The BEST episodes of Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE
Every episode of Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Uninhabited Planet SURVIVE!
It is the 22nd century where anti-gravity and warp travel are commonplace. However, the green Earth only exists in history book, people live in space colonies instead. Luna is a transfer student whose parents passed away when she was young, leaving her alone with her robotic cat Chako. Her dream is to become space exploration expert like her parents. A mistake during a school trip strands her and six of her classmates on a seemingly uninhabited planet. Here she must lead the introvert Shaara, the mechanic expert Shingo, the quiet Kaoru, the spoiled Howard, the obedient Bell, and the prideful Menori in s battle for their survival.
#1 - We`ve Only Just Started Walking
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/4/2003
Kaoru fashions the obsidian he found into a crude spear which he uses to catch a fish. Chako and Shingo collect worms for bait and build simple fishing rods, but don't have much luck catching fish without hooks. Bell and Sharla continue their attempts to build a fire together, and Sharla eventually succeeds shortly before sunset due to her lighter touch and faster hands, despite both of them rubbing their palms raw. The group is concerned that Luna, Menori, and Howard have not returned, and vow to search for them at sunrise. They are also impressed at the obsidian knife and spear-head that Kaoru made, but he insists that the others should make their own. When Bell reveals that the fish should be cleaned and gutted before eating, something that Kaoru didn't know, he realizes that they all need to work together, and makes more knives, and a fishing hook out of bone for Shingo and Chako. The next day, after spending a night in a small cave, Luna, Menori, and Howard reach the top of the mountain, and discover that they are on an island. Despite being at first depressed that there are no people in sight, they are able to find their bearings again. After drawing a map of the island, they return to the lake for more water, then set off for the shuttle again, meeting up with the other children who have started searching for them.
#2 - We`re Not Playing A Game
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/27/2003
The next day, the children set out again to find food and water, this time with Shingo and Chako going as well. Kaoru is told to go with Shingo and Chako, but is reluctant, and eventually goes off on his own after finding some fruit. At the beach, he finds some obsidian. Bell and Sharla attempt to start a fire, first trying to get a spark from rocks, and then by spinning a stick with their hands. Bell tries until his hands are blistered and bleeding, but insists that he must continue, despite Sharla's pleading. Luna, Menori, and Howard head into the forest. First chasing after a small kangaroo-like creature, they then encounter a giant lizard that chases after them instead. They get away at first, but lose their bearings. While trying to find their way, they find a large fresh water lake, but the lizard catches up with them. The three climb up a very large tree to avoid it, but it is soon scared off by loud thumping footsteps. As the source of the footsteps emerges from the forest, it is revealed to be an elephantine creature with a long prehensile tongue that tries to reach the leaves of the big tree to eat, but it cannot. Howard gets frightened and screams, scaring the creature away. Menori and Luna resolve to climb a small mountain in the distance to re-establish their bearings, even though it will mean they won't make it back to the shuttle by nightfall, and Howard follows.
#3 - Everyone`s House
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/15/2004
As children put some finishing touches on their house, Howard emerges from the forest, leading Bell, who is bowed under the weight of one of the shuttle's seats, intended for Howard's exclusive use. Luna protests that if Howard wants the seat, he should carry it himself. They declare the house almost complete, lacking only a front door, until Menori suggests a shower. Meanwhile, Kaoru works at narrowing a river with rocks to force the fish into a smaller area, but still finds them difficult to catch with his spear. While the other children collect wood to construct a shower room and leaves for shower curtains, Bell and Luna attack a pitcher plant, using logs to occupy the tentacle vines. They miss one, which catches Luna. Bell saves Luna, but berates himself for missing it. Luna tells him to have more confidence in himself. They return with the pitcher to use as a tank for the shower. That night, as Bell muses by the fire, Sharla comes to remind him of all the good things he's done for them.
#4 - We Can Definitely Live Together Amicably
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/18/2003
Long days of little food followed by long nights of little sleep in the shuttle's seats are beginning to take their toll on the children, who are starting to get irritable and snappish with one another. Luna once again raises the idea of moving to Fairy Lake, building a house in the Magnificent Tree to keep it out of reach of the giant lizard. The children survey the tree, leaving Kaoru behind to tend the fire, who makes saws from panels scavenged from the shuttle. Chako, Shingo and Howard measure the tree for size and strength. When they return to the shuttle, Howard takes a small branch of the Magnificent Tree with him as a souvenir. Shingo and Chako spend the night drawing up plans for a house. The next day, the children - sans Howard, left behind to tend the fire and catch fish for dinner - find straight, sturdy trees and vines to construct the foundation of the house. Dismayed by the amount of effort required, and despite some mishaps, the group manages to complete the foundation. Bored of not being able to catch any fish, Howard comes to see how they are going, but when he climbs the tree to test the foundation, the whole structure collapses. Disheartened, they return to the shuttle - only to find that it too has been destroyed, and their fire has gone out.
#5 - That`s Why I Have To Go
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 8/5/2004
On the Orion, Chako determines that virus-like nanomachines have entered Adam's body and changed the nanomachines already there into malignant ones, and they probably entered through the scrape on his hand. They decide to head directly for the nearest sub-terraforming machine. After passing through a forest, they reach an ancient, crumbling city. They stop by a large building that they hope is a hospital, but the medicines they find had already decomposed long ago. Chako estimates them to be five hundred to a thousand years old, the same age as Adam's ruins. When Howard finds writing on a medicine bottle that's the same as writing they saw in the ruins, they realize that Adam's people had come from this planet, which raises the question of why he was in a spaceship on the island.
#6 - I Finally Also...
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/13/2004
Menori, acting as spokesperson, tells the escapees to put down their weapons and move away from them, and Brindo plays along. They start the hostage exchange, but Brindo catches Kaoru heading towards the discarded weapons, and Zilba pulls out a needle gun and shoots at him. In the resulting confrontation, Howard gets hit by a needle. The children cross the river to escape, but find themselves still in range of Brindo's laser gun. Things look dire until Adam arrives, followed by the giant crustacean from the ruins, acting under Adam's unconscious control, which distracts the escapees long enough for the children to escape. They head for the ruins, relying on the illusory forest to slow the escapees down, leaving Kaoru behind to watch them.
#7 - We Can Definitely do It
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 5/27/2004
The children put their plans into action, first separating the escapees, then trapping Bob in a cage and catching Brindo in a snare. However, Kaoru is tied down fighting Zilba. Brindo quickly frees himself, and soon corners Luna, Bell and Menori, but Kaoru shoots the gun out of his hand with an arrow, and Bell smashes it with a rock. Bob also breaks free, and the three regroup and close in on the children. Suddenly, the herd of pagues - with Pague himself in their midst - stampedes between the two groups, allowing the children time to escape. When the herd moves on, Bob tries to follow the children, and falls into a pit trap.
#8 - Hurry!
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 6/3/2004
Knowing they can't sacrifice Pague for their own benefit, the children decide to give up on fixing the ruins and steal the Orion instead. They hide in the control room and close up the floor, then open up the outer door. They lure the escapees into the inner chamber with the terraforming device, then lock them inside, open the floor once again and escape, taking the gyrostabilizer with them and closing the door behind them. They head for the beach, but behind them, Bob batters down the inner door, and Brindo uses a miniature bomb on the outer door.
#9 - Begin Surfacing
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/10/2004
On the Orion, Kaoru familiarizes himself with the controls, Porte, Shingo and Chako head for the engineering room, while Sharla and Adam hide in the aft cargo hold. On the beach, Bob makes a raft from logs, and as the children race to intercept, they cast off. Using Bob's cyborg arm as an outboard motor, they quickly move out of arrow rage. Luna uses her power to warn Adam, and he warns the others. Porte installs the gyrostabilizer and the engine powers up. However, as Kaoru begins liftoff, the escapees board the ship through the aft cargo hold's hatch. They pass Sharla and Adam without noticing them, and head for the bridge, where the rest have holed themselves up.
#10 - Go To The Mainland?!
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 6/17/2004
The children find Porte hanging from a tree and bind his wounds, then head for the ruins. There, they find that both the Orion and the ruins have been all but destroyed. The children are all stunned, but Adam is especially distraught, as the ruins represented his only link to his parents. Luna suggests heading to the mainland to find the main terraforming machine, as they may also find another spaceship there, but the others, still reeling from the shock, decide it would be better to rebuild the basis of their lifestyle first, and consider bigger things afterwards.
#11 - Although We Don`t Have Enough Materials
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 6/24/2004
With Shingo designing and Porte giving technical advice while recuperating from his injuries, the children start to build their ship with Pague's help, using the largely intact hull of the Orion for the main body, and searching the forest and ruins for parts and components. However, a disagreement caused by lack of parts is starting to open a rift between Shingo and Porte. Since the gravity control unit they found wouldn't be powerful enough to produce both lift and propulsion for their ship, Shingo comes up with the idea of using sail power for propulsion, but Porte rejects it outright, not willing to ignore centuries of tradition in spaceship construction.
#12 - A Very Important Friend
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 7/1/2004
As the children finish construction on the ship and load supplies for the journey, Porte visits each one except Shingo and gives them words of advice and encouragement. The children turn to Sharla to give the ship a name, but she asks for time to think on it. That night, they head back to Everyone's House for their last night on the island. As Menori plays her violin, they think over the many things that have happened to them. Later, after everyone has gone to bed, Shingo finds Porte sitting by the fire. Porte gives Shingo his mechanic's jacket, and the two lie side-by-side.
#13 - Never Say Die
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 7/8/2004
A few days into the trip, first Shingo and Adam, then Menori, Sharla and Howard become incredibly seasick. In addition, the ship has become becalmed, causing some concerns over provisions. Howard and Menori try to talk Luna into turning back to the island they came from, but Luna stands by her original decision. Luna stands watch in the crow's nest, brooding over things and zoning out to the extent that she fails to notice a huge storm brewing right behind her, even when it is right on top of them.
#14 - I Won`t Give Up
Season 1 - Episode 38 - Aired 7/15/2004
Bell tries to jump in after Luna, but the others hold him back. Kaoru attempts to turn the ship around, but because of the measures taken to avoid capsizing during the storm, the steering won't work. As Luna drifts out of sight, Shingo blames himself for not anticipating such a storm, but Chako is confident in Luna's ability to survive. In the ocean, Luna is being buffeted around by the waves, kept afloat only by her lifejacket and her memory of her father.
#15 - Why Is Something Like That...
Season 1 - Episode 39 - Aired 7/22/2004
Heading for the continent once more, the children have realized that something happened to Luna on the island. Chako scans Luna and discovers nanomachines in her bloodstream, which were the reason for her quick healing. She scans the rest of the children as well, but only Adam has them too, which explains why Luna and Adam are able to communicate, why Luna could hear the mysterious voice, and why she could open the door to the ruins. Luna is extremely concerned that she has nanomachines, but tries to behave as normal in front of the other children. However, they can tell that it's just an act, and after three days, they plan a cheer-up-Luna surprise party.
#16 - Finally Arrived
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 7/29/2004
Kaoru pilots the Orion up a river to find a place where they can come to shore, and they decide to stop for lunch on solid ground. As the children set up a picnic, they all notice that Sharla has become a much stronger person than she used to be, and conversation quickly turns to everyone's parents. Luna, however, as the only one of the human children who is an orphan, becomes saddened by the conversation, and Bell notices. As the children plan their route, they decide to spend the day replenishing their supplies. Suddenly, an earthquake occurs.
#17 - Mysterious Power
Season 1 - Episode 42 - Aired 8/12/2004
The children enter the terraforming machine, leaving Sharla behind to look after Adam. Inside, Luna finds a stairway leading deeper, where they are attacked by a large humanoid robot, which Chako identifies as a maintenance robot. They defeat it when Kaoru plunges his knife into its head. The strange voice which Luna heard earlier speaks to Luna through the robot. It identifies itself as the main computer that manages the terraforming machines, Survive. With Luna translating for the other children, Survive recounts the history of the planet.
#18 - We`ll Return to the Colony Together
Season 1 - Episode 43 - Aired 8/19/2004
The Orion travels through a desert, but progress is slow, as sand keeps getting into the engine room, forcing them to stop while Shingo and Chako clean it. When they're on the move again, they have lunch together, but food and water supplies are starting to get low. To cheer them up, Sharla shows everyone a desert flower that she found, made of crystallized sand, but Howard, getting frustrated and afraid, grabs it and smashes it on the floor. Adam realizes that Sharla has been sharing her water ration amongst everyone else, and tells Luna, but Sharla promises Luna that she's ok.
#19 - Howard Saved Us
Season 1 - Episode 44 - Aired 8/26/2004
The children sit stunned by the side of the quicksand pit. Luna and Shingo each blame themselves - Luna for suggesting they go to the mainland, and Shingo because the Orion was his design. Menori, knowing that they would never survive in the desert in the day, forces them all to start walking. They walk by night and rest by day, reaching a forest at the edge of the desert the following night. Chako tries to lighten the mood, but Shingo becomes angry at Menori's hard-line stance and the two get into an argument. As they lie down to sleep, they all recall memories of Howard and Sharla.
#20 - Mom! Dad!
Season 1 - Episode 45 - Aired 9/2/2004
The children find a door in the hull, which opens when Luna holds up her hand. Inside, they encounter a maze of passageways, but drones quickly find them and they are forced to flee. After they run past one section of corridor, a small being emerges from a hatch in the wall, and instantly recognizes Adam. The small being, who speaks a language only Luna and Adam can understand, asks the children to follow him, but assuming him to be another enemy, they run from him. When the drones chase the being instead of them, they realize they can probably trust him, and when he appears in front of them from another hatch, they decide to follow him.
#21 - I Missed You
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 9/9/2004
Outside, the children gather food while avoiding the drones. They discuss how much the area reminds them of their island, and Adam is excited to see a pague, except it's quite small. As the pague returns to its mother, two drones arrive, but someone shoots arrows at them from the bushes and destroys them. In a moment, Howard and Sharla emerge from the bushes. The children have a tearful reunion. Sharla tells the others that when they were sucked down by the quicksand, they fell into flowing water underground. Howard, however, sits in stoic silence. Sharla passes it off as him being tired, and prevents Chako from scanning him. When Luna and Sharla make skin-to-skin contact, Luna feels a weird sensation.
#22 - Let`s Start!
Season 1 - Episode 47 - Aired 9/16/2004
Outside in the forest, Sharla stands communicating with a drone, agreeing to continue observing Luna. Elsewhere, Luna senses the drone, but when she and Kaoru run there, they only find Sharla. Worried, they head back to the hidden room. Together, they come up with a plan to reach Survive's chamber and accost the computer directly. The security drones act largely autonomously, guided by the sensors in each section - Shingo and Chako will use a modified chip to disable the sensors, meaning that so long as they stay out of direct sight of the drones, they won't be able to detect the children. Luna and Kaoru go with them for defense.
#23 - You`re Not You
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 9/30/2004
Chako reveals to the others what they suspected, that Howard and Sharla were being controlled by Survive. Luna and Kaoru follow Howard and Sharla, but encounter drones trying to force their way into the hidden room. They return to regroup, but realizing there are no more safe places to hide, they decide to attempt a frontal assault on Survive's room. Shingo finds two infrared inhibitor particle nebulizers which they can use to confuse the drone's sensors in the same way that Howard's mirror worked earlier. In Survive's room, Survive tells Howard and Sharla that he needs to obtain Luna's power for himself.
#24 - At This Rate, This Planet...
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 10/7/2004
Survive shows the children images of earthquakes causing damage all over the continent, but he cannot determine the cause of them. He explains that he needs Luna's power to save the planet, even if he has to absorb her to get it. The children discuss escaping the planet, but Survive threatens them with a huge swarm of drones. Luna offers to investigate the cause of the imminent destruction in exchange for their safety - though Survive is supremely logical and has access to all the data, the humans have the ability to see connections and make intuitive deductions.
#25 - Because Everybody Likes This Planet
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 10/14/2004
Survive has detected the gravity storm approaching, on a direct collision course with the planet, due to arrive in three days. Shingo thinks they can save the planet by using the gravity control unit on Survive's spaceship to create an inverse gravity field, cancelling out the gravity storm. With Survive's computing power, the children test a simulation using the anti-gravity sled's smaller unit, and are successful. However, since the plan requires detaching the gravity control unit from Survive's ship and sending it into the storm, Howard and Menori object, saying they should use the ship to return home while they can - there are no other spaceships or sufficiently powerful gravity control units on the planet. The other children agree that they have to save the planet, and Howard storms off.