The Care Bears: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Care Bears Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Care Bear Town Parade
Sep 12, 1988 · 30 min
Beastly uses Cheer to get his car into Care Bear Town's parade. The car is designed to ruin the parade and destroy Care-A-Lot.
Hearts at Sea
Sep 13, 1988 · 30 min
Cheer brings a pet onboard the SS Friendship that grows out of control.
No Business Like Snow Business
Sep 14, 1988 · 30 min
Champ helps a young skier regain his confidence after an accident. Shreeky and Beastly do their best to stop him. Meanwhile Hugs, Tugs and Grumpy go sking.
The Factory of Uncaring
Sep 15, 1988 · 30 min
Champ shirks his duty of guarding the Caring Meter giving No Heart a perfect opportunity to cover a town with uncaring smoke.
The Lost Gift
Sep 16, 1988 · 15 min
Grams tells Hugs and Tugs how a magical apple tree fed an entire village until greed destroyed it.
Lotsa Heart's Wish
Sep 16, 1988 · 15 min
After helping a unicorn, Forest Ranger Lotsa Heart is granted three wishes with unexpected results. He then decides that being a forest ranger is the right thing for him.
The Showdown
Sep 26, 1988 · 30 min
The Care Bears try to help a young rodeo boy learn that how you feel about yourself is what really counts.
Caring for Spring
Sep 27, 1988 · 30 min
Mother Nature is captured by the witch of winter, and if Hugs and Tugs don't rescue her by sunset, it will be winter forever.
The Turnabout
Sep 28, 1988 · 15 min
When No Heart creates a fog to keep the Care Bears from helping people, Braveheart puts the Care Bear team in charge of putting the Caring Beacon in the tower and watching Hugs and
Cheer of the Jungle
Sep 28, 1988 · 15 min
Cheer, a city girl, visits Champ in the jungle but soon learns not to judge something by looks alone.
Beautiful Dreamer
Sep 29, 1988 · 15 min
Grams tells a story of a Broadway star who gives a young washer woman the confidence to go onstage and perform in a show.
Care Bear Carneys
Sep 29, 1988 · 15 min
Beastly and Shreeky trick the Care Bears away from their work and into a carnival they've set up as a trap to capture them.
The Pirate Treasure
Sep 30, 1988 · 15 min
Beastly takes Champ and Treat Heart prisoner on the high seas and Hugs and Tugs try to save them with the help of a pirate.
Grin & Bear It
Sep 30, 1988 · 15 min
When No Heart banishes Beastly, he tries to join the Care Bears but discovers being a good guy is more than he can stand.
Perils of the Pyramid
Oct 10, 1988 · 15 min
Hugs and Tugs teach gung-ho archeologist Brave Heart to look before you leap as they enter a booby-trapped pyramid.
Bedtime for Care-a-Lot
Oct 10, 1988 · 15 min
Bedtime Bear is the only one who can save the other Care Bears who have been put to sleep by Noheart's magical sleeping sand.
The Fountain Of Youth
Oct 11, 1988 · 15 min
Champ Bear, with help from Braveheart Lion, goes on a quest to find a fountain whose water makes everyone younger--but Beastly and Shrieky will stop at nothing to find it too.
Treat Heart Baba And The Two Thieves
Oct 11, 1988 · 15 min
Treat Heart plays the role of Ali Baba in this episode with Beastly and Shriekly playing the roles of the theiving villains. Treat Heart must outwit the two villains in order to re
Dr. Brightenstein's Monster
Oct 12, 1988 · 15 min
Hugs and Tugs learn that just because someone acts or looks different dosn't mean they're not
The Care Fair Scare
Oct 12, 1988 · 15 min
The Care Bears organize a fair to cheer children up and make them happy but Shreeky and Beastly are determined to destroy it.
Mystery Of The Phantom
Oct 13, 1988 · 15 min
Grams recounts how a group of Care Bears overcome their fears to fix up an old theatre haunted by a mysterious phantom.
Under The Big Top
Oct 13, 1988 · 15 min
Brave Heart and Grumpy help a small boy be part of the circus unaware that the evil duo Beastly and Shreeky are out to trap them.
The Most Ancient Gift
Oct 14, 1988 · 15 min
Grams tells a story of ancient Egypt, Beastly and Shreeky try to break the friendship between two neighboring countries by stealing a precious gift.
Ski Trouble
Oct 14, 1988 · 15 min
Bright Heart goes skiing by himself, and is nearly captured by Beastly and Shreeky.
The Care Bears' Exercise Show
Oct 24, 1988 · 15 min
Champ Bear hosts an exercise show complete with a warm up aerobics, and many helpful fitness tips.
The Care-A-Lot Games
Oct 24, 1988 · 15 min
The city of Care-A-Lot is holding its Care-A-Lot Games, an event similar to the Olympics in the human world. As fast as the games start, Shrieky and Beastly team up to cheat their
Gram's Cooking Corner
Oct 25, 1988 · 15 min
Gram's bear has a new cooking show on TV and she's baking cookies. Even Beastly watches it and tries to make some.
A Care Bear's Look at Food Facts And Fables
Oct 25, 1988 · 15 min
The Care Bears host a fascinating potpourri of cooking trivia and yummy recipes that children can do themselves.
The Thing That Came to Stay
Oct 26, 1988 · 15 min
A wild animal Cheer brings on board the S.s. Friendship creates so much trouble that she soon learns animals should remain in the wild.
The Space Bubbles
Oct 26, 1988 · 15 min
When the Care Bears help a marooned Space Clown, Grumpy unfortunately gets the brunt of the Clown's practical jokes.
Cheer Bear’s Chance
Oct 27, 1988 · 15 min
Cheer must prove herself to the rest of the crew when Beastly and Shreeky attack the SS Friendship.
A Hungry Little Guy
Oct 27, 1988 · 15 min
Beastly and Shreeky place an alien on board the SS Friendship to create havoc among the crew members so they can take over.
King Of The Moon
Oct 28, 1988 · 15 min
Brave Heart believes he's not needed by his crew and becomes the King of the Moon but soon learns that they need him after all.
On Duty
Oct 28, 1988 · 15 min
Treat Hear learns there is a time to work and a time to play because of her, Shreeky captures Hugs and Tugs.
The Secret of the Box
Nov 7, 1988 · 15 min
Trouble starts when the crew of the SS Friendship become obsessed with opening a box to be delivered to an alien planet.
The Frozen Forest
Nov 7, 1988 · 15 min
The crew of the SS Friendship is in big trouble when Beastly and Shreeky plan to use a freezing ray and turn them to ice.
Grumpy's Little Friend
Nov 8, 1988 · 15 min
Grumpy wants to see his little dinosaur friend again but has more to contend with when Shreeky and Beastly attack Cavetown and only he can defend it.
One Million C.B.
Nov 8, 1988 · 15 min
To avoid doing their chores, Hugs and Tugs pretend to come down with a terrible sickness. Only one thing will "cure" the two baby Care Bears: a tear from No-Heartsaurus, and he has
Tugs The Brave
Nov 9, 1988 · 15 min
Little Tugs tries to be like his hero Brave Heart but realizes he'd rather be himself when he confronts a dangerous dinosaur.
Coconut Crazy
Nov 9, 1988 · 15 min
Brave Heart doesn't think much of Bright Heart's zany inventions but soon changes his tune when one of them saves Cavetown.
Bad Luck Friday
Nov 10, 1988 · 15 min
Brave Heart must overcome his superstitions on Friday the 13th and save the other Care Bears who are lost in the jungle.
Food Frolics
Nov 10, 1988 · 15 min
The Care Bears are baffled when a usually friendly dinosaur turns mysteriously hostile and starts wrecking their garden.
It's Raining, It's Boring
Nov 11, 1988 · 15 min
On a rainy day Hugs and Tugs overcome the Bast of Boredom by finding lots of exciting things to do.
A Day Without Tugs
Nov 11, 1988 · 15 min
With Tugs sick in bed, Hugs spends a fun filled day doing many activities with her newfound friend - her own shadow.
The Fabulous Care Bear's Safety Game
Nov 21, 1988 · 15 min
The Care Bears explain what you should and shouldn't do when it comes to being safe around the house with Beastly providing the wrong answers and Brave Heart Lion providing the rig
A Rhyme in Time
Nov 21, 1988 · 15 min
While Grams read the Cubs safety Rhymes, Hugs and Tugs daydream and act out they have heard.
Songfellow Strum and His Magic Train
Nov 22, 1988 · 15 min
The Care Bears visit with a singing minstrel in a place called Musicland.
The Music Video
Nov 22, 1988 · 15 min
The Care Bears attend a music concert with the singing minstrel.
Care Bears Nutcracker Suite
Dec 10, 1988 · 60 min
As the Care Bears, their newfound friends and the Nutcracker, journey through Toyland, the evil Vizier tries to stop them at all cost.