Airing Overview
The division between seasons of Pokémon is based on the openings of each episode, and may not reflect the actual production season. The English episode numbers are based on their first airing in the United States in syndication, and on The WB Television Network. (Other English-speaking nations largely followed either this order or the Japanese order.) Subsequent airings of the English version follow the original Japanese order, except in the case of episodes which are no longer shown in English. Midway through the original series, YTV began to air the episodes before Kids' WB until sometime in Johto. There are two end-of-show segments and one mid-episode segment during the season. The mid-episode eyecatch is called "Who's That Pokémon?", where viewers identify the Pokémon covered in the episode. The Pokérap is served as the first end-of-show segment in the first 55 episodes, where they can rap the 150 total Pokémon. The second one is called "Pikachu's Jukebox", which debuted from episode 56 to the end of season 2 and it include songs from its first official album 2BA Master.
The first season ran from April 1, 1997 – January 28, 1999 in Japan. This season was shown on TV Tokyo. In the United States, new episodes originally aired in syndication from September 8, 1998 – November 20, 1998, during early weekday mornings on the Fox Television Network for the first 41 episodes (excluding the banned episodes), but were moved to the Kids' WB! Saturday morning line-up on February 13, 1999, where the rest of the season was aired. With a total of 80 episodes (82 in Japan), on November 27, 1999 (January 21, 1999 in Japan) Pokémon: Indigo League finished and became the longest running Pokémon season.
The episodes of this season have been released in 26 individual DVDs and VHS between December 13, 1998 and January 23, 2001. Between 2006 and 2008, Viz Media re-released episodes of the season in three DVD compilations. The first twenty-six episodes of this season were released on DVD on November 21, 2006, with "Beauty and the Beach", being skipped. The second part of the first season came out on November 13, 2007, with "Princess vs. Princess" and "The Purr-fect Hero" being skipped. The third and final part was released on February 12, 2008.
Since April 5, 2010, the original Pokémon episodes are airing weekdays on Boomerang (TV Channel) at 6:30pm.
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