Pokémon
A Goldenrod Opportunity
TV Flash files “A Goldenrod Opportunity” as the first listed hour of season 4 — Pokémon (1998–present (U.S.)) on Kids' WB/Syndication, season 4, episode 1, aired 2000-08-03, 22 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E01: listed hour 160 of 1220 in the Pokémon guide, first listed hour of season 4. It aired 2000-08-03 (22 min). The listed hour before it is “The Fortune Hunters” (S03E41). Next is “A Dairy Tale Ending” (S04E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Our heroes have finally reached the next stop on the road to Johto: Goldenrod City! Looking to challenge the city's Gym Leader, Ash finds out the gym is closed for the day. Knowing they must wait until tomorrow, the gang decides to shop around and enjoy the city when they run into a local trainer, Whitney. After a close-encounter with Team Rocket, our heroes find out Whitney is actually the Goldenrod City Gym Leader! Whitney says that even though it is her day off she will battle him, but will ash be able to beat her and win his third Johto Badge?
Viewer FAQ
Where does A Goldenrod Opportunity sit in the Pokémon guide?
S04E01 is listed hour 160 of 1220 — first listed hour of season 4, season 4 episode 1.
When did Pokémon S04E01 air?
A Goldenrod Opportunity aired 2000-08-03 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)
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- 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…