The BEST episodes of Lilo & Stitch: The Series season 1

Every episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Lilo & Stitch: The Series season 1!

Picking up where the 2002 Walt Disney movie hit left off, this animated series chronicles the further adventures of renegade scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba's beloved Experiment 626, who is now living happily as Lilo's alien buddy Stitch. The previous 625 experiments become activated when submerged in water and, like Stitch, each experiment has its own terrible talent. Lilo and Stitch's mission is to catch Stitch's cousins before they fall into the clutches of wrongdoers and redirect them to live productively.

Last Updated: 9/1/2024Network: Toon DisneyStatus: Ended
Houdini
star
8.87
52 votes

#1 - Houdini

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 12/12/2003

Experiment #604 - Houdini | Stitch and Pleakley are working up a terrible magic act to perform at one of Mertle's parties, so Lilo secretly helps them out by activating Experiment #303, Houdini, which can make things disappear and reappear with a blink of it's eyes. But when Gantu crashes the party, things go wrong, and Stitch is made invisible and Houdini gets away. And just to make things worse, Mertle's aunt, who is a big LA producer, wants to make Stitch a star because of his magic act, but only Lilo, Jumba, Pleakley and Houdini know it is phony.

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Dupe
star
8.85
47 votes

#2 - Dupe

Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 12/29/2003

Experiment #344 - Dupe | Lilo and Stitch have managed to capture Experiment #344, who can duplicate anything. This leaves Gantu feeling down, so he goes home to talk to 625 about it. However, 625 gets bored and tells him he doesn't care, causing Gantu to go off in a rage. Meanwhile, Lilo, who has hosted a slumber party but no one turned up, decides to clone herself using #344, but Stitch jumps in the way, creating an extra 3 copies of himself, who all need training. Gantu, in his rage, discovers 4 experiment pods: Heat, Plasmoid, Thrasher and HammerFace. He activates them and plans an attack on Lilo and Stitch. But surely 4 Stitches can beat Gantu.. Right?

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Poxy
star
8.79
47 votes

#3 - Poxy

Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 1/11/2004

Experiment #222 - Poxy | Poxy is activated one day when Pleakley eats it in his cereal! So, Lilo and Stitch must get shrunk with one of Jumba's machine, along with a buggy, and travel through Pleakley to find the experiment. However, Pleakley is captured by Gantu and is going to be sent to Hamsterviel for Poxy. Can Lilo and Stitch get Poxy and save Pleakley in time? And will they do it before they start to turn back to normal size?

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Sprout
star
8.77
53 votes

#4 - Sprout

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 11/14/2003

Experiment #509 - Sprout | Lilo finds the pod for Experiment #509, which is a plant experiment. Lilo wants to activate to find it's true place, but Jumba won't let her and locks it up. However, when she makes a bet with Mertle, she breaks the lock and activates #509 and dubs it Sprout. But things get out of control at the Kauai Town Fair, and Stitch has a showdown with a cowboy.

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HunkaHunka
star
8.76
50 votes

#5 - HunkaHunka

Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 1/11/2004

Experiment #323 - HunkaHunka | Keoni is in love with Pleakley, and Lilo thinks Experiment #323 has been activated and is loose. So, they go after it, while it causes chaos and makes people all over the island fall in love with the first people they see.

Directors: Don MacKinnon
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Angel
star
8.75
52 votes

#6 - Angel

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 1/5/2004

Experiment #624 - Angel | Experiment #624 has been activated by Gantu, and is used as a secret weapon to try to turn Stitch evil. But because Stitch is more advanced than #624, aka Angel, her evil song doesn't work on either him or 625. Her song does work, however, on the other 623 experiments, so she makes up an army of the experiments on the island. Meanwhile, Stitch tries to get Angel's affections, and Lilo experiences jealousy.

Writer: Cate Lieuwen
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Yin-Yang
star
8.70
61 votes

#7 - Yin-Yang

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/17/2003

Experiments #501 - Yin and #501 - Yang | Experiments #501 and #502 are both activated at the same time, a water sprayer and a lava sprayer. Unfortunately, Lilo and Stitch are having some problems with each other, and soon decide to split apart, with Lilo teaming up with Pleakley, and Stitch teaming up with Jumba. Can the 2 capture the experiments without their partner?

Directors: Don MacKinnon
Writer: Henry Gilroy
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Tank
star
8.70
54 votes

#8 - Tank

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 11/10/2003

Experiment #586 - Tank | The Hula Girls have ditched Mertle for Lilo, and consequently, Lilo neglects Stitch to hang with them at the Kauai Medieval Festival. So, when Experiment #586 is activated, Stitch needs someone to capture it with. And who does he team up with? Mertle. Strangely, Stitch and Mertle are having fun trying to capture the metal eater, but this ends when it storms the Medieval Festival.

Directors: Victor Cook
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Bad Stitch
star
8.67
46 votes

#9 - Bad Stitch

Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 1/30/2004

Stitch has been acting badly, and Nani is having trouble paying all the bills. If he keeps up the bad behavior, they will have to give Stitch away. So, to help pay the bills, Stitch goes to a scientist and admits to being an alien to be checked out for money. However, the scientist turns out to be Hamsterviel, who reverts Stitch to his old destructive programming!

Writer: Jan Strnad
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Sinker
star
8.64
53 votes

#10 - Sinker

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 12/15/2003

Experiment #602 - Sinker | Lilo is having high hopes for Keoni and his sailboat entry in a regatta, until his boat is sliced in half by Experiment #602. Soon Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley are stowaways on a cruise ship. So while Pleakley is fascinated by shuffleboard, and Stitch digs into the buffet, Lilo must find the ship's Captain and warn him about Experiment #602.

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Fibber
star
8.56
59 votes

#11 - Fibber

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 11/7/2003

Experiment #032 - Fibber | Pleakley's mother is badgering him about finding a wife, and has even found a perfect candidate on his home planet, so Lilo comes up with an idea: To tell his mom he is already engaged to a human. But Pleakley's family turn up on Earth, so Pleakley must put on a fake wedding, passing Nani as his bride-to-be. But Experiment #032 has turned up, Fibber, and will beep whenever someone is lying. So, as Pleakley tries to plan his fake wedding, Lilo and Stitch have to prevent Fibber from giving away the game.

Directors: Don MacKinnon
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Amnesio
star
8.51
59 votes

#12 - Amnesio

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/27/2003

Experiment #303 - Amnesio | It's Lilo's birthday, but no one has remembered. So, she decides to give herself her own party. However, during the day, Experiment #303 is activated and wipes Lilo's, Stitch's and Gantu's memory. Lilo and Gantu, who think they are Martha and Lenny go after Stitch, who has returned to his natural destructive programming, and so they think is a criminal.

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627
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8.50
52 votes

#13 - 627

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/24/2003

Experiment #627 | Stitch has been recently very successful at capturing and repurposing the Experiments, but it's gone to his head. He thinks he's too good for everything and is being a royal pain. But things are set to change when Pleakley goes into Jumba's ship and sees an experiment pod with the number '627' on it. Jumba has been making a new experiment. Luckily, it's in containment. That is, until they leave the ship and it escapes! Now it's employed by Gantu and Stitch wants to prove he's better than it. But he just gets beaten, and as 627 can't be turned good, Lilo and Stitch are in trouble...

Writer: Henry Gilroy
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Kixx
star
8.47
64 votes

#14 - Kixx

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/20/2003

Experiment #601 - Kixx | When Experiment #601 is activated, things are looking bad, as he is beating up the islanders. Stitch is ready for it, but when he eats the combination of a left tennis shoe and macadamia nuts, it creates a toxic poision, which erases all of his super abilities. Now Lilo has to retrain him from scratch, but Stitch doesn't like the idea.

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Yaarp
star
8.44
52 votes

#15 - Yaarp

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 11/21/2003

Experiment #613 - Yaarp | Mrs. Hasagawa is watering her vegetables innocently one morning. However, she activates Experiment #613, Yaarp, which is designed to destroy buildings with it's sonic blasts. Lilo and Stitch are hot on it's trail, when it yarps, and because of Stitch's super hearing, Stitch is temporarily deaf. So, when Jumba says only someone with no ears could be safe from Yaarp, Pleakley is on the stage as an Experiment Hunter. Pleakley catches Yaarp, but Stitch's plan to deter Gantu away from the hunt goes wrong, and he captures Stitch. And now he is offering Lilo a trade: Stitch for Yaarp.

Directors: Victor Cook
Writer: John Wray
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The Asteroid
star
8.43
51 votes

#16 - The Asteroid

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/1/2003

In a trip to the observatory, Lilo and Stitch overhear Cobra telling an astronomer about a huge asteroid heading towards Earth. Lilo and Stitch go around Kauai telling the people to evacuate with them onto their ship. Stitch also warns his cousins. However, only 6 Experiments - Digger, Swirly, Hammerhead, Sparky, Spooky and Kixx - and a surfer from the beach arrive at the ship. So, Stitch comes up with a new idea; Digger will drill a hole to the center of the asteroid, it can be smashed. Things seem to be going to plan, but they soon find out something lives on the asteroid, and their plan comes crashing down.

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Splodyhead
star
8.36
61 votes

#17 - Splodyhead

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/24/2003

Experiment #619 - Splodyhead | Stitch won't listen to Lilo's advice about trying to see the good in people, and will go to any lengths to stop him capturing an experiment pod, including racing to a neighbouring desert island, with Lilo, Jumba and Pleakley in tow. But after the camp of the 'hunting parties' are destroyed, Stitch and Gantu blame each other. Turns out it's an experiment. Who will capture Splodyhead?

Directors: Victor Cook
Writer: Henry Gilroy
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Holio
star
8.28
72 votes

#18 - Holio

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/2003

Experiment #606: Holio | It's Mertle's birthday, and she's got a brand new bracelet! But Lilo soon finds out it's got an experiment pod, though she doesn't know the number. So, Stitch goes undercover for her, and discovers it is the pod for Experiment #606. Now Lilo must get the pod back as quickly as possible; as #606 is an experiment that can suck in the entire world!

Writer: Jim Peronto
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Topper
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8.26
57 votes

#19 - Topper

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 12/5/2003

Experiment #025 - Topper | Stitch is having his first Christmas on Earth, and Lilo is trying to teach him about the holiday. But when Stitch sees an unactivated pod fall into a gift in the mall, he goes crazy trying to track it down. Soon he ends up stealing every gift on the island, and Lilo thinks he has become greedy. However, the truth comes out... But can they find the Experiment pod?

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Clip
star
8.08
108 votes

#20 - Clip

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/2003

Experiment #177: Clip | Lilo is upset when Mertle gets a nice-looking fancy hairdo. But when she encounters a hair-eating experiment, Clip, she decides to get her revenge on Mertle by placing it in her bedroom with the plan of ruining Mertle's hair. But the plan runs amock and the experiment eats Mertle's mom's hair instead, and now the experiment is loose on the island. Now Lilo and Stitch must track down the experiment before everyone goes bald!

Directors: Victor Cook
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Spooky
star
8.08
93 votes

#21 - Spooky

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/2003

Experiment #300 - Spooky | It's Hallowe'en! Lilo has dressed up as a gory character, while Nani is trying to get everything ready for the trick-or-treaters. Sadly, the house never gets any trick-or-treaters, but Nani wants to fix this. However, Experiment #300, Spooky, is activated, and it can turn into anyone's greatest fear. So, it makes it's way to Kaiaulu Hale's Hallowe'en party, and is terrifying everyone. Can Lilo and Stitch stop it?

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Cannonball
star
8.03
91 votes

#22 - Cannonball

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/13/2003

Experiment #520 - Cannonball | A bird has discovered a strange blue ball in her nest. After deciding she doesn't need it, she discards it into the river running below her tree. It turns out it's #520's pod, and it activates. Now the experiment is wreaking havoc over the island with it's huge behind by bouncing and shaking the ground. So, Lilo and Stitch must capture it, but Gantu is on it's trail too.

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Richter
star
8.01
149 votes

#23 - Richter

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/20/2003

Experiment #513: Richter | Stitch doesn't know how to take care of anything, or things that don't belong to him. He's already got Nani in trouble at the Rental Shack, by breaking the Shake Machine. However, when Richter turns up and is causing earthquakes, will Stitch be able to stop him breaking everything... Even his favourite ball?

Directors: Victor A. Cook
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Yapper
star
7.98
99 votes

#24 - Yapper

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/13/2003

Experiment #007 - Gigi | Mertle has got a new dog; Gigi. Little does she know, it's really Experiment #007, a dog that can keep everyone in the neighbourhood awake with it's loud yapping. So, Lilo and Stitch must protect it from Gantu, but have to go to a dog show to do it.

Directors: Don MacKinnon
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Mr. Stenchy
star
7.96
106 votes

#25 - Mr. Stenchy

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/11/2003

Experiment #254: Mr. Stenchy | Lilo and Stitch have captured a new experiment, #254. He is insanely cute too, and charms all of Lilo's friends. Stitch is jealous though, so at the first chance he gets, he lets Gantu capture him. As luck would have it, 42 hours after the experiment's activation, Mr. Stenchy releases such a foul stench, the area he releases it in is uninhabitable for decades. But without knowing of when Mr. Stenchy was activated, how will Lilo and Stitch save him before he releases the smell?

Directors: Victor A. Cook
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