The BEST episodes of VR Troopers season 1
Every episode of VR Troopers season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of VR Troopers season 1!
Three friends who study martial arts find themselves defending humanity from a criminal mastermind and his invading army from another dimension. An American kids show by Saban Entertainment adapting footage from Toei's Metal Hero franchise (specifically Chojinki Metalder, Jikuu Senshi Spielban, Uchuu Keiji Shaider and Uchuu Keiji Gavan) similar to how Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers adapted Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger footage..
#1 - Katlin's Little Helper
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/22/1994
KAITLIN'S cousin, BETSY, comes for a visit. She aspires to be a reporter like Kaitlin and, while on a story, discovers green slime oozing from the grass in the park. Kaitlin and the guys analyze the slime and discover it is a defoliant that will destroy all of the plants and trees. Meanwhile, Betsy is captured by SKUGS. Kaitlin and the guys rescue her and face GRIMLORD'S mutants. In the end, everyone is safe and WOODY loves the article that Kaitlin and Betsy wrote about the slime.
#2 - Error in the System
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/14/1994
A mysterious virus enters the comptuer system causing everything to malfucion including the hardware surounding inside professor Hart the troopers realize that grimlord is behind it.
#3 - Defending Dark Heart (1)
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/14/1994
The troopers discover an army of mutants, as they scan them, they discover that one the mutants is a human being. Ryan suspects that one of them could be his missing father.
#4 - Lost Memories
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/15/1994
When a homeless lady wanders into the dojo with amnesia, the kids try to help. TAO cooks herbal food, students pass out flyers, J.B. uses his computer and KAITLIN runs her photo on the front page of WOODY'S newspaper. RYAN also loses his memory when he collides in midair with AIRSTRIKER, sent by GRIMLORD, to destroy him. PROFESSOR HART and JEB try to bring back Ryan's memory in the lab, while J.B. and Kaitlin battle the LASER BOT and GENERAL IVAR'S robot vehicles. The kids win and the love of his dog brings back Ryan's memory. The newspaper photo reunites the homeless lady with her family.
#5 - Defending Dark Heart (3)
Season 1 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/16/1994
A SKUG learns of the V.R. TROOPERS plans to de-virtualize RYAN'S father, TYLER STEEL/DARK HEART and warns GRIMLORD. who decides to use Dark Heart as bait to lure Ryan to his destruction. PROFESSOR HART and J.B. analyze the data and discovers that Dark Heart is literally connected to Grimlord through a specific chemical and electronic link. The only way to break the link is to destroy Grimlord! Grimlord appears on the lab's screens and gives Ryan specific coordinates on the reality grid. There he will find his father. Grimlord threatens that if Ryan does not appear, Dark Heart will be destroyed. Ryan keeps his appointment and must fight several mutants who intend to destroy both him and his father. Dark Heart is shot and Ryan rescues him. The father and son escape on Ryan's Turbo Cycle. However, Grimlord begins a full scale assault on the lab. ...to be continued.
#6 - Defending Dark Heart (4)
Season 1 - Episode 34 - Aired 11/17/1994
GRIMLORD, knowing DARK HEART/TYLER is gravely injured, launches a full aerial assault on PROFESSOR HART'S lab, as this is the first place RYAN will take his father. Ryan, warned that the lab is under attack, takes his father to a long forgotten and secret lab in the mountains. Father and son are about to be attacked by a full scale aerial assault when J.B. reinputs the transformation commands into the lab's computer. He and Kaitlin transform and rush to Ryan and Dark Heart/Tyler's aid. Ryan and Dark Heart/Tyler decide to challenge Grimlord face to face and enter virtual reality. Meanwhile, Grimlord begins a self destruct system. Father and son escape just as Grimlord's dungeon explodes - supposedly with Grimlord inside. However, most of the mutants were outside, and another battle begins. Ryan fights off DECIMATOR and Tyler returns to human form. Ryan holds his father before he disappears -- as Grimlord takes him back to Virtual World.
#7 - Grimlord's Challenge
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/20/1994
A neighborhood policewoman offers TAO and the kids a challenge: turn BECKY into a karate contender in two weeks and win $1000 from the Police Association to help other street kids. RYAN accepts the challenge and KAITLIN commits to help. When GRIMLORD hears about this offer, he issues his own challenge: his robots will compete to see who will face the V.R. TROOPERS at the reality barrier. HAMMERBOT meets Ryan in the Forest of Virtual Reality. SPIDERBOT faces J.B. at the top of the world and Kaitlin must hold back GENERAL IVAR'S robot assault vehicles and fighter jets. JEB becomes Becky's friend and helps her to stay on track and win a ribbon in the beginners division at the Inter-dojo tournament.
#8 - Computer Captive
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/21/1994
Grimlord invents a device that traps anyone inside virtually reality when JB becomes a hostage Ryan must go in to rescue his Friend who is being trained of his VR Trooper powers
#9 - Searching for Tyler Steele
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/30/1994
While walking through Crossworld woods they notice someone inside an abanoned cabin Ryan suspects that this person could be his long lost farther.
#10 - Small But Mighty
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/9/1994
Strickland, Ziktor's assistant shows him his new invention that can reverse the aging process. He decides to use on the troopers so that they will be too young to stop his warriors.
#11 - Ghost Biker
Season 1 - Episode 35 - Aired 11/18/1994
Local legend has it that anyone who looks at the GHOST BIKER face to face vanishes forever. Meanwhile, ZIKTOR receives two pieces of good news: GENERAL IVAR has found a weakened area of the reality barrier and COLONEL ICEBOT has developed a new weapon, the Virtual Vaporizer, to take care of the TROOPERS. PERCY follows Kaitlin and J.B. to the construction site, but when The Ghost Biker appears, he faints. The Troopers' investigation is interrupted by SKUGS and once they've been dispensed with, The Ghost Biker reappears and vanishes with Kaitlin and J.B. They discover that The Ghost Biker is a computer program, which J.B. programs to help Ryan defeat Renegade and the two robots. The Ghost Biker takes Ryan to J.B. and Kaitlin - and allows them to return to reality.
#12 - The Rise of the Red Python (1)
Season 1 - Episode 51 - Aired 2/27/1995
Grimlord invents his own VR Trooper but realizes that he's missing a human inhabit the armor so he sets his sights on Kaitlin's friend Amy. He captures Amy and puts her under his evil spell. Kaitlin is injured causing ryan to make sure that the red python will regret for what she did.
#13 - Oh Brother
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/19/1994
RYAN and J.B. are training two young brothers who argue with each other all the time. ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD decides to unleash two monster robot brothers of his own, the SWORDBOTS. KAITLIN and the brothers stumble across Grimlord's ""Power Diverter"" and the brothers are captured by SKUGS. To track them, PROFESSOR HART invents a ""virtual blood hound"" using a robotic ""Sniffer,"" linked to JEB's real nose. The brothers argue so much the Skugs separate them. Kaitlin and J.B. are able to free one boy while Ryan fights the Swordbot robots and frees the other boy. After this, the boys agree not to argue with each other and they win the tournament.
#14 - Message from Space
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 2/22/1995
PROFESSOR HART contacts RYAN, KAITLIN and J.B. at The Underground to relay a message to Ryan from DR. MONROE, an old friend of the Professor's who happens to head up the National Space Laboratory. Dr. Monroe informs Ryan that while retrieving data from an old satellite he ran across information concerning TYLER STEELE, Ryan's dad. Dr. Monroe arranges to travel to Cross World City to give Ryan the video. ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD learns of this plan and sends his SKUGS to intercept delivery of the videotape. He also plans to lure the TROOPERS into a trap that will destroy them once and for all. Grimlord's Skugs are successful in kidnapping Dr. Monroe and detaining the Troopers. The Troopers locate the real Dr. Monroe and attempt a rescue. Dr. Monroe is released from Grimlord's clutches and the video of Tyler Steele is recovered. Ryan learns that his father is still alive and out there --somewhere.
#15 - Field Goal
Season 1 - Episode 37 - Aired 11/22/1994
When the Jr. High FOOTBALL COACH stumbles onto GRIMLORD'S secret base, SKUGS shrink him and imprison him in a sports trading card. When the team is turned away from their field, the Troopers go to the office of the ""landscaper,"" who turn into Skugs and a fight ensues. Ryan decides to hold practice at the Dojo, where the Troopers, including JEB, help with the training. Grimlord is determined to ambush Ryan, but Ryan defeats CANON FIST, retrieving it's memory cell. Ryan and Kaitlin work with the team while J.B. uses the lab's computers on the memory cell in hopes of finding the coach. He determines a link to the playing field. At the field J.B. battles Skugs and just as Kaitlin arrives, pulls them back to Virtual Reality, where they battle FOOT-BOT. In a parallel fight, Ryan leads the football team. J.B. and Kaitlin destroy Foot-bot, find the trading card and release the coach. They get him back to the game in time to give the team one final play and the victory.
#16 - Defending Dark Heart (2)
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 11/15/1994
Katlin and JB are trapped between a rock and hardplace. When they realize that if Percy discovers who they are, they are in hot water. Meanwhile, Ryan tries to reason with dark heart to discover if he really is his missing father.
#17 - No One's Friend
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 9/27/1994
Grimlord puts a spell on JB and Katlin causing them to turn against Ryan. Meanwhile Katlin's boss hires the Mayor's nephew as Katlin's co-worker.
#18 - Battle for the Books
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/16/1994
ZIKTOR wants to destroy all books that teach about solar energy. He starts with MR. REESE'S bookmobile, as a way of getting at J.B. The boys are getting ready for a doubles Karate tournament when KAITLIN alerts them and they rush to save J.B.'s dad from the attacking SKUGS. The boys win the first round of the tournament, but join Kaitlin between rounds to take on THE ELIMINATOR who is attacking the Central Library. RYAN forgets his virtualizer back at the Dojo, so Kaitlin and J.B. go to fight while Ryan retrieves it. Using the new VORTEX power, J.B. takes the battle with GRIMLORD'S airforce to a virtual quarry. Ryan joins them and the robots are defeated. The boys win the tournament and J.B. gives his father the prize money to fix the bookmobile. Ryan surprises J.B. by adding his prize money to J.B.'s, sacrificing his goal of becoming partners with Tao in the dojo.
#19 - The Battle Begins (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/10/1994
As Ryan lays unconscience his he rembers how his farther taught him never to give up he is rescue by JB and Katlin. Ryan's dog is accidently shocked in the lab causing him to speak. Ryan Katlin and JB join forces as they begin the search for his farther.
#20 - The Rise of the Red Python (2)
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 2/28/1995
Ryan and J.B. desperately search for a way to help Kaitlin return to human form. J.B. is sent to fight the Red Python and the Python malfunctions midbattle. They visit their friend, Dr. Poindexter, hoping he can help them with Kaitlin. Poindexter has an extra retroformer and-they use it on Kaitlin, bringing her back to normal. Meanwhile, Amy goes to the dojo, looking for help and passes out. She transforms into the Red Python and is sent to destroy the Troopers. At the lab it is discovered that Amy is the Red Python and is in danger of self-destructing if engaged in another battle. J.B. again meets with Red Python and tries to reason with her. She collapses and changes back into Amy. She taken to the lab where the professor- is able to reverse the brainwashing. She is grateful to the V.R. Troopers and her new friends, unaware that they are one and the same.
#21 - Virtually Powerless
Season 1 - Episode 48 - Aired 2/15/1995
While at an arcade, J.B., RYAN and KAITLIN are visited by a mysterious man who suggests they play the newest game in the store -- ""Dark Odyssey."" As they play, they are given a shock via the game board, which GRIMLORD is secretly using as a conduit to unleash a lethal dose of gamma radiation on the virtualizers. They turn to their old friend, DR. ULYSSES T. POINDEXTER, the absent-minded professor. With Dr. Poindexter's help, Ryan's virtualizer is repaired. During a test run, Poindexter is kidnapped by SKUGS under Grimlord's order. The evil emperor wants to use Poindexter's knowledge of the TROOPERS as a weapon against them. The VR trio track Poindexter's whereabouts and Ryan sets out to rescue him. In the end, Poindexter repairs all three virtualizers and the Troopers are back in business. J.B. uses a device to wipe Poindexter's memory free from knowing who they really are, thus making him worthless to Grimlord.
#22 - Race to the Rescue
Season 1 - Episode 46 - Aired 2/13/1995
RYAN, KAITI IN and J.B. are having a blast at a go-cart racetrack. They notice a kid who is being teased by a bully about having trouble with his go-cart. J.B. and Ryan volunteer to help get the kid's go-cart up and running for a race against the bully. Meanwhile, ZIKTOR has come up with the ultimate opposition to the TROOPERS -- melding the powers of all his mutants into one super-robot, ZELTON. Back at the Dojo, Ryan and J.B. get a call from PROFESSOR HART, who needs their help in collecting crystals for some research he's doing. Ryan is busy with the repair job on the go-cart, so Kaitlin and J.B. volunteer to collect the Professor's crystals. GRIMLORD, who orders his mutants to fire upon the two Troopers after they enter an old mine. Once inside, the bombardment causes a cave-in in the mine trapping Kaitlin and J.B. At the lab, Ryan and the Professor try to trace J.B. and Kaitlin's movements, but they are unsuccessful. Grimlord chooses now as the perfect time to unleash his ultimate
#23 - Good Trooper, Bad Trooper
Season 1 - Episode 41 - Aired 2/6/1995
KAITLIN is doing an article on biologically dissimilar twins. She maintains that every living being has a mirror image. Meanwhile, ZIKTOR has developed a cloning device from plans originally belonging to TYLER STEELE. He sends his SKUGS to attack Ryan and obtain a lock of his hair with which the device will produce a clone. While Ryan is out jogging with JEB in the park, his evil Clone appears at the Dojo and becomes uncharacteristically aggressive and mean. When Ryan's Clone can't gain entrance to the lab, J.B. and Kaitlin become suspicious. Ryan goes to the lab and is given the Professor's Virtualizer, enabling him to confront his evil twin. The Troopers win the day and return to the Dojo, intent on finding Jeb. Suddenly, Jeb shows up at the door -- only it's not Jeb. It's really his twin. When Jeb's twin exhibits the same characteristics as Jeb, Kaitlin is quick to acknowledge that some twins are equal.
#24 - Friends in Need
Season 1 - Episode 40 - Aired 11/30/1994
Two circus performers who are scientists in disguise (MIKAIL and LEAH) are taken to PROFESSOR HART for help in completing their research on a fuel-increasing formula hidden on a micro-dot on a jewel in Leah's necklace. They are beset by SKUGS on the way to the lab, and the scientists are kidnapped, but not before Leah puts her necklace around JEB'S neck. GRIMLORD is furious that the formula has been passed on. Professor Hart is able to help the TROOPERS prepare a plan to find and free Leah and Mikail, while he analyzes the micro-dot. The Troopers transform. Ryan meets Horrorbot in a battle where his powers are weakened and he is caged. Following a high-speed pursuit, Kaitlin leads the scientists to safety while J.B. flattens Terminoid and General Ivar. Meanwhile, Ryan puts Horrorbot out of commission. Reunited at the Dojo, Leah gets her necklace back, along with Professor Hart's information.
#25 - Endangered Species
Season 1 - Episode 36 - Aired 11/21/1994
KAITLIN'S friend, DANIELLE, beseeches her to write a story about the Animal Sanctuary, where Danielle's father is head scientist. Developers are trying to buy the land and use it for industrial development. When Kaitlin, J.B. and RYAN arrive at the sanctuary, they discover that GRIMLORD has plans for the land as well. Grimlord's SKUGS kidnap Danielle while his MUTANTS try to destroy the rare species of animals being protected on the sanctuary. The VR TROOPERS fight Grimlord's minions and save the animals. Kaitlin's story convinces the City Council to keep the animal sanctuary intact and safe for future generations.