Pokémon
The Little Big Horn
TV Flash files “The Little Big Horn” as hour 127 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 3, episode 9, aired 1999-12-09, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E09: listed hour 127 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 9 of 41 in season 3. It aired 1999-12-09 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Snubbull Snobbery” (S03E08). Next is “The Chikorita Rescue” (S03E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In a city park, Ash and friends encounter a lost baby Stantler. Brock decides to help nurse it back to health and then release it back to the wild, but Team Rocket is planning on taking the young pokemon.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Little Big Horn sit in the Pokémon guide?
S03E09 is listed hour 127 of 1220 — hour 9 of 41 in season 3, season 3 episode 9.
When did Pokémon S03E09 air?
The Little Big Horn aired 1999-12-09 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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