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| The Tower of Terror
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ポケモンタワーでゲットだぜ！
Capture at the Pokémon Tower!
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First broadcast
| Japan
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September 2, 1997
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| United States
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October 7, 1998
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English themes
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Japanese themes
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Credits
| Animation
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Team Ota
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| Screenplay
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園田英樹 Hideki Sonoda
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| Storyboard
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岡崎幸男 Yukio Okazaki
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| Assistant director
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鈴木敏明 Toshiaki Suzuki
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| Animation director
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志村泉 Izumi Shimura
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| No additional credits are available at this time.
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The Tower of Terror (Japanese: ポケモンタワーでゲットだぜ！ Capture at the Pokémon Tower!) is episode 23 of the Pokémon anime. It was first broadcast in Japan on September 2, 1997 and in USA on October 7, 1998.
Synopsis
Major events
- Ash befriends a Haunter.
- The Ghost Pokémon turn Ash and his Pikachu into ghosts for a brief time.
- Haunter follows Ash back to Saffron City.
Debuts
Characters
Humans
Pokémon
Who’s That Pokémon?: Gengar
Trivia
- The episode was temporarily banned from re-airing on Kids WB after the September 11 attacks, as the title was reminiscent of the incident. It was later aired on January 29, 2002.
- Due to the nature of the episode title, Kids WB refused to give the tape to Cartoon Network for them to air this episode back in 2002. They have since given up the rights to air it, it was officially re-aired on October 19, 2007 at 6:30 AM ET.
- This episode's dub title is a reference to the theme park ride, Tower of Terror.
Errors
Dub edits
In other languages
- French: La tour de la terreur
- Italian: La torre della paura
- Latin American Spanish: ¡La torre del terror!
- Portuguse: A torre do terror
- Russian: Зловещая башня
- Spanish: La torre del terror
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