The essential episodes of DreamWorks Dragons

Watch these 15 in order and you've got DreamWorks Dragons — each pick states its reason.

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S01E01 · Pilot · August 7, 2012 · 30m
How to Start a Dragon Academy6.0
Having made peace and now living among the Vikings, the dragons' natural behavior leads to chaos on the Isle of Berk. This causes Stoick to reconsider allowing the dragons to roam freely on Berk. It is up to Hiccup and his friends to convince him otherwise.
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S01E03 · Season 1 peak · September 4, 2012 · 30m
Animal House6.3
The dragons unintentionally cripple Berk's food productivity by terrifying the local livestock, and with the year's first winter storm coming, the dragon-riding Viking youths of Berk must try and familiarize the local animals with their dragon companions if they are to have enough food for the winter.
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S01E06 · Top rated · September 25, 2012 · 30m
Alvin and the Outcasts6.0
Continuing from the previous episode, Hiccup attempts to find evidence that Mildew caused the damage to the village, hoping to exonerate the banished dragons. Meanwhile, Alvin the Treacherous of the Outcast Tribe launches a raid on the Isle of Berk in order to find and capture the "Dragon Conqueror".
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S01E08 · Top rated · October 10, 2012 · 30m
Portrait of Hiccup as a Buff Young Man6.3
A traditional painted portrait of Berk's Chief and his son exaggerates Hiccup's muscularity and size and causes him to worry that he is not Stoick's ideal son. Hiccup is determined to prove himself by accomplishing the treasure-hunting quest of Hamish II, a quest that even Stoick and Gobber had not been able to complete.
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S01E10 · Top rated · November 14, 2012 · 30m
Heather Report (Part 1)6.0
The teens of Berk find a mysterious girl named Heather on Thor's Beach. While Hiccup and the other teens openly welcome the newcomer, Astrid's jealousy turns to suspicion when she notices Heather is taking an unusual interest in the Book of Dragons. Unfortunately it is found she was working with the Outcasts and, despite the Dragon Riders' effort, she manages to give the ancient Book of Dragons to Alvin.
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S01E11 · Top rated · November 21, 2012 · 30m
Heather Report (Part 2)6.0
Heather's betrayal to Berk caused the Book of Dragons to fall into Alvin the Treacherous' hands, and Heather's imprisonment on Berk. In order to get the book back from Alvin, Astrid disguises herself as Heather and goes into Outcast Territory. Towards the end of her mission, Astrid learns and confirms Heather's true motives for helping the Outcasts-freeing her parents.
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S01E16 · Top rated · February 20, 2013 · 30m
Defiant One6.0
Caught in a waterspout, Toothless' prosthetic tail is damaged, rendering him unable to fly and thus leaving him, Hiccup and Snotlout stranded on Outcast Island. The three must work together to repair the damage, overcome the rivalry between Hiccup and Snotlout and return home to Berk before they are captured by Alvin and the Outcasts.
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S01E17 · Top rated · February 27, 2013 · 30m
Breakneck Bog6.0
When Hiccup discovers Trader Johann's ship was shipwrecked in a rumored haunted bog with a gift made for him by his mother, he will stop at nothing to retrieve it -not even being followed by a "fog monster".
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S01E18 · Top rated · March 6, 2013 · 30m
Gem of a Different Color6.0
When Snotlout and the villagers mistake color-changing dragon eggs for gems that bring good fortune, Fishlegs, who is responsible for the eggs' discovery, must take a stand against Snotlout,who is trying to sell the eggs, and reunite them with their Changewing mothers before they destroy Berk.
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S01E19 · Top rated · March 13, 2013 · 30m
We Are a Family (Part 1)6.0
During Berk's annual Bork week celebrations, Hiccup is granted access to Bork the Bold's private and personal archives. When he finds information and a map about an island inhabited by Night Furies within Bork's notes, Hiccup is determined to bring Toothless to his family. After discovering that the Bork notes are fakes made by the Outcasts, the duo tries to flee, but are captured by Alvin.
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S02E02 · Top rated · September 26, 2013 · 30m
The Iron Gronckle6.0
Fishlegs discovers that Meatlug can produce "Gronckle Iron", a lightweight but extremely strong metal. Because their slow speed had previously allowed an Outcast boat to escape, Fishlegs decides that producing Gronckle Iron is a more helpful task than flying with the other teens, until Meatlug ends up ingesting a magnetic rock, attracting all the metal in the village-including Hiccup's metal leg.
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S02E06 · Top rated · October 24, 2013 · 30m
Fright of Passage6.0
Every decade, Aurvandil's Fire arrives to Berk, inviting a ghostly dragon, the Flightmare, to the village. Astrid, with the help of Hiccup and Fishlegs, is determined to defeat this dragon, which seemingly "froze" her uncle with fear, in order to restore her family name. Meanwhile, Ruffnut and Tuffnut create a bunker at the Academy to hide from the Flightmare, allowing everyone in except Snotlout, instead demanding a superfluous amount of unusual tasks, such as bringing rainbow chickens, singing Terrible Terrors, and fish dressed like Stoick to mess around with him.
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S02E08 · Top rated · November 14, 2013 · 30m
Appetite for Destruction6.0
When the nearby islands begin to disappear and the dragons that used to inhabit them begin migrating to Dragon Island, the teens discover that the cause of this is the Screaming Death, who has returned seeking vengeance. The Screaming Death happened to be digging shafts underneath the island that were large enough to cause the islands to collapse into the sea, forcing dragons to abandon their homes. The teens have to stop the Screaming Death before it causes Berk to collapse.
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S02E19 · Season 2 peak · February 26, 2014 · 30m
Cast Out (Part 1)6.5
After Snotlout accidentally puts Astrid in a near-death situation, Hiccup suspends him from the academy for disobeying the rules one time too many. However after he and Hookfang are ambushed by the Screaming Death on Snotlout's secret island, "Snotland"', he is rescued by Alvin the Treacherous, who has returned to Berk, claiming he is there to make amends with the Vikings. Despite the fact that nobody trusts him, Alvin's warnings allow them to defeat Dagur's invasion, but before they can destroy Dagur he captures Stoick; Dagur flees back to Outcast Island with his captive, demanding Hiccup and Toothless in exchange for Stoick's life.
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S02E20 · Series finale · March 5, 2014 · 30m
Cast Out (Part 2)6.5
Hiccup is forced to work with Alvin in order to save his father from Dagur's wrath. But when Alvin and Mildew help him discover what the Screaming Death has been after all along, he comes up with a plan to end the war between the Outcasts and Berk, stop Dagur, get rid of the Screaming Death, and save Berk once and for all.