The BEST episodes of Samurai Jack season 1
Every episode of Samurai Jack season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Samurai Jack season 1!
Made by Genndy Tartakovsky, this cartoon tells the story of a great warrior displaced to the distant future by the evil shape-shifting wizard Aku. The world has become a bleak place under the rule of Aku, segregated into fantastic tribes and ruled by Aku's evil robot warlords. Jack travels this foreign landscape in search of a time portal that can return him to his home time so he can "undo the future that is Aku!".
#1 - XI: Jack and the Scotsman
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 10/29/2001
When Jack and a Scotsman meet on a seemingly never-ending bridge, they end up shackled together and on the run from bounty hunters.
#2 - VII: Jack and the Three Blind Archers
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 8/20/2001
Samurai Jack hears of a mysterious island which possesses a well that can grant any wish. He arrives at the island and discovers the well is not alone.
#3 - XII: Jack and the Gangsters
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/26/2001
Jack joins a group of gangsters who work for Aku. He also agrees to help steal the heavily protected crystal that can give Aku power over the whole planet. Fortunately Jack has not become a traitor, but has his own plans of how to hand over the swag.
#4 - X: Jack and the Lava Monster
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/5/2001
Called on by a mysterious voice, Jack overcomes many obstacles and booby traps to find who is calling him. Deep in the earth he finds it is a creature made from rock and lava, who immediately challenges Jack to a fight, but why did it call for Jack?
#5 - XIII: Aku's Fairy Tales
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/3/2001
The tales of Jack's adventures have spread far and wide, and children are having fun acting out the stories. Aku, in an attempt to keep the children in line, decides to spread a few stories of his own.
#6 - VIII: Jack vs. Mad Jack
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/15/2001
Aku places a bounty on Jack's head, but is disappointed by the failure of some inept hunters, so he creates an evil spirit-clone version of Jack to finish our hero off for good.
#7 - I: The Beginning
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/10/2001
Aku, the shape-shifting master of evil, devastates a young boy's land, forcing him to travel around the world to train as a samurai. When Samurai Jack returns to free his people, he is instead flung into the far future, where he must quest to undo the future that is Aku.
#8 - VI: Jack and the Warrior Woman
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/19/2001
Jack searches for the the magical jewel the Woolies told him would be able to send him back in time. Locating the last survivor of the race who can reveal its location, Jack learns of how to find the jewel, and meets up with a woman questing for the same jewel. They journey through the desert together, but will they be able to share the jewel if they find it?
#9 - IX: Jack Under the Sea
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/3/2001
Jack hears tales about a race of amphibians living in an underwater city who have a time machine. He searches them out, and they agree to let him use the machine, but the creatures have not been entirely truthful.
#10 - III: The First Fight
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/10/2001
Aku learns of Jack's arrival in the future, and of the help he is giving the dogs. He sends a huge army of insect drones to destroy Jack and the dogs alike. Jack has been busy preparing many traps for them however, and when they arrive the battle begins in earnest.
#11 - II: The Samurai Called Jack
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/10/2001
Jack befriends some talking archeologist dogs and learns of his location: In the future shaped by years of Aku's evil reign. He vows to help the dogs gain their freedom from a life of enslaved jewel mining.
#12 - IV: Jack, the Woolies, and the Chritchellites
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/13/2001
Jack comes into contact with a tribe of creatures who utilize their technology to subdue a group of supposedly savage beasts called "Woolies." Little does Jack know, there is more to the situation than meets the eye.
#13 - V: Jack in Space
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/27/2001
Samurai Jack befriends a future community building a spaceship to escape Aku's tyrannic rule. Jack agrees to assist in their escape by fighting off the blockade orbiting the planet in return for a trip through time back home.