• Air date: 25 Sep '89 47 episodes
      Distinctly different from the grim, violent, and dark MIRAGE comics from which the Turtles originated, this version of the franchise has remained the longest running, and most memorable, version of all. 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 Channel 6 news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.
  • List of Episodes (47)
    • 1. Beneath These Streets

      25 Sep '89
      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.
    • 2. Sky Turtles

      26 Sep '89
      Shredder is using a new anti-gravity magnet to throw everyone in the city into the sky.
    • 3. Turtles On Trial

      27 Sep '89
      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.
    • 4. Attack of the 50 Foot Irma

      28 Sep '89
      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.
    • 5. The Maltese Hamster

      29 Sep '89
      The Turtles, wearing their trench coats and fedoras, investigate a wave of mob terror.
    • 6. Cowabunga Shredhead

      02 Oct '89
      The nightwatchman at Cybertech Laboratories spotted some weird character hanging around. Mr. Thompson is convinced that he must be a friend of the Turtles.
    • 7. The Fifth Turtle

      03 Oct '89
      In the middle of a summer heat wave the Turtles cool down by having pizza at Plink's.
    • 8. The Ninja Sword of Nowhere

      04 Oct '89
      Dressed in their human disguises, Donatello and Raphael venture out of their lair to buy supplies to make pizza.
    • 9. 20.000 Leaks Under the City

      05 Oct '89
      Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.
    • 10. Brune's Blues

      06 Oct '89
      Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.
    • 11. Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady

      09 Oct '89
      Far below the Earth's surface Shredder complains to Krang that the Technodrome is falling apart and that they need more power to properly maintain life support systems.
    • 12. Enter The Rat King

      10 Oct '89
      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.
    • 13. The Old Switcheroo

      11 Oct '89
      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.
    • 14. Attack of the Big MACC

      12 Oct '89
      Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.
    • 15. Camera Bugged

      13 Oct '89
      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.
    • 16. Four Musketurtles

      30 Oct '89
      At the local Mardi Gras parade April suggests that the Turtles should dress in costume.
    • 17. Turtles at the Earth's Core

      31 Oct '89
      April covers the launch of a new system developed by the city to help clean up the city's garbage problems faster than ever.
    • 18. Beware the Lotus

      01 Nov '89
      The Turtles use hypnosis to persuade Michelangelo to stop craving pizza.
    • 19. Take me to your Leader

      02 Nov '89
      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.
    • 20. Blast from the Past

      03 Nov '89
      A Polarisoid arrives on Earth taking photos of everything and everything he takes a photo of disappears.
    • 21. Casey Hones: Outlaw Hero

      07 Nov '89
      Krang sets his sights on a powerful Nuclear-Powered Submarine, believing it's fuel will be more than enough to power the technodrome.
    • 22. Turtles, Turtles Everywhere

      08 Nov '89
      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.
    • 23. Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp

      09 Nov '89
      A self-appointed vigilante, wearing a hockey mask and named Casey Jones, is striking fear in the hearts of the city's criminals.
    • 24. Corporate Raiders from Dimension X

      10 Nov '89
      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.
    • 25. Usagi Yojimbo

      13 Nov '89
      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.