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Pokémon Ranger: Heatran Rescue!

DP169   EP635 ポケモンレンジャー！ヒードラン救出作戦！！ Pokémon Ranger! Heatran Rescue Mission!!

First broadcast Japan March 18, 2010 United States October 16, 2010

English themes Opening We Will Carry On! Ending

Japanese themes Opening サイコー・エブリディ！ Ending ドッチ～ニョ？

Credits Animation Team Kato Screenplay 武上純希 Junki Takegami Storyboard 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Assistant director 小山賢 Masaru Koyama Animation director 小山知洋 Tomohiro Koyama No additional credits are available at this time.

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Pokémon Ranger: Heatran Rescue! (Japanese: ポケモンレンジャー！ヒードラン救出作戦！！ Pokémon Ranger! Heatran Rescue Mission!!) is the 169th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 635th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan as a 1-hour special on March 18, 2010, along with Keeping in Top Forme! and in the United States on October 16, 2010.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Template:Incomplete synopsis Ash and co. meet up with Ben, a Pokémon Ranger that has a mission involving Heatran.

Major events

• Ash and friends meet Ben, a Pokémon Ranger.

For a list of all major events in the animated series, please see the history page.

Debuts

• Ben

Pokémon debuts

TV episode debuts

• Heatran

Characters

Humans

• Ash
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Ben
• Giovanni (fantasy)
• Ben's grandfather (flashback)
• Helicopter pilot

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Piplup (Dawn's)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Buizel (Ash's)
• Buneary (Dawn's)
• Heatran
• Pidgeot
• Feraligatr

Trivia

• There is no Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture following this episode, instead being replaced by a trailer for the thirteenth movie.
• Despite having being made a Partner Pokémon by Ben in the Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs specials, Ukulele Pichu does not appear in this episode.
• Background music from Pokémon Heroes, Destiny Deoxys, and Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea is used.
• Similar to the previous two Ranger specials, the English dub of this episode followed a different order than the Japanese order when first aired, airing between A Grand Fight for Winning and For The Love Of Meowth! so as to be closer to the release of its respective Ranger game, in this case Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs.
  • Unlike the Riolu specials, this episode was returned to its original position in the season after the first airing. However, its placement in dub season 13 is before Keeping in Top Forme! rather than after it, which is the case with the original Japanese ordering.
• This is one of the few episodes where a character manually searches their Pokédex for a Pokémon's data. In this case, Dawn looks up Heatran.

Dub edits

• With the exception of the two Team Rocket themes and the flashback music, the Japanese dub music was completely removed throughout the entirety of the episode.
• In the Japanese version the Narrator mentions during the opening and closing monologues that the gang are on their way to Valor Lakefront for the Grand Festival, however due to the dubbed episode being postponed so it could air nearer the release of Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs (at which point the gang were now on the way to Sunyshore City) both speeches are changed so that the group's destination isn't mentioned.

In other languages

Language		Title
Mandarin Chinese		神奇寶貝保育家！席多藍恩救援作戰！！
Dutch		Pokémon Ranger! Heatran reddingmissie!!!
Italian		Pokémon Ranger: il salvataggio di Heatran!
Spanish	Latin America	Guardia Pokémon: El rescate de Heatran
	Spain	Pokémon Ranger: El rescate de Heatran

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