Pokémon
The Superhero Secret
TV Flash files “The Superhero Secret” as hour 140 of 1220 in the TV Flash guide — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 3, episode 22, aired 2000-03-09, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E22: listed hour 140 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, hour 22 of 41 in season 3. It aired 2000-03-09 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “Foul Weather Friends” (S03E21). Next is “Mild 'N Wooly” (S03E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Ash and friends arrive in a town where there is a local superhero - Gligarman. However, upon meeting him, they realize that he is getting a little too old to be fighting crime by himself. He tries to get Ash to be his sidekick, but Ash refuses. Gligarman then faces a real big threat when Team Rocket show up with their newest machine.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Superhero Secret sit in the Pokémon guide?
S03E22 is listed hour 140 of 1220 — hour 22 of 41 in season 3, season 3 episode 22.
When did Pokémon S03E22 air?
The Superhero Secret aired 2000-03-09 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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- Rica Matsumoto as Ash Ketchum (JP)
Rica Matsumoto voices Ash Ketchum on Pokémon — the ten-year-old whose globetrotting checklist became a childhood operating system in Japanese, then a syndication engine abroad. Catch, train, argue about types. TV Flash files her as 1990s…
- Veronica Taylor as Ash Ketchum (US early)
Veronica Taylor was early U.S. Ash Ketchum on Pokémon — a ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, a globetrotting checklist that became a childhood operating system. Anime landed in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards:…
- Ikue Otani as Pikachu
Ikue Otani voiced Pikachu as a childhood operating system — a ten-year-old, a yellow mouse, anime landing in American syndication as one engine with the games and cards. Catch, train, argue about types. TV Flash files her as 1990s kids-TV…