G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1

Episode 1: The M.A.S.S. Device: The Cobra Strikes (1) 1983-09-12 | 30 min Cobra seizes control of a new satellite for use with a new transportation device, and Duke is captured in the attempt. The G.I. Joe team learns that they must build their own device to defeat Cobra.

Episode 2: The M.A.S.S. Device: Slave of the Cobra Master (2) 1983-09-13 | 30 min The Joes travel to the arctic to retrieve rare minerals to fuel their MASS device, but Cobra ambushes them, and Snake Eyes is presumed dead. Duke manages to escape the Cobra base with the help of a slave girl, but he is injured and cannot remember the base's location.

Episode 3: The M.A.S.S. Device: The Worms of Death (3) 1983-09-14 | 30 min Snake Eyes returns home with the help of a wolf and a blind man. The Joes and Cobras battling for undersea elements must join forces to escape giant tubeworms on the ocean floor.

Episode 4: The M.A.S.S. Device: Duel in the Devil's Cauldron (4) 1983-09-15 | 30 min G.I. Joe tries to throw off Cobra with a false surrender while mounting a mission to the Ring of Fire for the third element. Destro sabotages the operation but is pursued by Scarlett.

Episode 5: The M.A.S.S. Device: A Stake in the Serpent's Heart (5) 1983-09-16 | 30 min Destro returns to Cobra base and seizes control of the operation from the Commander. The now-captured Scarlett and the slave girl organize a slave revolt. Duke's memories under sensory deprivation lead the Joes to the Cobra base where a final battle takes place. Cobra Commander is captured and taken to prison, but Destro escapes. The battle is over but not the war!

Episode 6: The Revenge of Cobra: In the Cobra's Pit (1) 1984-09-10 | 30 min A Cobra attack on a Joe convoy results in the capture of Duke and Snake Eyes and the theft of a laser core which Destro uses to power his new weapon, the Weather Dominator. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander is briefly captured but rescued by Zartan.

Episode 7: The Revenge of Cobra: The Vines of Evil (2) 1984-09-11 | 30 min Flint and Mutt, stranded by the weather dominator, hire Shipwreck to ferry them out of Cobra territory. Meanwhile, the Joes develop an energy mirror to fight the dominator's attacks, but Destro smashes them with a hailstorm. During the battle, Destro's weapon breaks, and the three pieces scatter over the globe.

Episode 8: The Revenge of Cobra: The Palace of Doom (3) 1984-09-12 | 30 min As Flint, Mutt, and Shipwreck return to Joe Headquarters, the Joes and Cobras head to the Island of No Return and the jungle Palace of Doom to retrieve parts of the weather dominator.

Episode 9: The Revenge of Cobra: Battle on the Roof of the World (4) 1984-09-13 | 30 min As G.I. Joe and Cobra race to retrieve the three parts, Zartan ensures that each side acquires one piece, and then steals the laser core at the Roof of the World.

Episode 10: The Revenge of Cobra: Amusement Park of Terror (5) 1984-09-14 | 30 min Cobra steals the Joes' piece of the dominator and assaults Zartan's base. Now in possession of all three pieces, Destro seeks to rebuild the weather dominator. The Joes locate the Cobra Temple and attack it.

Episode 11: The Pyramid of Darkness: The Further Adventures of G.I. Joe (1) 1985-09-16 | 30 min Cobra briefly attacks a Joe shuttle launch long enough to load it with its own forces. Shipwreck and Snake Eyes are lost in Cobra territory, and Zartan uses the shuttle to commandeer a space station and destroy Joe Headquarters from space. Meanwhile, Cobra Commander reveals a plan to deprive most of the world of electricity.

Episode 12: The Pyramid of Darkness: Rendezvous in the City of the Dead (2) 1985-09-17 | 30 min With G.I. Joe headquarters nearly destroyed, the Joes establish a temporary base on the USS Flagg. Joes on the space station try to warn the team of Cobra's plan to plant cubes at strategic locations to create an electricity-inhibiting pyramid over the northern hemisphere.

Episode 13: The Pyramid of Darkness: Three Cubes to Darkness (3) 1985-09-18 | 30 min The Joes rush to prevent Cobra from planting its huge cubes as Shipwreck and Snake Eyes try to evade detection.

Episode 14: The Pyramid of Darkness: Chaos in the Sea of Lost Souls (4) 1985-09-19 | 30 min Quick Kick joins Alpine and Bazooka, and the Crimson Twins turn the tables on Cobra Commander by taking control of the space station and the Pyramid of Darkness.

Episode 15: The Pyramid of Darkness: Knotting Cobra's Coils (5) 1985-09-20 | 30 min As the Cobra leaders struggle for control of their organization, Quick Kick and Shipwreck lead the Joes in an assault on Cobra forces to destroy their pyramid-creating abilities.

Episode 16: Countdown for Zartan 1985-09-23 | 30 min Cobra kidnaps a French scientist named Dr. Emil Mettier, and Zartan replaces him before he arrives at the World Wide Defense Center to complete their database on terrorism. Spirit is suspicious of the doctor, and when he investigates, he is confronted, then captured by Storm Shadow. Freedom escapes, and leads Lady Jaye, Recondo, Doc, Gung-Ho and Stalker back to the Defense Center, only to discover that Zartan has replaced the doctor and has set up a bomb. While the Joes search for the bomb, Gung-Ho locks Zartan in a prison cell in plain view of Zartan's countdown watch, which unbeknownst to Zartan, Gung-Ho has set it two minutes ahead. Zartan is fooled, and reveals the location in time for the bomb to be disarmed. Zartan escapes, and Spirit and the real Dr. Mettier are saved from death by laughing gas by Storm Shadow. Cobra launches one more futile attack, the Joes counter it, and all's right with the world.

Episode 17: Red Rocket's Glare 1985-09-24 | 30 min Extensive Enterprises uses biker gangs to terrorize Red Rocket diners, then buys them back at a lower price and replaces the diners' rocket props with real rockets. But Roadblock's family, unaware of EE's connections to Cobra, refuses to sell their restaurant.

Episode 18: Satellite Down 1985-09-25 | 30 min When Cobra uses a tractor beam to steal a spy satellite recently placed in space by the Joes, Breaker forces the satellite to crash in the jungles of Africa, but a tribe of hominid Primords complicates Joe and Cobra's efforts to recover the technology.

Episode 19: Cobra Stops the World 1985-09-26 | 30 min Cobra attacks crucial oil derricks, pipelines, and tankers, seeking to control the world's fuel supplies. But G.I. Joe use Cobra Commander's remote-control attacks to pinpoint his location.

Episode 20: Jungle Trap 1985-09-27 | 30 min Cobra kidnaps scientist Dr. Shakur in order to harness the energy of Earth's core and cause volcanic eruptions, but the Joes work through a number of traps to raid Cobra's jungle base and destroy Cobra's newest weapon.

Episode 21: Cobra's Creatures 1985-09-30 | 30 min Mutt, Junkyard, & Ripcord are kidnapped by Cobra, so that the evil scientist, Dr. Lucifer, can test his new invention, High Freq, a device which controls the minds of animals and insects, on Junkyard. Cobra use it to gain control of an army of animals to take over the world, and send Junkyard hunting after Mutt. In exchange for High Freq, Cobra agrees to break Dr. Lucifer's love, Dr. Attilla, out of jail. GI Joe learns of this, and has Scarlett pose as Attilla, but it's obvious to Lucifer she is not Attilla, and Scarlett is captured. Snake-Eyes and Spirit come to the rescue, using Timber and Freedom to sneak into Cobra's jungle castle and rescue Ripcord and Scarlet, and stop High Freq.

Episode 22: The Funhouse 1985-10-01 | 30 min Flint, Dusty, Bazooka, Alpine, and others have to break into a temple to stop Cobra from its next plan to take over the world. When the temple turns out to be a fun house with obstacles of death, the Joes have to find their way to Cobra Commander and save the day!

Episode 23: Twenty Questions 1985-10-02 | 30 min Investigative reporter Hector Ramirez believes that Cobra is not a real threat and that G.I. Joe is a drain on taxpayers' money. But Shipwreck takes him on an unauthorized mission into Cobra territory to prove their danger.

Episode 24: The Greenhouse Effect 1985-10-03 | 30 min A Crimson Guard steals a container filled with experimental rocket fuel, causing plants to grow to gargantuan sizes. Destro convinces Cobra Commander that the plants could be used in combat. Harvey 15 Bullock 6

Episode 25: Haul Down the Heavens 1985-10-04 | 30 min The Joes travel to the arctic regions at the top of the world in order to stop Cobra from using the Aurora Borealis to melt the ice and flood coastal cities around the world.

Episode 26: Synthoid Conspiracy (1) 1985-10-07 | 30 min Cobra attempts to cripple the Joes from within by replacing leaders and committee members with artificial beings known as synthoids. The synthoids cut G. I. Joe's budget and eventually order the team to disband.

Episode 27: Synthoid Conspiracy (2) 1985-10-08 | 30 min When Destro discovers a synthoid of himself, he aids the Joes in defeating Cobra's synthoid plot.

Episode 28: The Phantom Brigade 1985-10-09 | 30 min Cobra Commander recruits an elderly Gypsy woman to use three small artifacts, which allow them to command three ghosts to attack the Joes. The Baroness and a phantom World War One pilot help the Joes recover the artifacts.

Episode 29: Lights! Camera! Cobra! 1985-10-10 | 30 min Movie producer wants the real G.I. Joes to star in his movie about them after finding actors to be too unrealistic.

Episode 30: Cobra's Candidate 1985-10-11 | 30 min Cobra backs a candidate for mayor and uses street thugs to intimidate voters and drum up public sympathy for Cobra's would-be mayor. The gang turns on Cobra when a brother of one of the youths is nearly burned in a fire.

Episode 31: Money to Burn 1985-10-14 | 30 min Cobra creates a machine that destroys all the money in the country leaving all its citizens vitually penniless.

Episode 32: Operation Mind Menace 1985-10-15 | 30 min Flash, Airborne, and several other Joes discover that Cobra has amplified the psionic powers of some civilians for use as living weapons; one of the captives is Airborne's telekinetic brother.

Episode 33: Battle for the Train of Gold 1985-10-16 | 30 min Cobra steals the gold stored at Fort Knox and begins moving it out with a bullet train. When the Joes' equipment is destroyed in a surprise attack, they must use horses to stop the train.

Episode 34: Cobra Soundwaves 1985-10-17 | 30 min Cobra develops a powerful sonic weapon and begins testing it on a country in the Middle East. An Arabian prince assists the Joes.

Episode 35: Where the Reptiles Roam 1985-10-18 | 30 min Cobra purchases a dude ranch through one of its dummy corporations, intending to control a nearby solar power station. G. I. Joe travels to the ranch to flush out the Cobras.

Episode 36: The Gamesmaster 1985-10-21 | 30 min A bored game player decides to have members of both G.I.Joe and Cobra become part of his newest and most dangerous game where they are the victims.

Episode 37: Lasers in the Night 1985-10-22 | 30 min Quick Kick's girlfriend Amber breaks into G.I. Joe Headquarters with the intent of joining the team, and Cobra Commander steals a prototype laser device to carve his likeness on the moon.

Episode 38: The Germ 1985-10-23 | 30 min A Cobra spy steals a deadly bacteria along with an experimental growth serum and accidently creates a living, growing and monstrous terror. G.I. Joe must use an orchard of apples to destroy it.

Episode 39: The Viper is Coming 1985-10-24 | 30 min The ""viper"" is making phone calls leading the Joes to stopping all of Cobra's plans of domination. But one question remains, who is the ""viper""?!

Episode 40: Spell of the Siren 1985-10-25 | 30 min The Baroness discovers a conch shell whose song hypnotizes men. She uses the shell to seize control of Cobra and capture most of the Joes. One of the Crimson Twins aids Scarlett, Lady Jaye, and Cover Girl in rescuing their companions.

Episode 41: Cobra Quake 1985-10-28 | 30 min Cobra decides to test a new earthquake-causing weapon to disrupt a Japan peace conference. It is up to Quick Kick, Bazooka, and their trainees to stop Cobra.

Episode 42: Captives of Cobra (1) 1985-10-29 | 30 min Cobra kidnaps relatives of the Joe team and uses mind-control technology to turn the Joes' families against them. Their goal is to steal highly unstable explosive crystals.

Episode 43: Captives of Cobra (2) 1985-10-30 | 30 min As the Joes and their families are endangered by the highly explosive crystals, Scarlett and others try to disable the mind-control center.

Episode 44: Bazooka Saw a Sea Serpent 1985-10-31 | 30 min Cobra unleashes an enormous mechanical sea-serpent that devours any seacraft it comes across, enslaves its captives and grows biggers the more it eats.

Episode 45: Excalibur 1985-11-01 | 30 min Storm Shadow steals the sword Excalibur from The Lady Of The Lake. The Joes help her get it back.

Episode 46: Worlds Without End (1) 1985-11-04 | 30 min The G.I. Joe team gets sent to another dimension in which Cobra took over the world.

Episode 47: Worlds Without End (2) 1985-11-05 | 30 min The G.I. Joe team gets sent to another dimension in which Cobra took over the world.

Episode 48: Eau de Cobra 1985-11-06 | 30 min An ancient Babylonian manuscript on secret potions is stolen from the British Museum. Meanwhile, Zartan leads Cobra troopers on a search for a rare fungus to help create an irrestible perfume to make a famous Greek shipping tycoon fall prey to the Baroness' charm and put his entire task force in Cobra's control.

Episode 49: Cobra Claws Are Coming to Town 1985-11-07 | 30 min Cobra makes a generous donation to the Joes' toy drive: a battalion of Cobra troops, miniaturized to look like toys. Once inside Joe Headquarters, the Cobra forces sabotage the defenses, open the gates, and let the rest of the Cobra forces inside. The Joes have to use Cobra's vehicles to stop Cobra's attack on the city using the Joe's own vehicles.

Episode 50: An Eye for an Eye 1985-11-08 | 30 min A civilian's home is destroyed during a battle between G.I. Joe and Cobra, and he breaks into G.I. Joe Headquarters to seek revenge against Cobra.