Pokémon
The Bridge Bike Gang
TV Flash files “The Bridge Bike Gang” as hour 36 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 1, episode 36, aired 1997-12-02, 22 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E36: listed hour 36 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 36 of 82 in season 1. It aired 1997-12-02 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Legend of Dratini” (S01E35). Next is “Ditto's Mysterious Mansion” (S01E37). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
After finally making it through the Safari Zone, Ash and the others come across a long bridge they will be a shortcut to the next town. However, they need bikes to get across. They head to a pokemon center, where Nurse Joy allows them to borrow some bikes, if they take some medicine to the pokemon center across the bridge. After getting about halfway across the bridge, they run into a local gang that claims the bridge as their territory. Ash begins a battle with them, but when Officer Jenny shows up, they take off. It turns out that Jessie and James used to be part of the gang, and they decide to help them stop Ash and friends from crossing the bridge.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Bridge Bike Gang sit in the Pokémon guide?
S01E36 is listed hour 36 of 1220 — hour 36 of 82 in season 1, season 1 episode 36.
When did Pokémon S01E36 air?
The Bridge Bike Gang aired 1997-12-02 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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