The Smurfs (1981)

Adventure · Animation · Comedy

Classic Saturday-morning cartoon series featuring magical blue elf-like creatures called Smurfs. The Smurfs, named for their personalities, inhabit a village of mushroom houses in an enchanted forest. These loveable creatures are led by Papa Smurf and live carefree... except for one major threat to their existance: Gargamel, an evil but inept wizard who lives in a stone-built house in the forest; and his feline companion, the equally nasty Azrael.

IMDb rating: 7.2 (23,976 votes)
Episode average: 6.5 -0.7 vs IMDb
Seasons: 9
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 9 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1981)

6.90 avg 27 episodes 7.1 → 6.9 22 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Astrosmurf	7.1	260
2	Jokey's Medicine/Vanity Fare	7.0	184
3	St. Smurf and the Dragon	6.7	185
4	The Magical Meanie/Sorcerer Smurf	6.6	166
5	Bewitched, Bothered and Be-Smurfed	7.0	149
6	King Smurf/The Smurfs and the Howlibird	7.0	169
7	Soup a La Smurf	6.9	152
8	All That Glitters Isn't Smurf/Dreamy's Nightmare	6.8	144
9	Romeo and Smurfette	6.4	154
10	The Magic Egg/Smurphony in 'C'	6.8	146
11	Sideshow Smurfs	6.9	136
12	Supersmurf/Paradise Smurfed	7.0	130
13	Sir Hefty	6.6	138
14	The Baby Smurf/The Fake Smurf	6.9	138
15	Painter and Poet	6.7	134
16	Haunted Smurf/The Purple Smurfs	7.1	148
17	The Fountain of Smurf	7.1	131
18	The Magnifying Mixture/Foul Weather Smurf	7.0	132
19	The Hundredth Smurf	6.9	136
20	The Abominable Snowbeast/Gargamel, the Generous	6.9	129
21	The Smurfette	7.1	201
22	Now You Smurf 'Em, Now You Don't/Spelunking Smurfs	7.0	129
23	The Smurf's Apprentice/Smurf-Colored Glasses	7.0	135
24	The Clockwork Smurf	7.6	329
25	Fuzzle Trouble/Smurfette's Dancing Shoes	6.9	139
26	The Smurfs and the Money Tree	6.4	124
40	The Smurf Springtime Special	6.9	99

Season 2 (1982)

6.79 avg 36 episodes 6.9 → 6.8 22 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Smurf Who Couldn't Say No	6.9	113
2	The Adventures of Robin Smurf	7.1	115
3	The Cursed Country	6.8	103
4	S-Shivering S-Smurfs/Sister Smurf	7.1	110
5	The Black Hellebore	6.7	100
6	Revenge of the Smurfs	6.9	105
7	The Three Smurfketeers	7.0	109
8	Heavenly Smurfs/It Came from Outer Smurf	7.0	104
9	The Sorcery of Maltrochu	6.6	96
10	Squeaky/The Kaplowey Scroll	7.1	109
11	The Goblin of Boulder Wood	6.2	99
12	Gormandizing Greedy/Waste Not, Smurf Not	6.9	113
13	Johan's Army	7.1	102
14	The Lost City of Yore	6.7	100
15	The Magic Fountain	6.6	94
16	The Impostor King	6.2	94
17	For the Love of Gargamel/The A-Maze-ing Smurfs	7.1	101
18	The Haunted Castle	6.2	98
19	Smurfs at Sea	6.5	106
20	One Good Smurf Deserves Another	6.4	101
21	The Blue Plague/The Last Laugh	6.4	101
22	The Raven Wizard	6.7	94
23	The Ring of Castellac	6.7	94
24	The Sky Is Smurfing, the Sky Is Smurfing/Turncoat Smurf	7.1	101
25	The Return of the Clockwork Smurf	6.8	93
26	The Littlest Giant	6.7	101
27	Bubble, Bubble, Smurfs in Trouble/Smurf Van Winkle	7.1	103
28	The Prince and the Peewit	7.0	97
29	The Enchanted Baby	6.7	92
30	Clumsy Smurfs the Future	6.8	96
31	Sleepwalking Smurfs/Smurf Me No Flowers	6.8	97
32	The Good, the Bad, and the Smurfy	6.9	106
33	A Mere Truffle	6.9	106
34	The Stuff Dreams Are Smurfed Of/The Box of Dirty Tricks	7.0	99
35	Papa's Wedding Day	7.1	102
36	All's Smurfy That Ends Smurfy	6.8	101

Season 3 (1983)

6.53 avg 32 episodes 7.0 → 6.8 22 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Once in a Blue Moon/All Creatures Great and Smurf	7.0	103
2	The Smurf Fire Brigade/The Winged Wizard	6.8	97
3	Every Picture Smurfs a Story	6.1	94
4	The First Telesmurf/Handy's Kite	6.3	89
5	The Magic Earrings	6.4	91
6	The Last Smurfberry	6.1	89
7	A Little Smurf Confidence/Hogatha's Heartthrob	6.2	88
8	Born Rotten/The Tear of a Smurf	6.5	94
9	The Miracle Smurfer	6.6	92
10	The Smurf Who Would Be King	6.8	88
11	How to Smurf a Rainbow/Smurfette for a Day	6.7	93
12	Peewit Meets Bigmouth/Lumbering Smurfs	6.5	85
13	Handy's Sweetheart	7.2	96
14	Speak for Yourself, Farmer Smurf/A Hovel Is Not a Home	6.6	88
15	Forget-Me-Smurfs/The Grumpy Gremlin	6.7	84
16	Clumsy Luck/Willpower Smurfs	6.7	89
17	Baby Smurf Is Missing/The Smurfs' Time Capsule	6.7	88
18	Wedding Bells for Gargamel/To Smurf a Thief	6.6	90
19	Greedy and the Porridge Pot/Harmony Steals the Show	6.8	94
20	The Golden Smurf Award	6.2	91
21	The Moor's Baby/Hefty's Heart	6.7	88
22	A Hug for Grouchy/The Magic Rattle	6.4	89
23	All Hallows' Eve/The Littlest Witch	6.3	107
24	April Smurf's Day/The Magic Stick	5.7	88
25	Baby's First Christmas/Beauty Is Only Smurf Deep	6.5	119
26	Wolf in Peewit's Clothing/A Bell for Azrael	6.6	83
27	The Chief Record Smurf/Smurfing in Sign Language	6.1	88
28	Chip Off the Old Smurfs	6.5	82
29	A Gift for Papa's Day	6.8	84
30	Good Neighbor Smurf/The Smurfstone Quest	6.4	87
31	Hats Off to Smurfs/The Noble Stag	6.7	89
32	Smurfy Acres/No Time for Smurfs	6.8	86

Season 4 (1984)

6.29 avg 26 episodes 5.8 → 6.9 22 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Symbols of Wisdom/Blue Eyes Returns	5.8	88
2	Secret of the Village Well/Stop and Smurf the Roses	6.8	80
3	The Gingerbread Smurfs/Jokey's Shadow	6.5	84
4	Jokey's Funny Bone/Tick Tock Smurfs	6.5	82
5	The Master Smurf/Tailor's Magic Needle	5.6	86
6	The Traveller/A Pet for Baby Smurf	6.3	85
7	The Incredible Shrinking Wizard	6.5	97
8	Breakfast at Greedy's/The Secret of Shadow Swamp	7.1	83
9	The Trojan Smurf/Smurf the Other Cheek	6.5	83
10	A Float Full of Smurfs/Smurfette's Sweet Tooth	5.9	81
11	Smurf on Wood	6.4	80
12	The Smurfomatic Smurfulator/Petrified Smurfs	6.0	78
13	Papa's Worrywarts/Lazy's Slumber Party	6.2	78
14	The Pussywillow Pixies	6.3	79
15	The Big Nose Dilemma/The Smurfbox Derby	5.7	79
16	A Circus for Baby	6.3	81
17	Babes in Wartland/The Smurf-Walk Cafe	6.4	82
18	The Smurfiest of Friends/Never Smurf Off Til Tomorrow	6.4	85
19	Bigmouth Smurf/Baby's Enchanted Didey	6.6	82
20	The Man on the Moon/Smurfette's Golden Tresses	5.8	80
21	The Whole Smurf and Nothing But the Smurf/Gargamel's Giant	6.3	80
22	The Patchwork Bear/Hefty and the Wheelsmurfer	5.6	84
23	Hopping Cough Smurfs/The Little Orange Horse with the Gold Shoes	6.7	88
24	Monster Smurfs/The Bad Place	6.3	80
25	Smurfing for Ghosts/The Gargoyle of Quarrel Castle	6.2	83
26	Smurfiplication/Gargamel's Miss-Fortune	6.9	86

Season 5 (1985)

6.35 avg 24 episodes 6.3 → 6.6 22 min avg

Rebound

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Stuck on Smurfs/Puppy	6.3	81
2	Papa's Day Off/The Smurflings	6.5	76
3	He Who Smurfs Last/Baby's First Word	6.9	75
4	The Masked Pie Smurfer/Sassette	6.8	80
5	Papa's Puppy Prescription/Poet's Writer's Block	6.3	80
6	Smurf a Mile in My Shoes	6.3	77
7	Dreamy's Pen Pals/Papa's Flying Bed	6.5	77
8	Mud Wrestling Smurfs/The Sand Witch	5.8	74
9	Kow-Tow, We Won't Bow	6.1	74
10	Bigmouth's Friend/Wild and Wooly	6.6	77
11	The Dark-Ness Monster	6.6	78
12	The Grouchiest Game in Town/Queen Smurfette	6.6	83
13	Marco Smurf and the Pepper Pirates	6.1	77
14	Educating Bigmouth/Brainy Smurf, Friend to All the Animals	6.6	74
15	The Comet Is Coming	6.4	77
16	Happy Unhappiness Day to You/The Great Slime Crop Failure	5.9	72
17	Papa's Family Album	6.3	78
18	Love Those Smurfs/Mutiny on the Smurf	5.7	71
19	Things That Go Smurf in the Night/Alarming Smurfs	6.1	74
20	Smurfette's Rose/The Mr. Smurf Contest	6.3	80
21	Have You Smurfed Your Pet, Today?/Unsound Smurfs	5.9	77
22	All Work and No Smurf/Gargamel's Time Trip	6.5	74
23	They're Smurfing Our Song	6.6	77
24	Brainy's Smarty Party	6.6	73

Season 6 (1984)

6.48 avg 36 episodes 7.4 → 6.5 22 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Smurfquest: Part 1/Smurfquest: Part 2	7.4	91
2	Smurfquest: Part 3/Smurfquest: Part 4	7.0	73
3	Gargamel's New Job	6.8	75
4	Grouchy Makes a Splash	6.5	69
5	No Smurf Is an Island/Don Smurfo	6.3	72
6	The Prince and the Hopper	6.5	74
7	Smurfette's Gift/The Most Popular Smurf	6.8	73
8	A Loss of Smurf	5.9	68
9	The Last Whippoorwill/The Color Smurfy	6.6	71
10	Lazy's Nightmare	6.9	77
11	All the Smurf's a Stage/Smurfs on Wheels	6.6	73
12	The Littlest Viking	6.5	71
13	Baby's New Toy/Bringing Up Bigfeet	6.1	72
14	The Scarlet Croaker	6.4	69
15	Calling Dr. Smurf/Can't Smurf the Music	6.4	74
16	The Royal Drum	6.3	71
17	It's a Puppy's Life/Sweepy Smurf	6.5	69
18	Journey to the Center of the Smurf/The Gallant Smurf	6.5	70
19	The Tallest Smurf/Essence of Brainy	6.4	68
20	Dr. Evil and Mr. Nice/The Root of Evil	6.3	70
21	Tattle-Tail Smurfs/Greedy Goes on Strike	6.6	69
22	Future Smurfed/Crying Smurfs	6.1	80
23	Gargamel's Dummy/Smurf on the Run	6.4	66
24	A Myna Problem/The Horn of Plenty	6.5	68
25	I Smurf to the Trees/Clumsy's Cloud	6.2	77
26	Bookworm Smurf/Farmer's Genii	6.2	73
27	Master Scruple/Scruple's Sweetheart	6.3	67
28	The World According to Smurflings/The Enchanted Quill	6.5	74
29	The Most Unsmurfy Game/Put Upon Puppy	6.3	73
30	Heart of Gold/The Village Vandal	6.4	68
31	The Gallant Smurf/Sassette's Tooth	6.2	72
32	Snappy's Way/Fire-Fighting Smurfs	6.7	75
33	Handy's Window Vision/Papa Smurf, Papa Smurf	6.7	71
34	Jokey's Cloak/Papa's Last Spell	6.6	69
35	Lure of the Orb/Smurfette's Flower	6.5	76
36	Reckless Smurfs/Head Over Hogatha	6.5	76

Season 7 (1987)

6.48 avg 36 episodes 6.7 → 6.7 22 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Smurf on the Wild Side: Part 1/Smurf on the Wild Side: Part 2	6.7	75
2	Smurf on the Wild Side: Part 3/Smurf on the Wild Side: Part 4	6.6	72
3	The Smurflings' Unsmurfy Friend/The Smurfstalker	6.6	69
4	Poltersmurf/Baby's Marvelous Toy	6.1	68
5	Sleepless Smurfs/Cut-Up Smurfs	6.2	68
6	Gargamel's Sweetheart	7.1	72
7	Wild About Smurfette/Sing a Song of Smurflings	6.5	71
8	Smurfing for Gold/Jokey's Joke Book	6.6	73
9	Poet's Storybook/The Fastest Wizard in the World	6.5	72
10	Dancing Bear/Gargamel's Last Will	6.5	71
11	Sassette's Bewitching Friendship/Azrael's Brain	6.3	68
12	Castaway Smurfs/Legendary Smurfs	6.6	65
13	Smurfing the Unicorns/Vanity's Closest Friend	6.7	66
14	Peewit's Unscrupulous Adventure	6.5	66
15	Nobody Smurf	6.8	68
16	Scruple and the Great Book of Spells/Bouncing Smurf	6.5	65
17	Clockwork Smurfette/I Was a Brainy Weresmurf	6.4	66
18	The Answer Smurf/Vanity's Wild Adventure	6.5	65
19	Soothsayer Smurfette/Crooner Smurf	6.4	70
20	Papa for a Day/Flighty's Plight	6.6	65
21	To Coin a Smurf/Smurfette Unmade	6.9	74
22	Foul Feather Fiend/Sassette's Hive	6.3	65
23	Little Big Smurf/Locomotive Smurfs	6.5	67
24	A Long Tale for Grandpa/Where the Wild Smurfs Are	6.3	68
25	The Magic Sack of Mr. Nicholas/Swapping Smurfs	6.3	77
26	Predictable Smurfs/Hefty's Rival	6.3	68
27	Snappy's Puppet/Prince Smurf	6.3	69
28	Return of Don Smurfo	6.2	71
29	Skyscraper Smurfs/Bad Luck Smurfs	6.5	72
30	Smurfing Out of Time/A Hole in Smurf	6.3	69
31	Smurf Pet/Timber Smurf	6.2	70
32	The Smurf Who Could Do No Wrong/Smurfette's Lucky Star	6.6	66
33	The Smurfy Verdict/Chlorhydris Lost Love	6.4	66
34	Stop & Go Smurfs/Poet the Know-It-All	6.4	68
35	All the News That's Fit to Smurf	6.5	71
36	Gargamel's Quest/Gargamel's Second Childhood	6.7	68

Season 8 (1988)

6.35 avg 16 episodes 6.8 → 5.8 22 min avg

Bad finale

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Lost Smurf	6.8	81
2	Archives of Evil	6.6	73
3	Big Mouth's Roommate/Bungling Babysitters	6.3	66
4	Clockwork's Powerplay/Clumsy in Command	6.3	66
5	Don Smurfo's Uninvited Guests	6.3	72
6	Denisa's Greedy Doll/Denisa's Slumber Party	6.3	66
7	Grandpa's Nemesis	6.6	71
8	A House for Nanny	6.0	72
9	It's a Smurfy Life/Land of Lost and Found	6.7	71
10	Long Live Brainy	6.2	71
11	A Maze of Mirrors	6.3	65
12	Memory Melons/Nanny's Way	6.3	71
13	Pappy's Puppy/Shutterbug Smurfs	6.4	68
14	Smoogle Sings the Blues/A Smurf for Denisa	6.3	65
15	Smurf the Presses	6.4	65
16	Stealing Grandpa's Thunder	5.8	65

Season 9 (1989)

6.11 avg 24 episodes 6.5 → 6.8 22 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Smurfs That Time Forgot: Part 1/Smurfs That Time Forgot: Part 2	6.5	79
2	The Smurfs That Time Forgot: Part 3/Cave Smurfs	6.3	71
3	Hogapatra's Beauty Sleep/Mummy Dearest	6.1	72
4	Shamrock Smurfs	6.2	72
5	Karate Clumsy/Like It or Smurf It	6.1	69
6	Papa's Big Snooze/Like It or Smurf It	6.0	63
7	A Fish Called Snappy/The Smurf Odyssey	5.9	69
8	Trojan Smurfs	5.7	67
9	Fortune Cookie/Imperial Panda-Monium	6.0	68
10	Smurfette's Green Thumb	6.0	70
11	Hefty Sees a Serpent	6.0	68
12	Phantom Bagpiper/Jungle Jitterbug	6.0	69
13	The Clumsy Genie/Scary Smurfs	6.0	70
14	Sky High Surprise	6.2	68
15	Gnoman Holiday	6.0	66
16	Greedy's Masterpizza/The Monumental Grouch	6.1	67
17	Curried Smurfs	6.0	64
18	G'Day Smoogle/Grandpa's Fountain of Youth	6.0	70
19	Big Shot Smurfs/No Reflection on Vanity	6.2	68
20	Papa Loses His Patience/Swashbuckling Smurfs	6.1	67
21	Painter's Egg-Cellent Adventure/Small Minded Smurfs	6.1	64
22	Bananas Over Hefty/The Smurfs of the Round Table	6.2	72
23	Wild Goes Cuckoo/Brainy's Beastly Boo-Boo	6.1	68
24	The Golden Rhino/Hearts 'N' Smurfs	6.8	82