Erik Larsen
Director
The Savage Dragon (1995)
Season 1
Chicago cop, Frank Darling, discovers a huge green-skinned mutant named Dragon who suffers from amnesia. In the hope of uncovering his own identity, Dragon joins Chicago P.D. and battles evil mutants led by the mysterious Overlord.
Released Oct. 21, 1995
Episode 22 min
7+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation
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Production Companies: Universal Cartoon Studios, Lacewood Productions, P3 Entertainment, Studio B Productions
Network: USA Network
S1E1 - R.S.V.P.
Overlord teams up with Arachnis to abduct Alex and Frank and lure the Dragon into Action.
Oct. 21, 1995, midnight
S1E2 - Possession
Lab workers begin to mysteriously display criminal behavior, and then Dragon's new friend, Barbaric, goes on a rampage. They're victims of mind-controlling leeches from a leech-covered creature called Horde.
Oct. 26, 1995, midnight
S1E3 - Undercover
Alex, in the guise of freak, tries to infliltrate Overlord's operation and earns the trust of Mako. she is taken to Overlord's secret headquarters, but Overlord discovers her ruse. alex and the Dragon have to break out, leading to a showdown between Alex and Mako.
Nov. 2, 1995, midnight
S1E4 - Dragonsmasher
Using stolen government technology, OpenFace and Octopus created a cyborg called ""The Dragonsmasher"". The Dragon must have fight the cyborg and discovers a plot between Overlord and an unscrupulous congressional candidate named John Backwood.
Nov. 9, 1995, midnight
S1E5 - Locomotion
Some of the Overlord's men break out of prison and take over a train that Alex happens to riding. The superfreaks plan on using the train to destroy an unfinished, state-of-the-art tunnel underneath Lake Michigan.
Nov. 15, 1995, midnight
S1E6 - She-Dragon
She-Dragon wants to be a crime-fighter and idolizes The Dragon, but she keeps screwing up The Dragon's police work. After Alex is kidnapped, The Dragon teams up with She-Dragon and learns of her vendetta against Overlord.
Dec. 20, 1995, midnight
S1E7 - Hurt
Bludgeon, a 15-foot superfreak, robs banks all over Chicago. When his partner, Lowblow, is captured by Dragon, Bludgeon vows vengeance upon Dragon and Alex. Meanwhile, Alex falls for a paramedic who is prejudiced against freaks.
Dec. 13, 1995, midnight
S1E8 - Web
The Dragon is sent to a Southern town to bring back some criminals to Chicago, but people keep disappearing all over town. He has to form an uneasy alliance with a sheriff to find out is behind the disappearances.
Nov. 22, 1995, midnight
S1E9 - Hit-Man
After Dragon foils Overlord's attempts to do away with a freak candidate for mayor, the crime boss creates a clone of The Dragon to gain access to candidate and assassinate him.
Dec. 7, 1995, midnight
S1E10 - Red-Handed
The Dragon finally imprisons Overlord, but is stunned to find out that Barbaric breaks him out of jail.
Jan. 3, 1996, midnight
S1E11 - Loathing
The Fiend, who feeds on hate and uses human bodies as hosts, inhabits a skinhead, the racist Sgt. Howard Niseman and then a self-help guru, who's really a hatemonger. The Dragon tries to defeat The Fiend by goading him to try to inhabit his body.
Jan. 10, 1996, midnight
S1E12 - Rampage
The She-Dragon returns and encounters a trio of female superfreak bikers, who are bent on mayhem. After one of their bikes gets damaged in a run-in with She-Dragon, they demand she is turned over to them. The Dragon must protect She-Dragon and defend Chicago against bikers' reign of terror.
Dec. 28, 1995, midnight
S1E13 - Armageddon
Horde is resurrected when a leech is brought into an experimental biosphere in the middle of Lake Michigan. The Dragon, Alex and She-Dragon try to stop horde from destroying Earth's ozone layer.
Jan. 17, 1996, midnight
Network: USA Network
Episode Runtime: 22 min.
Season Runtime: 22 min.
Released: Oct. 21, 1995
Last Air Date: Dec. 18, 1996, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR / 7+
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