In the first episode, AniMat covers the first feature-length stop-motion films, which are: ''The New Gulliver'', ''The Tale of the Fox'', the 1949 version of ''Alice in Wonderland'', and the 1954 version of ''Hansel and Gretel''.
AniMat covers the career of stop-motion animator Will Vinton, from the 1970s to the 1990s, as well as the three films Vinton worked on, which are: ''The Adventures of Mark Twain'', ''Return to Oz'', and ''Michael Jackson's Moonwalker''.