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★ EPISODE GUIDE · 1987 SERIES · SEASONS 1 TO 10

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles CARTOON EPISODES.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon opened as a miniseries in the week after Christmas 1987, and the series ran on through syndication, a weekday run and Saturday mornings on CBS until the last episode aired in the autumn of 1996. We have every episode below in broadcast order, with its first air date and the opening of its synopsis; pick a title for the full guide, the screen grabs and the forum thread. The later shows, from the 4Kids series to Rise, each have a guide of their own.

193 EPISODES · 10 SEASONS · 1987 TO 1996
S01

PILOT MINISERIES

1987 · 5 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 1 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
1 S01E01 Turtle Tracks As dusk falls in New York City, news reporter April O'Neil is broadcasting for Channel 6 News about crime waves.
2 S01E02 Enter the Shredder April O'Neil visits the Turtles in their lair, where they are sleeping after the hardships of the last day.
3 S01E03 A Thing About Rats In the lair, Splinter recovers from the previous episode's confrontation with Shredder. Meanwhile, the Turtles search for the Technodrome, hoping to force Shredder to transform Splinter from a mutant rat back into a human.
4 S01E04 Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X In the Technodrome deep under New York City, Krang reminds The Shredder that once again he has failed to destroy the Turtles.
5 S01E05 Shredder & Splintered The people of New York City have reported sightings of the Ninja Turtles, mostly exhibiting panic and hostility.
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S02

SECOND SEASON

1988 · 13 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 2 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
6 S02E01 Return of the Shredder While shopping, Leonardo and Michelangelo stop two robbers at a supermarket, and return to their home in the New York City sewers system before the police arrive.
7 S02E02 The Incredible Shrinking Turtles The Turtles are practicing martial arts in Central Park, when "Shredder" arrives. Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael easily subdue him, only to find that it's actually Michelangelo in a homemade costume.
8 S02E03 It Came from Beneath the Sewers The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and April O'Neil are once again using the Crystal Converger to track down another piece of the Eye of Sarnath.
9 S02E04 The Mean Machines Since the batteries of the Crystal Converger have died, Donatello uses spare circuits from the crashed spaceship to make a new tracking device, in order to locate the second fragment of the Eye of Sarnath.
10 S02E05 Curse of the Evil Eye The Turtles, equipped with a new tracking device called a Sarnath-o-meter, are on the trail of the third (and last) fragment of the Eye of Sarnath but, once again, Shredder locates it before they do, but not before a fish who beat Baxter Stockman to it spits it out.
11 S02E06 The Case of the Killer Pizzas Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady send eggs from Dimension X, which resemble meatballs, to Shredder and Baxter Stockman.
12 S02E07 Enter: The Fly The TMNT are flying in their blimp over New York City, searching for Shredder. April said that Shredder was seen on the roof on one of the two World Trade Center buildings.
13 S02E08 Invasion of the Punk Frogs Michelangelo rushes through an elaborate and dangerous obstacle course, only being defeated by a flood of water at the very end.
14 S02E09 Splinter No More Michelangelo arrives at the Turtles' New York City sewer lair with pizzas, and since Splinter does not like pizza, he brought their master a sushi tray.
15 S02E10 New York's Shiniest The episode opens with the New York skyline and fades to a run-down building. Inside, the Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady are scheming on a new way to defeat the Ninja Turtles.
16 S02E11 Teenagers from Dimension X The Turtles are watching a movie when Raphael starts teasing Michelangelo about his crush on the Neutrino Kala.
17 S02E12 The Catwoman from Channel Six The episode begins with the Turtles watching a monster movie about a monster in Cleveland.
18 S02E13 Return of the Technodrome At Channel 6, Irma asks her friend April when April will meet the Ninja Turtles. April says they are not the most exciting thing in her life.
S03

SYNDICATION ERA

1989 · 47 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 3 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
19 S03E01 Beneath These Streets Splinter is less than pleased with the Ninja Turtles when he encounters them lounging around the TV rather than practicing their daily katas (martial arts exercises).
20 S03E02 Turtles on Trial Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael are enjoying an episode of professional wrestling when Michelangelo enters the room and turns the channel to "ON TRIAL," hosted by Clayton Kellerman, a rabble rouser who suggests that a clear and present danger is lurking in the sewers: Teenage...
21 S03E03 Attack of the 50-Foot Irma While preparing for Irma's birthday party, Michelangelo realizes he has forgotten to invite the guest of honor.
22 S03E04 The Maltese Hamster As the story begins, Donatello is narrating noir-style, which he blames on the Turtles' trenchcoat disguises.
23 S03E05 Sky Turtles In the Turtle Lair, Michelangelo is standing on scales, revealing that all the unhealthy pizza he's been eating has been causing him to put on weight.
24 S03E06 The Old Switcheroo The episode opens up with a sobbing Irma, who reveals to April that she had been setup by a man named Elliot who insisted on going on a "double date" with Irma and another woman.
25 S03E07 Burne's Blues A summer heat wave has struck New York, which the Turtles are fighting by eating steaming hot pizza at Plink's Pizzeria restaurant.
26 S03E08 The Fifth Turtle Donatello is interested in astronomy and uses his knowledge about where Jupiter was in 1909 to learn its present location, 80 years later.
27 S03E09 Enter the Rat King After Burne is attacked by rats on his way to work, he demands April do an editorial on the city's rat problem.
28 S03E10 Turtles at the Earth's Core Donatello is trying to figure out a module-arrival pattern that would show them where the Technodrome is located.
29 S03E11 April Fool Not on record April O'Neil reports live from the Malacurian Embassy, telling the tale of the Malacurian Emperor's decision to sell mining rights to the vast deposit of Lydium-90 that was recently discovered in his country.
30 S03E12 Attack of Big MACC One night during an electrical storm, the Ninja Turtles watch April O'Neil on TV as she is reporting live from an army testing laboratory, on the first public showing of a new "Super Laser".
31 S03E13 The Ninja Sword of Nowhere Shredder is very upset about getting up early in the morning just to program a computer. Krang tells Shredder that they are waken up but is cut off at mid-sentence when he hears Rocksteady and Bebop sleeping on his buttons.
32 S03E14 20,000 Leaks Under the City Krang drills a massive hose up into the ocean, which he reveals to Shredder is part of his Super Pump.
33 S03E15 Take Me to Your Leader As the story opens, Shredder is scheming to steal the world's cheese danishes when the Turtles burst in and attack.
34 S03E16 Four Musketurtles New York is celebrating Mardi Gras with elaborate costumes... except for the Turtles, who take the opportunity to just walk around as themselves.
35 S03E17 Turtles, Turtles, Everywhere April and Vernon are doing a story on "the garbage dump of the future," with automated robot garbage trucks.
36 S03E18 Cowabunga Shredhead Michelangelo has been having problems with his gluttony: he ate all the pizzas that he was supposed to serve his brothers for dinner.
37 S03E19 Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers The Turtles are celebrating April's first anniversary of her job at Channel 6. April, however, is depressed because her boss had warned her that if she doesn't come up with a big story, she won't be around to celebrate her second year.
38 S03E20 Camera Bugged The four Ninja Turtles circle around Splinter, who challenges them to attack if they think they can defeat him.
39 S03E21 Green with Jealousy The Technodrome is low on power once again, to the point where Shredder must use candles to light his way.
40 S03E22 Return of the Fly While the Turtles are sparring, Splinter has the strange feeling that they are being watched.
41 S03E23 Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero Crimes are committed - a mugging, a bakery robbery and a nighttime burglary at a sports store - and all are dealt with by a mysterious man named Casey Jones, who wears a hockey mask and vows that "all lawbreakers" will be punished.
42 S03E24 Mutagen Monster Shredder and a squad of Foot Soldiers wait in a railroad yard, ready to hijack two approaching trains full of dangerous chemicals.
43 S03E25 Corporate Raiders from Dimension X The Turtles listen to April's newest broadcast, which reveals that men in business suits have kidnapped high ranking corporate executives, and the remaining execs are threatening to leave.
44 S03E26 Pizza by the Shred One day, the Turtles (Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello) are seen working on the Starcruiser that was left to them by the Neutrinos.
45 S03E27 Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady Bebop and Rocksteady are climbing the tower atop the Channel 6 News building in the middle of a thunderstorm.
46 S03E28 Beware the Lotus Burne Thompson declares that Channel 6 will be dedicating a series of news reports on romance, much to April's chagrin and the Turtles' disgust (since it interrupted their werewolf movie).
47 S03E29 Blast from the Past Down inside the Technodrome, Krang is arguing with Shredder about going to the surface. Shredder declares that he has a plan to turn Rocksteady and Bebop into unbeatable ninja warriors, and heads to the surface with an ancient scroll in hand.
48 S03E30 Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp Raphael is surprised (and momentarily frightened) by the other three Turtles while looking at an old photo album.
49 S03E31 Michaelangelo's Birthday The show starts in the Turtle Lair, with Michelangelo making a cake out of stacked pizzas and singing a birthday song to himself.
50 S03E32 Usagi Yojimbo After the Turtles fail to return a rented video before the video store closes, General Traag suddenly appears in the street and attacks them...
51 S03E33 Case of the Hot Kimono The episode begins with April interviewing her aunt, Agatha "Aggie" Marbles. Mr.
52 S03E34 Usagi Come Home Shredder has decided to put Usagi Yojimbo to good use, by turning him into an ally against the Turtles.
53 S03E35 The Making of Metalhead The Turtles are laying in the living room of the lair showing flu like symptoms.
54 S03E36 Leatherhead Meets the Rat King The Turtles are at a garbage dump, testing their abilities against cardboard cutouts.
55 S03E37 The Turtle Terminator As the story opens, the Turtles attempt to sneak up on Splinter as part of a training exercise, only to find that they were attacking a mirror.
56 S03E38 The Great Boldini In the Turtle Lair Michelangelo is trying to put on a magic show for the others with Zach, the young teenage boy who befriended the Turtles in the episode "The Fifth Turtle", and his new friend Caitlin as his assistants, He tries to perform the "rabbit out of the hat trick" but...
57 S03E39 The Missing Map Zach, the "fifth Turtle" and his brother Walt visit the Ninja Turtles. As they leave, Walt takes a map that could guide Shredder to the lair...
58 S03E40 The Gang's All Here The Turtles are following a tip of April's when they spot a mugger stealing the purse of an old lady (they are quite clearly Rocksteady and Bebop in disguises).
59 S03E41 The Grybyx A portal to Dimension X appears in the sky over midtown, and the Ninja Turtles are concerned about what might come through.
60 S03E42 Mister Ogg Goes to Town While searching for a device to transform crude oil into liquid hydrogen, which he needs to run the Technodrome, Krang accidentally brings Mister Ogg from Dimension Z to earth.
61 S03E43 Shredderville The Shredder gets away once again, and the Turtles are depressed by the damage done during their battle with him.
62 S03E44 Bye, Bye, Fly After doing an embarrassing "Turtlerobics" exercise routine for Donatello, the Turtles settle down to watch a news story about an ancient temple found buried under the city.
63 S03E45 The Big Rip Off Bebop and Rocksteady's Transport Module surfaces in front of an energy plant, where they're immediately attacked by the Turtles.
64 S03E46 The Big Break In Splinter is teaching the Turtles about the tea ceremony when the ground suddenly shakes. The Turtles conclude that it's the Technodrome, since it's a quake from the center of the Earth that is coming closer.
65 S03E47 The Big Blow Out Picking up from the very end of the previous episode, the Turtles and April are driving back to New York, confident that Shredder and Krang are gone for good...
S04

PEAK SYNDICATION

1990 · 41 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 4 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
66 S04E01 The Dimension X Story With relative quiet in their crimefighting lives, the Turtles devote their ninja skills to getting the latest martial-arts movies, such as _Snow White and the Seven Samurai_.
67 S04E02 Donatello's Degree Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael are all doing spring cleaning, but Donatello is finishing up the exams for his by-mail college degree.
68 S04E03 Son of Return of the Fly II A scientist holding a glowing circuit board is chased into an alley by two thugs, who are then stopped by the Turtles.
69 S04E04 Raphael Knocks 'Em Dead Donatello is just finishing up a high-tech new television with over a hundred available channels.
70 S04E05 The Big Cufflink Caper! The Turtles go over their various disguises as they prepare to head for the surface, with Donatello expressing a desire to wear a specially-tailored formal suit.
71 S04E06 Bebop and Rocksteady Conquer the Universe Donatello is tinkering with the malfunctioning Turtlecoms, which only seem to be picking up radio programs for insane people.
72 S04E07 Raphael Meets His Match The episode starts with the Turtles getting pizza from McDonald Crump's restaurant, "Pick-a-Peck-o- Pizza", which has pizzas that are small beyond reasoning.
73 S04E08 Leonardo Lightens Up Splinter is away, leaving Leonardo in charge. Unfortunately, he's having trouble keeping his brothers in line with their ninja exercises: Raphael watches TV, Donatello works on his inventions, and Michelangelo makes pizza.
74 S04E09 Slash, The Evil Turtle from Dimension X Krang and Shredder are working on some super mutagen which they plan on using to create an army of super mutants that will take over the world.
75 S04E10 Farewell, Lotus Blossom! On their way to a movie, the Turtles must dash off to stop two thieves from making off with a massive antique urn.
76 S04E11 Were-Rats from Channel 6 It's a dark and stormy night, and the Turtles are returning home after a disastrous mission, in which they tried to find missing explosives but only found cheese.
77 S04E12 Funny, They Shrunk Michaelangelo Donatello has invented a "wind and wave" generator that Michelangelo wants to use for windsurfing.
78 S04E13 The Big Zipp Attack The Turtles are suffering from boredom from a lack of novelty - Raphael complains about reruns, Michelangelo about a lack of new rental movies, and even Leonardo chafes at doing the same exercises all day.
79 S04E14 Donatello Makes Time Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo watch eagerly as Donatello puts the finishing touches on a new device they believe is a new microwave pizza oven.
80 S04E15 Rebel Without a Fin The Turtles are lurking around their living room while Splinter prepares a trayful of sushi for himself.
81 S04E16 Rhino-Man The Turtles are on their way to return some rental tapes when they spot a criminal breaking into someone's car.
82 S04E17 Michaelangelo Meets Bugman Michelangelo is reading a comic-book about Bugman, a superhero with several insectile features like wings, pincers, extra limbs and a stinger.
83 S04E18 Poor Little Rich Turtle The Turtles must protect a bratty rich girl, Buffy, from Bebop and Rocksteady, who are under orders from Shredder to kidnap her and learn the secret of a company she inherited from her late grandfather.
84 S04E19 What's Michaelangelo Good For? The Ninja Turtles take a visit to the zoo, so that Dr. Jane Goodfellow can give veterinary treatment to Michelangelo's pigeon friend Pete, who had broken his wing.
85 S04E20 Leonardo Versus Tempestra While Leonardo trains with Splinter and a "Shredder" dummy, the other Turtles are feeling a touch of cabin fever (as well as food deprivation).
86 S04E21 Splinter Vanishes April reports that a robotic-control microchip has been stolen by someone who chewed through the alarm system and broke through a titanium door.
87 S04E22 Big Bug Blunder The Turtles are watching TV and eating pizza, rejoicing that they have nothing to do right now, when an irritated Splinter "strongly suggests" that they clean the mess out of the living room.
88 S04E23 The Foot Soldiers Are Revolting The Turtles watch a videotape April made of a previous fight against Bebop and Rocksteady, which ends with Donatello tricking them into head-butting each other.
89 S04E24 Beyond the Donatello Nebula Donatello is using one of his devices to send messages to outer space in hopes of making contact with alien (preferably turtle-based) life.
90 S04E25 Unidentified Flying Leonardo The Turtles learn that April O'Neil is heading to a small upstate town where UFO sightings have been seen.
91 S04E26 Plan Six from Outer Space Not on record At the end of the previous episode, the Ninja Turtles sent the Technodrome back to Dimension X with Krang, Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady in it.
92 S04E27 Turtles of the Jungle Not on record Professor Willard W. Willard, one of Donatello's heroes, invents a Molecular Intensifier to control the growth of living things.
93 S04E28 Name That Toon Not on record The Turtles are watching a spy movie when the television suddenly shows Krang, who is transmitting a message from Dimension X.
94 S04E29 Menace Maestro, Please Not on record April summons the Turtles to the old Floxy Music Hall, which is about to be turned into a dance club.
95 S04E30 Super Hero for a Day Not on record When walking away from a cinema in New York City, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles hear a screaming sound.
96 S04E31 Back to the Egg Not on record After Michelangelo finds a special flyer for a pizza sale, the Turtles head out to buy dinner.
97 S04E32 Raphael Drives 'em Wild On his way home from getting pizza, Raphael and a cab driver accidentally get exposed to rays from a Personality Transmogrifier.
98 S04E33 Peking Turtle Not on record After playing a ball game inside the lair, the Turtles tune in to April's news broadcast about a museum exhibit: a marble army of life-size warriors, created to protect the world's largest pearl in the hands of a jade dragon.
99 S04E34 Planet of the Turtles Not on record Earth is experiencing some kind of atmospheric disturbance which allows the Turtles to view TV shows from other worlds.
100 S04E35 Turtlemaniac Not on record April reports that recently there has been a mysterious theft of Ninja Turtles-related memorabilia.
101 S04E36 Michaelangelo Toys Around Not on record Michelangelo has a nightmare about being chased into an alley by a robotic dinosaur, which turns out to be a new toy that was being advertised in a newspaper he was looking at.
102 S04E37 Shredder's Mom Not on record Krang and the Shredder demand to the governments of all the countries on the Earth surrender to them.
103 S04E38 Four Turtles and a Baby Not on record When General Tragg and his troops attack the Neutrino planet capital, the Neutrino leaders, King Zenter and Queen Gizzla, send their infant daughter Tribble through a portal to Earth, asking the Turtles to look after her, but Tribble causes big trouble for our heroes.
104 S04E39 Rondo in New York Not on record April has gotten the Turtles tickets to the action movie _Rondo 8: Hit Hardest_. Raphael's disgust for the character and Leonardo's training initially cause them to reject the offer, but the free pizza being given out at the premiere changes their minds.
105 S04E40 The Turtles and The Hare Not on record At the lair, Donatello presents and demonstrates his new automatic Easter egg machine that colors and decorates boiled eggs in a matter of minutes.
106 S04E41 Once Upon a Time Machine Hokum Hare discovers that the Shredder is using a time train to travel to the future and become a crime lord in an era without crimes.
S05

EUROPEAN VACATION

1991 · 20 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 5 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
107 S05E01 My Brother, the Bad Guy Oroku Saki, also known as Shredder, breaks into the 'Ninja Hall of Fame' in Tōkyō, Japan and steals the diary of the 'Kojima Brothers', Kurokuwa-shu Ninja from the Edo period in Japan.
108 S05E02 Michaelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko Michelangelo wakes up in the middle of the night after a bad dream. Splinter tries to hypnotize him.
109 S05E03 Enter: Mutagen Man A delivery boy accidentally falls into Krang's new unstable Mutagen and becomes able to transform into anyone he chooses.
110 S05E04 Donatello's Badd Time Donatello has finished retooling the Turtle Van and takes it for a test drive. While road testing the Turtle Van with his latest inventions, Donatello encounters a family of hillbillies known as the Badd Family.
111 S05E05 Michaelangelo Meets Bugman Again Michelangelo is displeased when when he discovers that the Bugman comic books are no longer being published.
112 S05E06 Muckman Messes Up Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop attempt to break into Tropotron Labs in search of an mutagenic compound, X-7, which Krang thinks could demutate the Turtles.
113 S05E07 Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps Michelangelo is eating his sixth pizza out of boredom when a strange drill carves out of the ceiling and takes the pizza right off the table.
114 S05E08 Raphael Versus The Volcano Donatello has created a new invention called the Healthometer, which can instantly gauge the health of anyone with a simple finger scan.
115 S05E09 Landlord of the Flies The city is in the throes of a garbage strike and an infestation of flies to boot. Splinter is concerned, since he says that flies are an ill omen.
116 S05E10 Donatello's Duplicate A beleaguered Donatello desperately tries to fix the TV while Raphael complains, only to be interrupted by Michelangelo's declaration that the oven is on the fritz.
117 S05E11 The Ice Creature Cometh The Turtles are all enjoying their own pursuits when Michelangelo notices that the fridge has broken down and frozen over.
118 S05E12 Leonardo Cuts Loose A series of baffling crimes are being committed by "brawny burglars" with thick Austrian/Schwarzeneggian accents and the Ninja Turtles are on the case.
119 S05E13 Planet of the Turtleoids, Part One Not on record Our story opens with our heroes prowling the street in fedoras and trenchcoats searching for an all-night pizzeria when they come across a sumo wrestler, named Tattoo, breaking into a pet shop and saying something about looking "for home." But when the Ninja Turtles try to...
120 S05E14 Planet of the Turtleoids, Part Two Not on record Herman the Horrible along with recruits Groundchuck and Dirtbag destroy the power source to the force dome shield leaving the city vulnerable.
121 S05E15 Pirate Radio Krang has developed an interdimensional splitting device (which Rocksteady and Bebop mishear as "spitting") which will create a dimensional rift.
122 S05E16 Raphael, Turtle of a Thousand Faces Raphael's ego is bruised when the other Turtles refuse to take him seriously when he informs them that he is taking a correspondence class in the art of disguise, so he challenges his brothers to go to Central Park and pick him out of a crowd.
123 S05E17 Leonardo, the Renaissance Turtle The Mayor of New York City is holding a press conference, claiming that a new plan will wipe out all crime.
124 S05E18 Zach and the Alien Invaders Zach, the Turtles' young friend, and honorary fifth Turtle, is infatuated with comic books, especially "Big Bug Eyed Alien Invaders"...
125 S05E19 Welcome Back Polarisoids Krang sends the Polarisoids an invitation to visit Earth, only the Polarisoids think that the "invite" is from the Turtles.
126 S05E20 Michaelangelo, the Sacred Turtle Not on record Donatello, Leonardo and Raphael are going to the planetarium to see O'Malley's Comet, which only appears once every hundred years.
S06

RED SKY ERA I

1992 · 16 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 6 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
127 S06E01 Rock Around the Block The Turtles are sparring with one another, and Donatello is frustrated by Leonardo's seeming inaction - even more so because Leonardo easily defeats him with it.
128 S06E02 Krangenstein Lives! Leonardo, Donatello and Raphael are beating up dummies shaped like their enemies. However, Michelangelo keeps slacking off with his Space Trek video game, which is also extremely distracting to the other Turtles.
129 S06E03 Super Irma While the Turtles are busy trying to decide what costumes to wear to this year's Channel 6 Hallowe'en party, April and Irma are doing a story on the "reverse polarity magnet" at Magno-Dyne Labs.
130 S06E04 Adventures in Turtle-Sitting Splinter is off on another retreat, and the Turtles are listening to a news report about world hunger.
131 S06E05 Sword of Yurikawa Splinter, Shredder, and the weapons collector Lafayette Le Drone all see a TV report about the famed Sword of Yurikawa being on display at the Japanese embassy.
132 S06E06 Return of the Turtleoid The Turtles watch April's news broadcast about the invention of a Sonic Disintegrator, which can turn solid metal into powder.
133 S06E07 Shreeka's Revenge April is showing the Turtles the site of the new Channel 6 building. While she's exultantly describing how it will look, they are reminded of April's impending birthday, which they have forgotten about.
134 S06E08 Too Hot to Handle Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael are preparing to watch a cheesy sci-fi movie when Leonardo wonders where Donatello is, and becomes concerned that he is spending too much time on scientific endeavors.
135 S06E09 Nightmare in the Lair Down in the sewers, while Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael are watching yet another cheesy sci-fi film, Donatello is busy building his latest invention, the Dream-O-Vision, a device designed to turn someone's imagination into a three-dimensional hologram.
136 S06E10 Phantom of the Sewers Rufus Higby, the manager of Willie Wombat's Pizza Pan Theater restaurant, is trying to deal with a malfunctioning robot when a masked man, the Phantom, leaps out of a floor grate.
137 S06E11 Donatello Trashes Slash When an alien ray makes him a super-genius, Slash returns to Earth, bent on turning the entire population of New York City into mutant turtles like him, with the intention of turning the whole world into mutant turtles so he can become the 'One Supreme Turtle', leaving Donatello...
138 S06E12 Leonardo is Missing Leonardo is reading in the lair when an alarm goes off, and there's no one else there to answer it.
139 S06E13 Snakes Alive! Splinter decides to teach Leonardo the Viper Maneuver, a combat move with no defense. However, Leonardo is unable to perform it successfully.
140 S06E14 Polly Wanna Pizza Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo wait not-so-patiently for Michelangelo to return from the rent-a-pet shop, where he selected a new pet.
141 S06E15 Mr. Nice Guy The Turtles are preparing to celebrate Raphael's surprise birthday, and Leonardo is busy icing a cake for him.
142 S06E16 Sleuth on the Loose While the Ninja Turtles are watching their favorite TV show, _Sleuth on the Loose_, which stars April's Aunt Agatha making a bet as to who was right about whose the culprit of the missing Guppy.
S07

RED SKY ERA II

1993 · 27 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 7 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
143 S07E01 Tower of Power Not on record The Ninja Turtles and Splinter win a boat trip to Europe, which delights the Turtles, and after some apprehension, Splinter agrees that this would be good for them.
144 S07E02 Rust Never Sleeps Not on record The Ninja Turtles and Splinter return to the Louvre in the evening, much to Splinter's delight.
145 S07E03 A Real Snow Job Not on record The Turtles drive to the Austrian Alps, which remind Splinter of the mountains in his own native country, Japan.
146 S07E04 Venice on the Half Shell Not on record The Turtles are in Venice, where they are eating pizza in a gondola. Donatello is enthused about the culture and history, Raphael and Michelangelo are bored, and Leonardo gets overexcited and rocks the boat because he feels his ninja skills are getting rusty.
147 S07E05 Artless Not on record The Turtles and Splinter arrive in Florence, Italy, while also watching April's report on the legendary painting "The Last Supper".
148 S07E06 Night of the Dark Turtle While Michelangelo makes pizza sauce, the others watch a news report in which April covers the Natural History Museum's hyper-realistic dinosaurs.
149 S07E07 Ring of Fire Not on record The Turtles and Splinter arrive in Lisbon, Portugal, just in time for the annual Running of the Bulls.
150 S07E08 The Irish Jig Is Up Not on record The Turtles, April O'Neil and Splinter journey to Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland.
151 S07E09 Shredder's New Sword Not on record The Turtles and Splinter are in a museum in London, England. The Turtles split up and begin investigating different exhibits by themselves, with Leonardo finding a painting of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere and Excalibur.
152 S07E10 The Lost Queen of Atlantis Not on record The Turtles are at the Acropolis, frightening tourists by pretending to be statues. An annoyed Splinter orders them to remain there until they see the beauty in the ancient ruins.
153 S07E11 Turtles on the Orient Express Not on record April O'Neil is reporting on a special run of the original Orient Express that runs from Gare de Lyon in Paris, France to Istanbul, Turkey.
154 S07E12 The Starchild While searching for reusable equipment at the junkyard, the Turtles witness a spaceship crash-landing on Earth.
155 S07E13 April Gets in Dutch Not on record The Turtles and April are in Amsterdam, Holland, the Turtles having shipped the Turtle Van there in a large crate.
156 S07E14 Northern Lights Out Not on record April O'Neil and the Turtles are now in Oslo, Norway, where the Turtles sample fish pizza and April is covering an alternate energy conference.
157 S07E15 Elementary, My Dear Turtle Not on record Back in England, the Turtles are listening to a historical lecture which Michelangelo finds too tedious to continue.
158 S07E16 The Legend of Koji In "The Legend of Koji", Splinter has experienced a disturbance in the force.
159 S07E17 Convicts from Dimension X Late at night, Leonardo drops in on Donatello as the latter is fine-tuning his Interdimensional Early Warning system.
160 S07E18 White Belt, Black Heart During his meditation, Splinter is contacted by his old mentor Mogo-san, who reveals that he is visiting New York and asks his old pupil to meet him.
161 S07E19 Night of the Rogues The police commissioner publicly takes all the credit for the declining crime rate, which irks Raphael deeply because of how the Turtles are treated.
162 S07E20 Attack of the Neutrinos April and the Turtles are investigating a band of criminals called the Mole Squad, who are notable for tunneling up into places they rob.
163 S07E21 Escape from the Planet of the Turtleoids The Turtles are watching a cheesy old sci-fi movie, _Invasion of the Space Turtles,_ which reminds them of Kerma and the Turtleoids.
164 S07E22 Revenge of the Fly Vernon is covering the story of a scientist who has created a method of extracting the "genetic essence" of various insects.
165 S07E23 Atlantis Awakes The Turtles are floating through an underground sewer river on various watercraft, and Michelangelo goes further ahead on his surfboard.
166 S07E24 Dirk Savage: Mutant Hunter! As the story begins, the Turtles are tracking two mutants: a snapping turtle named Tokka, and a wolf named Rahzar.
167 S07E25 Invasion of the Krangazoids The Turtles are just exiting a "surfing samurai" movie when Raphael spots deep tracks in the road.
168 S07E26 Combat Land The Turtles are returning home with videos and pizzas for the weekend when they see "a bunch of nerds" firing a ray device in the sewers.
169 S07E27 Shredder Triumphant! Splinter unexpectedly asks the Turtles NOT to interfere in Shredder's latest crime, since he has had a psychic premonition that it will lead to danger for them.
S08

RED SKY ERA III

1994 · 8 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 8 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
170 S08E01 Get Shredder! Following the events of the previous episode and picking up several weeks later, the Ninja Turtles pick up a report on the police scanner of a sudden break-in that is being perpetrated by characters whose descriptions match Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady.
171 S08E02 Wrath of the Rat King The Turtles attack the Hall of Science in an effort to flush out Shredder and Krang, but they're driven back by Rocksteady and Bebop using lasers and a catapult.
172 S08E03 State of Shock After defeating a mysterious group of ninjas at the Emeryville Power Station, the Turtles decode part of a map that they were able to liberate from the would-be thieves.
173 S08E04 Cry H.A.V.O.C.! Burne Thompson continues his bad-tempered smear campaign against the Ninja Turtles, wrongfully and falsely accusing them for the mysterious abductions of a dozen people over the past month.
174 S08E05 H.A.V.O.C. in the Streets! The H.A.V.O.C. mutants Demonicus and Seizure break into an aerospace plant, only to find the Ninja Turtles lying in wait.
175 S08E06 Enter: Krakus While surveying the military base where the Flux Transformer - which can warp time and space - is being housed, the Ninja Turtles ponder what Titanus would want with it.
176 S08E07 Cyber-Turtles The Turtles thwart an attempted break-in while April O'Neil tapes them, hoping to prove once again that they are on the side of the law.
177 S08E08 Turtle Trek Despite interference from the Turtles, Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady successfully install an energy transmitter inside the Power Relay Station and escape unharmed.
S09

CARTER YEARS

1995 · 8 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 9 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
178 S09E01 The Unknown Ninja The Ninja Turtles are reviewing a videotape of them rounding up the remainders of Megavolt's ninjas, utilizing Donatello's new head-mounted Turtlecam, when they notice someone lurking within the shadows on the tapes.
179 S09E02 Dregg of the Earth The TechnoGang invade a laboratory to steal a proton accelerator, but are interrupted by the Turtles and Carter.
180 S09E03 The Wrath of Medusa Carter and the Turtles are fighting against the TechnoGang down in a mine, where Dregg's minions are getting neutronium ore.
181 S09E04 The New Mutation The Ninja Turtles track the TechnoGang to HyperDyne Chemical, where a highly volatile fuel called X-Fire is produced.
182 S09E05 The Showdown Michelangelo and Carter Dawson are playing a video game when it freezes up, and the conversation switches over to an invention Carter created, the TurboFlex.
183 S09E06 Split-Second The Turtles and Carter are lagging behind on their training due to their constant fights against Dregg, so per Splinter’s advice, Leonardo decides to start scheduling their time more strictly.
184 S09E07 Carter, the Enforcer Dregg claims to have detected alien activity on Earth, and reveals plans to build a Star Shield, a defensive platform that he claims will protect Earth from hostile alien invaders.
185 S09E08 Doomquest Dregg publicly denounces the Ninja Turtles as "deviant terrorists" to a crowd of listening humans, as the TechnoGang search all over the city for them.
S10

FINAL SEASON

1996 · 8 EPISODES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 series, season 10 episodes with first air dates and synopses
No.EpisodeTitleFirst airedSynopsis
186 S10E01 The Return of Dregg The Ninja Turtles attempt to use the pieces of the Vortex Crystal from the previous episode to cure themselves of their out-of-control mutations.
187 S10E02 The Beginning of the End Donatello hooks the horribly hyper-mutated Leonardo up to his equipment in the hopes of restoring him to normal.
188 S10E03 The Power of Three The Turtles are making their way through a strange maze of deadly traps and alien creatures, which turns out to be a nightmare of Michelangelo's.
189 S10E04 A Turtle in Time We see a recap of the events with Dregg about to drain the Turtles' mutagenic strength, Shredder's Ninjutsu skills and Krang's mental energy, to make himself more powerful and formidable than ever before.
190 S10E05 Turtles to the Second Power Carter Dawson, April and the "past" Turtles are being attacked by monsters towering fifty feet over them.
191 S10E06 Mobster from Dimension X The Turtles are eavesdropping on a lecture by a scientist, Dr. Alvin Huxley, who has created a protein computer, much to the delight of Donatello and the disinterest of the others.
192 S10E07 The Day the Earth Disappeared The Turtles surface just as a massive earthquake rocks the entire city, tearing streets apart and raising volcanoes.
193 S10E08 Divide and Conquer The episode begins with the Turtles battling a strange, heavily-armed alien at an old airport, and eventually subduing him with the tail of an old propeller airplane.

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END OF AIRED RUN · 1987 TO 1996
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