Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)
Four turtles fall into the sewers and are befriended by Hamato Yoshi a Japanese man sent to New York who was forced to live in the sewers. One day he sees a strange green glow which transforms the four turtles into human-like creatures. Hamato (now Master Splinter) changes into a giant rat from the green glow and teaches the turtles the skills of the ninja as they team up with news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.
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Episode 1 - Beneath these Streets
Release Date: 1989-09-25Beneath the city streets, deep in the bowels of the sewer system, Splinter is less than pleased with the Turtles when he encounters them lounging around the TV rather than practicing their daily katas.
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Episode 2 - Turtles On Trial
Release Date: 1989-09-26The Turtles can't understand why people would hate them. April has her make-up department make human masks so the Turtles could move more freely in the streets.
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Episode 3 - Attack of the 50-Foot Irma
Release Date: 1989-09-27While preparing for Irma's birthday party, Michelangelo realizes he has forgotten to invite the guest of honor. He contacts April, who is in the midst of interviewing Professor Von Zifflein about the discovery of a meteorite that just crashed in the area.
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Episode 4 - The Maltese Hamster
Release Date: 1989-09-28The Turtles, wearing their trench coats and fedoras, investigate a wave of mob terror.
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Episode 5 - Sky Turtles
Release Date: 1989-09-29The Turtles go flying when the Shredder invents a gravity-altering device.
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Episode 6 - The Old Switcheroo
Release Date: 1989-10-02The nightwatchman at Cybertech Laboratories spotted some weird character hanging around. Mr. Thompson is convinced that he must be a friend of the Turtles.
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Episode 7 - Burne's Blues
Release Date: 1989-10-03In the middle of a summer heat wave the Turtles cool down by having pizza at Plink's.
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Episode 8 - The Fifth Turtle
Release Date: 1989-10-04Dressed in their human disguises, Donatello and Raphael venture out of their lair to buy supplies to make pizza.
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Episode 9 - Enter: The Rat King
Release Date: 1989-10-05Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.
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Episode 10 - Turtles at the Earth's Core
Release Date: 1989-10-06Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.
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Episode 11 - April Fool
Release Date: 1989-10-09Emperor Aleister of Malicuria comes to New York City, bringing along a shard of Lydium 90 to the USA.
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Episode 12 - Attack of the Big MACC
Release Date: 1989-10-10The Turtles are watching April's special report, live from the Army testing laboratory, on the first public display of a new super laser when a bolt of lightning from an electrical storm overloads the Super Laser's computer.
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Episode 13 - The Ninja Sword of Nowhere
Release Date: 1989-10-11Krang's computers detect an alien metal on the surface of the Earth. Krang sends Shredder, along with an Alien Metal Detector, to the surface to find it.
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Episode 14 - 20.000 Leaks Under the City
Release Date: 1989-10-12Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.
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Episode 15 - Take Me to Your Leader
Release Date: 1989-10-13After awaking from a nightmare in which he failed himself and his comrades in a battle against Shredder, Leonardo feels that he is unfit as a leader and, donning civilian clothes, decides to leave the lair.
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Episode 16 - Four Musketurtles
Release Date: 1989-10-16At the local Mardi Gras parade April suggests that the Turtles should dress in costume.
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Episode 17 - Turtles, Turtles Everywhere
Release Date: 1989-10-17April covers the launch of a new system developed by the city to help clean up the city's garbage problems faster than ever.
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Episode 18 - Cowabunga Shredhead
Release Date: 1989-10-18The Turtles use hypnosis to persuade Michelangelo to stop craving pizza.
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Episode 19 - Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers
Release Date: 1989-10-19The Turtles throw April a surprise party to celebrate her first anniversary as a reporter at Channel Six News, but April is not feeling very celebratory. Burne Thompson has suggested that she will not be celebrating her second anniversary if she does not find a story soon.
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Episode 20 - Camera Bugged
Release Date: 1989-10-20A Polarisoid arrives on Earth taking photos of everything and everything he takes a photo of disappears.
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Episode 21 - Green with Jealousy
Release Date: 1989-10-23Krang sets his sights on a powerful Nuclear-Powered Submarine, believing it's fuel will be more than enough to power the technodrome.
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Episode 22 - Return of the Fly
Release Date: 1989-10-24Noticing that the Technodrome's ballast tanks are low, Krang decides to take the Technodrome closer to the surface so that it can siphon off water from an underground reservoir. Meanwhile, Donatello has built a device that will track the Technodrome's movements.
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Episode 23 - Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero
Release Date: 1989-10-25A self-appointed vigilante, wearing a hockey mask and named Casey Jones, is striking fear in the hearts of the city's criminals.
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Episode 24 - Mutagen Monster
Release Date: 1989-10-26In an attempt to hijack two separate trains carrying the ingredients needed to make mutagen, Rocksteady and Bebop cause their head-on collision, resulting in the spillage of both chemicals in the city's train yard.
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Episode 25 - Corporate Raiders from Dimension X
Release Date: 1989-10-27High ranking corporate executives are kidnapped by men in business suits. The Turtles don't get involved until they learn that one of these corporations is the world's largest suppliers of pizza.
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Episode 26 - Pizza by the Shred
Release Date: 1989-10-30Michaelangelo gets a job as a pizza delivery boy. But who's his new boss?
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Episode 27 - Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady
Release Date: 1989-10-31Shredder orders Rocksteady and Bebop to place the mesmerizer atop the Channel Six News Building Tower.
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Episode 28 - Beware the Lotus
Release Date: 1989-11-01Krang hires a female Ninja, Lotus, to replace Shredder. Lotus has agreed to help Krang locate the Turtles in exchange for 100 pounds of gold.
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Episode 29 - Blast from the Past
Release Date: 1989-11-02Krang and Shredder have been defeated once too often by the Turtles. Shredder takes Rocksteady and Bebop up to the Earth's surface and to the Asian-American Cultural Center where the burial urn of an ancient noble warrior and founder of the Foot Clan, Shibana-Sama, is on display.
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Episode 30 - Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
Release Date: 1989-11-03While Raphael is reliving the past, via the Turtles' photo album, their frog friends in the Florida Swamps are being terrorized by a mutant alligator known as Leatherhead.
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Episode 31 - Michaelangelo's Birthday
Release Date: 1989-11-06Today is Michaelangelo's birthday and the other turtles plan a surprise party.
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Episode 32 - Usagi Yojimbo
Release Date: 1989-11-07Thanks to a run-in with General Traag from Dimension X, the Turtles discover that Krang is experimenting with his dimensional portal again.
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Episode 33 - Case of the Hot Kimono
Release Date: 1989-11-08April's Aunt Agatha, a detective, visits her at Channel Six News and asks to meet the Turtles. Meanwhile, Michelangelo and Leonardo encounter two crooks, Bruce and Rodney, who are stealing kimonos from all over town.
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Episode 34 - Usagi Come Home
Release Date: 1989-11-09In an effort to rid himself of the Turtles, Shredder with the help of Rocksteady and Bebop kidnap Obento, caretaker of the Far East Animal Society then blackmail Usagi Yojimbo into destroying the Turtles.
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Episode 35 - The Making of Metalhead
Release Date: 1989-11-10While the Turtles are suffering from turtle pox, a disease that affects only mutant Turtles, Krang has developed a robotic turtle that he calls Metalhead.
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Episode 36 - Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
Release Date: 1989-11-13Leatherhead has come to the city searching for the Turtles. While crawling through the sewers he encounters the Rat King who charges him with trespassing.
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Episode 37 - The Turtle Terminator
Release Date: 1989-11-14Rocksteady and Bebop, on Shredder's orders, kidnap Irma. As soon as April discovers Irma has been abducted, she contacts the Turtles.
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Episode 38 - The Great Boldini
Release Date: 1989-11-15The Turtles, Zach and his friend Caitlin visit the Museum where a magician, the Great Boldini, intends to make a valuable emerald disappear.
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Episode 39 - The Missing Map
Release Date: 1989-11-16Zach and his brother Walt visit the Turtles. As they leave, Walt takes a map that could guide Shredder to the lair if it happens to fall into the wrong hands.
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Episode 40 - The Gang's All Here
Release Date: 1989-11-17Shredder tries to trick the Turtles into eating cookies made with anti-mutagen. Michelangelo, wanting to be a human, tries one of the cookies and it mutates him into a teenager.
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Episode 41 - The Grybyx
Release Date: 1989-11-20An affectionate, cuddly creature from another world shows up on Earth, with the ability to move objects by mental power. It turns out to be an escaped pet of the Neutrinos.
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Episode 42 - Mister Ogg Goes to Town
Release Date: 1989-11-21While searching for a device to transform crude oil into liquid hydrogen, Krang accidentally brings Mr. Ogg from Dimension Z to earth.
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Episode 43 - Shredderville
Release Date: 1989-11-22The Turtles are frustrated that they let Shredder slip away from them again. They feel like giving up, and wish they had never been born.
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Episode 44 - Bye Bye Fly
Release Date: 1989-11-23A team of archaeologists stumble upon a temple of unknown origin buried near the Turtles' lair. Before they can investigate further, they are frightened off by Baxter Fly, who explores the temple himself.
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Episode 45 - The Big Rip Off
Release Date: 1989-11-24In a last ditch attempt to gain power for the Technodrome, Krang Sends Rocksteady and Bebop to steal a newly created set of energy modules from a hi-tech science lab located at Fort Charles.
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Episode 46 - The Big Break In
Release Date: 1989-11-27Now successfully re-energized, The Technodrome begins moving towards the surface. Krang sends for a miniaturizer from Dimension X. With it he can shrink anyone and anything that stands in his path.
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Episode 47 - The Big Blow Out
Release Date: 1989-11-28The Technodrome suddenly surfaces. The Turtles barely get out of its way in time before Shredder begins firing lasers