Plunder & Lightning - Part 2
Disney's TailSpin - S1 - E2
In the series premiere, Baloo, an air cargo pilot, meets Kit Cloudkicker, a 12-year-old orphan, and takes him on as his navigator. He also loses his business to Rebecca Cunningham, a business major who becomes his boss. Meanwhile, Don Karnage, a notorious air pirate, uses a special gem stolen from Shere Khan's company, Khan Industries, to power a lightning gun and threaten Cape Suzette.
Disney's TailSpin: Season 1 - 52 Episode s
1x1 - Plunder & Lightening - Part One
September 7, 1990
A young orphan cub with a valuable jewel hooks up with an daring bush pilot against Air Pirates determined to recover it.
1x2 - Plunder & Lightning - Part 2
September 7, 1990
In the series premiere, Baloo, an air cargo pilot, meets Kit Cloudkicker, a 12-year-old orphan, and takes him on as his navigator. He also loses his business to Rebecca Cunningham, a business major who becomes his boss. Meanwhile, Don Karnage, a notorious air pirate, uses a special gem stolen from Shere Khan's company, Khan Industries, to power a lightning gun and threaten Cape Suzette.
1x3 - Plunder & Lightning - Part 3
September 7, 1990
In the series premiere, Baloo, an air cargo pilot, meets Kit Cloudkicker, a 12-year-old orphan, and takes him on as his navigator. He also loses his business to Rebecca Cunningham, a business major who becomes his boss. Meanwhile, Don Karnage, a notorious air pirate, uses a special gem stolen from Shere Khan's company, Khan Industries, to power a lightning gun and threaten Cape Suzette.
1x4 - Plunder & Lightning - Part 4
September 7, 1990
In the series premiere, Baloo, an air cargo pilot, meets Kit Cloudkicker, a 12-year-old orphan, and takes him on as his navigator. He also loses his business to Rebecca Cunningham, a business major who becomes his boss. Meanwhile, Don Karnage, a notorious air pirate, uses a special gem stolen from Shere Khan's company, Khan Industries, to power a lightning gun and threaten Cape Suzette.
1x5 - From Here to Machinery
September 10, 1990
Baloo loses a race to a robot pilot, putting himself and several other cargo pilots in Cape Suzette out of work. However, Don Karnage takes advantage of the robot pilot's inability to evade trouble, and it's up to Baloo to save the day.
1x6 - It Came from Beneath the Sea Duck
September 11, 1990
Kit volunteers to babysit Molly while Baloo and Rebecca go shopping. The babysitting is anything but routine as Kit and Molly deal with air pirates and a giant squid.
1x7 - Time Waits for No Bear
September 12, 1990
When Baloo is late one too many times with his deliveries, Rebecca makes him fly a guided tour, going past certain checkpoints at designated times. However, Baloo hears of a stolen crown and concocts a scheme to get the crown back while Wildcat flies the tour.
1x8 - Mommy For A Day
September 13, 1990
Molly becomes a surrogate mother to a flying creature that becomes large when it gets wet and small when it dries. This becomes more difficult when she has to protect the creature from the bloodthirsty poacher MacKnee.
1x9 - I Only Have Ice For You
September 14, 1990
Rebecca takes over flying the Sea Duck after Baloo's license is temporarily suspended while trying to evade air pirates. The move causes havoc as Higher for Hire attempts to deliver a block of ice to a wealthy desert prince.
1x10 - Molly Coddled
September 17, 1990
Covington, a notorious jewel thief, hides a valuable item in the Sea Duck. When he tries to retrieve it, however, he discovers that Baloo and Kit have cleaned out the plane and Molly has added the item to her doll collection.
1x11 - Polly Wants A Treasure
September 18, 1990
Kit befriends a parrot, Ignatz, who claims to know about some buried treasure. Baloo meanwhile is upset when Rebecca charges him for the value of a shipment of expensive crystal, which was actually broken by air pirates.
1x12 - Vowel Play
September 19, 1990
Baloo's bad spelling hampers Rebecca's attempt to go into the skywriting business. Meanwhile, a notorious criminal uses the skywriting to attempt to send coded messages to his henchmen and hold Cape Suzette for ransom.
1x13 - The Idol Rich
September 20, 1990
Baloo competes with Colonel Spigot to acquire a valuable idol, but uses brains over brawn to get the idol back when Spigot takes the idol from him.
1x14 - Stormy Weather
September 21, 1990
After Kit gets into an argument with Baloo about taking unnecessary risks, he runs away to join an air circus led by Daring Dan Dawson. However, Dawson makes Kit perform more dangerous and wilder stunts, and it is up to Baloo to rescue his navigator.
1x15 - Bearly Alive
September 24, 1990
Rebecca misinterprets a phone call as news that Baloo is dying. When Baloo finds out, he decides to fly to the Bearmuda Trapezoid (a reference to the Bermuda Triangle), from which no pilot has ever returned.
1x16 - Her Chance to Dream
September 25, 1990
When a debonair ghost ship captain sweeps Rebecca off her feet, she enjoys what she thinks is a dream. When Baloo and Louie decide to exorcise the ghost, Rebecca is forced to choose between her dream and her daughter.
1x17 - All's Whale That Ends Whale
September 26, 1990
In a plot similar to that of Free Willy (although Free Willy came out in 1993), Baloo and Kit rescue a mistreated whale from a circus and give him his freedom.
1x18 - The Golden Sprocket of Friendship
September 27, 1990
Colonel Spigot is charged with presenting a golden sprocket as a gift to the Mayor of Cape Suzette. However, Trader Moe wants to steal the sprocket, and it is up to Kit and Baloo to stop him and help Spigot.
1x19 - For A Fuel Dollars More
September 28, 1990
Rebecca starts a midair refueling station, which is a hit with the pilots and boosts Higher for Hire's business. Trouble is, it significantly lowers business for Louie, who starts his own rival station to compete, and Baloo and Kit are caught in the middle.
1x20 - A Bad Reflection On You - Part 1
October 1, 1990
In this two-part episode, Baloo gets an award from Shere Khan for being "the best pilot in the world." However, he lets that go to his head when he is selected for the Master Run, a dangerous route from which none of Khan's pilots that have flown it have returned.
1x21 - A Bad Reflection On You - Part 2
October 2, 1990
In this two-part episode, Baloo gets an award from Shere Khan for being "the best pilot in the world." However, he lets that go to his head when he is selected for the Master Run, a dangerous route from which none of Khan's pilots that have flown it have returned.
1x22 - On A Wing And A Bear
October 3, 1990
Baloo inadvertently lets his pilot's license expire, but has trouble renewing it when his examiner rattles him by requiring him to perform his actions alphabetically. He then learns that Don Karnage has teamed up with Shere Khan to create an oil shortage in Cape Suzette.
1x23 - A Star Is Torn
October 4, 1990
Baloo is starstruck when he meets film star Kitten Kaboodle, and immediately signs on as her stunt pilot. Concerned for Baloo as his friend, Rebecca learns that the "accidents" on Kitten's set are no accidents.
1x24 - A Touch of Glass
October 5, 1990
Wanting to cater to only the upper class, Rebecca puts up the Sea Duck as collateral insurance for what appears to be a valuable jewel shipment. However, Baloo loses the shipment -- and the Sea Duck -- to what turn out to be two con artists posing as a wealthy couple.
1x25 - The Bigger They Are The Louder They Oink
October 8, 1990
Baloo is upset when Rebecca gets a truffle-hunting pig instead of a new pontoon for the Sea Duck. Refusing to believe that her idea may not be good, Rebecca gets herself and the pig enslaved by pygmies, and it is up to Kit and Baloo to save her.
1x26 - A Spy in the Ointment
October 9, 1990
Rebecca chides Baloo over being too gullible, but herself ends up being the gullible one when she helps a "spy" deliver a package.
1x27 - The Balooest of the Blue Bloods
October 15, 1990
Baloo learns he's actually a long-lost baron, but when he goes to the mansion that he has supposedly inherited, there are several attempts on his life.
1x28 - A Baloo Switcheroo
October 16, 1990
In a plot reminiscent of Freaky Friday, a magical idol switches Baloo with Kit and Rebecca with Don Karnage. They are then involved in a race against time to get back to normal; if they fail, by sunrise they will remain like this forever.
1x29 - Whistlestop Jackson, Legend
October 22, 1990
Legendary hero Whistlestop Jackson pays a visit to Cape Suzette and volunteers to do a special cargo run for Higher for Hire. However, Shere Khan, his longtime rival, has other plans.
1x30 - Double or Nothing
October 24, 1990
When Baloo learns that Kit's life savings will pay for him to replace his favorite record, he offers to double Kit's money if Kit lets him "invest" it.
1x31 - Feminine Air
October 30, 1990
Higher for Hire's business is suffering because its boss is female. Baloo decides to enter an air scavenger hunt, but only an all-female aviation club will sponsor Higher for Hire, so he disguises himself as a lady to do so.
1x32 - Last Horizons
November 1, 1990
Baloo finds the legendary "Panda-La" (a reference to Shangri-La), a mystical place, where he is warmly received. The reception, however, turns out to be a ruse, as Panda-La's inhabitants decide to attack Cape Suzette.
1x33 - Flight of the Snow Duck
November 5, 1990
When Wildcat babysits Molly, she convinces him to take her to Thembria to see snow. Once there, however, they have fun, which gets them imprisoned because having fun is illegal in Thembria.
1x34 - Save the Tiger
November 7, 1990
When Baloo saves Shere Khan's life, Khan offers Baloo anything he wants, a decision he quickly regrets when Baloo takes advantage of it.
1x35 - The Old Man and the Sea Duck
November 8, 1990
Baloo suffers amnesia after he hits his head while taking a shortcut during a cargo run. He then lands on an island where an old pilot, Joe McGee, helps him remember how to fly.
1x36 - War of the Weirds
November 13, 1990
Rebecca overworks Baloo to the point where he lies to her to get some time off. The lie escalates into a Martian invasion, which quickly becomes complicated when a trigger-happy colonel overhears the conversation over the radio.
1x37 - Captain Outrageous
November 15, 1990
Kit introduces his friend, accident-prone Oscar Vandersnoot, to his club, the Jungle Aces, but Oscar needs an adventure to join. When Kit decides to get Oscar his adventure, he gets more than what he bargained for when Don Karnage kidnaps Oscar for ransom.
1x38 - The Time Bandit
November 23, 1990
Baloo makes Rebecca think it is one day later than it actually is so he can get paid early. That one day, however, turns out to be significant as Rebecca then claims that Baloo missed important deliveries to Myopia and Thembria, and goes along to apologize on his behalf. The conflict quickly escalates, and only the arrival of Cleanser's comet can save Rebecca from peril.
1x39 - For Whom the Bell Klangs - Part 1
November 27, 1990
In this two-part episode, Baloo and Louie go on vacation and get involved with archaeologist Katie Dodd, who is searching for the lost city of Tinabula. Thadeos E. Klang, a mysterious villain, is also looking for the city, but has his own plans for it.
1x40 - For Whom the Bell Klangs - Part 2
November 28, 1990
In this two-part episode, Baloo and Louie go on vacation and get involved with archaeologist Katie Dodd, who is searching for the lost city of Tinabula. Thadeos E. Klang, a mysterious villain, is also looking for the city, but has his own plans for it.
1x41 - Citizen Khan
December 3, 1990
Baloo and company visit one of Shere Khan's mining operations, which is overseen by a sheriff who mistreats the workers. When the workers mistake Wildcat for Khan, they kidnap him, but Khan learns of "his" abduction and goes to investigate.
1x42 - Gruel and Unusual Punishment
December 4, 1990
To lose weight for the Pilot's Ball, Baloo goes to what he thinks is a weight loss camp, but the camp turns out to be a Thembrian prison.
1x43 - Jolly Molly Christmas
December 20, 1990
When Baloo learns that all that Molly wants for Christmas is for it to snow for her mom, he takes Kit and Rebecca on a mission to make Molly's wish come true.
1x44 - My Fair Baloo
January 7, 1991
Rebecca decides to shmooze with the upper class by booking a reservation on the "Spruce Moose" (a reference to the "Spruce Goose"). Trouble is, Baloo's crude, unrefined behavior causes problems, but he then has to save the day when the Spruce Moose is hijacked and then crashes.
1x45 - Waiders of the Wost Tweasure
January 9, 1991
When Baloo delivers a package to Walla Walla Bing Bang, he runs into an old rival, Airplane Jane, and a battle for Walla Walla Bing Bang's throne between Princess Grace and her long lost cousin Prince Rudolf.
1x46 - Flight School Confidential
January 10, 1991
When Kit, who yearns to be a pilot even though he's too young, hears that the flying age has been lowered to twelve in Thembria, he goes there... only to discover that the whole thing is just a ruse and the kids won't actually be flying.
1x47 - Bringing Down Babyface
January 17, 1991
A case of mistaken identity causes what would have been a routine prisoner transport to become a serious headache for Baloo as he is pursued by both gangsters and the cops.
1x48 - Jumping the Guns
January 21, 1991
When a mishap during a delivery knocks out the sentries who man Cape Suzette's cliff guns, Baloo and an old codger named Barney O' Turret, who hasn't fired the guns in years, are forced to man the guns to stop Don Karnage and his gang from attacking.
1x49 - In Search of Ancient Blunders
January 30, 1991
When Baloo and Wildcat deliver an Egyptian tablet to an archaeologist who plans to open her own Museum of Ancient History, the delivery becomes anything but routine as they look for a lost treasure and try to evade air pirates, traps and an ancient treasure guardian.
1x50 - Louie's Last Stand
January 31, 1991
An overzealous Douglas Benson, one of Shere Khan's employees, forges Khan's signature to acquire several of Khan's assets to forcibly take over Louie's.
1x51 - Sheepskin Deep
February 4, 1991
Desperate to attend a reunion for a grade school (from which he never graduated), Baloo goes back to school to earn his degree in time for the reunion.
1x52 - Pizza Pie in the Sky
February 5, 1991
Rebecca leaves Baloo and Kit in charge when she attends a Better Business Boot Camp. Baloo takes advantage of this to team up with Louie to start their own pizza delivery business, but things quickly spiral out of control as they get the attention of the Health Department.