The BEST episodes directed by Christian Choquet

#1 - Solitary Kichi

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 6

Kichi wants to spend all his time with Mowgli and his friends, but unfortunately, this desire often gets him into trouble. The panda becomes easy prey for the monkeys who use him as a bait to snare Mowgli. After a tumultuous turn of events, the boy and the young panda renew their friendship and, together, manage to get the better of the terrible Shere Khan. Shere Khan climbs out of the water and angrily vows revenge.

#2 - Blood Brothers

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 16

Tabaqui keeps Lali and Bala occupied to lure Mowgli to them so that Shere Khan can ambush him. Daruka summons the wolf pack to drive Shere Khan away.

#3 - Kite Flight

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 10

Chil the Kite takes away Lali and Mowgli from the middle of a stream. He warns and takes Mowgli to a danger that poses by the stream and aids the wolves against a giant black cobra.

#4 - Darzi's Waterfall Rescue

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 14

Lali and Mowgli avoid Shere Khan as he follows their trail. Darzi passes a message to summon Baloo and Raksha to rescue the two as they have a tricking fight with Shere Khan.

#5 - Snake Bite

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 20

The wolf pack gather, but Akela has been bitten by a cobra. With Ikii's help Mowgli obtains a poison cure also having to fend off Phaona's hinderance.

#6 - The Cobra's Egg

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 26

Tabaqui tricks Mowgli into taking a Cobra's egg. As the cobra corners Mowgli, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi comes to aid him.

#7 - Legend of Giant Claw

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 8

Loud screeches ring in the jungle, which Baloo says maybe the "Giant Claw" beast, but its just Chil's intensified screeching. Mowgli and Bagheera carry out a plan to prevent Shere Khan from finding out about this.

#8 - Phaona's Nasty Trick

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 22

Phaona misleads Mowgli to the Elephant March where Shere Khan is told to find him. Mowgli is late for the wolf council meeting, but Akela realizes Phaona's deceit.

#9 - Is That You, Kaa?

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 24

While Mowgli gets Kaa's old skin to scare away Tabaqui. Hearing about Mowgli's trick, Shere Khan goes to get him, but the tiger runs into the real Kaa.

#10 - The Day the Earth Shook

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 18

An earthquake shakes through the jungle, getting Lali and Bala trapped in their cave. Kaa locates a shaft to exit the cave, which Mowgli and Kaa venture down to retrieve the wolf cubs.

#11 - Who Is the Bravest?

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 12

Mowgli fancies himself as the bravest in the jungle, but he carelessly falls down a well. Tabaqui helps him out for Shere Khan, but Hathi arrives to help Mowgli.

#12 - Fished Out

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 9

Baloo and Mowgli go fishing. During a bad fish catch, Baloo hits his head on a tree branch and falls on a log drifting down the river and later Bagheera with him. With some help from the turtles Oo and Boo, Mowgli prevents them from plunging down a waterfall.

#13 - Sorry Baloo

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 8

Mowgli has been trapped by the iron teeth. While he struggles to free himself, a giant crocodile lumbers out of the river and heads in his direction. Luckily, Baloo shows up in time and engages the fearsome reptile in a fight to the death. Mowgli is carried to safety by Baghera, but the boy is distraught because he realizes that a friend has died in order to rescue him. But, as it happens, a happy ending is destined when Kaa discovers Baloo hiding down by the river and tells Mowgli, affording him the opportunity to make up with the bear.

#14 - The Hero's Return

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 13

Our friends offer refuge to several wolves who are being pursued by hunters. After a long absence, Lala’s father Vermillion, and Sandah, Akela’s son, return home. When he learns of Alexander’s death, Vermillion offers to take leadership of the pack. However, Sandah does not like the idea because he resents the presence of Mowgli, a perceived member of the cruel human race that kills for the pleasure of killing. Mowgli’s curiosity then gets the better of him; he resolves to leave in order to meet other human beings, but, once again, he is caught by the monkeys acting on behalf of Shere Khan.

#15 - Baloo the King

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 50

Baloo suffers a bump on the head and becomes convinced he is king of the jungle

#16 - The New Friends

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 5

Life in the jungle is easier for those who have good friends. Encouraged by Baloo and Baghera’s lessons, our young hero then makes friends with Kichi, a young panda, after rescuing him from Shere Khan’s clutches.

#17 - More Precious than the Law

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 9

Akru breaks the law of the pack, places Mowgli in great danger, and is then severely injured while trying to save him. Because the young wolf has committed a serious crime, his companions are not allowed to help him, and he is banished from the pack. However, Mowgli refuses to accept this harsh law, and thus sets out to find the enchanted flower that is the only remedy for the wolf’s injuries.

#18 - The Cold Fang

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 7

Sometimes Mowgli does not heed Baloo’s teachings concerning the law of the jungle. When Mowgli refuses to learn his lesson, the bear loses his patience and slaps the boy with his paw. Mowgli gets angry and runs away. Deeply resentful, Mowgli then does exactly the opposite of what he has been taught, and, as Baloo has feared, falls into the terrible trap of the iron teeth.

#19 - The Bridge

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 21

Appu goes off by himself and gets stranded on a pillar in the Banderlog lair. With the reluctant help of the Banderlogs, Mowgli and his friends build a bridge to rescue Appu.

#20 - Mowgli's Sparkle

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 13

Mowgli finds a gold crescent necklace which he and Lali both like. They then compete with the Banderlogs and Shere Khan for it. After recovering it, Mowgli tosses it down the waterfall.

#21 - The Wishing Tree

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 23

Mowgli goes with Tabaqui to the Wishing Tree hoping to be a great hunter. Shere Khan comes for Mowgli, but after a long fight he manages to scare the tiger away.

#22 - The Waterfall

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 15

Shere Khan nabs Baloo and Bagheera, but before he can get Mowgli, Mowgli is carried by a storm down the river closing in on a waterfall, but he manages to rescue himself and Tabaqui.

#23 - Mowgli's Log

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 11

While swimming, Mowgli is captured by Jacala for his little crocs' meal. Baloo manages to stall them while Bagheera summons Hathi to help.

#24 - The Rubber Ball

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 25

Mowgli discovers a rubber ball formed inside a hollow coconut and regards it as his personally. Shere Khan takes the opportunity to get Mowgli, but Bala and Lali save him.

#25 - The Jungle Tour

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 19

Mowgli tries to live alone. He is met by Ponya, a red panda. Mowgli shows Ponya round the jungle trying to keep her out of trouble, but needs Baloo and Bagheera's help to save her from poisonous snakes.

#26 - The Race

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 4

The Wolf Pack is having some doubts about Mowgli, so he challenges Phaona to a race. Mowgli is on the verge of losing the race, but Bagheera manages to keep Mowgli out of trouble.

#27 - Wild Black Bees

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 2

After straying away from Baloo's teaching, Mowgli encounters a giant nest of wild black bees. He uses this place to get back at Shere Khan for picking a fight with Baloo and Bagheera.

#28 - Sleeping Python

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 6

Mowgli strongly believes his lucky charm is the key to victory. He drops the charm and Kaa sleeps on top of it. Mowgli gets it back after a near encounter with Shere Khan, but takes back what he said to Bala earlier.

#29 - Survival of the Fittest

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 17

Baloo challenges Mowgli to a contest to prove he is fit. By the end of the contest Baloo gets trapped under logs. Mowgli brings Hathi to free Baloo, motivating him to take regular exercise.

#30 - The Devil in the Mind

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 11

Mowgli and Bacchus are accused of stealing the reserves of food. However, they are then defended by Bagheera who blames the thievery on an evil spirit that appears during times of famine. Soon afterward, Fargas is caught stealing red-handed, but manages to get the pack to pardon him by claiming that he acted under the influence of the evil spirit.

#31 - The River Leaf

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 33

Mowgli finds a mirror that has been dropped by a human, and Tabaqui becomes convinced there are more man-cubs lurking in the jungle than he originally thought

#32 - Adventurous Journey

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 12

Mowgli is preoccupied by the presumption that he cannot compete with the wolves of the pack, so when Akela asks for a volunteer to carry out a dangerous scouting mission, he does everything possible to be chosen. The boy carries out the mission successfully, even if he might have been less fortunate without the help of Bagheera. Mowgli realizes that he still has much to learn, and so returns to Luri’s den with his mind at peace.

#33 - The Lone Wolf Visitor

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 10

Times are hard for our jungle friends; the lack of prey grows greater every day, and the threat of starvation becomes more and more real. In the meantime, an old, solitary wolf named Fargas appears and claims to have been a good friend of Alexander’s. He proceeds to save Mowgli from an oncoming buffalo such that Mowgli accepts the newcomer unconditionally, but Bagheera is suspicious of him. One night while the pack is out hunting, its precious reserves of food are looted. Akela is quick to blame Bacchus, and gives him a stiff punishment, however Mowgli is determined to prove the wolf’s innocence.

#34 - Itchy Twitchy Kaa!

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 3

Kaa is itching as he sheds his skin and is in a bad mood. The Banderlogs imprison Mowgli and Shere Khan is prowling for him, but Kaa with Bagheera and Baloo come to the rescue.

#35 - Monkey Queen

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 5

A monkey called Masha steals Baloo's glasses proclaiming herself Queen of the Jungle and impressing the Banderlogs. Mowgli tries to get the glasses back, while Shere Khan follows him.

#36 - Treasure of Cold Lair

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 7

Mowgli meets a Himilayan monkey named Langur. In the absence of the black snake Thu, Mowgli's friends try to guard the Cold Lair from human presence, but Mowgli and Langur take care of them with a ghost act.

#37 - Man Trap

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 1

Shere Khan takes an opportunity to massacre Mowgli after he lures Baloo in a man trap. Mowgli gets Kaa's help to pull Baloo out whilst Mowgli wards off Shere Khan with a flaming branch.

#38 - Alexander's Son

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 3

Mowgli is desperate because Lala has hidden his new weapon, a boomerang he refers to as his "Fang". Demoralized by the difficulties he encounters while trying to find a replacement, the boy returns to his memories of the good old days when his father had taught him some basic hunting skills. Mowgli is determined to fulfill his father’s wishes: he will become such a proficient hunter that he will be able to kill Shere Khan who has been responsible for Alexander’s death.

#39 - Human After All

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 34

Tabaqui attacks Mowgli and Rikki Tikki Tavi dives in to save him, but the animals begin to mock the boy for lacking bravery

#40 - Cheel and the Mountain Fire

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 37

Ponya runs for her life when lightning causes a fire in the mountains, and Tabaqui lures her into Shere Kahn's territory

#41 - Monster of Cold Lair

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 52

Tabaqui grows tired of hunting and plans to steal meat from Bagheera

#42 - Best in Class

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 51

Mowgli becomes jealous of Ponya, and Tabaqui makes use of his envy to lure him into a trap

#43 - Two for the Price of One

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 36

Phaona complains to the pack that Mowgli is taking a risk by getting close to the man village, and suggests he should be returned there

#44 - The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 1

Mowgli is the infant son of a scientist who embarks upon a research mission in the jungle. While his parents are busy, Mowgli, so young he can barely walk, wanders off into the jungle where he is stalked by a hungry tiger, Shere Khan. Fortunately, Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, and Kaa the python defend the infant boy. In the end, Mowgli is taken in by two wolves, Luri, and Alexander, who wish to adopt him. The rest of the pack opposes the idea, however Bagheera, who has witnessed the death of Mowgli’s parents in the meantime, feels responsible, and so offers a freshly killed buffalo in exchange for Mowgli’s life. Mowgli thus becomes one of the pack.

#45 - Save the Tiger

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 28

#46 - The Birth of the Wolf-Boy Mowgli

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 1 - Episode 2

Mowgli has a serious problem: he cannot run as fast as his brother wolves, and has no claws or fangs with which to hunt. Teased continuously by Lala, a young she-wolf in his pack, he challenges her to a test of skill. During the contest, Mowgli discovers an effective way to catch his prey, and then saves Lala from Shere Khan, finally earning himself the pack's respect.

#47 - Monkey Business

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 35

Mowglia challenges Phaona to a trial of bravery, but the appearance of Mani put his chances of winning in jeopardy

#48 - Mongoose on the Loose

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 32

Mowgli tries to help Rikki Tikki Tavi the mongoose regain his strength after a fight with a cobra

#49 - Lucky Star

The Jungle Book - Season 1 - Episode 31

#50 - Mowgli's Red Flower

The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli - Season 2 - Episode 6

Bagheera has been injured. While out searching for medicinal plants with which to treat the panther, Mowgli runs into the man who saved him from the trap. This time he has a little girl called Jumeirah with him, who makes a deep impression on the boy.