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The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1997 - 1998
Episode 1
The Thing That Wouldn't Stop It
Sat, Oct 4, 199721 mins
Darla "The Geek", Sam and Max's friend and assistant, finds a strange creature living in her fridge. When it tries to eat her, she calls the Freelance Police.
Episode 2
The Second Show Ever/Max's Big Day
Sat, Oct 11, 1997
It's Career Day in school and Sam and Max are the presenters. They take the class to space to fight an alien and save the world. / Sam and Max and up on a tropical island. The local native tribe sees Max as their god, a role Max always wanted to try out for. But what of Sam and their Freelance Police business?
Episode 3
Bad Day on the Moon/They Came from Down There
Sat, Oct 25, 1997
Sam and Max arrive on the Moon and find themselves in the middle of an all-out war between the Moon rats and their mortal enemies, the Moon roaches. / Seafood from a local factory owned by a madman turns all locals into fish-like zombies. Sam and Max intervene.
Episode 4
The Friend for Life/Dysfunction of the Gods
Sat, Oct 25, 1997
Lorne, the Friend for Life, tries to force Sam and Max to join him in his funhouse and be his friend forever. / Sam and Max must rekindle Greek gods Zeus and Hera's stale marriage.
Episode 5
Big Trouble at the Earth's Core/A Glitch in Time
Sat, Nov 1, 1997
Sam and Max end up in the center of the Earth where they must stop the race of mole-men from blowing up the planet. / Max gets a watch that allows time travel, so he and Sam return to their childhood to overcome a trauma. However, this changes the future in an unexpected way: Sam never partnered up with Max. Now Max must befriend him again.
Episode 6
That Darn Gator/We Drop at Dawn
Sat, Nov 8, 1997
Sam and Max adopt a baby alligator. / The Freelance Police Commissioner has lost his keys, so he orders Sam and Max to get them. They are located somewhere in the jungle-like Central Park.
Episode 7
Christmas Bloody Christmas/It's Dangly Deever Time
Sat, Dec 20, 1997
For Christmas, Sam and Max decide to visit Sam's grandma, who is locked up at maximum security prison on Blood Island. Unfortunately, that's when the prisoners organize a jailbreak. The Freelance Police must stop them. / Sam and Max accidentally bring a children's TV character, Dangly Deever, to life, which also creates his evil twin who decides to take over the city.
Episode 8
Aaiiieee Robot/The Glazed McGuffin Affair
Fri, Feb 6, 1998
A meteor is about to destroy the Earth, so Sam and Max use their Mega Max 3000 giant robot to stop it. However, Japan also needs help with their giant baby problem. / Sam and Max's favorite snack food, Glazed McGuffins, has been banned. They decide that this injustice will not stand and try to force the man behind the ban to try it himself.
Episode 9
The Tell Tale Tail/The Trouble with Gary
Fri, Feb 13, 1998
Max loses his tail in an accident, so he visits doctor to reattach it. Instead, a Frankenstein-like tail monster is born. / Sam and Max agree to babysit a strange child that turns out to have the ability to influence reality with its mind. The duo asks the kid to help them with their mission to fight crime.
Episode 10
Tonight We Love/The Invaders
Fri, Feb 20, 1998
On Valentine's Day, a couple in love steals Sam and Max's DeSoto just as the duo is receiving an artificial heart that must be promptly delivered to the President. / Two tiny aliens arrive on Earth with only one mission in mind: to assassinate Sam and Max, who are ordered to stop the invaders.
Episode 11
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang/Little Bigfoot
Fri, Feb 27, 1998
Sam and Max must play 007 to stop T.R.U.S.S., a terrorist group that wants to release a virus that makes tourists even more annoying. / Sam and Max find a young sasquatch and try to get him back to his own kind, something which he doesn't seem to want.
Episode 12
Fools Die on Friday/Sam & Max vs. the Uglions
Sat, Apr 18, 1998
Lorne is back. His latest scheme is to get Sam and Max back on his side by threatening to take down the Statue of Liberty with his stolen blimp. / A new alien restaurant called the Frying Saucer is opened and humans are on the menu, so the US government decides to nuke the place. Sam and Max try to find a less violent way to stop the aliens' business.
Episode 13
The Final Episode
Sat, Apr 25, 1998
Sam and Max's old enemies gather to plan their revenge. They kidnap Sam and Max, tie them to a bomb and send them into a volcano. Sam and Max must escape and stop them, whilst recalling many flashbacks to non-existent previous episodes.
