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  • 1989-09-25T04:00:00Z on Syndication
  • 22m
  • 17h 14m (47 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Action, Adventure, Superhero, Animation, Children
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.

47 episodes

Season Premiere

1989-09-25T04:00:00Z

3x01 Beneath these Streets

Season Premiere

3x01 Beneath these Streets

  • 1989-09-25T04:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-09-26T04:00:00Z

3x02 Turtles On Trial

3x02 Turtles On Trial

  • 1989-09-26T04:00:00Z22m

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.

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.

1989-09-28T04:00:00Z

3x04 The Maltese Hamster

3x04 The Maltese Hamster

  • 1989-09-28T04:00:00Z22m

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

1989-09-29T04:00:00Z

3x05 Sky Turtles

3x05 Sky Turtles

  • 1989-09-29T04:00:00Z22m

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

1989-10-02T04:00:00Z

3x06 The Old Switcheroo

3x06 The Old Switcheroo

  • 1989-10-02T04:00:00Z22m

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

1989-10-03T04:00:00Z

3x07 Burne's Blues

3x07 Burne's Blues

  • 1989-10-03T04:00:00Z22m

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

1989-10-04T04:00:00Z

3x08 The Fifth Turtle

3x08 The Fifth Turtle

  • 1989-10-04T04:00:00Z22m

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

1989-10-05T04:00:00Z

3x09 Enter: The Rat King

3x09 Enter: The Rat King

  • 1989-10-05T04:00:00Z22m

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

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

1989-10-09T04:00:00Z

3x11 April Fool

3x11 April Fool

  • 1989-10-09T04:00:00Z22m

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

1989-10-10T04:00:00Z

3x12 Attack of the Big MACC

3x12 Attack of the Big MACC

  • 1989-10-10T04:00:00Z22m

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.

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.

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

1989-10-13T04:00:00Z

3x15 Take Me to Your Leader

3x15 Take Me to Your Leader

  • 1989-10-13T04:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-10-16T04:00:00Z

3x16 Four Musketurtles

3x16 Four Musketurtles

  • 1989-10-16T04:00:00Z22m

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

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

1989-10-18T04:00:00Z

3x18 Cowabunga Shredhead

3x18 Cowabunga Shredhead

  • 1989-10-18T04:00:00Z22m

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

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.

1989-10-20T04:00:00Z

3x20 Camera Bugged

3x20 Camera Bugged

  • 1989-10-20T04:00:00Z22m

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

1989-10-23T04:00:00Z

3x21 Green with Jealousy

3x21 Green with Jealousy

  • 1989-10-23T04:00:00Z22m

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

1989-10-24T04:00:00Z

3x22 Return of the Fly

3x22 Return of the Fly

  • 1989-10-24T04:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-10-25T04:00:00Z

3x23 Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero

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

1989-10-26T04:00:00Z

3x24 Mutagen Monster

3x24 Mutagen Monster

  • 1989-10-26T04:00:00Z22m

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.

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.

1989-10-30T05:00:00Z

3x26 Pizza by the Shred

3x26 Pizza by the Shred

  • 1989-10-30T05:00:00Z22m

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

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

1989-11-01T05:00:00Z

3x28 Beware the Lotus

3x28 Beware the Lotus

  • 1989-11-01T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-02T05:00:00Z

3x29 Blast from the Past

3x29 Blast from the Past

  • 1989-11-02T05:00:00Z22m

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.

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.

1989-11-06T05:00:00Z

3x31 Michaelangelo's Birthday

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

1989-11-07T05:00:00Z

3x32 Usagi Yojimbo

3x32 Usagi Yojimbo

  • 1989-11-07T05:00:00Z22m

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

1989-11-08T05:00:00Z

3x33 Case of the Hot Kimono

3x33 Case of the Hot Kimono

  • 1989-11-08T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-09T05:00:00Z

3x34 Usagi Come Home

3x34 Usagi Come Home

  • 1989-11-09T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-10T05:00:00Z

3x35 The Making of Metalhead

3x35 The Making of Metalhead

  • 1989-11-10T05:00:00Z22m

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.

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.

1989-11-14T05:00:00Z

3x37 The Turtle Terminator

3x37 The Turtle Terminator

  • 1989-11-14T05:00:00Z22m

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

1989-11-15T05:00:00Z

3x38 The Great Boldini

3x38 The Great Boldini

  • 1989-11-15T05:00:00Z22m

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

1989-11-16T05:00:00Z

3x39 The Missing Map

3x39 The Missing Map

  • 1989-11-16T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-17T05:00:00Z

3x40 The Gang's All Here

3x40 The Gang's All Here

  • 1989-11-17T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-20T05:00:00Z

3x41 The Grybyx

3x41 The Grybyx

  • 1989-11-20T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-21T05:00:00Z

3x42 Mister Ogg Goes to Town

3x42 Mister Ogg Goes to Town

  • 1989-11-21T05:00:00Z22m

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

1989-11-22T05:00:00Z

3x43 Shredderville

3x43 Shredderville

  • 1989-11-22T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-23T05:00:00Z

3x44 Bye Bye Fly

3x44 Bye Bye Fly

  • 1989-11-23T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-24T05:00:00Z

3x45 The Big Rip Off

3x45 The Big Rip Off

  • 1989-11-24T05:00:00Z22m

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.

1989-11-27T05:00:00Z

3x46 The Big Break In

3x46 The Big Break In

  • 1989-11-27T05:00:00Z22m

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.

Season Finale

1989-11-28T05:00:00Z

3x47 The Big Blow Out

Season Finale

3x47 The Big Blow Out

  • 1989-11-28T05:00:00Z22m

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

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