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GI Joe Season 1 Part 1 DVD
Cobra's Creatures
Written by Kimmer Ringwald

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.


Countdown For Zartan
Written by Christy Marx

Cobra kidnaps a French scientist, and Zartan replaces him before he arrives at 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 the Joes back to the Defense Center, only to discover that Zartan has replaced the doctor and has set a bomb. While, 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 ahead. Zartan is fooled, and reveals the location in time for the bomb to be disarmed. That tricky Zartan escapes and Spirit and the real Dr. Metier are saved from death by laughing gas by Storm Shadow. Cobra launches one more futile attack, and all's right with the world.


Cobra Stops the World
Written by Steve Gerber

Cobra has taken control of the world's energy resources and is demanding that the governments of the world surrender, and for every hour they delay Cobra will destroy one oil tanker. The Joes surmise that Cobra a clocking device are destroying the tankers by remote control, Sparks works on a tracking devise while the Joes travel all over creation trying to find when Cobra is hiding their base. Duke and Ace are captured after being shot down over the jungle and discover a Cobra mining operation. Sparks is able to track the remote detonation and the Joes converge on Cobra's island hideout. The clocking devise is destroyed, but Cobra Commander and Destro escape.



Jungle Trap
Written by Paul Dini

Cobra kidnaps a scientist, Dr. Shakur, and forces him to build the Vulcan Machine, a device that unleashes molten lava from the earth's core on cities. After being shot down, the Joes must travel though the jungle to get to Cobra's temple, freeing the doctor and stopping the Vulcan machine.
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Haul Down the Heavens
Written by Buzz Dixon


Flint, Lady Jaye, and Snow Job accompany a team of scientists to the North Pole, to investigate a disturbance in the aurora borealis, that could melt the polar ice caps. Only after they leave, is that Cobra has replaced one of the scientists with the Baroness. The Joes are chased by a polar bear to the Cobra base, causing the disturbance. Flint and LJ are captured, but Snow Job escapes and calls the Joes. Cobra sabotages the Joes Sky Strykers to keep the Joes from stopping their Ion Attractor to flood the world. Flint and Lady Jaye distract the Cobra soldiers with an off-key rendition of the Marines Hymn and escape. Ripcord is able to fly up to the Arctic Circle and rescue SnowJob, while the Joes use Hovercrafts to sink the Cobra base with their own weapon.


Battle for the Train of Gold
Written by David Carren

The Joes are undercover guarding the Bureau of Engraving waiting for Cobra to attack. Cobra forces sneak in disguised as tourist and steal the A-4 cassette, which contains the plans and information about Fort Knox, where the US government has it's gold depository. A huge Joe force is sent to guard Fort Knox, despite it's commanding general's disapproval. Zartan and the Dreadnoks kidnap the general and Zartan impersonates the general, ordering all the soldiers guarding the gold out, then trapping Duke, Scarlett and Snake Eyes inside. Cobra forces load the gold and the three Joes onto a super-train and pull away before the Joes can find the secret tunnel under the depository. Since the Cobra battle most of their air and ground transportation destroyed, they borrow some horses to follow the train. The three captured Joes become expendable and are thrown off the train, but they manage to escape. The other Joes catch up with the train and block the tracks. The train crashes and stops, allowing the Joes to raid the train. Buzzer's chainsaw goes wild during the ensuing fight and cuts the pressure regulator. The Train topples over and exploded. All make it out safely and the gold is returned.
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Operation Mind Menace
Written by Martin Pasko

Airborne and Flash's helicopter is shot down on an island and are captured. Meanwhile, Airborne's brother, Tommy, is being tested for ESP. Storm Shadow and an old guy with fire coming out of his head kidnap Tommy. Cobra forms an army of civilians with psionic powers. Flash and Airborne manage to escape the island after fighting giant statues. The Joes attack Cobra's base, which is guarded by the psi-army. In the end, Tommy is able to help the Joes and stop Cobra. Storm Shadow has the wrong voice in this episode .


Lights! Camera! Cobra!
Written by Buzz Dixon
In an attempt to make their new GI Joe Movie less 'phony', the movie producer hires on some of the more 'problem some" GI Joes as technical advisors, along with real GI Joe and Cobra equipment, including Cobra's new Firebat. The Dreadnoks are sent to retrieve the Firebat, and one by one take out the GI Joes, including Shipwreck, who tricks the producers into letting him go to Hollywood, only to be arrested, along with Cover Girl. The Joes regroup at the movie set, and when the Dreadnoks attack again, Shipwreck is captured after being knocked unconscious in the Firebat, now on auto pilot and returning to the Cobra base. Using Hollywood Special Effects, the Joes trick Cobra into releasing Shipwreck, and the movie producers get their battle footage when Cobra attacks the movie set.
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Cobra's Candidate
Written by Gordon Kent
A group of Joes are sent to stop a gang from disrupting a political campaign. To enhance the popularity of Cobra's candidate, Robert Harper, Cobra is paying the gang to harass Harper and to support his opponent, Whitter Greenway. Lady Jaye and Scarlett try to tell the gang about Cobra's plot, and meet up with the gang leader's little brother. At a political rally that evening, Cobra blows up several buildings, intending to blame the gang. However, the gang leader's little brother is in one of the buildings and Scarlett has to rescue him. The gang members finally see that Cobra is using them and Harper is exposed as a crook.
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Red Rocket's Glare
Written by Mary Skrenes
Destro barely escapes Cobra's jungle temple with the photon disintegrator, a missile warhead of mass destruction. Afterward, Recondo and Roadblock go on vacation, traveling to Roadblock's aunt and uncle's new restaurant, a Red Rocket Drive Thru. The restaurant is being constantly harassed by bikers with ray guns and a guy wanting them to sell the restaurant. The Joes find out that Extensive Enterprises owns the chain of restaurants and investigates. When Cobra Commander goes on t.v. demanding all governments surrender or they will launch their new missiles, the Joes realize the map of missiles match the locations of the Red Rocket Restaurants and scramble all forces. Once all the missiles are disarmed, the Joes gather at Roadblock's aunt and uncle's restaurant, now named The Joes Place.
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Satellite Down
Written By Ted Pederson

The Joes' new intelligence satellite crashes in a remote area of Africa and both Joes and Cobra go after it. However, the satellite has been recovered by the Primords, a group of ape-like primitive people, who think the satellite is a god. The Primords also have captured a group of Joe and Cobra agents. But in the end, the Primords help the Joes stop Cobra from stealing the satellite and in the process the satellite is destroyed. The Joes replace the Primord's satellite "god" with a t.v., which the Primords destroy.


Money to Burn
Written by Roger Slifer
Cobra invents a device that vaporizes all of the world's money. Cobra then issues their own new currency, in trade for people's valuables, at the Extensive Enterprise Building. Flint and the gang burst into the EE Building, where the Crimson twins are meeting with Gloria Vanderhoss, a rich lady meeting with them to have Cobra protect her valuables. The Joes leave when they get an idea how to deal with Cobra: they kidnap the real Mrs. Vanderhoss, and replace her with LJ. The Joes are able to follow Lady Jaye to Cobra's jet through a holographic mountain, to Cobra's base were Cobra's vaulting valuables and minting Cobra Currency. The Twins discover LJ posing as Mrs. Vanderhoss, and LJ escapes. The reinforcements arrive, and the ensuing battle destroys the Terminal Ignition Transmitter, and it rains Cobra Currency.
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The Phantom Brigade
Written by Sharman Di Vono
An old gypsy lady gives Cobra Commander three objects which she uses to lure three ghosts, a Roman warrior, a Mongolian warrior woman, and an American WWI pilot, into the service of Cobra. The ghosts are an unstoppable army, but the Joes talk to the WWI pilot and convince him that Cobra is using them. The Joes raid Cobra's castle and with the help of the ghosts, recover the three objects. Once the objects are buried, the ghosts' spirits are finally at peace and leave this Earthly realm.


Synthoid Conspiracy Pt 1
Written by Christy Marx
During war games for the military brass on the USS Flagg, the Joes are attacked my Cobra and, unknown to the Joes, the top military officers are replace by Synthoids, exact replicas that are loyal only to Cobra. The Synthoids slash the Joes funding and supplies so the Joes are unable to defend themselves from Cobra then disband G.I. Joe completely. Duke is also captured and replace by a Synthoid.


Synthoid Conspiracy Pt 2
Written by Christy Marx
The real Duke escapes the Cobra base into a swamp and meets up with Mutt and Junkyard. The Joes secretly get back together. They attack an army base to get the supplies they need to retake headquarters. However, the Synthoids already know their plans because of the Evil Duke. Destro helps them since he's mad at Cobra Comm. He helps them escape when Joe HQ is surrounded, lets them use his aircraft carrier and gives them supplies for their assault on the Cobra fortress. Meanwhile, Mutt and Duke sneak into the Cobra fortress and rescue and The Brass. The fortress is heavily fortified, and most of the Sky Strikers are shot down. Scarlett fakes that her controls are locked and co-pilot Duke ejects. Scarlett now realizes he's a synthoid and follows him into a secret entrance. The evil Duke goes to Cobra Commander. To test if he is the real Duke or not, Cobra Comm. uses the neutralizer. However, it is on its highest setting and melts all the Synthoids. The Joes take out the fortress and then G.I. Joe is restored.



Spell of the Siren
Written by Gerry & Carla Conway


The Baroness barely escapes a Cobra underwater dome with the Conch of the Sirens, who's sound hypnotizes men. However, the Joes capture Destro. The Baroness tests the conch on the Joes in Alaska, but when Cobra Commander wants the conch, she uses it on him and Tomax. Baroness, now in charge of Cobra, attacks Joe headquarters and hypnotizes all of the male Joes and takes them to a Cobra base. The female Joes, and a few guys who were off base, have to rescue them and use an anti-siren to unhypnotize the Joes. In the end, the conch shell is destroyed, making the world safe for men.
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Twenty Questions
Written by Buzz Dixon
G.I. Joe's war games are interrupted by Hector Remirez from the tv show Twenty Questions, along with Arnold, a peace activist, who claim G.I. Joe is a fraud, swindling money from the tax payers. Since Duke is off base, Shipwreck is gives them a tour and then takes them to a Cobra base to prove that the Joe/Cobra battle is for real. They are shot down. Cover Girl, Gung Ho, Spirit and Alpine go rescue him from Cobra before Duke finds out. Shipwreck, Hector, Arnold and the cameraman are captured by Cobra and Arnold turns out to be the Baroness. Meanwhile, Zartan steals some explosive and other types of gases and takes it back to the Cobra base. The group of Joes sneak inside and Shipwreck releases laughing gas so that they can escape.


The Game's Master
Written by Flint Dille
Lady Jaye, Flint, the Baroness and Cobra Commander are kidnapped by the a wacko named the Gamesmaster. The group must journey through his fairy-like and booby trapped island to escape. Meanwhile, Cobra and G.I. Joe must join forces to find their missing agents and to defeat the Gamesmaster.


The Greenhouse Effect
Written by Gordon Kent

Cobra steals an experimental non-polluting nitrogen based rocket fuel. The Joes pursue the Crimson Guard with the rocket fuel into a residential neighborhood, where the CG Hides the leaking fuel canister in a greenhouse, before being arrested. Before Cobra can find the fuel, it turns into a super growth formula for a local gardener, Harvey Laffruff. Harvey lugs his gigantic vegetables to the county fair, thinking his plant food is responsible. Both the Joes and Cobra's attention turns to the fair, and during a battle, Harvey's vegetables go haywire, turning the battle into a gigantic food fight. Destro looses the fuel, but retreats with a giant pea. Cobra Commander thinks Destro's nuts, but Destro seeds the world with giant vegetables that start to take over the world. Airtight invents a Super Weed Killer to stop the plants, and Harvey is the hero of the county fair.
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The Viper Is Coming
Written By David Carren
Barbeque bought an old firehouse. He receives a series of mysterious phone calls from the "Viper" that turn out to inform G.I. Joe of upcoming Cobra plans or where Cobra bases are. First the "Viper" says: "The Viper is coming 5.75", which turns out to the latitude/longitude of a Cobra Rec Facility. Second, the "Viper" says, "I come on Friday, west corner first." And the Joes stop a Cobra assault at West Point (USMA). Next, the "Viper" says, "Top floor first." So the Joes go to the Extensive Ent. Tower, the tallest building, and find Cobra. And finally, the "Viper" says, "I be there noon today". So the Joes assemble a huge force outside Barbeques' firehouse only to find out the "Viper" was an old window washer with a german accent not a Cobra spy.



The Funhouse
Written by Steve Mitchell and Barbara Petty


Zartan breaks into Lab Central, and kidnaps Dr. Hibentrop, bringing the total to 5 kidnapped scientists. When Cobra interrupts tv to announce their demands, Breaker tracks the signal and the Joes head to South America, even though they think it's a trap. Flint, L.J., Bazooka, Alpine, Tripwire, & Dusty blast they're way into the Cobra fortress before a metal door stops the others. Inside, they face Cobra's Funhouse, a maze of traps, with CC & the bomb that will destroy the island at the end. While the Joes out side try to blast they're way in, the Joes face, Cobra balloons filled with hallucinating gas, a roller coaster though a Cobra shooting gallery, Giant Cobra Comm. jack-in-the boxes, & Cobra tin soldiers. Flint is the last one left, confronting Cobra Commander, who detonates the island. The Joes escape, though they cut to commercial before revealing Flint to be okay, and follow Cobra to the island were they're holding the hostages. They fight Cobra and free the hostages.


Where The Reptiles Roam
Written by Gerry & Carla Conway


Some Joes infiltrate a Cobra base and find out that Cobra bought a dude ranch in Texas. Wild Bill, Lady Jaye, Bazooka and Alpine go undercover to find out what is going on there. It turns out that at the ranch is next to a solar energy farm, which is what Cobra is really after. LJ is very suspicious. She goes into the barn and finds a secret Cobra base, but is captured, as are Bazooka and Alpine. Cobra Comm. goes on tv and demands a ransom or a city will be burnt. The Joes head for the dude ranch, but are attacked solar cannon. They split up so that the canyon can't pin point them. Then Wild Bill leads a cattle stampede and Cobra Comm., Destro and the Baroness all flee.
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Lazers In the Night
Written by Marv Wolfman
Quick Kick meets a college student, Amber, during a GI Joe Martial Arts Demonstration at her college campus. Meanwhile, Gung-Ho is captured with Cobra's new laser lash weapon and Lady Jaye is ambushed when Cobra attacks a GI Joe electronics lab. When GI Joe's security codes are transmitted to Cobra, and LJ's Sky Stryker is sabotaged and their new guidance system is stolen, they know they have a Cobra spy in their midst. Unfortunately, Amber to break into the Joe base trying to join GI Joe, and they figure that she is the spy. Amber goes to the Cobra's Snake Island to prove herself. QK follows her, they stop Cobra's Command of carving his face into the moon with his new laser, and both rescue Gung-Ho and the real Lady Jaye.
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The Germ
Written by Roger Slifer
Psyudomondo U Bacteria, better known as Bacteria X, is stolen by the Crimson Guard, when they double cross Destro. In usual Cobra form, the Crimson Guard drops the Germ and a growth formula that Destro was working on, and it forms a giant blob that's eating everything in it's path. The Joes throw everything at it from missiles to insecticide, and even send Airtight into the blob with explosive antibiotics. The blob separates in two after the Joes' attack, and one blob is weakened after going through an apple orchard. The Joes figure it's the poison in the apple seeds, so they bombard with blob with apples, which destroys the Germ.
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Worlds Without End Part 1
Written by Martin Pasko
The Dreadnoks steal the matter transmuter and its plans. Nearby some Joes are waiting for them. Steeler is beginning to think that the entire Joe/Cobra battle is futile and then he has a close call when the Joes pursue Zartan. Flint and Lady Jaye go to the transmuter research lab but it has been commandeered by Cobra. They are throw off the train, then as the Joes on the hovercraft try to rescue them, the transmuter goes off. The Joes wake up in a similar place, but it looks different. First they think that just a lot of time has past. They find some old Joe equipment. Steeler is stung by some weird bug and becomes ill. In a store the Joes realize that Cobra has taken over the world. They go to Joe HQ, which is all boarded up. They find out they are the only Joes left. They break into groups and try to find out what's going on. Flint, Airtight, and Barbeque are captured by the Dreadnoks, who are police and Lady Jaye, Clutch and Footloose are captured in Cobra's energy net in Washington DC.
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Worlds Without End Part 2
Written by Martin Pasko
Flint, et al. escape and find out that it is the same day as the accident. They come to the conclusion that they are in a parallel dimension where Cobra conquered the world years ago. Grunt finds Steeler, who had run off, and they discover the skeletons of some Joes, who turn out to be them. The Baroness, who in that dimension is a Joe agent and in love with Steeler helps Grunt and Steeler, and then starts a Cobra civil war between Destro and Cobra Comm allowing the Joes to escape. Steeler, Clutch and Grunt stay behind to help fight Cobra there, and the others go home through the gate.


Captives of Cobra Part 1
Written by Christy Marx
A chemical reaction goes out of control at a Cobra research lab causing an explosion and the formation of explosive crystals. The Joes go to investigate the lab and find the crystals. Cobra wants the crystals back, but they can't launch a direct assault. So they steal the personal background files of the Joes who are on leave and kidnap their families. They kidnap Quick Kick's mom and dad, Thunder's mom, dad and younger sister, Scarlett's father and three brothers, Shipwreck's nephew, Spirit's grandfather and cousin, and Barbeque's father. They use hypnotic receivers to control their army of civilians and send them to retrieve the crystals. The Joes are recalled from leave because of the emergency. The crystals are carefully loaded onto a ATV and taken down the mountain. There the Joes are ambushed and they realize it is their family members.



Captives of Cobra Part 2
Written by Christy Marx
Cobra's civilian army can't think for themselves so they are ineffective in stopping the Joes and end up in the river. Cobra recovers them and the Baroness decides to control them herself. The Joes who's family members were kidnapped go off and find the Cobra base where the captives are being controlled from while the other Joes continue transporting the crystals. Scarlett's group finds the Cobra base just as their family members attack the ATV again. The Joes fight their way into the base and find the scientist who created the mind control machine. He tells them there is no way to turn the machine off and if they destroy it it will in turn destroy the minds of their families. Meanwhile, the family members break through the side of the ATV and Shipwreck's nephew, Jesse, is instructed by the Baroness to pick up a rock and approach the ATV. Scarlett and the other have no choice but to destroy the machine. The scientist was bluffing and their families are fine. The Baroness then has a huge Cobra airship try to pick up the ATV with gigantic hooks. However, a Rattler rashes into the hooks sending the ATV plummeting. There is a huge explosion, but everyone is save. Seeking revenge, the Baroness ventures through the swamps of Louisiana to kidnap the family of the eighth Joe on the list, Gung-Ho. But his clam is able to take care of themselves.



Bazooka Saw A Sea Serpent
Written by Mary Skrenes

While fixing the engine on the hovercraft on a deserted island, Bazooka sees a sea serpent. On board the Flagg they learn that other boats have been attacked. Lady Jaye, Quick Kick and Shipwreck go investigating and sneak aboard Cobra's yacht and find out that Cobra has a mechanical sea serpent holding the shipping lanes for ransom. The controls for the serpent are destroyed and it goes crazy, swallowing the Joes and Cobra Commander, and heads for NYC. LJ and the serpent's creator and try to stop it as the Joes defend the city. Finally the serpent kills itself and all get out safely.


The Traitor Part 1
Written by Buzz Dixon


The Joes have a new armor treatment that make their tanks nearly bullet proof. In an effort to attain the formula, Cobra bribes Dusty, who's mother is ill and needs money for medical treatments. Dusty tells Cobra of several Joe secrets and as a result, Duke is put in a coma. Dusty is convicted of treason and sent to jail, but broken out by Cobra.


The Traitor Part 2
Written by Buzz Dixon


Dusty joins Cobra and gives them the armor treatment and helps them in obtaining the chemicals needed for mind control gas. A group of Joes are captured and Cobra Commander has Dusty test the gas on the Joes. Dusty turns out to be a triple agent, using the gas on the Cobra troops instead, which neutralized the armor treatment. In the end, Dusty turns out not really to be a traitor, but was just setting up Cobra and Duke was the only one that knew this.


Cobra Quake
Written by Ted Petersen
The Joes are guarding the delegates at the Third World Council conference in Japan and of course, Cobra wants to stop the conference. First they attack a plane, which they think is carrying the delegates. However, it is a decoy and is actually filled with Joes. Then Cobra plots to stop the conference by causing earthquakes with explosions. Lady Jaye is captured when trying to met with a leading sizemoligist. The Joes rescue her and learn that Cobra has placed bombs three locations and they race off in teams to disarm the bombs. The episode ends with a classic discussion on eating octopus.
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Excalibur
Written by Dan Di Stefano
Cobra Rattlers attack the Flagg as the Joes are heading to England to set up their Anti-Cobra radar system. Storm Shadow's jet is shot down. He crashes into a lake where he discovers Excalibur, King Arthur's legendary sword. By taking the sword, he causes relentless storms. The Joes manage to set up the radar system in a small town. Storm Shadow is spotted lurking around by Footloose, Quick Kick and Spirit and they chase after him. Storm Shadow captures Footloose and QK and Spirit are sent to find him. Meanwhile, Cobra attacks the town and blasts a dam, flooding the town and the radar system. QK and Spirit rescue Footloose and signal the other Joes. Freedom grabs Excalibur while Storm Shadow and QK are fighting and returns it to the Lady In The Lake. The rains finally stop and the Joes rebuild the town.


Cobra Claws Are Coming To Town
Written by Roy and Dann Thomas
Script By Carla and Gerry Conway


On Christmas, with only a skeleton crew, the Joes find some unwanted stowaways in the toys they collected for needy children- the whole Cobra army shrunken down to the size of bugs. They disable the Joes' defense grid and return to normal size, easily taking G.I. Joe headquarters. Zartan posses as Duke and goes on tv saying the Joes want to take over the world. Then Cobra pose as Joes and attack Keystone City. The Joes escape and have to stop Cobra using Cobra equipment, getting some help from a super-sized Polly.


Eua De Cobra
Written by Flint Dille
After a series of robberies (stealing a Egyptian tablet from a British museum and a rare plant from Antarctica), Cobra is able to creates Eu Du Cobra, a perfume that can control the minds of men. The Baroness is sent, wearing the perfume, to a party on the yacht of the multimillionaire bachelor, Socrates Arties (voice- Michael Bell). However, Flint and Lady Jaye crash the party and Destro ruins Cobra's plan with his jealousy.


An Eye For An Eye
Written by Steve Mitchell & Barbara Petty
A Joe convoy carrying an experimental jet is ambushed by Cobra. In the ensuing firefight, a Rattler crashes into a house. The family inside escapes safely, however the father, Charlie Fairmont (voice- Johnny Haymer), blames GI Joe and wants to get revenge with Cobra. He breaks into the Joe base. LJ agrees to help him since she blames herself for the crash. She takes Charlie to a supposedly abandoned Cobra base. However, it isn't and they are shot down and LJ is captured. Charlie helps rescue her and then they take out the Cobra base.
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The Primoral Plot
Written by Donald Glut

After stealing dinosaur bones, and kidnapping Dr. Massey, Cobra is able to clone dinosaurs and creates a dinosaur army which is controlled by Cobra Commander. When Flint, Gung Ho and Scarlett go to investigate an island, they are shot down and then chased by dinosaurs. After disabling Cobra's control over the dinosaurs, the Joes are able to get inside the Cobra base then, and with the control device have the dinos attack the base. The Joes escape with Dr. Massey, but Cobra Commander gets away.


Flint's Vacation
Written by Beth Bornstein
Flint goes on vacation and visits his cousin's family in an experimental housing community, Pleasant Cove. But he discovers that Cobra is secretly hypnotizing the inhabitants and forcing them into slave labor in their underwater terrarium. Before he can warn the Joes, he winds up captured by the Dreaknoks "police" and hypnotized (note: by his own voice). On tv, Cobra is threatening to destroy all vegetation on the earth with a missile if the world doesn't surrender. The Joes see Flint, and immediately know where the base is. Breaker and Bazooka stop the subliminal suggestion at the tv station while the other Joes rescue Flint and the towns people and Tripwire rewires the missile to harmless explode in space.
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Hearts & Cannons
Written by Alfred Pegal & Larry Houston
While looking for a new Cobra weapons range, the Joes cargo jet has engine trouble and Dusty, Footloose & a Mauler all have to bail out over the desert to save the jet. They stumble upon the weapons range, and Cobra's new Plasma Cannon tank. They rescue Dr. Nancy Winters, the tank's developer, who was being held prisoner by Cobra, and loose the Cobra guards in a mind field. Pinned between a sand storm and a squadron of Rattlers, Dusty takes on the Rattlers and finds the Plasma tank, while Footloose and Dr. Wintersteam up with Jabal, a ticked of local with a very big sword, camel, and, better yet, the Mauler. The Mauler goes head to head with the Plasma cannon, and with Dr. Winter's expertise, the badly damaged Mauler destroys the Plasma cannon. Low and behold, Jabal is a King, and Dusty and Footloose are given metals, even though they were more upset Jabal gets the 'chick', as they put it.



The Gods Below
Written by Gordon Kent
The lost tomb of Osiris, an Egyptian god is discovered by an archeologist, Dr. Marsh. Cobra kidnaps him and forces him to lead them to the treasure inside. However, when the archeologist turns up missing, the Joes are sent in. Cobra tricks them into going into the tomb first and setting off all the traps. The Joes are able to escape the tomb, disguised as Cobra soldiers, but that plans ends up backfiring when Cobra Commander forces them to lead him to the treasure the Joes supposedly found. Cobra finds the "treasure" and meets up with the evil Egyptian god Set while the Joes are transported to the Realm of the Dead where they face a trial to weigh their hearts. The Joes are judged worthy to enter when they sacrifice themselves to save their friends when attacked by the other Egyptian gods. Meanwhile CC convinces Set to give him the treasure of Osiris. However, when he brings it to the surface a huge storm is unleashed and Set will take over the world. While being transported to the Realm of the Dead, the Joes convince the Anubis to take them back to the Realm of the Living to stop Cobra. He does and the Joes stop CC and Set.



Memories of Mara
Written by Sharman Di Vono
The Joes are on board the USS Trogan searching for a missing sub, the USS Nerka. Shipwreck rescues a woman named Mara who was took part in a Cobra experiment that turned her into part fish thus she needs to be in water to survive. Cobra has captured the USS Nerka and her crew , and is trying to coerce them to reveal the plans for the ship's weapons system. Cobra is also trying to get Mara back so she doesn't reveal the location of their underwater lab. During all of this , Mara falls in love with Shipwreck and then finally tells the Joes the location of the lab. The Joes divers attack the lab. LJ is captured and nearly turned into a mermaid too, but Mara saves her. They rescue the Nerka and her crew and the Cobra lab is destroyed. Mara decides she has to stay on the tropical island.
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The Wrong Stuff
Story by Flint Dille and Stanley Ralph Ross
Script by Stanley Ralph Ross


Cobra uses a shuttle to steal all communication satellites. That means the only television is from Cobra Network Television which provides programs promoting their social messages such as Father's No Beast and new endings to classic movies. The Joes first send three Joes up in Sky Strikers powered by rocket boosters to take out Cobra's satellite. They discover that it is really a space station and are blasted back down to earth. Next they have a space training program to select a group of Joes to go back up. Their Sky Strikers are destroyed again by the Space Station, but the group sneaks inside. Being better trained, they defeat the Dreadnoks and destroy the Space Station, escaping in a Cobra Shuttle, thus saving television.



Pit of Vipers
Written By Flint Dille
Script By James M. Ward
G.I. Joe's new commander is the supercomputer called Watchdog that sends the Joes all over the planet after Cobra. But Watchdog turn out to have been built by Cobra. So, while the Joes are distracted, Cobra attacks Joe Headquarters with the Pit Viper, a large drilling tank. But the Joes are able stop the Pit Viper and use it to destroy Watchdog.
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The Invaders
Written By Dennis O'Neil


The Joes are joined by the Soviet Oktober Guard in chasing the Crimson Guard Twins when they encounter two flying saucers that nab the twins as examples of humanity. The saucers then start reeking havoc across the US and the USSR. The Joes and the Oktober Guard join forces to fight the aliens. Snake Eyes and Wong are captured by the aliens and learn that it is really just Cobra. They alert the Joes and OG that instead of the alien's stated target cities, Cobra intends to attack Washington DC and Moscow. Snake Eyes and Wong take control of one of the saucers and destroy the other while the Joes and OG defeat the two cities.
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Cobra's Soundwaves
Written By Ted Petersen


Using their new anti-aircraft soundwave generating gun, Cobra shoots down some Joes' Sky Strikers and captures the Joes. The Joes escape then return to destroy the anti-aircraft gun and to stop Cobra from trying to control the Middle East oil fields.
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The Great Alaskan Land Rush
Written by David Carren


The Joes are in Washington, transporting federal documents to a new archive. Cobras, disguised as tourists, attack, and the Baroness steals a truck. But not the truck holding the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution, but instead one carrying the Seward file. It is the document that states the terms of sales of Alaska from Russia to the United States, and it says the whom ever has the Seal of Alaska owns Alaska. The Seal was transported to Alaska from Russia, but the ship carrying it, the Romanov, sunk and the Seal was never recovered. The Crimson Twins and a con artists named Gorgy Potemkin claim they have the Seal and take over Alaska. The Joes and the Soviet Oktober Guard both figure out that Potemkin's Seal must be a fake an set out to find the real Seal, but both end up being captured by some Cossacks and taken to a hidden Cossack city in Alaska where the Romanov sank. They find the Seal, but are locked in jail and the Cossacks refuse to give them the Seal. Then Cobra attacks and steals the Seal. The Joes and Oktober Guard team up and recapture the Seal. When bad weather keeps any reinforcements from getting them, the Joes and Oktober Guard sail to Juneau on the Romanov. After the Oktober Guard hijacks the ship, and Cobra attacks once more, the Joes finally get the Seal to Juneau and kick Potemkin out of office.



Skeleton In The Closet
Written by Flint Dille
It begins with the Baroness getting very jealous and angry at Destro. Then, while trying to sell arms to terrorist is nearly captured by the Joes, but is saved by a mysterious woman. Next, Lady Jaye receives a letter that she has inherited a manor in Scotland. Once there, she knows something is wrong. She stumbled upon Destro's family reunion, and is rescued by a strange man, who turns out to be Flint. The rest of the Joes come in and destroy the house. In the end it turns out just to be a plot of the Baroness to get revenge on Destro, but LJ and Destro really are related.
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There Is No Place Like Springfield Part 1
Written by Steve Gerber
Shipwreck and Lady Jaye rescue Dr. Melany. He tells Shipwreck the secret formula for turning water into an explosive, but gives Lady Jaye the code word for Shipwreck to tell the formula. Shipwreck then wakes up in a hospital. It is years later and he has a wife (Mara who's no longer a mermaid) and daughter. Cobra has been defeated. But Shipwreck thinks he's either crazy or that something is very wrong. He goes to a car wash and is attacked by the Sythoid Joes. The Sythoids then melt, forming a blob that carries Shipwreck off.



There Is No Place Like Springfield Part 2
Written by Steve Gerber
The blob leaves Shipwreck by his house and he goes to the hospital again. Shipwreck is interrogated, and Cobra find out they need the code word. While he is forced to listen to the entire dictionary, he realizes that his hair really isn't grey and then the real Polly comes in and "kills" the fake Polly. They head for the Cobra base. Polly overhead the secret word and Shipwreck is able to complete the secret formula and the explosion that follows alerts the Joes. Shipwreck realizes that the whole scenario was just a plot to get the formula, even his family.



Cold Slither
Written by Michael Charles Hill

The Joes raid the Cobra's secret vault with all their stolen valuables, leaving Cobra broke. While the Joes think that Cobra is washed up and are all goofing off Cobra barrows money and pays Zartan and the Dreadnoks to lip sink to a rock song. Subliminal messages are then added to the song and it becomes an instant success, brainwashing people into going to a Sports Arena for a convert. Even three Joes are hypnotized and go to the concert. The Joes free the crowd and the Joes and then put on a concert of their own, singing the them song.



(graded out of five stars, with five star being the best. Grades are based on the opinion of the summary writer and are not always my own)

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