The BEST episodes of The Lion Guard season 1

#1 - The Trouble with Galagos

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/5/2016

The Guard must help a leopard stand up to a bully challenging his territory.

#2 - The Trail to Udugu

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 1/6/2017

Simba gets left in charge of the Lion Guard when Nala takes Kion and Kiara on a journey.

#3 - Beshte and the Hippo Lanes

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/17/2017

Beshte's dad is injured while creating "Hippo Lanes," so Beshte must step in and take over the job.

#4 - Beware the Zimwi

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/14/2016

When tales of a mysterious creature plague the Pride Lands, the Guard must conquer their fears and track down the elusive beast.

#5 - Janja's New Crew

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/26/2016

Janja replaces Chungu and Cheezi with two new hyenas in an attempt to sideline the Lion Guard.

#6 - The Imaginary Okapi

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/8/2016

When Beshte befriends a shy okapi, the Lion Guard thinks Beshte has an imaginary friend.

#7 - Never Roar Again

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 11/18/2016

Fearing he has lost control of his roar, Kion vows to never use it again.

#8 - Lions of the Outlands

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/11/2016

The Lion Guard must choose whether to side with the hyenas or the lions when Jasiri, the good hyena, asks for help.

#9 - The Call of the Drongo

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/25/2016

The Lion Guard meet a drongo, a bird that can imitate other animals' voices, that scares off other animals to get food.

#10 - Ono's Idol

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/24/2017

Ono meets his idol, legendary eagle Hadithi, and learns that his hero isn't what he expected.

#11 - Bunga and the King

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/29/2016

When Bunga and Simba are trapped underground, they discover a shared family background – they were both raised by Timon and Pumbaa.

#12 - Fuli's New Family

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/19/2016

The Lion Guard worries about how Fuli wants to be alone all the time.

#13 - Baboons!

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/23/2016

The Lion Guard rescues a baby baboon and Fuli returns the baboon to its mother.

#14 - The Lost Gorillas

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 12/2/2016

The Guard helps two buffoonish Gorilla princes return to their home in the snowy Rwenzori Mountains.

#15 - Bunga the Wise

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2016

After floodwaters threaten the Pride Lands and Bunga comes up with a quick fix, Kion and the other members of the Lion Guard learn that the quick and easy solution to a problem is not always the best.

#16 - The Mbali Fields Migration

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/22/2016

Kion and the Guard must lead a large herd through the Outlands to find a less crowded grazing ground.

#17 - Paintings and Predictions

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/1/2016

Believing that Rafiki's paintings predict the future, Bunga enlists the rest of the Lion Guard to save Kion from danger.

#18 - Too Many Termites

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 7/15/2016

The Lion Guard mistakenly chase off aardwolves instead of hyenas and the Pride Lands become overrun with termites.

#19 - The Rise of Makuu

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/15/2016

When a crocodile named Makuu takes over as leader of the crocodiles and his aggressive antics send the Pride Lands into chaos, Kion questions whether to intervene or respect animal traditions.

#20 - Follow That Hippo!

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/18/2016

An elephant child follows around Beshte, who he considers his hero. However, while pretending to be Beshte, the hyenas chase him down, leaving it up to Beshte to rescue him.

#21 - Never Judge a Hyena By Its Spots

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/2016

When Kion gets separated from the rest of the Lion Guard, he finds himself lost in the Outlands where he meets Jasiri, a friendly female hyena, who rescues him and helps face off against Janja and the other hyenas.

#22 - The Kupatana Celebration

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2016

During a celebrated holiday in the Pride Lands, Kion and his friends rescue a jackal pup from Janja but soon discover that he is in a family of con artist jackals and the matriarch, Reirei, manages to even dupe Kion into letting them stay.

#23 - Can’t Wait to be Queen

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/29/2016

When Simba leaves Kiara in charge of Pride Rock for the first time, Kion reluctantly agrees to obey her which proves difficult when Janja tries to take advantage of Kiara’s inexperience and hatches a plot to take over the Pride Lands.

#24 - Eye of the Beholder

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2016

Ono injures one of his eyes, and doesn't want to take it easy for the eye to heal properly for fear of no longer being allowed in the Lion Guard.

#25 - Ono the Tickbird

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/21/2017