47 episodesFirst aired 25 September 1989
E1Sept 198922m
The Turtles learn the cost of slacking off when Splinter is badly hurt during a confrontation with Shredder.
E2Sept 198922m
The intentions of the Ninja Turtles are put to the test when a controversial TV-figure portrays our heroes as menaces to society.
E3Sept 198922m
Irma accidentally becomes gigantic and her naturally clumsy nature makes her a danger to the city.
E4Sept 198922m
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?
E5Sept 198922m
The Turtles go flying when the Shredder invents a gravity-altering device.
E6Oct 198922m
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.
E7Oct 198922m
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.
E8Oct 198922m
A 14-year-old boy tries his best to help out the Turtles, but with some not so optimal results.
E9Oct 198922m
Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.
E10Oct 198922m
Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.
E11Oct 198922m
Emperor Aleister of Malicuria comes to New York City, bringing along a shard of Lydium 90 to the USA.
E12Oct 198922m
A robot warrior arrives from 400 years in the future in 20th-Century New York.
E13Oct 198922m
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.
E14Oct 198922m
Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.
E15Oct 198922m
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.
E16Oct 198922m
A bump on the head leaves Leonardo thinking that he is in 17th century France, and that he and his comrades are Musketeers.
E17Oct 198922m
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.
E18Oct 198922m
The Shredder thinks he's Michaelangelo after a computer malfunction.
E19Oct 198922m
Aliens abduct Donatello and Rocksteady.
E20Oct 198922m
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.
E21Oct 198922m
Krang sets his sights on a powerful Nuclear-Powered Submarine, believing it's fuel will be more than enough to power the technodrome.
E22Oct 198922m
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.
E23Oct 198922m
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.
E24Oct 198922m
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.
E25Oct 198922m
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.
E26Oct 198922m
Michaelangelo gets a job as a pizza delivery boy. But who's his new boss?
E27Oct 198922m
Shredder and Krang produce hi-tech versions of Rocksteady and Bebop to keep the Turtles busy.
E28Nov 198922m
A skilled, and lovely, ninja warrior is hired by Krang to defeat the Turtles. Shredder's replaced, Leonardo's met his match.
E29Nov 198922m
Splinter suffers amnesia as the Turtles try to remind him that he is the true leader of the Foot Clan.
E30Nov 198922m
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.
E31Nov 198922m
It's Michaelangelo's birthday, but none of his brothers seem to remember, and it frustrates him greatly.
E32Nov 198922m
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.
E33Nov 198922m
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.
E34Nov 198922m
Shredder tricks Usagi Yojimbo into battling the Turtles.
E35Nov 198922m
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.
E36Nov 198922m
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.
E37Nov 198922m
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.
E38Nov 198922m
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.
E39Nov 198922m
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.
E40Nov 198922m
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.
E41Nov 198922m
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.
E42Nov 198922m
While searching for a device to transform crude oil into liquid hydrogen, Krang accidentally brings Mr. Ogg from Dimension Z to earth.
E43Nov 198922m
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.
E44Nov 198922m
An interdimensional alien spacecraft leads Baxter Stockman to his latest vengeful plot to destroy the Turtles and Shredder.
E45Nov 198922m
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.
E46Nov 198922m
The Technodrome is up and running again, and it is up to the Turtles to hinder Shredder and Krang from getting to the surface.
E47Nov 198922m
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.
