This marathon featured handpicked episodes from the show’s six successful seasons, many of which were selected by the show’s original producers, Barbara Pyle and Nick Boxer. In 2010, on the 40th anniversary of Earth Day (Thursday April 22nd) and the 20th anniversary of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, another Captain Planet Earth Day Marathon aired on Boomerang from 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM.

In 1995, the Captain Planet Earth Day Marathon aired again on Cartoon Network on Saturday, April 22nd, this time for 12-hours from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

The marathon has since re-aired several times over the years on Earth Day, with varying runtimes, on both Cartoon Network and Boomerang. ''Save the Earth'? You poor lunatic!' Linka declares, right before she tries to lock Wheeler in an asylum for pathological hopefulness.The Captain Planet Earth Day Marathon is a special marathon of Captain Planet and the Planeteers celebrating Earth Day (April 22nd) that first aired on Cartoon Network for 24-hours, from 12:00 PM on Friday, Apto 12:00 PM on Saturday April 23, 1994. The future Planeteers have used up all their idealism, and dismiss Wheeler's insistence that they have to keep working for a better world. This was very scary 30 years ago, and sounds disappointingly normal today. You can't walk outside without safety gear. The atmosphere is poisonous, the sun blinding. 'Where are your protective clothes and sunglasses?' she asks him. I've never forgotten Future Linka's total horror when she sees Wheeler for the first time. For the briefest of moments, a young viewer stares into the void, and sees what total existential defeat will someday look like in the mirror. Everything strident and on-message about the rest of Captain Planet runs brilliantly off the rails here. Heavy stuff for the Saturday morning cartoon timeframe - or maybe I first caught 'Two Futures' in after-school reruns? It left a mark on me the first time I saw it, and now I wonder if it will haunt my lifetime. Greedley yearns to travel back to the 1950s, 'back before there were any pollution laws,' when 'no one worries about ecology!' Now we know Greedley could have just waited 10 years, or maybe gotten a cabinet position, or even just become president. In fairness to Captain Planet, it was terribly right about too many things. Blight ( Meg Ryan), who wears a coat so offensive I swear you see fox tails hanging off her shoulders. In 'Two Futures,' the villains are Hoggish Greedly ( Ed Asner), a pig-person with fuel lust, and Dr. The bad guys are fun, at least, and the voices of the Polluting Perpetrators looks like Turner spinning his rolodex. They join their rings together to create Captain Planet (David Coburn), who looks like what happens when the focus group insists your Superman type should be more country and more android-y and more naked. The Planeteers are all very dependable, which is how old people often imagine young people. The closing credits claim that the series was an 'Original Idea by Ted Turner,' and the whole operation has an undeniable Gotta please the boss! quality, hot plot nonsense propelled through a money cannon. It's the rare nostalgia property un-rebooted in this century, possibly because Big Pollution won't allow a reboot, possibly because anyone working on a reboot is a human adult who can barely get through a single episode. Captain Planet was very goofy, not especially animated, and 'multicultural' in a very Supercop America way that reads rather tone-deaf today.

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