Pokémon
The Ghost of Maiden's Peak
TV Flash files “The Ghost of Maiden's Peak” as hour 20 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 1, episode 20, aired 1997-08-12, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E20: listed hour 20 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 20 of 82 in season 1. It aired 1997-08-12 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Tentacool & Tentacruel” (S01E19). Next is “Bye Bye Butterfree” (S01E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Pokemon: Ash, Misty, and Brock arrive in the port city of Maiden's Peak. They join in the summer festival where they learn the Legend of the Maiden. Brock decides to visit Maiden's Rock to look at the Maiden while Team Rocket decides to camp outside the shrine so they can steal the paintings inside. That night Brock doesn't return to the pokemon center and James goes missing. In the morning everyone heads to the temple to find them.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Ghost of Maiden's Peak sit in the Pokémon guide?
S01E20 is listed hour 20 of 1220 — hour 20 of 82 in season 1, season 1 episode 20.
When did Pokémon S01E20 air?
The Ghost of Maiden's Peak aired 1997-08-12 and is listed at 22 minutes.
Do I need the games first?
The TV series is one engine with the games and cards, not a homework prerequisite. U.S. breakthrough is 1998 anime syndication as childhood OS.
In the series
Why this series still plays
A ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, and a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Anime lands in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards — catch, train, argue about types. Kids’ TV as collection ritual, gym-badge serialization, and the rare cartoon that still prints money because the adventure never quite finishes.
The work, first: a young trainer, a yellow mouse, a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Based on Game Freak/Nintendo games, the anime's U.S. TV breakthrough in 1998 (Kids' WB and syndication) detonated a multi-platform kids' empire: games, cards, films, toys, one engine. Satoshi Tajiri and Kunihiko Yuyama's world turned anime into mainstream American children's programming. Rica Matsumoto and Veronica Taylor as Ash across languages; Ikue Otani's Pikachu. Catch, train, argue about…
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- Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum (US early)
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- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
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