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The Big O: Season 1

26 episodes Premiered Oct 13, 1999 Updated Jul 22, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

Roger the Negotiator

Oct 13, 1999 · 25 min

In the pilot episode, Roger Smith is introduced as Paradigm City's top negotiator. As the episode begins, he is delivering the ransom for a girl named Dorothy, who had been kidnap

S1·E2

Dorothy, Dorothy

Oct 20, 1999 · 25 min

In the previous episode, Major Dastun and Dorothy looked like they were going to be crushed by Dorothy One as it fell. However, when the dust cleared, Dastun was fine and Dorothy

S1·E3

Electric City

Oct 27, 1999 · 25 min

Recently, there's been a number of power outages in Paradigm. Roger is hired by Paradigm Power Management to go to the Electric City and negotiate with the locals the reactivation

S1·E4

Underground Terror

Nov 3, 1999 · 25 min

A woman named Patricia Lovejoy (the same woman called Angel in Electric City) approaches Roger Smith about a job with Paradigm. He is supposed to convince a reporter named Michael

S1·E5

Bring Back My Ghost

Nov 10, 1999 · 25 min

A military police vehicle crashes after seeing an apparition while crossing a certain bridge and it is apparently only the latest in a string of such accidents involving high ups i

S1·E6

A Legacy of Amadeus

Nov 17, 1999 · 25 min

After waking Roger up with her piano playing, Roger decides to take Dorothy to see a friend who can help her learn to add feeling to her playing. His friend is a robot named Instr

S1·E7

The Call from the Past

Nov 24, 1999 · 25 min

Episode begins, Roger and Angel are trapped in a building buried under the sea, one of a string apparently created by the Event. Three days earlier, Roger is trying to negotiate t

S1·E8

Missing Cat

Dec 1, 1999 · 25 min

Dorothy befriends a stray cat and takes it in. Roger thinks it's cute until the owners of the cat show up. But what's more, the cat is more than what he seems to be.

S1·E9

Beck Comes Back

Dec 8, 1999 · 25 min

Episode begins with Beck being broken out of prison by a Megadeus. Then, Roger is hired by Mr. Wise, a rich industrialist, to negotiate for the return of his kidnapped son, Franci

S1·E10

Winter Night Phantom

Dec 15, 1999 · 25 min

Major Dastun has been having a recurring dream about a woman in white who is shot on a pier with her final words being ""Vous êtes si gentil."" The language has been long forgott

S1·E11

Daemonseed

Jan 5, 2000 · 25 min

Dorothy is buying a tie for Roger at the department store in preparation for Heaven's Day. Roger snaps at her when he sees her and when he apologizes, he sees a saxophone player o

S1·E12

Enemy Is Another Big

Jan 12, 2000 · 25 min

Roger is hired by Alex Rosewater to deliver a very large severance check to Michael Seebach aka Schwartzvald. After accepting the assignment, Roger intercepts the police radio abo

S1·E13

RD

Jan 19, 2000 · 25 min

The episode begins with a mysterious woman in a red cloak and hood murdering several people, leaving behind only the phrase, ""Cast In The Name Of Good Ye Not Guilty."" This is t

S1·E14

Roger the Wanderer

Jan 2, 2003 · 25 min

Roger Smith takes on the three foreign MegaDeuses, as well as the demons in his own mind. The battles he fights, both internal and external, will change Paradigm City forever.

S1·E15

Negotiations with the Dead

Jan 9, 2003 · 25 min

Roger is hired by a woman to protect her husband, a retired Senator, from an assassin. Apparently, the assassin is working for the same people who controlled the "mad bomber" from

S1·E16

Day of the Advent

Jan 16, 2003 · 25 min

An unknown object crashes to Earth inside Paradigm City. While the general populace takes it as a good sign, Roger Smith isn't so sure, especially when he is hired to perform a ver

S1·E17

Leviathan

Jan 23, 2003 · 25 min

Schwartzvald rears his bandaged head again, and a new MegaDeus threatens Paradigm City. Business as usual? Roger Smith sure doesn't think so.

S1·E18

The Greatest Villian

Jan 30, 2003 · 25 min

When Beck kidnaps Roger Smith, R. Dorothy must take the case. Prepare yourself for R. Dorothy Waynewright...the Negotiator. Paradigm City will never be the same.

S1·E19

Eyewitness

Feb 6, 2003 · 25 min

Someone is killing androids in Paradigm City. After several attacks, Paradigm HQ dispatches a special agent to assist in the case: Freddy O'Reilly. But Freddy is an android himself

S1·E20

Stripes

Feb 13, 2003 · 25 min

Roger is still having strange flashbacks. He can only assume that they are memories, but he's not quite sure. Frustrated, he returns to visit Gordon Rosewater, the man who built Pa

S1·E21

The Third Big

Feb 20, 2003 · 25 min

Roger Smith & Dan Dastun race to R. Dorothy's aid, while Alex Rosewater finally unveils "Big Fau". But can he control the power of a MegaDeus once it is unleashed?

S1·E22

Hydra

Feb 27, 2003 · 25 min

Roger is unsympathetic to Alex's problems. Alex pushes his science group to reactivate the Big Fau. Underground tremors and a power outage draw attention to these tests, and the un

S1·E23

Twisted Memories

Mar 6, 2003 · 25 min

Beck's back, with an army of annoying android assassins. Alex Rosewater deals with his Daddy Issues in a very negative way, while at the same using Beck to kidnap R. Dorothy. And w

S1·E24

The Big Fight

Mar 13, 2003 · 25 min

Roger Smith and Big O slug it out with Alan Gabriel and "Big Duo Infern", while Alex Rosewater uses R. Dorothy's Memories to complete Big Fau. And the Union is still out there...

S1·E25

The War of Paradigm City

Mar 20, 2003 · 25 min

When high-altitude bombing levels Paradigm City, Alex Rosewater proclaims his "New Order". Meanwhile, Roger Smith and Angel uncover the soul-shattering secrets behind the Event, an

S1·E26

The Show Must Go On

Mar 27, 2003 · 25 min

R. Dorothy rises from her deathbed, thanks (in part) to Beck. Roger Smith and Alex Rosewater stage the Showdown of the Century, while Gordon Rosewater shows Angel her true destiny.