The Little Mermaid
The adventures of Ariel (Jodi Benson) and her friends at the age of fourteen. From her first known trouble with Ursula (Pat Carroll) to her collection of human objects, the show illustrates the Princess's journey as she finishes growing up. It also introduced new characters such as Ariel's merboy friend (an orphan named Urchin (Danny Cooksey), who her family all saw as a little brother), the snobbish merteen called Pearl (Cree Summer), the Lobster Mobster (Joe Alaskey), Evil Manta (Tim Curry), Sebastian's (Samuel E. Wright's) family, and an orca that Ariel named "Spot".
- 1992-1994
- 3 seasons
- CBS
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
- TV-Y
The adventures of Ariel (Jodi Benson) and her friends at the age of fourteen. From her first known trouble with Ursula (Pat Carroll) to her collection of human objects, the show illustrates the Princess's journey as she finishes growing up. It also introduced new characters such as Ariel's merboy friend (an orphan named Urchin (Danny Cooksey), who her family all saw as a little brother), the snobbish merteen called Pearl (Cree Summer), the Lobster Mobster (Joe Alaskey), Evil Manta (Tim Curry), Sebastian's (Samuel E. Wright's) family, and an orca that Ariel named "Spot".
Season 1 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 1992
Episode 1
Whale of a Tale
Fri, Sep 11, 1992 23 mins
Ariel adopts a baby whale, much to the dismay of her father, King Triton.
Episode 2
The Great Sebastian
Sat, Sep 12, 1992 23 mins
Sebastian becomes a peace ambassador and tries to make peace with the power hungry Sharkanians, with Ariel following him to their land.
Episode 3
Stormy
Sat, Sep 19, 1992 23 mins
Ariel rides a wild seahorse named Stormy against her father's wishes and gets lost in the wilderness.
Episode 4
Urchin
Sat, Sep 26, 1992 23 mins
Ariel became friends with an orphaned merboy who has fallen in with the underwater gangster 'Lobster Mobster'.
Episode 5
Double Bubble
Sat, Oct 3, 1992 23 mins
Ariel babysits two twin merbabies.
Episode 6
Message in a Bottle
Sat, Oct 10, 1992 23 mins
Ariel gets a Message in a Bottle, which leads her and her friends to a Dangerous Seamonster. Only to find out, that it isn't so dangerous...
Episode 7
Charmed
Sat, Oct 17, 1992 23 mins
Ariel puts on a human bracelet but finds it hard to take it off afterwards. Afraid of how her father would react, Ariel runs away to find the key to the lock of the bracelet.
Episode 8
Marriage of Inconvenience
Sat, Oct 24, 1992 23 mins
Ariel believes her father King Triton is setting her up for an arranged marriage with a snobbish merman-prince of another sea kingdom of Olympia named Prince Thor.
Episode 9
The Evil Manta
Sat, Oct 31, 1992 23 mins
Ariel accidentally frees a dark figure known as the Evil Manta, who tries to take over Atlantica using deception and lies to turn its merpeople and the sea creatures becoming angry and irritated, causing everyone hating each other. To make things even worse, he even tries to turn Flounder against Ariel, in fact, Flounder was just pretending. Ariel and Flounder must find a way to make the sea creatures and merpeople become happy again with Ariel's song "In Harmony".
Episode 10
Thingamajigger
Sat, Nov 7, 1992
Bad luck strikes the kingdom after Ariel finds Prince Eric's boot.
Episode 11
Red
Sat, Nov 14, 1992 23 mins
A magic spell turns King Triton into a young and energetic merboy, and Ariel has to play "the mother" to him.
Episode 12
Beached
Sat, Nov 21, 1992 23 mins
Before a family trip to the Carnival of Tides on the tide, Ariel and Arista get into a fight and are 'beached' and Sebastian had to stay and look after them.
Episode 13
Trident True
Sat, Nov 28, 1992 23 mins
Ariel looks for the perfect Father's Day gift to give King Triton, but it leads her to misfortune when a giant octopus traps them in a cave!
Episode 14
Eel-Ectric City
Sat, Dec 5, 1992 23 mins
Pearl, a mermaid who is obsessed with partying, takes Ariel and her sixth eldest sister, Alana, to Eel-Ectric City instead of to her house, while Sebastian and Flounder follow.