Animated Series · Broadcast Order · 1992 to 1994
The Little Mermaid Animated Series Episodes
Thirty-one prequel adventures, including the pilot Disney+ currently leaves out. Browse by season without losing the episode title, summary, viewing route, or React.
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Use the season buttons to jump instead of scrolling through one endless wall. Episode numbers follow original broadcast order, so the missing Disney+ pilot remains S1E1 and the service’s displayed season-one numbers are shifted by one.
Season 1
S1E1
Whale of a Tale
Ariel adopts Spot, a young killer whale separated from his family by human poachers, and learns that loving a wild animal cannot mean keeping him forever.
Pilot currently missing from Disney+
S1E2
The Great Sebastian
Sebastian becomes a peace ambassador to the Sharkanians while Ariel discovers how much confidence can hide from the person performing it.
S1E3
Stormy
Ariel rides a wild seahorse against Triton’s orders and learns that freedom without preparation can become another creature’s danger.
S1E4
Urchin
Ariel befriends an orphaned merboy pulled toward Lobster Mobster and gives Atlantica a story about poverty, belonging, and who gets recruited when adults fail.
S1E5
Double Bubble
Ariel and her friends babysit royal twins while a supposedly simple care assignment exposes how quickly palace responsibility becomes everybody else’s labor.
S1E6
Message in a Bottle
A message leads Ariel to a lonely sea monster whose frightening appearance has allowed isolation to become the only story anybody tells about him.
S1E7
Charmed
Ariel finds a human charm bracelet and discovers that an object can offer connection, status, and danger at the same time.
S1E8
Marriage of Inconvenience
Triton travels to Olympia while an arranged marriage plot turns royal obligation into a question about whether duty can justify choosing somebody else’s future.
S1E9
The Evil Manta
Ariel and Flounder enter a dormant volcano and encounter a villain who understands that prejudice grows faster when communities can be made afraid of one another.
S1E10
Thinga-Ma-Jigger
A human boot becomes Ariel’s latest object lesson in how curiosity, misinformation, and imagination can all occupy the same artifact.
S1E11
Red
An accident leaves Triton physically diminished and emotionally exposed, forcing Ariel to care for the father whose authority usually fills the room.
S1E12
Beached
Ariel and Arista are punished after fighting over a haircomb, and sibling resentment becomes harder to dismiss once they have to depend on each other.
S1E13
Trident True
Ariel tries to make Father’s Day unforgettable and learns that impressing Triton is not the same thing as understanding what he needs from her.
S1E14
Eel-Ectric City
Ariel follows her sister Alana’s glamorous friend Pearl into a dangerous night out where rebellion, status, and actual freedom stop looking identical.
Season 2
S2E1
Resigned to It
Sebastian quits his royal post, and Atlantica discovers how much invisible labor had been hiding inside one crab’s constant anxiety.
S2E2
Calliope Dreams
Triton wants Ariel to master the sea calliope, turning musical talent into another conflict between the future assigned to her and the sound she wants to make.
S2E3
Save the Whale
Spot and Sebastian are captured by a circus owner, forcing the series to connect human curiosity with captivity, spectacle, and profit.
S2E4
Against the Tide
Ariel rescues a creature blamed for bad luck and confronts a community more interested in confirming superstition than observing the person in front of them.
S2E5
Giggles
A spell traps Ariel inside uncontrollable laughter, turning a comic symptom into a story about credibility and what happens when emotion no longer belongs to the person displaying it.
S2E6
Wish Upon a Starfish
Ariel befriends Gabriella, a deaf mermaid, and the episode makes communication a shared creative responsibility instead of a deficit one girl must overcome alone.
S2E7
A Tail of Two Crabs
Sebastian’s rivalry with another crab exposes professional insecurity, comparison, and the exhausting need to prove that court service made him important.
S2E8
Metal Fish
A human explorer crosses into Ariel’s world, making curiosity travel in both directions and placing Hans Christian Andersen inside the franchise’s own adaptation joke.
S2E9
T'ank You for Dat Ariel
Ariel enters a magical cave to become a sea witch and learns that possessing power does not teach the judgment needed to use it.
Season 3
S3E1
Scuttle
Ariel meets Scuttle before the film and discovers that inaccurate information can still arrive through a loyal friend who risks himself when the theory becomes real danger.
S3E2
King Crab
Sebastian’s parents visit after he has exaggerated his status, turning family pride into a panic about who he became after leaving home.
S3E3
Island of Fear
Pollution threatens Atlantica, connecting surface-world harm to underwater communities that did not consent to becoming somebody else’s disposal site.
S3E4
Land of the Dinosaurs
Ariel finds a lost world of dinosaurs, giving the series a pulp-adventure detour where wonder and ecological interference arrive together.
S3E5
Heroes
Atlantica welcomes a celebrated hero whose reputation asks Ariel to distinguish public legend from the choices a person makes when nobody is applauding.
S3E6
The Beast Within
Flounder is bitten by a howling hairfish, and fear of transformation tests whether friendship survives when the familiar body stops behaving safely.
S3E7
Ariel's Treasures
Gabriella visits Ariel while the collection becomes a shared language, proving that objects can connect people when interpretation is collaborative.
S3E8
A Little Evil
The Evil Manta introduces his son and tries to turn inherited resentment into a family duty, forcing the child to decide whether legacy must become repetition.
The numbering receipt
D23’s Disney A to Z archive confirms that the television series contains 31 episodes. Disney+ currently lists 30 because “Whale of a Tale” is absent. CVM Sekai follows the complete broadcast inventory and labels the service gap rather than renumbering the season.
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