The BEST episodes of Godzilla: The Series season 1
Every episode of Godzilla: The Series season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Godzilla: The Series season 1!
After helping take down Godzilla, biologist Dr. Nick Tatopoulos stumbles upon his hatchling, who bonds with the scientist as a parental figure. Recruiting his own environmentally-directed research outfit HEAT (Humanitarian Environmental Analysis Team) Nick sets out to study not only this new generation, but also to investigate the increasing reports of monsters of all types and other environmental anomalies menacing the Earth. Nicks team, accompanied by their 300-foot giant reptile, travel the globe defending humankind against mutant threats.
#1 - Monster Wars (3)
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/27/1999
As the aliens and their monster allies attack Earth, H.E.A.T. escapes captivity. They battle to defeat the alien onslaught and free the monsters from their control to help humanity fight back and save the planet from conquest.
#2 - Trust No One
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/14/1999
Acting on confidential information from Phillipe, H.E.A.T. investigate an abandoned lab in the Amazon jungle, where 50 years before, French scientists succeeded in creating a creature made of pure DNA. The creature is capable of mimicking the shape of any living creature it touches, and soon the team are put on edge, uncertain who to trust. They must find a way to aid Godzilla and destroy the creature before it can reproduce and go on to create a new master race of monsters.
#3 - Competition
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/6/1999
A trip to Japan to investigate a number of mysterious disappearances leads to a battle of wills between H.E.A.T. and the Japanese military, who perceive Godzilla to be a threat. However, the real threat is revealed to be an ophidiaphobic's nightmare: a mutant King Cobra. Things lead to a climactic showdown in Tokyo between him and Godzilla.
#4 - Monster Wars (2)
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/20/1999
From their secret base on Isle Del Diablo, the aliens assemble their forces. H.E.A.T. desperately fights to resist, but are easily defeated. Once captured and brought to the Tachyons, they are told that the monster army, including a brainwashed Godzilla, will be used to attack major cities across the world in preparation for a full-scale invasion of Earth. At its head marches the aliens' ultimate weapon: Cyber-Godzilla.
#5 - Web Site
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/1/1999
H.E.A.T. is charged by the Pentagon to investigate the growing population of spiders near an Army base in the Canary Islands. The team quickly discover that a massive mutated female black widow spider has been laying millions of eggs. They must find a way to destroy the infant spiders and help Godzilla take care of the mother.
#6 - An Early Frost
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 5/8/1999
When Godzilla is accused of attacking New York, the military call in H.E.A.T. to help contain him. But Phillipe Roache has returned from France... with orders to terminate Godzilla. However, H.E.A.T. discover the real culprit is a hideous mutation called the Chameleon, genetically engineered by Cameron Winter (who has escaped from jail) to frame Godzilla. Can they stop Winter and reveal the truth before it's too late?
#7 - What Dreams May Come
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1998
A powerful gigantic monster possessing the ability to discharge crackling bolts of destructive electrical energy suddenly appears in the middle of New York City and begins wreaking havoc, only to mysteriously disappear in the midst of an attack.
#8 - Bug Out
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/20/1999
Godzilla is throwing infantile tantrums and H.E.A.T. are growing worried about their ability to control him. When Audrey lets this slip on live TV, despite being told in confidence by Nick, their relationship looks set to be torn apart. Meanwhile, when called in to investigate extensive deforestation in the Amazon Rain forest, they discover that a mutated termite colony is devouring the forest at an alarming rate. H.E.A.T. must find a way to destroy the voracious bugs before they devour the entire rainforest.
#9 - Juggernaut
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 7/31/1999
The Techno-Sentient, an alien piece of technology, falls to Earth and begins to bond with all manner of human technology, growing to gargantuan proportions. Worst of all, it taps into the Internet and learns of the location of humanity's weapons of mass destruction. The team and Godzilla must find a way to stop the Techno-Sentient before it takes control of an arsenal of nuclear missiles.
#10 - Bird of Paradise
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/5/1998
Mexico is under siege from a mutated beast that resembles a gigantic winged lizard, which is named Quetzalcoatl after the mythological Aztec deity whom it also resembles. H.E.A.T. investigates, and discovers that the flying beast is guarding a nest whose eggs are soon about to hatch, thus creating the threat of numerous such creatures terrorizing the planet.
#11 - Freeze
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/13/1999
H.E.A.T. are dispatched to aid the investigation into the disappearance of a search party looking for oil in Antarctica. The team must now not only battle against the monsters responsible — a pack of mutant "Ice Borers" — but also against the energy company who employed the men, who are determined to brush all record of the incident under the rug.
#12 - Hive
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1998
H.E.A.T. investigates the tropical island of Santa Marta in the wake of a devastating volcanic eruption. But what they find on the island is that, due to irradiated lava, a hideously mutated ecosystem has developed, including carnivorous plants and gigantic bees. As the volcano begins to erupt again, the team must find a way to escape the island alive.
#13 - Talkin' Trash
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1998
A new form of microorganism is created, designed via genetic engineering to consume oil spills and other manmade pollutants in New York City but it mutates and becomes an enormous, ever-growing mass of protoplasm that devours everything in its path.
#14 - DeadLoch
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/6/1999
H.E.A.T. journeys to Loch Ness in Scotland, in order to search for (what else?) Nessie, the famed Loch Ness Monster herself. This is because the famed Loch Ness Monster has eschewed her usual shy mein in order to inexplicably attack a Scottish scientific institute.
#15 - Monster Wars (1)
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/13/1999
As tension threatens to break the H.E.A.T. team up for good, major problems arise: a giant bat is terrorizing the countryside of Nigeria, the U.S. military have dredged the Leviathan ship from the bottom of the Pacific, and worst of all, the aliens are back, with an army of monsters under their control and plans to conquer the Earth.
#16 - Cat and Mouse
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/1998
A colony of huge mutant rats appear on the scene, wreaking havoc on the sprawling metropolis at night. Soon, the problem is escalated as Godzilla appears and begins to attack the rats in defense of his territory, thus causing more destruction to the city.
#17 - New Family (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1998
After believing that the new Godzilla has been destroyed by the military, Nick convinces his newly established H.E.A.T. organization to stay together in order to investigate the other mutated creatures that he expects to appear across the globe – and they agree, beginning their investigations with mysterious ship disappearances in Jamaica.
#18 - The Winter of Our Discontent
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/3/1998
Nick is contacted by Cameron Winter, an old college buddy, with an offer of hiring H.E.A.T. Allegedly towards this end, Winter entices Randy to plant an experimental computer-operated device upon Godzilla that, unknown to Randy and the rest of H.E.A.T., is actually for the purpose of controlling Godzilla.
#19 - Leviathan
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1998
Nick and H.E.A.T. go deep beneath the sea in order to investigate the mysterious disappearance of noted scientist Dr. Alexander Preloran and his own research team, and there H.E.A.T. discovers a hidden spacecraft belonging to a race of advanced, hostile non-humanoid aliens that hope to conquer the Earth with the help of a pet giant monster.
#20 - D.O.A.
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1998
H.E.A.T. travels to Central America to investigate their latest creature sighting and they encounter a dangerous, subterranean monster that resembles something of an enormous hybrid of an earthworm and a slug.
#21 - New Family (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/12/1998
While scouring the sewers of New York, Nick Tatopoulos discovers one of Godzilla's eggs has survived. The hatchling that emerges escapes and by the time the team find it again, has grown to a massive (but thankfully harmless) sub-adult. As the team try to study the new Godzilla, the U.S. military, responding to a series of disappearances in Jamaica, attack!