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The Magic School Bus

Season 1

13 listed hours · 1994–1997 · PBS

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How this season is filed

Filed by Julian Hart · The Binge Brief

Seatbelts, everyone: a class that shrinks, dives, and ignores every field-trip waiver ever written. PBS educational animation at gold-standard wattage — Lily Tomlin’s Frizzle, science as adventure, and curiosity treated as a personality. Kids’ TV that made organelles exciting and still the show teachers cite when they want entertainment to do homework without feeling like a worksheet.

TV Flash files Season 1 of The Magic School Bus (1994–1997) on PBS as the first listed season of 4 — 13 listed hours, 1994-09-10–1994-12-04 from “Gets Lost in Space” (S01E01) to “Kicks Up a Storm” (S01E13). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.

Desk essentials in this season

  1. S01E01 Gets Lost in Space

    Gets Lost in Space: Lily Tomlin's Frizzle ignoring every waiver, PBS educational animation at gold-standard wattage.

  2. S01E04 Gets Eaten

    Gets Eaten: science as adventure, curiosity treated as a personality, the class still shrinking on purpose.

  3. S01E09 Gets Ready, Set, Dough

    Gets Ready, Set, Dough: kitchen chemistry as field trip, teachers still citing the hour when homework has to entertain.

  1. S01E01

    Gets Lost in Space

    Arnold's know-it-all cousin Janet drives the kids crazy when she joins Ms. Frizzle's class on a field trip and gets them lost in outer space!

  2. S01E02

    For Lunch

    Ms. Frizzle's students explore Arnold's digestive system after he accidentally swallows his miniaturized classmates.

  3. S01E03

    Inside Ralphie

    While Ralphie hosts a TV broadcast from his sickbed, his classmates seek to discover the cause of his illness.

  4. S01E04

    Gets Eaten

    Establishing a connection between a soggy shoe and a tuna sandwich leads to an ocean field trip.

  5. S01E05

    Hops Home

    Ms. Frizzle's miniaturized class becomes a mechanical frog so it can hop along in search of Wanda's missing pet.

  6. S01E06

    Meets the Rot Squad

    On "Accidental Science Project Day," the class takes a close look at what's rotting in an abandoned lot.

  7. S01E07

    All Dried Up

    Phoebe is on a mission to save plants and animals living in the desert, and Ms. Frizzle takes the class to the desert to see the environment first hand.

  8. S01E08

    In the Haunted House

    In the Haunted House — Season 1, Episode 8 of The Magic School Bus. Aired 1994-10-29. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  9. S01E09

    Gets Ready, Set, Dough

    It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday, and a field trip to the bakery seems perfect — until the Bus's shrinker-scope goes on the fritz and the class gets baked in a cake! With Dom DeLuise as the Baker.

  10. S01E10

    Plays Ball

    Plays Ball — Season 1, Episode 10 of The Magic School Bus. Aired 1994-11-12. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  11. S01E11

    Goes to Seed

    Goes to Seed — Season 1, Episode 11 of The Magic School Bus. Aired 1994-11-19. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  12. S01E12

    Gets Ants in Its Pants

    Gets Ants in Its Pants — Season 1, Episode 12 of The Magic School Bus. Aired 1994-11-26. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

  13. S01E13

    Kicks Up a Storm

    Kicks Up a Storm — Season 1, Episode 13 of The Magic School Bus. Aired 1994-12-04. Full plot synopsis not yet on file; see the show package for context.

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