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Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Season 3

13 episodes Premiered Sep 12, 1992 Updated Oct 13, 2026
Previously on Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Captain Planet and the Planeteers Season 2.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (9): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Greenhouse Planet

Sep 12, 1992 · 25 min

Blight convinces the president that global warming doesn't exist. Will a trip to Venus sway the leader?

S3·E2 Core

A Creep from the Deep

Sep 19, 1992 · 25 min

Gi, while repairing the Eco-Sub, became irritated with Suchi's presence, and ignored his warning to install the new part to the sub's turbines. Now, they have no control over it's

S3·E3 Core

The Deadly Glow

Sep 26, 1992 · 25 min

The Planeteers have little time to track down a radioactive isotope that was released by two capsules from an old chemotherapy machine. But where there's radioactivity, there's Duk

S3·E4 Core

A Perfect World

Oct 3, 1992 · 25 min

The Planeteers are given a tour of a new "Perfect World," a world with no pollution, clean farming and little potential for environmental backlash. All is created within a computer

S3·E5 Core

The Dream Machine

Oct 10, 1992 · 25 min

Carlos, a farm boy on a small island, becomes jealous of his cousin's return from the big city. He is given the power to wish for anything he wants from Zarm, who calls himself the

S3·E6 Core

Bitter Waters

Oct 17, 1992 · 25 min

When visiting Skyrunner (from "Stardust"), the Planeteers come across a faulty irrigation project, engineered by Looten Plunder, who has manipulated the Tribe into allowing him to

S3·E7 Core

The Guinea Pigs

Oct 24, 1992 · 25 min

Dr. Blight, who is doing inhumane experiments for a makeup company, is troubled by the Planeteers and the makeup company's owner. Dr. Blight tries to use them as her guinea pigs.

S3·E8 Core

OK at the Gunfight Corral

Oct 31, 1992 · 25 min

The Planeteers travel back in time of pursuit of Hoogish Gredly and Sly Sludge, who intend to purchase the Grand Canyon decades before it becomes a landmark and use it as a land-fi

S3·E9 Core

Canned Hunt

Nov 7, 1992 · 25 min

The Planeteers are vacationing on a cruise, where they meet Trevor, a big game hunter. Linka, totally misunderstanding Trevor's reasoning for enjoying hunting, takes an immediate d

S3·E10 Mytharc

Hog Tide

Nov 14, 1992 · 25 min

In this story, we supposedly learn of Captain Planet's REAL first adventure... Gaia recounts how Hoggish Greedly's "Godfather" grandpa, Don Porkaloin, built Decco developments too

S3·E11 Core

A Formula for Hate

Nov 21, 1992 · 25 min

Verminous Skumm brainwashes a high school into thinking that AIDS is contagious & dangerous. The Planeteers help out a star basketball player who is accused of having the disease.

S3·E12 Mytharc

If It's Doomsday, This Must Be Belfast

Nov 28, 1992 · 25 min

To prove to Duke Nukem that the human race will self-destruct; Verminous Skumm steals and plants nuclear devices in war-torn areas across the globe. He then plays a little war gami

S3·E13 Mytharc

The Night of the Wolf

Dec 5, 1992 · 25 min

The ranch of Lon Talbot is under attack from wolves, and the Planeteers are called in to investigate. Talbot blames the attacks on a local occult known as "Friends of the Wolf," a

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