The Little Mermaid

The 1989 animated feature adapted by Disney for television in a prequel that leads up to the events of the movie.

Cast:Jodi Benson , Samuel E. Wright , Edan Gross , Kenneth Mars , Jim Cummings , Danny Cooksey , Dave Coulier , Mary Kay Bergman , Anndi McAfee , Kath Soucie , J.D. Daniels , Pat Carroll , Tim Curry , Bradley Pierce , Jeff Bennett , Joe Alaskey , Frank Welker , David L. Lander

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Whale of a Tale

Fri, Sep 11, 1992

Ariel adopts a baby whale, much to the dismay of her father, King Triton.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ The Great Sebastian

Sat, Sep 12, 1992

Sebastian becomes a peace ambassador and tries to make peace with the power hungry Sharkanians, with Ariel following him to their land.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Stormy

Sat, Sep 19, 1992

Ariel rides a wild seahorse named Stormy against her father's wishes and gets lost in the wilderness.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Urchin

Sat, Sep 26, 1992

Ariel became friends with an orphaned merboy who has fallen in with the underwater gangster 'Lobster Mobster'.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ Double Bubble

Sat, Oct 3, 1992

Ariel babysits two twin merbabies.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Message in a Bottle

Sat, Oct 10, 1992

Ariel gets a Message in a Bottle, which leads her and her friends to a Dangerous Seamonster. Only to find out, that it isn't so dangerous...

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Charmed

Sat, Oct 17, 1992

Ariel puts on a human bracelet but finds it hard to take it off afterwards. Afraid of how her father would react, Ariel runs away to find the key to the lock of the bracelet.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Marriage of Inconvenience

Sat, Oct 24, 1992

Ariel believes her father King Triton is setting her up for an arranged marriage with a snobbish merman-prince of another sea kingdom of Olympia named Prince Thor.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ The Evil Manta

Sat, Oct 31, 1992

Ariel accidentally frees a dark figure known as the Evil Manta, who tries to take over Atlantica using deception and lies to turn its merfolk people against each other.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ Thingamajigger

Sat, Nov 7, 1992

Bad luck strikes the kingdom after Ariel finds Prince Eric's boot.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ Red

Sat, Nov 14, 1992

A magic spell turns King Triton into a young and energetic merboy, and Ariel has to play "the mother" to him.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Beached

Sat, Nov 21, 1992

Before a family trip to the Carnival of Tides on the tide, Ariel and Arista get into a fight and are 'beached' and Sebastian had to stay and look after them.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Trident True

Sat, Nov 28, 1992

Ariel looks for the perfect Father's Day gift to give King Triton, but it leads her to misfortune when a giant octopus traps them in a cave!

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Eel-Ectric City

Sat, Dec 5, 1992

Pearl, a mermaid who is obsessed with partying, takes Ariel and her sixth eldest sister, Alana, to Eel-Ectric City instead of to her house, while Sebastian and Flounder follow.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ Resigned to It

Sat, Sep 18, 1993

Sebastian quits his job as King Triton's royal confidant and advisor and tries to make a new life for himself.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ Calliope Dreams

Sat, Sep 25, 1993

King Triton wants Ariel to play the sea calliope: an instrument resembling a organ.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ Save the Whale

Sat, Oct 2, 1993

Spot, the killer whale, and Sebastian get captured by a crazed circus owner, and Ariel has to save them.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ Against the Tide

Sat, Oct 9, 1993

Ariel rescues a Bad-Luck Creature named Lucky, putting all of Atlantica in a panic, and must make her own luck when Ursula comes after the creature.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ Giggles

Sat, Oct 16, 1993

Jealous of Ariel's happiness, a grumpy sorcerer blowfish casts a spell on her.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ Wish Upon a Starfish

Sat, Oct 16, 1993

Ariel befriends a deaf mermaid named Gabriela, and both of them decide to seek out the magical Wishing Starfish to make their dreams come true.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ Tail of Two Crabs

Sat, Oct 30, 1993

Sebastian feels threatened by his arch-rival Zeus, while Ursula plots to turn everyone into polyps with a magic stone.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ Metal Fish

Sat, Nov 6, 1993

A human explorer boards a primitive submarine to explore the undersea realm, and crosses paths with Ariel.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ T'ank You for Dat, Ariel

Sat, Dec 11, 1993

Ariel enters a magic cave to become a sea witch and uses her newfound magical abilities to make Sebastian a great big crab.