Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Season 1
Season 1
The series centers around Nadia, a young girl of unknown origins, and Jean, a young French inventor. Early in the story, the two protagonists are chased by Grandis Granva, Sanson, and Hanson, a group of jewel thieves who pursue Nadia for the blue jeweled pendant she possesses. After being rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Super Sea Cruiser Nautilus, the jewel thieves and the young protagonists join forces and participate in the struggle against the Neo-Atlantean forces, who seek to dominate the world. In the process, Nadia and Jean save the world from violent domination by the Neo-Atlantean forces led by Gargoyle, explore worldly mysteries and the powers of the blue pendant, uncover Nadia's hidden family ties, and ultimately discover the secret origins of Nadia.
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Episodes39
DatesApr 13, 1990 - Apr 12, 1991
Episodes
Season 1Episode 125 min
Girl at the Eiffel Tower
Jean is in Paris with his Uncle watching attempts at flight and preparing his own entry at the 1889 Worlds Fair. His Uncle discusses his missing father with him. Jean sees a pretty girl riding by on a bike and goes to find her, meeting Nadia for the first time on one of the Eiffel Towers observation decks. While there, they are accosted by criminals.
Apr 13, 1990
Season 1Episode 225 min
The Little Fugitive
Nadia becomes a fugitive with Jean helping her escape from Gandis and her plans for Nadia. Nadia ends up hiding at Jean's home from Grandis and her cohorts.
Apr 20, 1990
Season 1Episode 325 min
The Riddle of the Giant Sea Monsters
Nadia and Jean are taken aboard the warship Abraham after Jean's' plane breaks down and lands on the ocean. The Abraham goes up against Grandis and her cronies. The Abraham then encounters a mysterious sea creature and is heavily damaged. Nadia and Jean end up going overboard.
Apr 27, 1990
Season 1Episode 425 min
Nautilus, The Fantastic Submarine
Nadia and Jean are brought aboard the Nautilus and meet the crew.
May 4, 1990
Season 1Episode 525 min
Marie's Island
Jean, Nadia, and King are shot down over a strange island where they find themselves outrunning a squadron of sinister masked soldiers. In their struggle to survive, they find an orphan girl, Marie, who lost her parents to the soldiers.
May 11, 1990
Season 1Episode 625 min
Infiltration of the Secret Base
Marie and King are captured by the soldiers, so Jean and Nadia set off to a forbidding looking area to save them. Their rescue mission leads the pair to the base of the soldiers, who call themselves Neo-Atlantis, and their evil commander, Gargoyle, wants Nadia and her Blue Water at all costs.
May 18, 1990
Season 1Episode 725 min
The Tower of Babel
Imprisoned by the wicked Gargoyle, Nadia is forced to admit that she gave her Blue Water to Jean before turning herself in (to save Marie and King from a horrible fate). As the search for Jean is on, the boy desperately tries to find her. Simultaneously, Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson, who have also been imprisoned by the soldiers, break out of their prison cell and attempt to escape. While Gargoyle tours Nadia around his base, he showcases Neo-Atlantis's secret weapon, a tower known as Babel with the power to obliterate an entire island!
May 25, 1990
Season 1Episode 825 min
Mission to Rescue Nadia
In a surprising turn of events, Grandis and her boys join forces with Jean to save Nadia, Marie, and King from Gargoyle. Their escape attempt nearly backfires, until the Nautilus shows up to save them....
Jun 1, 1990
Season 1Episode 925 min
Nemo's Secret
Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King are taken aboard the Nautilus with their new enemies-turned allies, Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson. Technophiles Jean and Hanson are thrilled to be aboard the Nautilus. Grandis becomes dangerously smitten with Captain Nemo, much to Sanson's consternation. Nadia, meanwhile, is very suspicious about the submarine and its crew, particularly Nemo, who reacts with surprise upon seeing her for the first time....
Jun 8, 1990
Season 1Episode 1025 min
A Crowning Performance by the Gratan
In pursuit of Gargoyle, the Nautilus becomes trapped in a dangerous underwater mine field. Sanson and Hanson jump aboard the Gratan to clear the mines before they detonate. Jean sneaks on to help the two men....
Jun 15, 1990
Season 1Episode 1125 min
New Recruits for the Nautilus
Nemo and Electra appoint Jean, Nadia, and the others to new positions on the Nautilus. Jean is permitted access to Electra's library of books so that he can learn how to use the knowledge for mankind's benefit; simultaneously, he, Sanson, and Hanson are given a tour of the Nautilus. Marie and King, meanwhile, are reduced to schooling from Electra, much to their dismay. Grandis and Nadia are assigned to cook in the kitchen. An intense rivalry is ignited between Electra and Grandis as they compete over Nemo's love. Finally, Jean discovers the source of the Nautilus's power, and is quite disturbed when Nemo tells him that the vessel is a killing machine....
Jun 22, 1990
Season 1Episode 1225 min
Grandis and Her First Love
When the Nautilus docks on an island to reestablish supplies, Nadia bonds with Grandis when the latter tells her how the first man she fell in love with turned out to be a treacherous cad.
Jul 6, 1990
Season 1Episode 1325 min
Run, Marie, Run!
Marie and King run off to explore the island, when they find themselves both lost and pursued by Gargoyle's soldiers. Sanson comes to their rescue.
Jul 13, 1990
Season 1Episode 1425 min
The Valley of Dinicthys
Marie and Nadia become sick from a dangerously fatal tropical fever. To save them from death, Nemo charts course for an underground reef, where he takes Jean, Sanson, and Hanson on a quest to find the cure. Coming back, however, they have to deal with a territorial, eel-like Dinicthys....
Jul 20, 1990
Season 1Episode 1525 min
The Nautilus Faces Its Biggest Crisis
Captain Nemo's vessel falls into yet another deadly trap set by Gargoyle--one which involves the Garfish and a surprise attack from American battleships. The subsequent damage costs the lives of several sailors--including a friendly young engineer named Ensign Fait. Jean, who had become friends with Fait, is horrified and devastated to witness someone being killed by the technology he had so strongly idealized with.
Jul 27, 1990
Season 1Episode 1625 min
The Mystery of the Lost Continent
The victims of Gargoyle's latest attack are taken to the long-forgotten underworld of Atlantis to be buried. While there, Jean discovers that his father's ship was sunk by the Garfish. Nadia also learns that she must keep the Blue Water at all costs, no matter what pain or damage it may cause.
Aug 24, 1990
Season 1Episode 1725 min
Jean's New Invention
Jean is tired of being treated like a child by the Nautilus crew. Hoping to cheer him up, Nadia suggests Jean to build another aircraft. Inspired, he sets off to do just that. At first he is determined to construct the new helicopter by himself, but then realizes he still needs the support of some grown-ups. With Hanson's help, Jean completes the craft and takes Nadia on a very delightful test flight. While airborne, Jean promises that he will one day take Nadia to Africa....
Aug 31, 1990
Season 1Episode 1825 min
Nautilus vs. Nautilus
En route to Captain Nemo's home base of Antarctica, the Nautilus finds itself attacked by a territorial Nautilus shellfish.
Sep 7, 1990
Season 1Episode 1925 min
Nemo's Best Friend
Nemo takes Jean and Nadia on a tour of his secret base, where he introduces the children to his closest friend, a talking whale named Irion, who hints at Nadia's responsibility to hold the Blue Water.
Sep 14, 1990
Season 1Episode 2025 min
Jean Makes a Mistake
Jean's latest invention goes disastrously wrong and accidentally alerts the Garfish to attention. Nadia's detestation of Nemo and jealousy of Jean's friendship with Electra dangerously intensifies--until she finally learns that the Nautilus is merely fighting to destroy Gargoyle and that Electra poses no threat to Nadia's relationship with Jean. During all this, Gargoyle is informed of the Nautilus's prescence and devises to set yet another deadly trap....
Sep 21, 1990
Season 1Episode 2125 min
Farewell Nautilus
The Nautilus is ensnared by Gargoyle's super powerful SeaNet magnet. In the fight that follows, Grandis, Sanson and Hanson escape on the Gratan (to help free Nemo and the others from Gargoyle's battleship). The battle culminates with the badly damaged Nautilus plummeting into the sea....
Oct 26, 1990
Season 1Episode 2225 min
Electra the Traitor
After relocating Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King to his personal quarters (which he will later jettison from the doomed Nautilus), Nemo finds Electra holding a gun on him. In an extended flashback sequence, Electra reveals her tormented past, her complicated feelings for the captain... and a horrifying connection between Nadia and Nemo.
Nov 2, 1990
Season 1Episode 2325 min
Young Drifters
Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King are shipwrecked on a deserted island. They decide to make it their home for a while.
Nov 9, 1990
Season 1Episode 2425 min
Lincoln Island
Now that they are settled into their new island home (which they dub "Lincoln Island", Jean uses his knowledge and technology to bring a little civilization. Nadia, on the other hand, wants to live with nature... only to discover that doing so is a lot harder than she ever dreamed of.
Nov 16, 1990
Season 1Episode 2525 min
The First Kiss
As a result of Nadia's foolishness, the children only have meat for food. This infuriates Nadia so much that she declares to starve... until she becomes desperate to eat a can of rotten spinach, getting sick. Jean sets off to find a cure, only to become intoxicated by hallucinogetic mushrooms(!). Overwhelmingly grateful, and stupidly unaware that Jean is not himself, she gives him his first real kiss....
Nov 30, 1990
Season 1Episode 2625 min
King, the Lonely Lion
King gets jealous of Jean and Nadia becoming more intimate and runs away. Jean sets off to find him... but not before Nadia goes ballastic upon realizing that he does not remember the kiss she gave him (he had been stoned from the hallucinogetic mushrooms).
Dec 7, 1990
Season 1Episode 2725 min
The Island of the Witch
After surviving a typhoon, Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King discover another island drifting mysteriously toward them. Exploring it, the children find Ayerton, a flaky scientist who they met on the battleship in Episode 3.
Dec 14, 1990
Season 1Episode 2825 min
The Floating Island
Jean, Nadia, Marie, and King are reunited with Grandis, Sanson, and Hanson. Together they all decide to live as a family on the new island, which Jean theorizes is moving.
Dec 21, 1990
Season 1Episode 2925 min
King vs. King
A violent row between Sanson and Hanson turns into a race between two mechanical lions resembling King(!).
Jan 11, 1991
Season 1Episode 3025 min
Labyrinth in the Earth
Four months afterward, the Gratan is nearly repaired, and soon our pals will set off for Africa. But first Jean and Nadia go off on a hike which leads them to a mysterious underground cavern that turns out to be more than they suspected. The exploration culminates when Nadia falls into a trance and vanishes behind a wall, leaving her clothes in Jean's arms! During all this, Ayerton tries to make his move on Grandis.
Jan 25, 1991
Season 1Episode 3125 min
Farewell, Red Noah
Trapped inside a mysterious chamber, Nadia learns from a disembodied voice that their island home is actually a space satellite, Red Noah--and that she is the heir to the throne of Atlantis as well as not human! Tremors engulf the island as Grandis and the others prepare to set off, but Jean returns to save Nadia.
Feb 1, 1991
Season 1Episode 3225 min
Nadia's Love
Having escaped their former island home, our pals crash-land into an African tribal village, where they are instantly captured... until one of its citizens recognizes Nadia.
Feb 8, 1991
Season 1Episode 3325 min
King's Rescue
When King gets captured by Grandis' ex-fiancee, our pals set off to save him.
Feb 15, 1991
Season 1Episode 3425 min
My Darling Nadia
Jean writes a song for Nadia. Actually, our pals burst out into song while various clips from the show play out.
Feb 22, 1991
Season 1Episode 3525 min
The Secret of Blue Water
Finally, our pals arrive at Nadia's real homeland--Tartessos. As they tour through its long forgotten ruins, our heroine finally reveals her darkest secrets... including who she is. How will all this affect her relationships with everyone, especially Jean?
Mar 1, 1991
Season 1Episode 3625 min
The New Nautilus
Gargoyle's battleships appear over Tartessos. To save Jean and the others, Nadia surrenders herself... but not before Jean swears to save her. Forced to flee from Gargoyle's battleships, our pals run into Captain Nemo and his crew, who have survived... and now operate a superpowerful battleship called the New Nautilus.
Mar 8, 1991
Season 1Episode 3725 min
Emperor Neo
Gargoyle takes Nadia before the puppet leader of Neo-Atlantis, Emperor Neo, who reveals that he has a strong connection with both Nadia and Nemo. Eight time zones away, Nemo and the others plan to fight Gargoyle in a final duel. Throughout, both Jean and Nadia learn about the origins of the Atlanteans.
Mar 29, 1991
Season 1Episode 3825 min
To the Sky
The New Nautilus and Gargoyle, now aboard Red Noah, face off in a spectacular duel of pyrotechnics, lasers, and, ultimately, wills. Midway through, both crafts head into outer space. After finally breaking in, Nemo, Jean, and Electra confront Gargoyle, who now has Nadia under his control.
Apr 5, 1991
Season 1Episode 3925 min
Successor to the Stars
All the pieces fall into place for the final stage of Jean and Nadia's journey around the world, Nemo and Gargoyle's long-standing feud, and the secret behind Nadia's Blue Water pendant.
I won't tell you how it ends....
Apr 12, 1991
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