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Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Two Futures: Part 1 (Season 1, Episode 24)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Hoggish Greedly prepares to enter Dr. Blight's time pool to travel back to the 1950s where he can profit through development as much as he pleases without having to worry about environmental policies. The Planeteers track down their cave ...See moreHoggish Greedly prepares to enter Dr. Blight's time pool to travel back to the 1950s where he can profit through development as much as he pleases without having to worry about environmental policies. The Planeteers track down their cave in Greenland, and though Captain Planet slows down Greedly and Rigger, Wheeler's pursuit of them near the pool separates him from the others when a sound-wave machine causes an ice-fall. Cap is weakened by radiation and must depart, and the others can't see an easy way to get through the blockade. Bitter about being trapped in a carbon-dioxide-filled chamber with Dr. Blight when he could be celebrating a New Year's Eve party, Wheeler admits that this is one of those times he regrets becoming a Planeteer. Blight offers to let him stop their imprisonment by having him go back in time and undo that. Wheeler gives the date and location, but is reluctant to actually go until Blight pushes him through the pool. Going 360 days back in time to New York, Wheeler catches the Fire ring meant for himself and warns him to refuse it since it's fatal. His past self agrees and flees, but then Wheeler is confronted by Gaia, who tells him that he changed history in more ways than he thought. Greedly was never stopped from going back in time himself, so global warming is now much worse thanks to his decades' worth of polluting. The Planeteers never formed without their fifth member, and Captain Planet could not be summoned without the Ring of Fire. Wheeler doubts this can be true, since others might have been chosen in his place. Gaia takes him forward 35 years through MAL's time-pool system, where he finds New York flooded from global warming... Written by brainybrailler@comcast.net See less
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Directors
Writers
Doug Molitor (written by) | Ted Turner (original idea by) | Thom Beers (developed by) | Nicholas Boxer (developed by) & 6 more
Producer
Composer
Casting Directors
Marsha Goodman | Ginny McSwain (as Virginia McSwain)
Status
Edit Released
Updated May 18, 1991

Release date
May 18, 1991 (United States)
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12 cast members
Name Known for
David Coburn
Captain Planet (voice) Captain Planet (voice)   See fewer
LeVar Burton
Kwame / Opening Narrator (voice) Kwame / Opening Narrator (voice)   See fewer
Joey Dedio
Wheeler (voice) Wheeler (voice)   See fewer
Janice Kawaye
Gi (voice) Gi (voice)   See fewer
Scott Menville
Ma-Ti (voice) Ma-Ti (voice)   See fewer
Kath Soucie
Linka (voice) Linka (voice)   See fewer
Whoopi Goldberg
Gaia (voice) Gaia (voice)   See fewer
Edward Asner
Hoggish Greedly (voice) Hoggish Greedly (voice)   See fewer
Tim Curry
MAL (voice) MAL (voice)   See fewer
Clyde Kusatsu
Curator (voice) (credit only) Curator (voice) (credit only)   See fewer
John Ratzenberger
Rigger (voice) Rigger (voice)   See fewer
Meg Ryan
Dr. Blight (voice) Dr. Blight (voice)   See fewer
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