Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)

Season 3

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.

Released Dec. 14, 1987 Episode 22 min 7+

Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Kids

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Production Companies: Murakami Wolf Swenson, Fred Wolf Films, Surge Licensing

Network: Syndication

Country: United States
Languages: English

IMDb 2021

7.9

/40114/

Trakt

/1181/

TMDb

/796/

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Rowby Goren
Director

Cam Clarke
Leonardo (voice)

Barry Gordon
Donatello (voice)

Townsend Coleman
Michaelangelo (voice)

Michael Gough
Raphael (voice)

Tony Jay
Dregg (voice)

Peter Renaday
Splinter (voice)

Renae Jacobs
April O'Neil (voice)

Bumper Robinson
Carter (voice)

6.7

S3E1 - Beneath these Streets

The Turtles learn the cost of slacking off when Splinter is badly hurt during a confrontation with Shredder.

Sept. 25, 1989, midnight

7.0

S3E2 - Turtles On Trial

The intentions of the Ninja Turtles are put to the test when a controversial TV-figure portrays our heroes as menaces to society.

Sept. 26, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E3 - Attack of the 50-Foot Irma

Irma accidentally becomes gigantic and her naturally clumsy nature makes her a danger to the city.

Sept. 27, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E4 - The Maltese Hamster

Gangsters are swiping all the antiques in town. And when they swipe most of our heroes, it's up to Donatello and April to find out why. Could Shredder be behind this?

Sept. 28, 1989, midnight

6.7

S3E5 - Sky Turtles

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

Sept. 29, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E6 - The Old Switcheroo

The personalities of Shredder and Splinter are switched when a device is accidentally activated during a battle between the Turtles and their enemies. As Shredder plans the Turtles' demise and Splinter plans on how to get back to his body, everyone else is clueless.

Oct. 2, 1989, midnight

5.7

S3E7 - Burne's Blues

In the middle of a summer heat wave, someone is destroying all the air conditioners and taking all the city's freon. In the meantime, Vernon and Burne go looking for the Turtles, but find something else.

Oct. 3, 1989, midnight

5.0

S3E8 - The Fifth Turtle

A 14-year-old boy tries his best to help out the Turtles, but with some not so optimal results.

Oct. 4, 1989, midnight

5.5

S3E9 - Enter: The Rat King

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

Oct. 5, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E10 - Turtles at the Earth's Core

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

Oct. 6, 1989, midnight

4.5

S3E11 - April Fool

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

Oct. 9, 1989, midnight

4.0

S3E12 - Attack of the Big MACC

A robot warrior arrives from 400 years in the future in 20th-Century New York.

Oct. 10, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E13 - The Ninja Sword of Nowhere

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.

Oct. 11, 1989, midnight

5.0

S3E14 - 20.000 Leaks Under the City

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

Oct. 12, 1989, midnight

4.5

S3E15 - Take Me to Your Leader

Full of self doubt, Leonardo leaves the team. Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello all take turns being leader as they try to figure out why the sun is getting smaller.

Oct. 13, 1989, midnight

4.5

S3E16 - Four Musketurtles

A bump on the head leaves Leonardo thinking that he is in 17th century France, and that he and his comrades are Musketeers.

Oct. 16, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E17 - Turtles, Turtles Everywhere

Shredder programs the city's new garbage collecting super-computer to collect the Turtles. But when Shredder doesn't specify 'Ninja' Turtles, the super-computer collects them all! Turtles of the city of every shape and size are not safe.

Oct. 17, 1989, midnight

5.0

S3E18 - Cowabunga Shredhead

The Shredder thinks he's Michaelangelo after a computer malfunction.

Oct. 18, 1989, midnight

5.7

S3E19 - Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers

Aliens abduct Donatello and Rocksteady.

Oct. 19, 1989, midnight

5.5

S3E20 - Camera Bugged

A visit to Earth from a Polarisoid results in havoc when Shredder comes into possession of the alien's camera, because it does more than just take pictures.

Oct. 20, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E21 - Green with Jealousy

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

Oct. 23, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E22 - Return of the Fly

Baxter Stockman returns for revenge against the Turtles and Shredder, while our heroes attempt to stop Shredder's plan to siphon water from an underground reservoir.

Oct. 24, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E23 - Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero

An eager vigilante is causing a stir in the city, while Krang and Shredder take control of all the machines in the city. Maybe this new 'hero' can help the Turtles.

Oct. 25, 1989, midnight

5.7

S3E24 - Mutagen Monster

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.

Oct. 26, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E25 - Corporate Raiders from Dimension X

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.

Oct. 27, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E26 - Pizza by the Shred

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

Oct. 30, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E27 - Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady

Shredder and Krang produce hi-tech versions of Rocksteady and Bebop to keep the Turtles busy.

Oct. 31, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E28 - Beware the Lotus

A skilled, and lovely, ninja warrior is hired by Krang to defeat the Turtles. Shredder's replaced, Leonardo's met his match.

Nov. 1, 1989, midnight

5.3

S3E29 - Blast from the Past

Splinter suffers amnesia as the Turtles try to remind him that he is the true leader of the Foot Clan.

Nov. 2, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E30 - Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp

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.

Nov. 3, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E31 - Michaelangelo's Birthday

It's Michaelangelo's birthday, but none of his brothers seem to remember, and it frustrates him greatly.

Nov. 6, 1989, midnight

5.5

S3E32 - Usagi Yojimbo

A rabbit ronin warrior from an alternate dimension is lost in our world. While the Turtles help him adjust, Shredder steals a dragon egg to unleash it on the city.

Nov. 7, 1989, midnight

5.7

S3E33 - Case of the Hot Kimono

Someone is stealing all the kimonos in the city. After Master Splinter's favorite kimono is stolen, April's famous detective aunt helps the Turtles retrieve it.

Nov. 8, 1989, midnight

5.3

S3E34 - Usagi Come Home

Shredder tricks Usagi Yojimbo into battling the Turtles.

Nov. 9, 1989, midnight

5.7

S3E35 - The Making of Metalhead

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.

Nov. 10, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E36 - Leatherhead Meets the Rat King

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.

Nov. 13, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E37 - The Turtle Terminator

Irma is kidnapped by Bebop and Rocksteady and is replaced by a robot that looks just like her that is programmed to eliminate the turtles.

Nov. 14, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E38 - The Great Boldini

The Turtles must clear their names when they are believed to be jewel thieves who stole a priceless emerald during a magic act run by a wizard named Boldini.

Nov. 15, 1989, midnight

5.5

S3E39 - The Missing Map

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.

Nov. 16, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E40 - The Gang's All Here

Shredder tries to trick the Turtles into eating cookies made with anti-mutagen. Michaelangelo, wanting to be a human, tries one of the cookies and it mutates him into a teenager.

Nov. 17, 1989, midnight

5.5

S3E41 - The Grybyx

Kala's pet Grybyx, which has a really bad temper whenever it gets hungry, escapes from Dimension X through a portal to Earth, causing trouble for the Turtles.

Nov. 20, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E42 - Mister Ogg Goes to Town

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

Nov. 21, 1989, midnight

6.7

S3E43 - Shredderville

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.

Nov. 22, 1989, midnight

6.3

S3E44 - Bye Bye Fly

An interdimensional alien spacecraft leads Baxter Stockman to his latest vengeful plot to destroy the Turtles and Shredder.

Nov. 23, 1989, midnight

6.0

S3E45 - The Big Rip Off

After several failed attempts to get the Technodrome re-energized, Shredder and Krang run one last-ditch distraction for the Turtles at Fort Charles while Bebop and Rocksteady steal energy fuel cells from the neighboring space research center.

Nov. 24, 1989, midnight

5.5

S3E46 - The Big Break In

The Technodrome is up and running again, and it is up to the Turtles to hinder Shredder and Krang from getting to the surface.

Nov. 27, 1989, midnight

7.0

S3E47 - The Big Blow Out

After several setbacks, Shredder and Krang steal all of New York's electricity and charge it into a giant transdimensional gateway, designed to send Earth into Dimension X. The Turtles must defeat their enemies once and for all before Earth is destroyed by Krang's Rock Soldier army.

Nov. 28, 1989, midnight

Network: Syndication

Episode Runtime: 22 min.

Season Runtime: 4246 min.

Released: Dec. 14, 1987

Last Air Date: Nov. 2, 1996, midnight

Status: Ended

Certification: TV-Y7

Common sense age: 7+

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