Pokémon
Beach Blank-Out Blastoise
TV Flash files “Beach Blank-Out Blastoise” as hour 60 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 1, episode 60, aired 1998-08-27, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E60: listed hour 60 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 60 of 82 in season 1. It aired 1998-08-27 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Vocanic Panic” (S01E59). Next is “The Misty Mermaid” (S01E61). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash and friends are running to catch the last ferry off of Cinnibar Island, and just as they are approaching the ferry, they collide with a Wartortle. Wartortle talks with Ash's Squirtle and the two race off the island. Everyone follows them and they wind up on an island that is a haven for Squirtle and Wartortle and they are protected and led by a Blastoise. However, Blastoise has fallen asleep and will not wake up, and Ash and friends decide to help figure out what is wrong. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is planning on steal the Blastoise.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Beach Blank-Out Blastoise sit in the Pokémon guide?
S01E60 is listed hour 60 of 1220 — hour 60 of 82 in season 1, season 1 episode 60.
When did Pokémon S01E60 air?
Beach Blank-Out Blastoise aired 1998-08-27 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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- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
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