Pokémon: The Original Series · Master Quest arc
EP220 · Plant It Now... Diglett Later
ディグダのむらをまもれ! おとしあなだいさくせん!?
Synopsis
What happens.
Ash and his friends are pleasantly surprised to see Sparky in front of them and his Trainer, Ritchie soon approaches them. Ash asks what Ritchie is doing here. Ritchie explains that after the Indigo Plateau Conference, he heard about a mysterious Pokémon in the Whirl Islands.
Synopsis adapted from Bulbapedia's EP220 entry, used under CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5.
Story arc · EP213-EP274
Master Quest.
Ash completes Johto, then enters the Silver Conference. Defeats rival Gary Oak before losing to Harrison in the Top 8. The original trio splits at the end. End of an era.
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Who appears.
Linked entries open the species page on the Pokédex. Items without a sprite (alternate forms, regional variants, generic group references) fall back to a name pill.
More from this arc
Other episodes in Master Quest.
Episode synopsis from Bulbapedia, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5. Editorial context (arc affiliation, cultural moments, character signatures) hand-verified May 2026. Pokémon, character names, and series titles © Nintendo, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., The Pokémon Company, OLM Inc. This is an unofficial fan reference.