MyEpisodeCalendar.com - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Episode Summaries

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First Aired: December 14th, 1987

Status: Ended

Genre: Kids, Comedy, Animation, Action & Adventure

Network: CBS

Summary: 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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Season 3

Episode 1: Beneath these Streets

Air Date: September 25th, 1989

Summary: Beneath 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.

Episode 2: Turtles On Trial

Air Date: September 26th, 1989

Summary: The 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.

Episode 3: Attack of the 50-Foot Irma

Air Date: September 27th, 1989

Summary: While 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.

Episode 4: The Maltese Hamster

Air Date: September 28th, 1989

Summary: The Turtles, wearing their trench coats and fedoras, investigate a wave of mob terror.

Episode 5: Sky Turtles

Air Date: September 29th, 1989

Summary: The Turtles go flying when the Shredder invents a gravity-altering device.

Episode 6: The Old Switcheroo

Air Date: October 2nd, 1989

Summary: The nightwatchman at Cybertech Laboratories spotted some weird character hanging around. Mr. Thompson is convinced that he must be a friend of the Turtles.

Episode 7: Burne's Blues

Air Date: October 3rd, 1989

Summary: In the middle of a summer heat wave the Turtles cool down by having pizza at Plink's.

Episode 8: The Fifth Turtle

Air Date: October 4th, 1989

Summary: Dressed in their human disguises, Donatello and Raphael venture out of their lair to buy supplies to make pizza.

Episode 9: Enter: The Rat King

Air Date: October 5th, 1989

Summary: Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.

Episode 10: Turtles at the Earth's Core

Air Date: October 6th, 1989

Summary: Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.

Episode 11: April Fool

Air Date: October 9th, 1989

Summary: Emperor Aleister of Malicuria comes to New York City, bringing along a shard of Lydium 90 to the USA.

Episode 12: Attack of the Big MACC

Air Date: October 10th, 1989

Summary: The 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.

Episode 13: The Ninja Sword of Nowhere

Air Date: October 11st, 1989

Summary: Krang'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.

Episode 14: 20.000 Leaks Under the City

Air Date: October 12nd, 1989

Summary: Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.

Episode 15: Take Me to Your Leader

Air Date: October 13rd, 1989

Summary: After 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.

Episode 16: Four Musketurtles

Air Date: October 16th, 1989

Summary: At the local Mardi Gras parade April suggests that the Turtles should dress in costume.

Episode 17: Turtles, Turtles Everywhere

Air Date: October 17th, 1989

Summary: April covers the launch of a new system developed by the city to help clean up the city's garbage problems faster than ever.

Episode 18: Cowabunga Shredhead

Air Date: October 18th, 1989

Summary: The Turtles use hypnosis to persuade Michelangelo to stop craving pizza.

Episode 19: Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers

Air Date: October 19th, 1989

Summary: The 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.

Episode 20: Camera Bugged

Air Date: October 20th, 1989

Summary: A Polarisoid arrives on Earth taking photos of everything and everything he takes a photo of disappears.

Episode 21: Green with Jealousy

Air Date: October 23rd, 1989

Summary: Krang sets his sights on a powerful Nuclear-Powered Submarine, believing it's fuel will be more than enough to power the technodrome.

Episode 22: Return of the Fly

Air Date: October 24th, 1989

Summary: Noticing 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.

Episode 23: Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero

Air Date: October 25th, 1989

Summary: A self-appointed vigilante, wearing a hockey mask and named Casey Jones, is striking fear in the hearts of the city's criminals.

Episode 24: Mutagen Monster

Air Date: October 26th, 1989

Summary: In 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.

Episode 25: Corporate Raiders from Dimension X

Air Date: October 27th, 1989

Summary: High 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.

Episode 26: Pizza by the Shred

Air Date: October 30th, 1989

Summary: Michaelangelo gets a job as a pizza delivery boy. But who's his new boss?

Episode 27: Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady

Air Date: October 31st, 1989

Summary: Shredder orders Rocksteady and Bebop to place the mesmerizer atop the Channel Six News Building Tower.

Episode 28: Beware the Lotus

Air Date: November 1st, 1989

Summary: Krang hires a female Ninja, Lotus, to replace Shredder. Lotus has agreed to help Krang locate the Turtles in exchange for 100 pounds of gold.

Episode 29: Blast from the Past

Air Date: November 2nd, 1989

Summary: Krang 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.

Episode 30: Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp

Air Date: November 3rd, 1989

Summary: While 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.

Episode 31: Michaelangelo's Birthday

Air Date: November 6th, 1989

Summary: Today is Michaelangelo's birthday and the other turtles plan a surprise party.

Episode 32: Usagi Yojimbo

Air Date: November 7th, 1989

Summary: Thanks to a run-in with General Traag from Dimension X, the Turtles discover that Krang is experimenting with his dimensional portal again.

Episode 33: Case of the Hot Kimono

Air Date: November 8th, 1989

Summary: April'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.

Episode 34: Usagi Come Home

Air Date: November 9th, 1989

Summary: In 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.

Episode 35: The Making of Metalhead

Air Date: November 10th, 1989

Summary: While the Turtles are suffering from turtle pox, a disease that affects only mutant Turtles, Krang has developed a robotic turtle that he calls Metalhead.

Episode 36: Leatherhead Meets the Rat King

Air Date: November 13rd, 1989

Summary: Leatherhead has come to the city searching for the Turtles. While crawling through the sewers he encounters the Rat King who charges him with trespassing.

Episode 37: The Turtle Terminator

Air Date: November 14th, 1989

Summary: Rocksteady and Bebop, on Shredder's orders, kidnap Irma. As soon as April discovers Irma has been abducted, she contacts the Turtles.

Episode 38: The Great Boldini

Air Date: November 15th, 1989

Summary: The Turtles, Zach and his friend Caitlin visit the Museum where a magician, the Great Boldini, intends to make a valuable emerald disappear.

Episode 39: The Missing Map

Air Date: November 16th, 1989

Summary: Zach 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.

Episode 40: The Gang's All Here

Air Date: November 17th, 1989

Summary: Shredder 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.

Episode 41: The Grybyx

Air Date: November 20th, 1989

Summary: An 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.

Episode 42: Mister Ogg Goes to Town

Air Date: November 21st, 1989

Summary: While searching for a device to transform crude oil into liquid hydrogen, Krang accidentally brings Mr. Ogg from Dimension Z to earth.

Episode 43: Shredderville

Air Date: November 22nd, 1989

Summary: The Turtles are frustrated that they let Shredder slip away from them again. They feel like giving up, and wish they had never been born.

Episode 44: Bye Bye Fly

Air Date: November 23rd, 1989

Summary: A 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.

Episode 45: The Big Rip Off

Air Date: November 24th, 1989

Summary: In 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.

Episode 46: The Big Break In

Air Date: November 27th, 1989

Summary: Now 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.

Episode 47: The Big Blow Out

Air Date: November 28th, 1989

Summary: The Technodrome suddenly surfaces. The Turtles barely get out of its way in time before Shredder begins firing lasers

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