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Episodes: All (52)

Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4
Year: 2001  |  2002  |  2003  |  2004


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: The Beginning

Original Air Date—10 August 2001
When the ancient evil Aku returns to terrorize Japan, the emperor's young son is send to distant lands to train in the ways of the warrior. Only then can he wield his fathers magical sword to stop Aku from taking over the world.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Samurai Called Jack

Original Air Date—10 August 2001
Aku has transported his mortal samurai enemy into the far future in which Aku rules all. Now the warrior has to find a way back while adjusting to his new surroundings. He also takes a new name: Jack.

Season 1, Episode 3: The First Fight

Original Air Date—10 August 2001
Aku's destroyer beetle drones are closing in on Samurai Jack and the pack of archaeologist dogs. Therefore Jack decides to use anything and everything at hand to defend themselves.

Season 1, Episode 4: Jack, the Woolies, and the Chritchellites

Original Air Date—13 August 2001
While hunting for food, Jack helps the tiny Chritchellites recapture an escaped Woolie. But once they invite him back to their village for dinner, Jack begins to suspect an unbalance in the pecking order.

Season 1, Episode 5: Jack in Space

Original Air Date—27 August 2001
Samurai Jack hooks up with a group of scientists who are secretly building a rocket to escape from Aku's service. When they hear about Jack's predicament, the scientist come up with a way to send him back in time.

Season 1, Episode 6: Jack and the Warrior Woman

Original Air Date—19 November 2001
Jack aided by an equally skilled warrior woman, to whom has a dark secret, search for a crystal with magical properties.

Season 1, Episode 7: Jack and the Three Blind Archers

Original Air Date—20 August 2001
Jack learns about a wishing well of King Osric on top of a tower protected by three unbeatable archers and vows to make his way past them.

Season 1, Episode 8: Jack Versus Mad Jack

Original Air Date—15 October 2001
Despite a reward of Two Googooplex on his head, no bounty hunter has been able to defeat Samurai Jack. Therefore Aku creates an evenly matched mirror image of Jack to battle him.

Season 1, Episode 9: Jack Under the Sea

Original Air Date—3 September 2001
Samurai Jack ventures into the deep end of the ocean after hearing of a time portal can be found in Oceanis, the sunken underwater city of the Triceraquin.

Season 1, Episode 10: Jack and the Lava Monster

Original Air Date—5 November 2001
Having made his way through a cave filled with booby-traps, Samurai Jack faces a giant lava monster that used to be a viking warrior in days long past.

Season 1, Episode 11: Jack and the Scotsman: Part 1

Original Air Date—29 October 2001
Samurai Jack is crossing a seemingly endless rope bridge when he meets another wanted man coming from the other side: the Scotsman. After fighting each other to a stalemate, they are forced to team-up when bounty hunters arrive on the scene and shackle Jack and the Scotsman to each other.

Season 1, Episode 12: Jack and the Gangsters

Original Air Date—26 November 2001
Samurai Jack gets an offer to join a Thirties style gang of mobsters at the Blue Monkey club and decides to take them up on it so he can get close to Aku. The gang plans to steal something Aku has been unable to obtain: the legendary Neptune Jewel, guarded by Earth, Wind and Fire.

Season 1, Episode 13: Aku's Fairy Tales

Original Air Date—3 December 2001
Samurai Jack has become a popular folk hero amongst little children, so Aku decides to spread his own kind of fairy tales that put Jack in a bad light.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Jack Learns to Jump Good

Original Air Date—1 March 2002
After reaching a time portal only to have Aku move it beyond reach at the last moment, Samurai Jack meets a wild man with extraordinary jumping skills. He offers to learn tribe of monkeys that raised the wild man how to defend themselves if they will in turn teach him how to 'jump good'.

Season 2, Episode 2: Jack Tales

Original Air Date—8 March 2002
Three scary stories. Jack enters the land of the magic worm to ask it to grant him a magic wish. At night, Jack meets a 'family' of cannibal robots who hunger for his magic sword. Jack tries to rescue a wish giving fairy from captivity by a greedy gargoyle.

Season 2, Episode 3: Jack and the Smackback

Original Air Date—15 March 2002
Samurai Jack is ambushed while he's sleeping and taken to the Dome of Doom. There he is given the name 'Two Sandles' and has to fight to the death for the spectators amusement.

Season 2, Episode 4: Jack and the Scotsman: Part 2

Original Air Date—22 March 2002
The Scotsman asks Samurai Jack for help him rescue his wife from the Keltic Master o' the Hunt who plans to devour her in the Castle of Boon.

Season 2, Episode 5: Jack and the Ultra-robots

Original Air Date—29 March 2002
Jack follows a path of destruction that leads to a group of Adamantium Ultra-Robots build especially to defeat him.

Season 2, Episode 6: Jack Remembers the Past

Original Air Date—5 April 2002
On his journey, Jack happens upon his the place he once called home and begins to recall his childhood there.

Season 2, Episode 7: Jack and the Monks

Original Air Date—12 April 2002
Having been deprived of yet another gateway to the past and after almost losing his hat, Samurai Jack is unsure if he can still go on. Then he meets three mountain monks and joins them on their quest to climb the mountain of Fathoom.

Season 2, Episode 8: Jack and the Farting Dragon

Original Air Date—6 September 2002
Jack follows a trail of stench in an effort to rid the land of this sickening smell. It leads him to a spire where a dragon suffers from a stomach ache.

Season 2, Episode 9: Jack and the Hunters

Original Air Date—13 September 2002
Aku hires the best hunters in the universe, the Imakandi, to track down Samurai Jack.

Season 2, Episode 10: Jack Versus Demongo, the Soul Collector

Original Air Date—20 September 2002
Aku unleashes upon Samurai Jack Demongo, who commands the essence of many great warriors who once threatened Aku.

Season 2, Episode 11: Jack Is Naked

Original Air Date—27 September 2002
While bathing, Jack's sword, shoes and clothing are stolen by what looks like a white rabbit. When Jack follows the culprit down a hole, he enters a strange underground realm like none he has ever seen.

Season 2, Episode 12: Jack and the Spartans

Original Air Date—4 October 2002
Samurai Jack joins 300 Spartans in their age old war against a mad mechanical beast.

Season 2, Episode 13: Jack's Sandals

Original Air Date—11 October 2002
Samurai Jack's sandals are run over and destroyed by three robot bikers. Unable to defeat them without protection on his feet, Jack tries out all the latest footwear from the world famous Foot Chalet. But none are adequate replacements.

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Chicken Jack

Original Air Date—18 October 2002
Samurai Jack accidentally bumps into an easily irritated wizard, who turns him into a chicken. Before he can catch up with the wicked sorcerer, Chicken Jack is captured and forced to fight for his life in Creature Combat Club.

Season 3, Episode 2: Jack and the Rave

Original Air Date—1 November 2002
Samurai Jack enters a town where all the children have fallen under the spell of Aku's rave music and vows to release every one of them from Aku's evil grasp.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful

Original Air Date—8 November 2002
Samurai Jack boards a train in the new old West and finds himself cornered by bounty hunter Ezekiel Clench as well as a beautiful filly named Josephine.

Season 3, Episode 4: Jack and the Zombies

Original Air Date—25 October 2002
Aku leads Samurai Jack towards a graveyard where the undead do the evil shape-shifter's bidding.

Season 3, Episode 5: Jack in Egypt

Original Air Date—22 November 2002
Aku releases the minions of Set who were trapped in ancient Egypt and orders them to destroy Samurai Jack. Luckily Jack knows his way around the pyramids from when he was a boy.

Season 3, Episode 6: Jack and the Travelling Creatures

Original Air Date—26 April 2003
Several creatures help Samurai Jack to travel to an island where a time passage is located. However it is protected by an unbeatable warrior. Only the one to defeat this guardian may enter the passage.

Season 3, Episode 7: Jack and the Creature

Original Air Date—3 May 2003
Samurai Jack is unable to get rid of a large furry animal that insists on following him.

Season 3, Episode 8: Jack and Swamp Monster

Original Air Date—10 May 2003
An old hermit who lives in a swamp leads Samurai Jack on a quest to unite the three gems of the Titans: the Eye of Chronos and the fists of Might and Ability.

Season 3, Episode 9: Jack and the Haunted House

Original Air Date—17 May 2003
Samurai Jack follows a little girl to return the doll she lost in the woods. She leads him into a haunted house filled with memories of the previous inhabitants.

Season 3, Episode 10: Jack, the Monks, and the Ancient Master's Son

Original Air Date—31 May 2003
As Samurai Jack fights two Shaolin monks they are surprised to recognize each others fighting styles. They take him to their secret hidden temple where Grandmaster Tan Zang points Jack towards a time portal. Unfortunately the way to the portal is heavily defended.

Season 3, Episode 11: The Birth of Evil: Part 1

Original Air Date—16 August 2003
The origin of Aku and how he came to terrorize the Earth from the days of the dinosaurs onwards.

Season 3, Episode 12: The Birth of Evil: Part 2

Original Air Date—16 August 2003
The young emperor is helpless against the evil of Aku. But the ancient gods Odin, Ra and Rama combine forces to forge a sword for him representing all that is good: the only weapon that can hurt Aku.

Season 3, Episode 13: Jack and the Labyrinth

Original Air Date—26 August 2003
Samurai Jack has been given a map of a booby trap ridden labyrinth that holds a powerful diamond that can return him to his own time. But he gets some competition from an equally accomplished master thief.

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: Samurai Versus Ninja

Original Air Date—14 June 2003
A deadly Ninja warrior has honed his skills to fight Samurai Jack. But just as he is about to ambush him, Jack is called away to rescue a village from attacking crab monsters.

Season 4, Episode 2: Robo-Samurai Versus Mondo Bot

Original Air Date—21 June 2003
Robots that dwell in the sewers of Andromeda ask Jack to enter a giant Robot Samurai and battle Mondo Bot who terrorizes the city.

Season 4, Episode 3: Samurai Versus Samurai

Original Air Date—28 June 2003
Samurai Jack is challenged to a duel by Da Samurai, who despite all his big mouth is not worthy to face Jack's blade.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Aku Infection

Original Air Date—5 November 2003
During battle, Samurai Jack accidentally swallows a piece of darkness coughed up by a sickly Aku. When Aku's blackness begins to take over the Samurai, he seeks help from Master Ning.

Season 4, Episode 5: The Princess and the Bounty Hunters

Original Air Date—12 November 2003
Bounty Hunters Jo Junga the Aborigional, I & Am the infamous twins, The Gentleman & Boris the Russian have all tracked down Samurai Jack up North. Princess Mira of the Andaluvians convinces them to join forces and attack the Samurai together.

Season 4, Episode 6: Scotsman Saves Jack: Part 1

Original Air Date—23 August 2003
The Scotsman recognizes Samurai Jack working as a water boy on a boat and calling himself Brent Worthington. He then decides to find out why and where Jack got his memory erased by retracing his steps.

Season 4, Episode 7: Scotsman Saves Jack: Part 2

Original Air Date—23 August 2003
The Scotsman has saved Jack from living out the rest of his life as a water boy. Now they have to settle which one is more worthy to man the oars on the way back.

Season 4, Episode 8: Jack and the Flying Prince and Princess

Original Air Date—19 November 2003
Princess Verbina and Prince Astor of the Lebidoptirans are on a quest to find their star navy to save their home world Chrystalis. But they are forced to crash land on Aku's Earth and are immediately captured by his minions. Luckily Samurai Jack is witness to the events and follows them.

Season 4, Episode 9: Jack Versus Aku

Original Air Date—24 November 2003
After all else fails, Aku challenges Samurai Jack to a duel. To make sure of a fair fight, Jack is not allowed to use his sword while Aku must fight in human form, without minions and magic tricks.

Season 4, Episode 10: Seasons of Death

Original Air Date—25 September 2004
Summer: while crossing a desert, Jack is attacked by a mirage which takes the shape of a living sand storm. Fall: an evil scientist collects fallen leaves and flowers to brew a deadly poison and put it in a well. Winter: a tribe of ogres forge the ultimate sword using fire and ice, then wage battle to determine the one destined to wield it. Spring: Jack is tempted to take a rest from his quest by a seductive wood nymph.

Season 4, Episode 11: Tale of X9

Original Air Date—25 September 2004
An experimental X-series robot was given emotions as an experiment and therefore was the only one of it's kind to survive intact. It retired after taking a shine to sweet thing Lulu, but Aku forces it to take on one more job: hunt down Samurai Jack.

Season 4, Episode 12: Young Jack in Africa

Original Air Date—25 September 2004
A tale told in flashback concerning the childhood training of Samurai Jack in Africa. But even as part the Nubian tribe, the young prince is not safe from Aku's minions.

Season 4, Episode 13: Jack and the Baby

Original Air Date—25 September 2004
Samurai Jack saves a baby boy from three hungry Ogres and looks after him while searching for the child's parents.

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