Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Turtles clockwise from left: Michaelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello in front
Format	Animated
Run time	approx. 0:30
Creator	Fred Wolf
Starring	Cam Clarke Barry Gordon Rob Paulsen Townsend Coleman James Avery Renae Jacobs Pat Fraley Peter Renaday
Country	United States
Network	Syndicated / CBS
Original run	December 10, 1987 – November 2, 1996
No. of episodes	193

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson Film Productions Inc., which premiered on December 10, 1987,. It was based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters created in comic book form by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, although the property was changed considerably from the darker-toned comic in order to make it suitable for children. The series was in syndication from 1987 to 1990; on September 8, 1990 it was moved to CBS Saturday mornings and ran as a 60-minute block until November 2, 1996. [1] The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as they appeared in the 1987 cartoon. ... Michaelangelo (or Mikey), a fictional character, is one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. ... Leonardo (original movie incarnation) Leonardo (or Leo), a fictional character, is the unofficial leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). ... 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193 episodes were made, and the show helped launch the characters into mainstream popularity. Breakfast cereals, plush toys, and all manner of children-friendly products featuring the animated versions of the Turtles populated the market during the late-1980s and early 1990s, and a successful Archie Comics comic book based on the animated show instead of the original black-and-white comics was published throughout the 1990s. This is a list of all 193 episodes of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, by season and year: // 1987 Season Episode #1: Turtle Tracks Episode #2: Enter the Shredder Episode #3: A Thing About Rats Episode #4: Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X Episode #5: Shredder & Splintered 1988... Breakfast cereal Breakfast cereal is a food product designed especially to be marketed to consumers as a breakfast food. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ... Jump to: navigation, search Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher known for its many series featuring the fictional teenagers Archie Andrews, Bayti Cooper, Victoria Lodge, Robete Mantle and Forsythe Jinji Jones. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Jump to: navigation, search // Events and trends The 1990s are generally classified as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but otherwise retaining the same mindset. ...

Storyline

The origin story in the 1987 cartoon series differs greatly from that of the original Mirage Studios comics, evidently to make the often confusing origin easier for children to understand. In this version, Splinter was formerly a human being, an honorable ninja master named Hamato Yoshi. Yoshi was banished from his clan after being deceived by the malicious Oroku Saki, who put a knife into the back of Yoshi's dogi, preventing him from kneeling before their sensei, which was seen as an insult. When Yoshi removed the knife, the sensei was again insulted, believing Yoshi was drawing the blade in opposition to him. Exiled from the ninja clan, Hamato Yoshi moves to New York and lives in the sewers. Jump to: navigation, search Hamato Yoshi is a character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fictional universe. ... GI or gi may stand for: Gastrointestinal, a division of the human anatomy in medicine. ...

While living in the sewers, Hamato finds four baby turtles, recently bought from a pet store by an unnamed boy who accidentally dropped them in the sewer. Yoshi returned one day from his explorations around New York to find the turtles covered by a strange unexplainable ooze. The substance caused the turtles- most recently exposed to Hamato- to become human while Yoshi- most recently exposed to sewer rats- became a humanoid rat and, starts going by the pseudonym "Splinter". This is the only origin story in the TMNT franchise where the turtles come to Hamato before being exposed to mutagen. Also, it differs from other version in that Splinter is Hamato Yoshi and becomes a rat, where as in most versions he is a pet that becomes humanoid.

Hamato raises the four turtles as his sons and trains them in the art of ninjitsu. He names them after his favorite Italian renaissance artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael), and Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (Donatello). In most versions the turtles tend to go by nicknames, but in this version they are always addressed by their full name. Each ninja turtle wears a mask over his eyes having a distinctive color and, is trained in the art of a distinct weapon. The color of each turtle's mask was supposedly the favorite color of each of the turtles but, this is not dwelt on much. For the most part, the mask colors tended to reflect the characters' personality, as was in other versions of the turtles where they had different color masks. Jump to: navigation, search Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter. ... Michelangelo (full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564) was a Renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet. ... Jump to: navigation, search Self-portrait by Raphael. ... Jump to: navigation, search Statue of Donatello at the Uffizi Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi) (1386 - December 13, 1466) was a famous Florentine artist and sculptor of the Early Renaissance. ...

During the approximately fifteen years that occur between when the turtles are mutated and when the series begins, Oroku Saki leaves Japan and becomes associated with Krang, an alien brain who has been banished from his home, Dimension X where he was a great warlord and, removed from his body. Oroku has taken on a new persona, He donning a suit covered with razor spikes with a long cape and a metal mask over his mouth and. He Oroku has also taken on the pseudonym "The Shredder". Dimension X is a fictional alternate dimension in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series from 1987 and the Archie Comic TMNT Adventures. ... The Shredder is the main villain of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. ...

It becomes clear in the first season that the mutagen, which transformed the turtles and splinter into their new forms, was the fault of Shredder. The turtles vow to take revenge on the Shredder for dishonoring their master as well as turning him into a rat, although this quickly evolves into stopping him from committing any crimes. The turtles quickly take on the role of vigilante crime-fighters operating outside of the jurisdiction of law enforcement against any criminals. For the first couple of seasons it seems as if the turtles are constantly preoccupied with hiding their existence. This seems to be slowly relaxed and, by the last few seasons, most citizens seemed to be well aware of them.

In the last two seasons of the show the turtles finally banish The Shredder and Krang to Dimension X, and destroy the engines and the "transdimensional portal" of the Technodrome (Krangs mobile fortress, and his and The Shredder's base of operation) preventing them from ever returning to Earth. The show, which had already lasted well past the average lifespan of most Saturday morning cartoon series, then went through dramatic changes. The animation became darker and closer to the original comic book style. Also the theme song was completely changed. The Technodrome is the semi-spherical-tank-like mobile fortress of The Shredder and Krang, the main villains on the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series and the Archie TMNT adventures comics. ...

A new villain, Lord Dregg, an evil alien warlord, also appears as their new chief nemesis. Lord Dregg begins a propaganda campaign against the turtles, turning the general population against them and in favor of him and his forces.

In the last episode of the series, the turtles vanquish Dregg to Dimension X.

Impact

While the story diverged heavily from the original conception of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and has never been considered canon, the 1987 TV series is probably the most notable and popular incarnation and drove the franchise to the phenomenal status it would achieve in pop culture. The series was in production for thirteen years (an eternity for a cartoon series airing on Saturday mornings), and was still quite popular when it went out of production. It was responsible for introducing many of the catch phrases, such as "Cowabunga!" and "Turtle Power!" associated with the turtles in to the lexicon, although these phrases did appear in other versions. The cartoon was such a prominent part of the ninja turtles, most people are unaware of the other versions. Jump to: navigation, search In the context of fiction, the canon of a fictional universe comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ... Cowabunga is a slang word in 1960s surfer culture, used as an expression of exhilaration when riding the waves. ...

Characters

Main characters

The main cast

These are the core characters of the series and appear in nearly every episode. However after Season Eight though, most of the main characters aside from the Turtles, April, and Splinter have been removed from the show, although Krang and Shredder would appear for a few episodes in Season Ten. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...

• Leonardo: Turtle with blue mask who wields katana. The unofficial leader of the Turtles, he is closest to Splinter. Voiced by Cam Clarke.
• Donatello: Turtle with purple mask who wields a bo staff. He is the scientist and is constantly tinkering with various inventions. Voiced by Barry Gordon.
• Raphael: Turtle with red mask who wields sai. He is cynical and sardonic. Voiced by Rob Paulsen, except in the final season, when he was replaced by Michael Gough.
• Michaelangelo: Turtle with orange mask who wields Nunchaku. He is the most childish of the group mostly interested with pizza and having a good time. He used a lot of slang, and is the source for many of the catch phrases the group used. Voiced by Townsend Coleman.
• Splinter : Born Hamato Yoshi, a strict and wizened sensei, he is the rat-man who relentlessly trained the Turtles in ninjitsu. He was voiced by Peter Renaday.
• April O'Neil: Red-headed Channel 6 TV reporter who discovers the Turtles' home in the sewers. Ally of the TMNT. During the final two seasons she becomes a freelance reporter. April O'Neil was voiced by Renae Jacobs.
• The Shredder (or just Shredder): The arch-villain, born Oroku Saki. Shredder wears a suit covered in metal blades, a cape, and a metal helmet and mask. He typically has the bottom half of his face covered. While a rare occurrence, he has removed the mask and helmet before to reveal his face. Voiced by James Avery (most notable for playing Uncle Phil on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) except in the 1995-1996 seasons, when he was replaced by William Martin.
• Krang: A disembodied brain who was a warlord in Dimension X before he was exiled and had his body taken away. Krang usually "wears" a large robot body and controls it from a compartment in the torso area, or uses a "bubble walker". He also owns the Technodrome, an enormous mobile fortress used as his and Shredder's headquarters. He also funds and helps plan most of Shredder's schemes. Krang was inspired by the original comics' "Utroms," who were also sentient alien brains, but did good deeds on earth. Voiced by Pat Fraley.
• Bebop and Rocksteady: Formerly New York City street gang members, they were mutated by the Shredder to act as his personal henchmen. A warthog and a rhinoceros, respectively, they are clumsy and oafish and almost always totally unsuited for the task of fighting the turtles. The former was voiced by Barry Gordon, the latter by Cam Clarke.
• Foot Soldiers: The ninjas led by the Shredder. In the 1987 cartoon series the Foot Soldiers are generally mindless robot drones.
• Irma: A Channel 6 TV associate and April's best friend. Irma is interested in men. Voiced by Jennifer Darling.
• Vern Burke/Vernon Fenwick: An egotistical, self righteous coward who is also a reporter at Channel 6 and is April's chief rival. He hates the Turtles and generally reports negative stories blaming them for various things in the city. At various points in the series Vern has been portrayed as analogous to Geraldo Rivera.
• Burne Thompson: Channel 6 NEWS producer and April, Vernon, and Irma's boss. He dislikes the Turtles and blames them for everything that goes wrong and encourages his reporters to broadcast negative stories about them, similar to J. J. Jameson from Spiderman.

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Minor characters

The series had myriad minor characters, or characters that were not part of the main cast or involved in the majority of plots. These characters generally went along with the show's theme of anthropomorphic animal fighters often mutated in a way similar to the turtles. As was the trend with cartoons during the end of the TV era of animation, a considerable number of characters who appeared briefly, once, or never at all in the series were made into action figures. An action figure is a posable plastic figurine of an action hero, superhero or a character from a movie or television program. ...

Recurring characters

This is a far from complete list of recurring characters or, characters that played a substantial role in the plots of more than one episode. The characters are arranged by frequency of appearance. A recurring character is a fictional character, usually in a TV series, who is not a main character, but appears from time to time during the series run. ...

• Casey Jones: A vigilante of New York, and also an ally of the turtles. Casey wears a hockey goaltender's mask (which is never removed in the series) and carries a wide assortment of unorthodox weapons including golf clubs, baseball bats, and cricket bats. Voiced by Pat Fraley. The Casey Jones character also appears in most other incarnations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, one of the few characters that does.
• Dr. Baxter Stockman: A scrawny Caucasian mad scientist who aided Shredder in the first season before he was changed into an anthropomorphic fly in a disintegrator malfunction. He always blamed and resented Shredder for the accident, and many episodes he appeared desiring revenge against Shredder, or Shredder promising to restore Baxter's humanity in exchange for Baxter completing a task. He spent large portions of the series trapped in a rift between Dimension X and the Earth with only his computer, "Z", as a companion. Baxter Stockman is also a character that appears in most other incarnations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but, this is the only one where he is turned into a fly.
• The Rat King: A human inhabitant of the sewers with the ability to communicate with rats. He also hypnotised Splinter to attack the turtles. Extremely unusual for this series (which is typically morally absolute), his role of either good guy or bad guy is often blurry. While he is sometimes involved in some plot to destroy the turtles he also occasionally aids them as well. However, no matter what the circumstances are his motives always seem questionable and surreptitious.
• Zack: An adolescent boy who loves the Turtles and wants to be one. The Turtles refer to him affectionately as "The Fifth Turtle". He is occasionally accompanied by his brother Walt.
• Lord Dregg: In the eighth season's last episode, "Turtle Trek", Krang, Shredder, Beebop, and Rocksteady are trapped in Dimension X and the Technodrome is rendered inoperable. In the ninth season, the alien Lord Dregg is introduced as the Turtles' main adversary.
• Usagi Yojimbo: A Samurai rabbit from another universe's 16th century Edo Period Japan where animals are the dominant species, not humans. Usagi Yojimbo is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai starring a ronin rabbit, Miyamoto Usagi; apparently the TV show writters did not understand the distinction and misnamed the character after the comic book. The comic book version of Usagi also visited the comic book versions of the turtles and vice versa.
• Attilla the Frog, Genghis Frog, Napolean Bonafrog and Rasputin the Mad Frog: The Turtles' frog counterparts. Four anthropomorphized frogs from Florida created by Shredder and trained in martial arts. They were intended for evil but convinced to turn to good by the Turtles when the turtles saved them from the authorities. The Punk Frogs lived out the rest of the series in the swamps of Florida, but sometimes they returned to town and visited the turtles.
• Slash: Bebop's pet turtle who is mutated by Shredder into an anthropomorphic turtle. It is quickly discovered that he is too dumb to be used against the Turtles and, abandoned.
• Tiffany: Burne Thompson's girlfriend.
• Big Louie: A crime boss who leads a maffia. Sometimes, he works with the Shredder.
• Brick Bradley/Bugman: Michaelangelo's comic book hero come to life, Bugman is half man-half insect. Bugman is a parody of Superman and other comic book superheros. He was transformed into a superhero by a laboratory experiment gone awry, has a secret identity, and he has a vulnerability to the metal Leestanite.
• Carter: Introduced in season nine, he comes to New York to study under Splinter. He is accidentally exposed to the Turtles Mutagen which causes him to spontaneously mutate between his human and mutant forms and for a short time the turtles know nothing about it. After helping the Turtles many times against Dregg, in Season Ten Carter decides to return to College and Donatello is able to stabilize his mutation. Shortly after he leaves, Carter briefly comes back to aid the Turtles one last time against Dregg.
• Chromedome: A huge robot built by the Shredder to supervise the Foot Soldiers. He has many built-in weapons such as blasters, cannons, missiles, etc. He was destroyed by the Turtles by disabling a main chip on his back. He returned in another episode with several other villains.
• Don Turtelli: A local crime boss, and a spoof on the Godfather. He has a memorable form of interrogation: he uses feathers to tickle the feet of his hostages (including April, Vernon and Zack); to extract information, etc.
• General Traag: General of Krang's army of soldiers made of rock. Many plots involve Krang almost bringing them to Earth, but failing miserably in the end.
• Hokum Hare: The hare from "The Tortoise and the Hare" fable. The Turtles meet him in a parallel "fairy tale" dimension. He also helped the turtles to stop Shredder from traveling to the future and become the crime lord in a crime free era.
• Leatherhead: A mutated anthropomorphic crocodile with a Cajun accent who also lives in the sewers of New York. He is generally considered a villain. In some plots he is the main adversary of the Florida frogs.
• Lotus: A female ninja hired by Krang to destroy the turtles. She developed a respect for Leonardo and tried to get him to become her partner.
• Metalhead: Built by Krang in a plot to destroy the Turtles, Metalhead was a robot Ninja Turtle whose programming consisted of all the Turtles' personalities. Prone to malfunction, he spent most of the series in Donatello's closet but made an occasional appearances.
• Neutrinos: 1950s-college-kid type people in flying cars (complete with tailfins), from Dimension X. Their names are Dask, Kala, and Zak (although later they are called Zenter, Gizzla, and Tribble). Friendly to the Turtles, they even once left the Turtles one of their flying cars, but unfortunately neglected to mention it ran on plutonium. Dask was voiced by Thom Pinto, and Kala and Zak were voiced by Tress MacNeille.
• Pinky McFingers: Local crime boss.
• Rex-1: An experimental robot built by the city to replace human policemen. The Shredder used computer hacking to steal the plans for Rex-1 and build an army of robots.
• Donald J. Lofty: A Donald Trump-esque character who owns Lofty Tower.

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There were many many characters that only appeared in one episode over the coarse of the ten season run. Here is a far from complete list of these characters.

• Algernon: An alien lizard from a another planet. Algeron's home planet orbits a star in the Turtle Nebula, a nebula in the shape that looks like a turtle. Algernon's spaceship crashed on the Earth, and Algernon helped Donatello to defeat the businessman Hiram Grelch, who tried to take over TV stations in the city.
• Bernie Stockman: Baxter's (twin?) brother. He built a machine that emits laughter waves for the mob. Somehow he knew about Baxter's unfortunate mutation and hate to be mistaken for his brother.
• Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang: A karate gang organized by the Shredder to dress up like turtles and make robberies so the people of the city should blame the TMNT for the robberies.
• Mondo Gecko: A lizard who was actually there in the sewers when the turtles mutated and, also mutated himself but, he was picked up and carried away by a crime boss before splinter found the turtles. He was raised by criminals and trained to commit robberies and other crimes. Michaelangelo met Mondo, during one episode, and he reformed him. Mondo then supposedly came to live with the turtles in the sewer "right next door", however after his first appearance, he was never seen again save for a cameo.
• Eric Red: A man who led a gang of "modern vikings" in Norway who tried to melt the polar ice and flood coastal cities. This happened in the episode Northern Lights Out.
• Groundchuck and Dirtbag: When Shredder wanted two new mutants grunts, a lion and a gorilla, Bebop and Rocksteady accidentally cause a bull (Groundchuck) and a mole (Dirtbag) to mutate. However, they refused to serve Shredder and left. They clash with the Turtles on another planet. Their fate is unknown.
• Emperor Aleister: Emperor of the fictional state Malicuria.
• Gadgetman: A retired hero, tries to return to crime fighting in the episode Super Hero for a Day.
• Hiram Grelch: A businessman who tried to take over all the TV stations in the city, but was defeated by Donatello and Algernon at Channel 6.
• J. Gordon Hangerdunger: A millionaire from Texas who tried to put chemicals into the city's water system and brainwash the population so he could take over the city.
• Kazuo Saki: Shredder's baby brother. Kazuo Saki works as a policeman in Tokyo, Japan.
• Kojima Brothers: Ancient warriors from Edo period Japan. Shredder stole their diary in Tokyo, Japan and created solid holograms of them to destroy the turtles. Donatello smashed the hologram projector with his bo staff, destroying the holograms.
• MACC: A robot from 400 years in the future who travelled back in time by an accident. Krang tried to re-program MACC to destroy the turtles, but failed and MACC was sent home to the future.
• Mallory: Princess from the fictional state Malicuria, daughter of Emperor Aleister. The Shredder tried to kidnap her from at party at the Malicurian Embassy in the USA and give her back in exchange for Lydium 90, a metal Krang wanted to repower the Technodrome.
• Miyoko: The Shredder's mother. Helped Shredder and Krang to send out some kind of mirror orbiting in Dimension X and burn the Earth in heat.
• Mona Lisa: A female mutant lizard who was once human. Working with Raphael, the two of them thwarted the plans of Captain Filch, a pirate, to hold the passengers of a yacht for ransom. When she first appeared, it seemed like she would become a regular character, possibly Raph's girlfriend, but this did not happen.
• Muckman and Joe Eyeball: Two garbagemen mutated with garbage. Their radiation weaken the Turtles. April convinces them that Bebop and Rocksteady were responsible for their condition so they help the Turtles to find a cure and turn against the Shredder.
• Mutagenman: A geeky deliveryman who fell in vat of mutagen. His has a brain/skull head and a containment suit. He has the ability to shapeshift into anyone. Shredder promise him a cure in exchange for components to make more mutagen. After the Shredder's betrayal, the Turtles infuse him with a dose of mutagen that (permanently?) changed his appearance; which was a charming lady's man. It's interesting to note that while impersonating anyone else, his voice never changed.
• Octavious Ogilvy: President of the company Octopus Inc. Worked with the Shredder until he realised that the Shredder was a bad guy who tried to brainwash businessmen. Because Octavious Ogilvy had a hearing disability, he was thrown into a room when he couldn't be brainwashed because his hearing aid didn't work.
• Shibana-Sama: Founder of the Foot Clan in Feudal Japan. When his burial urn was in Asian-American Cultural Center, Shredder tried to open it so Shibana-Sama could teach Bebop and Rocksteady ninja skills.
• Spats Sparkle: One of two Dutch thieves who tried to steal the Duchess Diamond in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and sell it. Shredder also tried to steal the diamond, so Krang could use it to open a portal to Dimension X and send the Technodrome to Earth.
• The Grybyx: A pet of the Neutrinos.
• Wingnut and Screwloose: Two evil aliens.

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Voice actors

Status of the 1987 TMNT TV series

There are currently no reruns of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, at least in the United States. Mirage Studios does not own the rights to the 1987 show, but they own one third of the rights to the 2003 show. Certain episodes of the 1987 show are available on VHS. Only the first and second seasons, and four episodes of final season of the 1987 show are available on DVD. Mirage Studios is a small independent comic book company formed in 1983 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. ...

See also

• List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes (1987 series)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series)

This is a list of all 193 episodes of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, by season and year: // 1987 Season Episode #1: Turtle Tracks Episode #2: Enter the Shredder Episode #3: A Thing About Rats Episode #4: Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X Episode #5: Shredder & Splintered 1988... Jump to: navigation, search The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, first aired on February 8, 2003, marked the revival of the franchise by Fox, with the help of 4Kids Entertainment, as a Saturday morning cartoon in Foxs Fox Box programming block (now known as 4Kids TV). ...

External links

• The Technodrome Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Website - Information about the 1987 cartoon show
• Ninja Rap Page
• Original Theme Song Lyrics
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) at TV.com
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) at the Internet Movie Database
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) at the Big Cartoon DataBase