List of Pokémon episodes (season 1)

Pokémon: Indigo League
The front cover of the DVD collection box of English Pokémon: Indigo League season, containing the first 26 episodes of this season
Country of origin	Japan
No. of episodes	82 (Japan) 80 (U.S.)
Release
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original release	April 1, 1997 – January 21, 1999
Season chronology
Next → Adventures on the Orange Islands

This is a list of episodes in the animated series Pokémon, named Pokémon: Indigo League for the DVD releases. The episodes aired in Japan as Pocket Monsters (ポケットモンスター, Poketto Monsutā), covering the first season of the series about the adventures of series protagonist Ash Ketchum and his friends Misty and Brock on the way to the Indigo Plateau. The episodes were directed by Masamitsu Hidaka and produced by Oriental Light and Magic and TV Tokyo.

The first season of Pokémon originally aired in Japan from April 1997 to January 1999 on TV Tokyo and in the United States from September 1998 to November 1999 (from September 1998 to November 1998, it was on first-run syndication and afterwards premiered on The WB Television Network).

On U.S. television, how the seasons are organized is changed: the first 52 episodes that aired in the U.S. are a part of the first season, and the remaining 28 episodes are a part of Season 2 (and Beauty and the Beach of Indigo League is aired during Season 2), followed by 25 Adventures in the Orange Islands episodes. On DVD, Season 1 is made up of all 80 Indigo League episodes that aired in the U.S.

The Japanese opening song is "Aim to be a Pokemon Master" by Rica Matsumoto. The ending songs are "One Hundred Fifty-One" by Unsho Ishizuka and Pokémon Kids, "Meowth's Song" by Inuko Inuyama, "Fantasy in My Pocket" by Sachi & Juri, "Pokemon Ondo" by Sachiko Kobayashi, Koffing, and Ekans, and "Type: Wild" by Rica Matsumoto. The English opening song is "Pokémon Theme" by Jason Paige, while each episodes close with the PokéRAP, which contains 5 different versions (each profiling about 30 Pokémon for a total of 151).