Season 1
| # | Title | Original Airdate(s) |
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| 01 | "A Bellwether in One's Cap" | September 12, 1993 (1993-09-12) |
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Max receives a package in the mail containing a small statue inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs that read: "You have been chosen to be the cap-bearer. Go to the mini-mart and wait for a sign, Mighty Max." Shocked by the message, Max drops the statue, shattering it and revealing a red baseball cap emblazoned with a yellow 'M'. Upon arriving at the minimart, Max is chased by a lava-monster sent by Skullmaster. As Max flees, the cap activates a vortex which transports him instantly from his current location to the Mongolian desert. Max is met by Virgil and Norman where he learns that his destiny had been foretold in a prophecy, circa 3,000 BC. |
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| 02 | "The Brain Suckers Cometh!" | September 19, 1993 (1993-09-19) |
| Max's afternoon plans are interrupted when Virgil explains that he must again save the world. This time he is whisked away to protect the Earth from an invasion of brain-devouring aliens. Unfortunately, neither Max nor Virgil's skills include complex computer codes. A very reluctant Max must turn to the school's most annoying computer nerd, Ernie, in order to break the alien codes and save the planet. | ||
| 03 | "Day of the Cyclops" | September 26, 1993 (1993-09-26) |
| Max and his mom travel to Turkey, where they are met by Virgil and Norman. Max's mom doesn't seem very surprised to see a walking, talking bird creature but refuses to believe that her son is some sort of super hero (she recognizes Virgil by name, so it is conceivable that Max has introduced his new friends to his mother between episodes and she has had some time to adjust). Max and Norman are arrested when Max is accused of stealing his cap from a vendor's stand. The seller has them both thrown into the (Geneva convention breaking) local prison at gunpoint at which Max finally convinces Norman to stop beating up the police. Meanwhile Virgil and Max's mom must work together to recover the cap after the vendor sold it. In the prison, Max and Norman are accosted by a large hulking creature who apparently wants to feed them to a cyclops living in the caverns beneath the prison. As usual, adventures ensue and the day is saved. | ||
| 04 | "Snakes & Laddies" | October 3, 1993 (1993-10-03) |
| Max's attempts to attract the attention of Jiffie, a girl in his class, are interrupted by a short stint in Egypt with Bea. There Max finds and snatches an amulet, presenting it to Jiffie and winning her affection. Unfortunately, the amulet belongs to a cult of snake-creatures and they arrive to reclaim it. They then kidnap Jiffie, planning to sacrifice the new bearer of the amulet so that their leader can continue his immortal existence. Max and Bea must then rescue the clueless Jiffie while avoiding the clutches of the snake cult. | ||
| 05 | "The Mother of All Adventures" | October 10, 1993 (1993-10-10) |
| Max's mom brings a figurine back from Haiti that turns out to be filled with zombie parasites. | ||
| 06 | "Let Sleeping Dragons Lie!" | October 17, 1993 (1993-10-17) |
| Posing as the god Loki, Skullmaster convinces a Nordic sorcerer called Ravendark to awaken the Doom Dragon from its enchanted sleep. Max and company do battle with the Dragon, during which Norman reveals that he was recognized as Thor in ancient times. | ||
| 07 | "Norman's Conquest" | October 24, 1993 (1993-10-24) |
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Norman struggles with his fear of facing Spike, an old adversary of his family who murdered his father. Spike vowed ten thousand years ago to finish off Norman as well, and he intends to keep that promise. Guest starring Brad Garrett as the voice of Spike. |
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| 08 | "Rumble in the Jungle" | October 31, 1993 (1993-10-31) |
| While on an expedition in the Congo, Max's mom uncovers and is captured by a lost civilization of talking gorillas who enslave human beings. | ||
| 09 | "Bring Me the Head of Mighty Max" | November 7, 1993 (1993-11-07) |
| Skullmaster uses the crystal of souls to awaken the former inhabitants of the Lost City of Atlantis to retrieve the cosmic cap from Max along with his head. When the zombies arrive Norman and Max decide to stand their ground, but Virgil urges them that fighting is pointless and dangerous because the zombies are soulless and cannot be killed. His warnings are ignored, so Virgil escapes with the cap intending to destroy it to save both Max and Norman. Max and Norman remember that the cap is indestructible, but Virgil is willing to go so far as sacrificing himself for his friends. | ||
| 10 | "Less Than 20,000 Squid Heads Under the Sea" | November 14, 1993 (1993-11-14) |
| Max, Virgil, Norman, and a rich Texan travel underwater in a submarine to battle a giant octopus that is responsible for capturing and destroying ships. While underwater, the group encounters a squid civilization. | ||
| 11 | "Werewolves of Dunneglen" | November 21, 1993 (1993-11-21) |
| Max, Virgil, and Norman travel to Scotland where there are reported sightings of werewolves. While there, Norman and Virgil are imprisoned as suspects and Max meets a man named Cameron who turns out to be a werewolf. Max and Cameron investigate and learn that a scientist named Professor MacDougal is stealing the blood of natural werewolves in an effort to turn herself into an even more powerful werewolf and steal their immortality in the process. Max and Cameron defeat MacDougal with the help of the other werewolves and Cameron takes his pack into the forest to live in peace. | ||
| 12 | "Out in the Cold" | November 28, 1993 (1993-11-28) |
| Space aliens take over a science station in the Arctic and assume the identities of its researchers. The aliens can only survive in freezing cold temperatures and plan to make the earth their new home by altering the entire planet's climate by creating a new ice age. It is up to Max, Norman, and Virgil to stop them, but matters are complicated when they learn that the aliens can disguise themselves as ordinary humans. | ||
| 13 | "The Maxnificent Seven" | December 5, 1993 (1993-12-05) |
| Max has been having nightmares about Skullmaster's zombie legions tracking him down, so Virgil suggests that they gather a band of heroes and enter Skull Mountain to destroy the Crystal of Souls. Max then travels to the four corners of the earth gathering heroes (Hanuman, the monkey King, Beowulf, who slew the monstrous Grendel with his bare hands, Jonayaiyin, a Native American shaman, and Modjadji, an African warrior queen). This "maxnificent seven" enters Skull Mountain and battles an army of Skullmaster's monsters. From each of the heroes Max learns a lesson in bravery, then enters Skullmaster's inner sanctum alone and finds the courage to destroy the crystal. The heroes make a last stand to enable Max, Norman and Virgil to escape. At the very end, Max is shown placing flowers near a cross with mementos from each hero on it, as a memorial. |
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