's bookmobile, as a way of getting at J.B.

Episode 6 - Oh Brother

Release Date: 1994-09-19

Ryan and J.B. are training two brothers who always argue. Ziktor/Grimlord decides to unleash two monster robot brothers of his own: the Swordbots.

Episode 7 - Grimlord's Challenge

Release Date: 1994-09-20

A neighborhood policewoman offers Tao and the kids a challenge: turn Becky into a karate contender in two weeks and win $1,000.

Episode 8 - Computer Captive

Release Date: 1994-09-21

While helping Kaitlin install a graphics program in her computer, J.B. gets sucked through the monitor and into Grimlord's dungeon.

Episode 9 - Katlin's Little Helper

Release Date: 1994-09-22

Kaitlin's cousin aspires to be a reporter like Kaitlin, and while on a story, she discovers green slime oozing from the grass in the park.

Episode 10 - The Virtual Spy

Release Date: 1994-09-23

Grimlord plants a spy in reality, an investigative reporter named Jeremy, whom Woody hires at the "Underground Voice Daily."

Episode 11 - The Virtual V-6

Release Date: 1994-09-26

The guys build a pollution-free motorcycle engine in V.R. and put it in J.B.'s Skycycle.

Episode 12 - No One's Friend

Release Date: 1994-09-27

Ziktor sends a Skug to the dojo disguised as a martial arts student who spars with J.B. and transfers to him an electrical charge.

Episode 13 - Dogmatic Change

Release Date: 1994-09-28

Grimlord comes up with the idea of turning dog pound pets (and more) into rabid mutant monsters for his own army.

Episode 14 - Searching for Tyler Steele

Release Date: 1994-09-30

Kaitlin takes a photo of a strange building and spots a man in a room with bars on the windows sitting next to a strange "S" symbol on the wall.

Episode 15 - Save the Trees

Release Date: 1994-10-02

Grimlord (aka Ziktor) needs an old-growth forest cleared for a massive breakthrough from Virtual Reality.

Episode 16 - A Dirty Trick

Release Date: 1994-10-04

Grimlord sends his evil magician to abduct the real magician and catch the Troopers with their guard down.

Episode 17 - Kaitlin's Front Page

Release Date: 1994-10-05

Kaitlin receives a tip on a big story: A top-secret weapons plant and testing site has been set up outside Cross World City.

Episode 18 - The Dognapping

Release Date: 1994-10-07

Skugs dognap Jeb when he steps outside for a nature call. They take him to Grimlord, who is angered by the dog's wisecracking mouth.

Episode 19 - My Dog's Girlfriend

Release Date: 1994-10-10

Jeb the dog is depressed because he's fallen for Princess the Dog and her puppies, but Princess's owner blocks their romance.

Episode 20 - Digging for Fire

Release Date: 1994-10-11

Following an earthquake, the teens discover that someone is digging shafts to the center of the Earth under a downtown building.

Episode 21 - The Great Brain Robbery

Release Date: 1994-10-12

In his scheme to take over the planet, Grimlord tries to use the preserved brain of the greatest tactical mind in history.

Episode 22 - The Dojo Plot

Release Date: 1994-10-14

When Tao is informed that the dojo is on the verge of shutting down due to financial problems, Ryan, Kaitlin and J.B. organize a fundraiser.

Episode 23 - Grimlord's Greatest Hits

Release Date: 1994-10-19

The teens are going to put on a dance-a-thon so that a student of theirs, Brandon, can afford to go to a special music academy.

Episode 24 - The Disappearance

Release Date: 1994-10-25

Grimlord plots to overtake reality by making his mutants invisible. Meanwhile, Tao tries to teach the Troopers the importance of stealth in combat.

Episode 25 - Nightmares

Release Date: 1994-10-31

Kaitlin starts having strange, vivid dreams about the power and invincibility of Grimlord's forces.

Episode 26 - Secret Admirer

Release Date: 1994-11-03

Kaitlin receives flowers from a secret admirer -- Grimlord! Col. Icebot is developing evil flowers to capture and destroy the Troopers.

Episode 27 - Grimlord's House of Fear

Release Date: 1994-11-04

Col. Icebot penetrates the reality barrier with an ionic cyber beam, and Grimlord wants him to build a robot to open the reality barrier.

Episode 28 - Three Strikes

Release Date: 1994-11-07

J.B. coaches one of two rival baseball teams for a benefit game to raise money to upgrade the field and secure the lease.

Episode 29 - Danger in the Deep

Release Date: 1994-11-08

Taking a virtual tour of a dam they've been told is polluted, the teens find a radio signal coming from under the dam itself.

Episode 30 - Small But Mighty

Release Date: 1994-11-09

Grimlord sends a package to the dojo. When it's opened, Ryan, Kaitlin and J.B. are exposed to a strange ray that turns them into children.

Episode 31 - Defending Dark Heart (1)

Release Date: 1994-11-14

The Troopers and Professor Hart discover that one of Grimlord's mutants actually possesses human DNA!

Episode 32 - Defending Dark Heart (2)

Release Date: 1994-11-15

Dark Heart, about to be executed by Grimlord's Mutants, uses Toxoid as a shield and escapes while Ryan fights Skugs.

Episode 33 - Defending Dark Heart (3)

Release Date: 1994-11-16

A Skug learns of the V.R. Troopers' plans to de-virtualize Ryan's father and warns Grimlord.

Episode 34 - Defending Dark Heart (4)

Release Date: 1994-11-17

Grimlord, knowing Dark Heart/Tyler is gravely injured, launches a full aerial assault on Professor Hart's lab.

Episode 35 - Ghost Biker

Release Date: 1994-11-18

Ziktor receives some good news: Gen. Ivar has found a weakened area of the reality barrier, and Col. Icebot has developed a new weapon.

Episode 36 - Endangered Species

Release Date: 1994-11-21

Kaitlin's friend Danielle beseeches her to write a story about the Animal Sanctuary, where Danielle's father is head scientist.

Episode 37 - Field Goal

Release Date: 1994-11-22

When the junior high football coach stumbles onto Grimlord's secret base, Skugs shrink him and imprison him in a sports trading card.

Episode 38 - The Littlest Trooper

Release Date: 1994-11-23

Skugs kidnap Baby Boo from his parents in the park and leave the baby on the dojo doorstep.

Episode 39 - The Reality Virus

Release Date: 1994-11-29

Gen. Ivar and Col. Icebot stage a battle with the V.R. Troopers in virtual reality in order to infect them with a Reality Virus.

Episode 40 - Friends in Need

Release Date: 1994-11-30

Two circus performers who are scientists in disguise are taken to Professor Hart for help in completing their research on a fuel-increasing formula.

Episode 41 - Good Trooper, Bad Trooper

Release Date: 1995-02-06

Kaitlin is doing an article on biologically dissimilar twins. Meanwhile, Ziktor has developed a cloning device.

Episode 42 - The Transmutant

Release Date: 1995-02-07

J.B. spars with Ryan in an effort to relax before taking a test to qualify for a scholarship.

Episode 43 - Who's King of the Mountain?

Release Date: 1995-02-08

J.B. agrees to help his South American "e-mail pal," Jose, with some research on data involving an extinct volcano that has been strangely vibrating.

Episode 44 - The Couch Potato Kid

Release Date: 1995-02-09

Ricky, Tao's visiting nephew, is a couch potato. The kids are planning an obstacle course and they try to get Ricky involved.

Episode 45 - The Old Switcharoo

Release Date: 1995-02-10

Grimlord steals Dr. Unger's transforming device, hoping to take the powers of the V.R. Troopers for his army.

Episode 46 - Race to the Rescue

Release Date: 1995-02-13

Ryan, Kaitlin and J.B. decide to help out a kid who's being bullied at a go-cart track.

Episode 47 - Fiddler on the Loose

Release Date: 1995-02-14

Kaitlin's cousin from Ireland and his band are in town to perform a benefit concert to help raise awareness concerning the environment.

Episode 48 - Virtually Powerless

Release Date: 1995-02-15

While at an arcade, J.B., Ryan and Kaitlin are visited by a mysterious man who suggests they play the newest game in the store, "Dark Odyssey."

Episode 49 - New Kids on the Planet

Release Date: 1995-02-20

Ryan, Kaitlin and J.B. are camping in the wilderness when a streak of light and a thunderous crash alert them to the arrival of an alien spaceship.

Episode 50 - Message from Space

Release Date: 1995-02-22

Professor Hart contacts Ryan, Kaitlin, and J.B. at the Underground to relay a message to Ryan from Dr. Monroe.

Episode 51 - The Rise of the Red Python (1)

Release Date: 1995-02-27

J.B. and Ryan rescue a stray kitten and take it to an animal shelter, where they meet Amy, a nice young girl with an interest in martial arts.

Episode 52 - The Rise of the Red Python (2)

Release Date: 1995-02-28

J.B. is sent to fight the Red Python, which malfunctions mid-battle. Dr. Poindexter offers an extra retroformer to bring her back to normal.