List of episodes

The following is the list of all 82 episodes throughout the franchise's seven seasons.

The Magic School Bus

Overview of the series

Season	Episodes	Premiere	End
1	13	September 10, 1994 with "Gets Lost in Space" on PBS and "Inside Ralphie" on FOX KIDS	December 3, 1994 with "Kicks Up a Storm"
2	13 14 (counting AMSBH)	September 9, 1995 with "Blows Its Top"	December 2, 1995 with "Ups and Downs"
3	13	September 14, 1996 with "In a Beehive"	December 25, 1996 with the holiday special and its behind-the-scenes featurette
4	13	September 13, 1997 with "Meets Molly Cule"	December 6, 1997 with "Takes a Dive"

Season 1 (September 10–December 3, 1994)

Episode descriptions are those used by Scholastic from VHS, DVD, the official site, and press releases.

Title Card	Title/Topic/Description	Total Number	Episode Number	Production Code	Release Date
	Gets Lost in Space Topic: The Solar System	1	1	MSB-01	September 10, 1994
	Arnold's know-it-all cousin Janet drives the kids crazy when she joins Ms. Frizzle's class on a field trip and gets them lost in outer space! But when the navigational system breaks down, and Ms. Frizzle "accidentally" gets lost in the solar system, Janet may be the only one with enough knowledge to save them!
	For Lunch Topic: Digestion	2	2	MSB-10	September 17, 1994
	Arnold's dream comes true: He doesn't have to go on a field trip! Ms. Frizzle lets him stay behind with Liz. But when Arnold accidentally swallows his miniaturized classmates, he becomes the field trip! Better than an action park, Arnold's digestive system is full of twists, turns, and surprises.
	Inside Ralphie Topic: Germs	3	3	MSB-12	September 10FOX/24PBS, 1994
	Ralphie is crushed when a fever and sore throat keep him home from school the day he's scheduled to host the FNN (Frizzle News Network) television broadcast on health. Not one to let his body get the best of him, Ralphie hosts the show from his bed while his classmates journey through his bloodstream to reveal the news-breaking story of just what's making him sick. With Tyne Daly as Ralphie's mom. Note: This episode premiered on FOX KIDS on the same day "Gets Lost in Space" did on PBS. It later made its proper PBS premiere on the 24th.
	Gets Eaten Topic: The Food Chain	4	4	MSB-02	October 1, 1994
	Arnold and Keesha are in trouble when they forget an assignment to bring in two things that go together. He has a soggy shoe with pond scum he stepped in on his way to school. Keesha has only the tuna fish sandwich she brought for lunch. Ms. Frizzle is delighted at this brilliant combination! A field trip to the ocean becomes a search for the connection between these two unlikely objects. The bus shrinks and travels through the ocean food chain—getting eaten along the way!
	Hops Home Topic: Habitat	5	5	MSB-08	October 8, 1994
	When Wanda's pet frog, Bella, jumps out an open window, Ms. Frizzle shrinks the bus into a mechanical frog and takes her now-tiny class on a hop-along adventure.
	Meets the Rot Squad Topic: Decomposition	6	6	MSB-11	October 15, 1994
	It's "Accidental Science Project Day" and the class has brought in marvelously rotten entries from the backs of their refrigerators. With Ed Begley, Jr. as Larry Log-Away.
	All Dried Up Topic: Desert Adaptations	7	7	MSB-13	October 22, 1994
	Always the caring soul, Phoebe goes on a crusade to save the animals and plants of the desert—and discovers how well they take care of themselves.
	In the Haunted House Topic: Sound	8	8	MSB-09	October 29, 1994
	The class is thrilled about its upcoming concert at the Sound Museum—until they discover the spooky mansion is more of a thrill than they bargained for. With Carol Channing as Cornelia C. Contralto.
	Gets Ready, Set, Dough Topic: Kitchen Chemistry	9	9	MSB-04	November 5, 1994
	It's Ms. Frizzle's birthday, and a field trip to the bakery seems perfect—until the bus's shrinker-scope goes on the fritz and the class gets baked in a cake! With Dom DeLuise as the baker.
	Plays Ball Topic: Forces	10	10	MSB-03	November 12, 1994
	Dorothy Ann loves her physics book. Ralphie loves baseball. Ms. Frizzle ingeniously combines the two in a page-hopping adventure through Dorothy Ann's book to a "Frictionless Baseball Game." The whole class learns about pushes and pulls in a remarkable day at a thoroughly unique ball game.
	Goes to Seed Topic: Seeds	11	11	MSB-06	November 19, 1994
	The class's garden is going to be featured on the cover of PLANT IT! magazine. But Phoebe's garden plot is glaringly empty. Always eager to help, Ms. Frizzle shrinks the bus to the size of a ladybug, and the class is off and flying to Phoebe's old school to find a plant. With Robby Benson as Mr. Seedplot.
	Gets Ants in Its Pants Topic: Ants	12	12	MSB-07	November 26, 1994
	Scholastic's The Magic School Bus goes into show business when Keesha directs a movie about social animals for the school science fair.
	Kicks Up a Storm Topic: Weather	13	13	MSB-05	December 3, 1994
	It's a hot and muggy summer day, and the heat's gone to Ralphie's head. The Friz asks, "What makes the weather?" then transforms the bus into a Weathermobile and in a wild ride through the skies—gives Ralphie the opportunity to become the meteorological superhero of his dreams.

Season 2 (1995)

Title Card	Title/Topic/Description	Total Number	Episode Number	Production Code	Release Date
	Blows Its Top Topic: Volcanoes	14	1	MSB-14	September 9, 1995
	To help them understand how the Earth makes islands, Ms. Frizzle presents the kids with an island that hasn't been discovered yet!
	Flexes Its Muscles Topic: Body Mechanics	15	2	MSB-15	September 16, 1995
	Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a field trip to the "body shop" of R.U. Humerus (Tony Randall)
	The Busasaurus Topic: Dinosaurs	16	3	MSB-17	September 23, 1995
	Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a dinosaur dig, courtesy of her old school chum, paleontologist Dr. Carmina A. Skeledon (Rita Moreno) and travels 67 million years back in time!
	Going Batty Topic: Bats	17	4	MSB-22	September 30, 1995
	When Ms. Frizzle invites the students parents in to see what their kids are learning about bats, Ralphie and the gang are convinced the Friz is a vampire! With Tyne Daly as Ralphie's mom; Eartha Kitt as Keesha's grandmother, Elliot Gould as Arnold's dad; Dana Elcar as Phoebe's dad; and Edward James Olmos as Carlos's dad.
	Butterfly and the Bog Beast Topic: Butterflies	18	5	MSB-16	October 7, 1995
	The class needs a new mascot for its soccer team. Phoebe suggests butterflies, but everyone thinks they're wimpy—until the Friz flutters in!
	Wet All Over Topic: Water	19	6	MSB-18	October 14, 1995
	The Friz takes the class on a wild ride through the water cycle.
	In a Pickle Topic: Microbes	20	7	MSB-19	October 21, 1995
	Keesha and the class return from vacation to find her prize cucumber has turned into a pickle! Could the Mike Robe gang be to blame?
	Revving Up Topic: Engines	21	8	MSB-20	October 28, 1995
	The school district's Vehicle Maintenance Inspector, Junkett (Sherman Hemsley) is about to condemn the Magic School Bus!
	A Magic School Bus Halloween Topics: Sound and Bats	Unsorted	8.5	None	October 31, 1995
	Ms. Frizzle guides three students: Richie (Gabriel Martínez), Howard (Danny Tamberelli), and Katie (Kharisma), through a camp-in at a haunted museum, where she tells them of her spookiest field trips.
	Taking Flight Topic: Flight	22	9	MSB-21	November 4, 1995
	Shrunk inside Tim's model airplane, the class goes on a high-flying field trip to find out how things fly.
	Getting Energized Topic: Energy	23	10	MSB-23	November 11, 1995
	The class is ready to plug in their "Double-Trouble Wheel of Wonder" at the town carnival when they discover all the electrical outlets are taken.
	Out of This World Topic: Space Rocks	24	11	MSB-24	November 18, 1995
	When Dorothy Ann warns the kids that there's an asteroid headed straight for their school, Ms. Frizzle arranges a field trip into space. With Swoosie Kurtz as Dorothy Ann's mom.
	Cold Feet Topic: Warm-/Cold-Blooded	25	12	MSB-25	November 25, 1995
	Liz has gone off to a mysterious place called "Herp Haven." Thinking she's in trouble, the class rushes to Herp Haven, where they turn into reptiles. With Michael York as Herpst.
	Ups and Downs Topic: Floating and Sinking	26	13	MSB-26	December 2, 1995
	There's a monster in Walker Lake! Wanda wants to be the first one underwater, but Gerri Poveri (Cindy Williams), a TV reporter whose ratings are sinking, wants Wanda out of the way.

Season 3 (1996)

Title Card	Title/Topic/Description	Total Number	Episode Number	Production Code	Release Date
	In a Beehive Honeybees	27	1	MSB-30	September 14, 1996
	Tim and Wanda are selling honey from the former's grandfather's apiary. When all of the honey falls down the drain, he convinces Ms. Frizzle to take the Magic School Bus to the apiary to get more honey, but instead, she takes them to a wild beehive. Then the kids are transformed into anthropomorphic honeybees and make honey themselves. Note: A flashback to Goes to Seed happens during Keesha's imagine spot.
	In the Arctic Heat	28	2	MSB-27	September 21, 1996
	When the Magic School Bus's engine freezes on a field trip to the Arctic, it gets trapped on an ice floe with Phoebe, Ralphie and Liz stuck inside. The kids learn many ways to try and save the Bus and fix its engine so it can run again.
	Spins a Web Spiders	29	3	MSB-28	September 28, 1996
	The Bus materializes itself into a 1953 black-and-white horror movie, titled Stand by Your Mantis (an amalgamation of Godzilla and Airplane), where they meet the character General Araneus and the main villain, a giant praying mantis. When General Araneus presses the wrong button on the Bus's dashboard, the Friz and the students are shrunk and catapulted back into real life, where they land in a spider web. They learn how spiders trap their prey. Liz and the Bus are stuck in the black-and-white world with Araneus, who makes Liz bait for the praying mantis. Desperate to save their pet, the kids must trap the general - the way spiders do.
	Under Construction Structures	30	4	MSB-29	October 5, 1996
	Thinking it's a toy, Wanda's brother, William, uses the Porta-Shrinker to shrink the class and lock the students in Wanda's bathroom. To get out of the bathroom and get big again, the kids must use bathroom materials to build their way out, but there's an alligator in the bathtub! Note: William reappears in "The Magnetic Mambo". Also, the Bus does not transform in this episode.
	Gets a Bright Idea Light	31	5	MSB-31	October 12, 1996
	Keesha organizes an all-school field trip to a light show at Walkerville's old theater, but Janet suggests a magic show, and claims that there's a ghost in the theater. Then Arnold goes missing, and a search for Arnold happens at the old theater. The kids see Arnold's "ghost" and get scared. Later, they find out that Janet is using Pepper's ghost effect to simulate the effect that Arnold is a ghost, and Keesha uses it on herself to scare Janet.
	Shows and Tells Archaeology	32	6	MSB-32	October 19, 1996
	Arnold is representing Walkerville at the Show-and-Tell Competition, and he brings in a webbed hoop, but he doesn't know what it is. While he and Liz stay behind, Ms. Frizzle goes to the Bus and activates the Supposatron (which turns it into a giant laboratory). On the Bus, the kids are catapulted into computer simulations based on their hypotheses about the hoop, and they learn that the hoop was meant to be a game about hoops and arrows. Arnold wins the competition.
	Makes a Rainbow Color	33	7	MSB-33	October 26, 1996
	Ms. Frizzle and Liz have built a pinball machine powered by laser light. To beat the game, one must split the light through a prism and try to fill sensors that sense colors of the rainbow, and all colors must be filled. But Ms. Frizzle had a bet with the principal, Mr. Ruhle, and if she lost the game, Mr. Ruhle would get to keep it. Desperate for help, Ms. Frizzle guides the kids (sans Arnold who stays behind to stall Mr. Ruhle) to the Bus. Then they shrink, pass through the glass window of the pinball machine, and play the game. Ms. Frizzle wins the game, but Mr. Ruhle could play it whenever he wants.
	Goes Upstream Migration	34	8	MSB-34	November 2, 1996
	Ralphie wants to serve salmon at the school fish-fry, so they fish at the spot that he and his uncle like to fish in. When Ralphie throws his fishing line in the water, all he catches is Ms. Frizzle, who's been testing out a flipper prototype for the students' wetsuits. Ralphie wants to know where the salmon went, so Ms. Frizzle turns the Bus into a salmon (it shrinks as well), and follows the salmon with the help of a MicroBus Windows: Pisces '95 (a parody of Microsoft Windows 95) software disc, which gives it a "brain" like a salmon.
	Works Out Circulation	35	9	MSB-35	November 9, 1996
	Ms. Frizzle, coached by Ralphie, is up against gym teacher Mr. Sinew, coached by Janet, in the Teacherathlon, a triathlon for the staff at Walkerville. The kids shrink and travel into Ms. Frizzle's respiratory and circulatory systems, and even to her leg muscles to find out what breathing has to do with the musculoskeletal workings and circulation.
	Gets Planted Photosynthesis	36	10	MSB-37	November 16, 1996
	The class is putting on a play of Jack and the Beanstalk (which fits into what they are learning). Phoebe, as the prop maker, is tasked with designing the titular enchanted beanstalk, but two of her attempts have failed: planting a bean (the sprout never grew) and making one out of cardboard and tape. Then Liz uses the Bus's instruments to modify Phoebe into a beanstalk, allowing her to "star" as the plant, but Phoebe is too nervous to be on stage (as she has never been on stage before, and she is normally the prop maker) and can't grow. Desperate to learn how plants grow, the kids take a field trip inside an already-grown plant and they learn that they make their own food. Phoebe then makes her own food and grows, and the class puts on the play.
	In the Rainforest Rainforest Ecology	37	11	MSB-38	November 23, 1996
	Ms. Frizzle's present for Earth Day is a cocoa-bean shipment from her very own Amazonian cocoa tree at the Rainforest Rentals Catalog. When only one cocoa bean arrives, the kids go to the Rainforest and meet the Rainforest Inspector 47, a bossy Frenchman who just wants a clean patch of the rainforest without mud and animals. Dorothy Ann and Tim, as Rainforest Investigators, try to crack the case, and find out it was all because the inspector had covered the Amazon with artificial turf so he could save his dry-cleaning bill.
	Rocks and Rolls Water Erosion	38	12	MSB-39	November 30, 1996
	To celebrate the centennial of the founding of Walkerville (and the tenth anniversary of The Magic School Bus), Arnold and the class craft a stone sculpture of the city's founder, Captain Krasnik P. Walker, Esq. through erosion.
	Holiday Special Recycling	39	13	MSB-36	December 25, 1996
	Ms. Frizzle and the students visit the former's first cousin, Katrina Eloise Murphy's recycling plant; Malcolm-Jamal Warner and the rest of the cast and crew give the viewers a tour of the making of the original series.

The Magic School Bus Rides Again

Overview

Season	Episodes	Premiere	End
1	13	September 29, 2017 with "Frizzle of the Future"	"DA and the Deep Blue Sea" on the same day
2	13	April 13, 2018 with "Frizzle of the Future"	"Making Magic" on the same day
3	4	August 7, 2020 with "Kids in Space"	November 9, 2021DVD/October 30, 2023Knowledge Kids with "Goldstealer"

Season 3 (August 7, 2020–November 9, 2021)

Key Art	Title/Topic/Description	Total Number	Episode Number	Production Code	Airdates (Netflix and Knowledge Network)
	Kids in Space Topic: Astronauts	79	1	MSB-201	August 7, 2020
	The Magic School Bus kids blast into orbit and onto the International Space Station — only to find themselves on the run from a giant tardigrade! 3… 2… 1… blast off! Adventure awaits Ms. Frizzle and the class on an important mission in outer space. (With Chris Hadfield as himself.)
	The Frizz Connection Topic: Air Currents	80	2 (28)	MSB-202	October 20, 2020
	In a flash of lightning, the Magic School Bus is split into three pieces and the class is scattered across the globe. But that’s not the biggest shock: Ms. Frizzle has been split into three too! Now, the class has to master the global air currents to bring themselves, the Bus, and the Frizzles back together before it’s too late.
	In the Zone Topic: Time Zones	81	3	MSB-204	December 26, 2020
	Ms. Frizzle's class sees every show on a pop star's New Year's Eve tour, learning about time zones as they attend all of her concerts on the same night. It's the longest New Year's Eve ever as Ms. Frizzle and the class travel back in time — hour by hour — to save their beloved bus! (With LIGHTS as Maven.)
	Goldstealer Topic: Speed	82	4	MSB-203	November 9, 2021/October 30, 2023
	When Keesha's mom is framed for stealing the gold medal for the bike race at the World Wheel Games, the class becomes spies to clear her name, and to unmask the mysterious Goldstealer. (With Annie Guglia as herself and Raven Dauda as Keesha's mom.) NOTE: Similar to "Inside Ralphie," this episode can arguably have two official release dates. It released on the Canadian Complete Second Season DVD on November 9, 2021; and later premiered on the Knowledge Network in the same country on October 30, 2023.