31 - Now Son Gokou! The Last Great Effort. Kamehameha x3.
Son Gokou powers up with a triple Kaio-ken and attacks Vegeta, who, to his surprise, is soon overwhelmed. Enraged, Vegeta decides to use one of his most powerful techniques, the Galic-Ho, with which he plans to destroy not only Son Gokou, but the planet Earth as well. Son Gokou counters the blast with a Kamehameha, and is forced to bring the Kaio-ken up to level four. Vegeta's beam is overwhelmed, and he is blasted away into the sky. He returns minutes later more furious than ever, launches an artificial moon energy ball into the sky, and begins to transform into a giant Oozaru!

32 - Battle Power Ten-fold! Vegeta's Great Transformation.
Son Gohan senses that his father is in trouble, and he and Kuririn turn back towards the battle site, despite Kuririn's protests that there is nothing they can do. Meanwhile, the transformed Vegeta is even more powerful and agile than in his normal state, and Son Gokou is hopelessly outmatched. He uses Tenshinhan's Saiyoken attack to blind Vegeta, and collects energy for a Genki dama while his opponent is blinded by the technique. However, Vegeta regains control just as Son Gokou launches the attack, and he counters with a beam that takes Son Gokou down, and scatters the energy he gathered. After breaking Son Gokou's legs, the giant ape picks Son Gokou up and begins to crush him like a bug.

33 - Don't Die Daddy! Gohan's Inner Strength.
Son Gohan and Kuririn arrive at the battle site to find Yajirobe, who tells them that he has been hiding and watching the whole time. Kuririn attempts to slice Vegeta's tail off with his Kienzan, but Vegeta avoids the disk. To everyone's surprise, Yajirobe suddenly comes out of nowhere and cuts the tail off with his katana (Japanese sword), returning Vegeta to his normal state. A furious Vegeta and Son Gohan begin to fight, and Son Gokou passes what is left of the dispersed Genki dama energy to Kuririn.

34 - Hit Him, Kuririn! The Energy Ball of Everyone's Prayers.
As Son Gohan and Vegeta fight, Kuririn launches the Genki dama at Vegeta just as he is about to finish Son Gohan off. Vegeta sees it coming toward him, however and leaps out of the way at the last moment, leaving the attack headed straight for Son Gohan! Son Gokou contacts his son telepathically, and tells him to bounce the Genki dama back towards Vegeta, which he does, scoring a perfect hit. Vegeta falls to earth a little later, and is taken for dead. But to everyone's horror, his eyes snap open, and he counterattacks with a with an energy wave that knocks everyone unconscious. Vegeta then notices that Son Gohan's tail has grown back, and decides that he must be eliminated immediately.

35 - Super Saiya-jin, Son Gohan, Performs a Miracle!
Son Gokou instructs Gohan to look at the artificial moonlight in the sky, and son Gohan goes Oozaru to the dismay of a now frightened Vegeta. He manages to stay away from the giant were-monkey, and is eventually able to cut his tail off with an energy disc. However, as Son Gohan falls de-transforming, Vegeta gets trapped beneath the giant beast, and is crushed under his massive bulk. Finally accepting defeat, Vegeta calls his space pod via remote control, and as he crawls toward it, Kuririn limps over to him, ready to finish the Saiya-jin off with Yajirobe's sword. At the last second, however, Son Gokou makes a telepathic plea that he let Vegeta go, and Kuririn reluctantly obeys.

36 - Leap Into Space! The Planet of Hope is Piccolo's Home.
Not much happens in this episode unfortunately Buruma, Muten Roshi, Chi Chi and Karin arrive to pick up the weary survivors, and also carry out the much more grisly task of retrieving the bodies of their dead friends. They hear from Kaio, and decide that their last hope is to go to Namek and seek the Dragon Balls that exist there.

37 - The Mysterious Yunzabit... Find God's Spaceship.
Son Gokou, Son Gohan, and Kuririn are taken to the hospital to have their wounds mended. Everyone wonders how it will be possible to get to Namek, and Mr. Popo shows up with the answer. He takes Buruma to see Kame-sama's old, abandoned spaceship, which is still in perfect working order. They take it for a little test drive and appear in the orbit of Jupiter within a matter of seconds. Buruma and Mr. Popo celebrate the success, knowing that this is their one and only ticket for bringing their friends back to life.

38 - Take off for Namek! The Terror that Awaits.
Not much happens in this episode. Buruma returns to the hospital, and excitedly tells the others about the successful launch of Kame's spaceship. She, Kuririn, and Son Gohan decide to make the journey to Namek, and they depart soon after.

39 - Friend or Foe! Children of the Mysterious Giant Spaceship.
Our heroes are now well into their journey, Buruma is relaxing, while Son Gohan and Kuririn train. Suddenly, they are attacked by a squadron of tiny spacecraft, and are captured by a large, invisible vessel. The three of them explore the ship, avoiding traps and obstacles, and suddenly find themselves surrounded by dozens of children, who are armed to the teeth.

40 - Really? That's the Planet of Hope, Namek?
Buruma, Son Gohan, and Kuririn find themselves in the clutches of a group of young space voyagers who have been driven from their home planet by something called 'Freezer,' who they believe our heroes are allied with. Buruma saves their ship from a meteor shower, proving that they are indeed on the same side. They take their leave, and are soon excited to see a lovely sight filling the forward viewport: the planet Namek.

41 - The Kind Aliens... A Dragon Ball Suddenly Appears.
The crew straps in for a rough landing on Namek, a landing that knocks all three of them out. They awaken in a room and are greeted by two aliens who they assume are Namek-jin, since they look just like Piccolo. The pair, Raichi and Zakuro, seems friendly enough, and our heroes already locate their first Dragon Ball. Meanwhile, Vegeta returns to planet Freezer No. 79 to heal from his wounds.

42 - Planet Freezer #79, Vegeta Recovers.
Son Gohan, Kuririn, and Buruma continue in their quest for more Dragon Balls, and are faced with increasingly dangerous hazards in their efforts to retrieve them. Their search leads to a huge castle, where they end up fighting a giant for their very lives. Meanwhile, Son Gokou escapes from the hospital, lying in bed for all of this time has practically driven him mad. And on planet Freezer, Vegeta emerges from the rejuvenation tank healed, and ready to seek his revenge.

43 - All the Dragon Balls are found. Mr. Piccolo Can Be Resurrected.
Vegeta, fully recovered, armors up and prepares to leave for Namek, and is threatened by Kiwi, a minion of Freezer, to straighten up and stop pursuing his own selfish interests. Meanwhile, the search for the Dragon Balls continues, and our heroes have only one more to go. Suddenly, they find that they have been pawns in a game by Raichi and Zakuro, who are not Namek-jin at all, nor is Namek the planet that the ship landed on. The entire incident has been an illusion, and Buruma, Kuririn, and Son Gohan are trapped in the clutches of the evil aliens.

44 - A New Enemy in the Universe, Evil Lord Freezer!
Buruma, Son Gohan, and Kuririn manage to escape from Raichi and Zakuro, and take off for the real Namek, where they arrive shortly thereafter. No sooner than they land, however, do they see a Saiya-jin spacecraft in the Namek sky and are horrified when they realize that there is only one person it can be. Elsewhere, a Dragon Ball has been wrested from the hands of the Namek-jin by a group of aliens led by a being of unimaginable power, the almighty Freezer.

45 - The Ambitious Vegeta... I'm the Greatest Warrior!
Freezer's men detect some unexplainable power readings and send out two men to investigate. Son Gohan and Kuririn are, of course, the source of the unexplainable energy, and the fight begins. Our heroes easily defeat the rather weak soldiers, but not before they cause quite a bit of damage to Kame's spaceship. Meanwhile, Vegeta begins to battle Kiwi, an old nemesis, and dispatches him without any difficulty.