The WORST episodes of Phantom 2040

#1 - Rite of Passage

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1995

A ""retrospective"" show, bringing you up-to-date on the goings-on in season 1.

#2 - Fire and I.C.E.

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/9/1994

A new member joins the team - a superhacker kid named Sparks, and just in time to ""skate"" the Integrated Cyber Environment and meet the mysterious entity known only as Cairo.

#3 - The Sum of the Parts

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/2/1994

Maximum's new invention, the fractal (shape-changing) biot is part of a new plot to capture the Phantom. Meanwhile, Professor Archer finds out about Kit's dual identity.

#4 - Generation Unto Generation (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1994

#5 - Generation Unto Generation (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1994

The origin of the 24th Phantom, as he is called into service on his 18th birthday, unaware of his family's history.

#6 - Reflections of Glory

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/16/1994

The story behind the rock star, Vaingloria, is revealed during an adventure involving kidnapped teens.

#7 - Sanctuary

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/1995

When the Egyptian Queen Nia returns to defeat the Phantom, she brings along ace marksman Gunnar to assist. However, while they hunt him in the Ghost Jungle, Gunnar cannot pass up the chance to hunt the rare, supposedly nonexistent Shadow Panther. Meanwhile, Max, Jr. remains blissfully trapped in VR - and Rebecca schemes to coax him out of his reverie by giving Baudelaire the boot...

#8 - The World is My Jungle

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/23/1995

A ""retrospective"" show, bringing you up-to-date on the goings-on in season 1

#9 - The Ties That Bind

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/7/1995

Rebecca launches what may be the first physical attack in her bid to begin the Maximum Era by destroying Dykstra Platform, home of Sean 1. Meanwhile, Max finally is lured out of VR and Pavlova cannot take working for Dr. Jak anymore, exercising her free will to resign. Vaingloria joins the Maximum security force as Sagan is knocked into a coma.

#10 - The Woman in the Moon

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/1995

An intercepted shipment of cloned hands being sent to the orbital platform has the Phantom intrigued and sends him on a space-hunt as the orbital platforms vote on whether to form their Free Orbital Nation.

#11 - Matter Over Mind

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1995

The truth behind the origins of Cairo and the contents of the train wreck that destroyed Sector Zero may destroy the Phantom and his friends -- one way, or another.

#12 - The Sins of the Fathers (1)

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1995

Many major plots reach a crescendo pitch as Sagan regains consciousness and her relationship with Kit is finally resolved, more truth behind the Sector Zero crash and many of its ramifications is revealed, and the Maximum Era counts down to launch.

#13 - The Sins of the Fathers (2)

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1995

Having been convinced by his friend Guran to go to Africa, his ancestral home, Kit finds deeper truth than even he imagined in the Phantom's fight for justice through the ages. Meanwhile, the truth behind Max Madison, Sr.'s original plan and the cause of the train wreck are revealed and lead to a shocking conclusion -- and the beginning of the Maximum Era.

#14 - The Sacrifice (1)

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1995

Kit and his friends return to his lair and find the mysterious message left by Kit's father, as the Madisons scheme to escape the dome with the assistance of Gorda (who may or may not be helping...). However, when Kit has to choose between the life of a person he loves and the life of Metropia itself, how does he decide?

#15 - The Sacrifice (2)

Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1995

Kit's continuing search for a way to save his father leads to some interesting revelations about Max Madison Sr., Mr. Cairo, and the 23rd Phantom, and puts Cairo in the worst danger he's ever encountered. Meanwhile, the Madisons and Gorda continue wreaking havoc while Rebecca attempts to put a ""positive spin"" on their scheming.

#16 - The Furies

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1996

Fissures in Gorda and Rebecca's ""partnership"" provide an exploitable weakness - but who is exploiting it, and why?

#17 - Moments of Truth

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/1996

Gorda and Rebecca fight over Rebecca's smuggling of yellow roses. Why would the all-powerful head of Maximum, Inc smuggle in flowers that can be grown right here in Metropia? Meanwhile, Sparks' ignorance of geography leads Kit to enrolling him at the University.

#18 - The Whole Truth

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/3/1996

Once and for all we finally experience the whole truth about the night the train wreck ruined Grand Central Station and the Phantom and Max Madison Sr. were killed - from no less a source than Max Madison, Sr. himself.

#19 - A Boy and His Cat

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1995

While testing his VR-controlled remote-control biot, Max gets trapped in his VR world; as Rebecca hires an annoying genius to work from Maximum's end, the Phantom works from inside VR to help get Max out before his remote biot wrecks Metropia. But does Max *want* to get out?

#20 - The Good Mark

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/30/1994

The Phantom learns the meaning of his Good Mark and, in the course of a plot by Maximum to lure the Phantom into a trap, ends up marking Sagan with it.

#21 - Ghost in the Machine

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/6/1994

When Rebecca is partially successful in resurrecting her dead husband, more of the history of the Great Train Wreck of 2024 is revealed, as the Phantom squares off with Max Madison, Sr. at Grand Central Station... again.

#22 - The Biot in Red

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/1994

The further adventures of Heisenberg the fractal biot, as he explores the concept of ""feelings"", and Dr. Jak has to do without his biot assistant for a while.

#23 - The Gauntlet

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/1994

The mystery of Sparks' missing parents is finally solved, during an adventure with a new security system at Cyberville

#24 - Three into One

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/1994

Maximum Inc's latest innovation is a virtual theme park featuring the rock star Vaingloria. But when three people seem to be taken over by a strange psychic force, their combined might may be too much for Metropia, so the police decide they need the Phantom's help - and offer him absolution if he solves the case. And the liason the police choose to work with the Phantom? Why, Sagan, of course

#25 - Life Lessons

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/1995

Heisenberg returns to warn the Phantom of a danger to both biots and humans deep inside Cyberville. But why would anyone care about the destruction of biots, even Heisenberg? After all, they're not alive... are they?