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-Saiyan Saga
Episode #001: Arrival of Raditz
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Episode Summary: This episode starts off with a Saiyan space pod entering the Earth's atmosphere. It then lands in a man's farm, as the farmer approaches the crash site a strong alien warrior named Raditz emerges from it. Raditz seeing the farmer realizes that his brother, Goku, has not killed off human life from this planet. He begins his search for his brother and finds him at the Kame House, he tells him that he needs to come back with him to unite with the only three remaining Saiyans to take over planets. Goku refuses, as a result Raditz kidnaps Gohan advising Goku to make a decision to side with him or not.

Episode #002: The World's Strongest Team
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Episode Summary: Raditz now has Gohan at his grasp and tells Goku that the only way he'll get his son back is if he kills 100 people within 24 hours. Raditz flies off with Gohan, Goku refusing to kill any people tries to think of a way to attack Raditz. When all seems lost a possible chance of defeating Raditz is brought forth, Piccolo arrives. He tells Goku that the only way they can defeat him is with his help, they team up and head to the location where Raditz is thanks to Bulma's Dragon Ball radar. Raditz now at the crash site thinks his scouter is messed up when it detects that Gohan has a power level of 710. Piccolo and Goku arrive, the battle begins even though Raditz is outnumbered the odds are in his favor.

Episode #003: Gohan's Hidden Powers
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Episode Summary: The battle continues between Goku, Piccolo, and Raditz. Piccolo now missing an arm has a new technique planned, all he needs is for Goku to buy some time to power up 5 minutes to be exact. As Piccolo charges for his technique, Goku attacks Raditz with all his might not having much luck he tries to do his Kamehameha attack on him. Raditz blocks Goku's attack and returns a blast that knocks him down, all this fighting made Raditz forget about Piccolo who has now finished charging his attack. Piccolo launches his beam cannon but Raditz is quick enough to dodge it. Raditz' target is now Piccolo as he goes to give him his attack Goku squeezes his tail and Raditz weakens, but Goku fell into Raditz lies and let's go of the tail thus causing Raditz to have the upperhand again. Gohan emerged from the crater with full power, he does a power level of 1370 headbutt that causes a lot of damage. As Raditz heads to kill Gohan, Goku grabs him off guard and is willing to sacrifice himself to Piccolo's now recharged attack.

Episode #004: Goku's Unusual Journey
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Episode Summary: Piccolo finally finished charging for his special beam cannon attack, while Goku still holding Raditz, Piccolo fires away blasting through both fighters. Piccolo talks to Raditz about how Goku will return with the use of the Dragon Balls, not knowing that all he was saying was being transmitted to the other remaining Saiyans, Vegeta and Nappa. After hearing this, Vegeta and Nappa head for Earth and will arrive in a year's time. Bulma, Krillin, and Master Roshi arrive just in time to say good bye to Goku as he makes his last request, to take care of Gohan. As Goku dies his body dissapears, Piccolo explains that this is Kami's doing. Kami takes Goku to King Yemma to see if he is allowed to go with King Kai in order to train and help save Earth from danger. King Yemma agrees and sends an escort to take Goku to Snake Way, and Goku begins his journey. Piccolo on the other hand, takes Gohan to a secluded area where he will begin to train him.

Episode #005: Gohan's Metamorphosis
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Episode Summary: Piccolo begins Gohan's training, the first step is to mearly survive. He flies off leaving Gohan to tend for himself, but Piccolo keeps a watchful eye from a far. Meanwhile, Goku is still traveling through Snake Way on his way to King Kai's planet in order to train under him. He decides to jump instead of running thinking he'd save some time but encounters a problem. While jumping he miscalculated his landing and was nearly falling to the bottom(Hell), but thanks to his quick thinking he managed to get back on the path. Krillin is the lucky one to tell Chi-Chi the bad news about her husband and son, but while arriving he chickens out and abandons them early in the morning. Arriving back at Kame House to reveal his cowardness a rude visitor comes along, Yajirobe, bringing a message. Kami had sent Yajirobe to tell the Z Warriors to go to Korin's Tower for special training and to bring Yamcha along. Shortly after leaving, Chi-Chi and the Ox-King arrive, Master Roshi tells them the bad news. Scene cuts to Gohan who is bearly waking up only to see the full moon, he transforms into Oozaru which fairly soon begins to wreck havoc. Piccolo has no choice but to destroy the moon, as a precaution removes Gohan's tail.

Episode #006: Gohan Makes A Friend
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Episode Summary: Gohan awakens to find himself at the foot of where the mountain once stood wondering what had happened. He stumbles while getting up noticing that his tail is missing. He gets attacked by a giant crocodile, a tiger, and a giant eagle. Gohan ends up in a cave where he heals his minor injuries using an old technique he picked up from his dad. When he awakes the next morning he finds a dinosaur next to him, he runs out of the cave and the dinosaur follows but falls due to an injury. Gohan removes the stake that the dinosaur had punctured his body, thus making a new friend. He goes out to find food for his new friend and when returns his friend is being attacked by another dinosaur. After a struggle, Gohan is knocked unconscious and his friend gets eaten. Meanwhile, Yamcha is out making money using his keen abilities playing baseball. A fight errupts and Yamcha eagerly follows, Krillin interupts his fun and tells him that Kami wants to train them. Yamcha, Krillin, Puar, and Bulma head out. Goku is still traveling through Snake Way.

Episode #007: Trouble on Arlia
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Episode Summary: Gohan just caught breakfast and digs in when a large dinosaur creature approaches him growling! The dinosaur suddenly attacks Gohan, misses and Gohan runs away (playing around with the creature). He stops the creature and chops off another part of the dinosaurs tail for breakfast! Vegeta suggests to Nappa that they stop off at planet Arlia for a bit of practice. They get blasted by a creature when they arrive, Nappa wants to kill them there and then but Vegeta tells him to surrender. Goku continues along snake way when he comes up to a street cleaner and is shocked to find out after running for months he is only quarter of the way! The cleaner kindly gives him a ride. Vegeta and Nappa wait anxiously in the prison cell. Back on Arlia after defeating guards, Vegeta simply defeats a warrior with a blast, in a gladiator style games. The king of Arlia brings on the toughest guards to blast Vegeta and Nappa with an energy attack but to no avail. Gohan's training is going well as he messes about with a tiger but gets caught in a Piccolo meditation session and gets blown away by a tornado created by him! Back to Arlia, again, Nappa simply defeats the royal guards when the King orders for 'Yemini' to be released, a tall large creature which is kept in a pit, feared by many. After letting the creature chase them for a while Nappa decides to finish off the creature, and does with a little ki blast. Vegeta fires some rocks at the cowering king, who is penetrated by one and killed instantly. They order their ships to come to them and have become legends on their short stay on this planet after being congratulated by a prisoner. The prisoner’s joy is short lived though when their planet is destroyed by Vegeta.

Episode #008: Home For Infinite Losers
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Episode Summary: We begin with Goku happily being given a ride along snake way, and dreaming of food. The Cleaner takes a sharp turn though and Goku falls off into Home For Infinite Losers (HFIL)! He gets attacked by someone when he goes to grab some fruit off King Yemma's Tree and is knocked out. We are back on Earth with Piccolo meditating hard and Gohan chasing the dinosaur this time! Goku wakes up to find that his attacker was one of the people that run 'The land of no return'(Goz), anyways Goku finds out that what he thought was King Kai's planet was now HFIL! Piccolo, not knowing his strength, causes an earthquake and almost kills Gohan in the process, phew what a lucky escape! Goku tries jumping to try and reach above the sky, when Goz tries to hurt Goku, Goku thinks Goz is trying to help and when Goz unsuccessful, Goku unknowingly mocks him! He challenges Goku to a wrestling match and if Goku wins he gets a special flying machine to get out of HFIL, when Goku uses a move that almost knocks Goz out of the circle, Goz asks Goku how he did it, Goku shows him again and knocks him out of the ring :D. The flying machine is actually a big see-saw! When Goku tries it out, he doesn't quite reach the sky of HFIL so he fires a Kamahameha at the floor sending him right back up to the sky! But he comes to a stop when he finds out that the top of HFIL is solid and bangs his head! Mez (Other co-owner) tells Goku that he'll show Goku the secret passage way if Goku can catch him! Goku agrees not knowing how fast Mez is. A pretty comical scene when Goku is chasing Mez! Goku tricks Mez saying he is gonna steal some fruit from Yemma's tree but when Mez tries to stop him Goku just jumps on him and wins the game of it! Goku walks up the secret passage and ends up in king Yemma's desk at the beginning of snake way, so all that running has come to nothing!


09. Princess Snake's Hospitality
10. Escape from Piccolo
11. Showdown in the Past
12. The End of Snake Way
13. A Fight Against Gravity...Catch Bubbles!
14. The Legend of the Saiyans
15. Black Day for the Planet Earth
16. The Battle Begins...Goku Where Are You?
17. The Saibamen Strike
18. Nappa...The Invincible?
19. Tien Goes All Out!
20. Time's Up!!
21. The Return of Goku
22. Goku Strikes Back
23. Goku vs. Vegeta...A Saiyan Duel
24. Vegeta...Saiyan Style!
25. Stop Vegeta Now!!
26. Battle's End



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