The BEST episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Every episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
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.
#2 - Splinter No More
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1988
Sensing Master Splinter's despair at his new life as a rat, the Turtles agree to use the small amount of mutagen that they have left to concoct a formula that will revert Splinter back into Yoshi. The experiment is a success and Yoshi decides to take a stroll, as a human, through the city. Meanwhile, April is reporting Public Service Announcements from the local library when spies Rocksteady and Bebop. She immediately contacts the Turtles who head straight for the library where they encounter Shredder. It seems that Shredder has stumbled onto a spell that will enable him to open a portal to any dimension he chooses.The Turtles find a reference to a temple in an old subway terminal somewhere under the city.
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#3 - Doomquest
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1995
An interdimensional being called Doomquest comes to Earth to try to get a powerful crystal from Lord Dregg. The turtles find that their unstable mutations are now starting to cause them to lose their intelligence whenever they mutate into their new forms. In the end, April is able to successfully expose Lord Dregg's true intentions to the world.
#4 - Carter, the Enforcer
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1995
Dregg plans to build a Star Shield, a device that Dregg claims will protect Earth from hostile alien invaders. Meanwhile, the Turtles, with the help of April & her mini-cam, hope to expose Dregg for the fraud that he is. The Turtles also find out that Dregg has built an android replica of Cater.
#5 - Atlantis Awakes
Season 7 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/20/1993
The Turtles discover an Atlantean city, not in ancient Greece, but in modern times. After meeting Merdude, in reality is the true King of Atlantis, the Turtles must defeat Shredder & dethrone Bebop, who been set up as a puppet king.
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#6 - The Wrath of Medusa
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1995
Dregg hires an alien bounty hunter named Medusa to help capture the Turtles. The Turtles must fight off this new threat. Meanwhile, Carter realises that he is more of a hindrance than a help. Meanwhile, an alien slug, called a Slorr, hatches & begins terrorising the city.
#7 - A Thing About Rats
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/1987
Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist, is showing an exterminator his new invention a rat catching robot called Mousers. The exterminator rejects Stockman's offer, however Shredder decides to buy his inventions. He unleashes a dozen mousers into the sewers they are easily defeated by Splinter. The Turtles track the one responsible for the mechanical rats to his hide where they encounter Krang.
#8 - The Fifth Turtle
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/4/1989
Dressed in their human disguises, Donatello and Raphael venture out of their Turtle lair to buy supplies to make pizza. On their way back, via what they believe to be a shortcut, they are "intercepted" by a gang of young street Punks. Suddenly, a young boy wearing a Turtle costume, and who calls himself Zack: "Master Ninja Turtles and the Scourge of Evil Doers", drops in out of nowhere. As he prepares to defend Donatello and Raphael, he falls flat on his face, allowing the real Turtles to dispatch the punks with ease. Afterwords, Zack explains how he wants to help them fight crime -- but Raphael tells him that he is more of a menace than a crime fighter. The kid leaves in a huff, picking up Donatello's Turtle-Com -- which he had lost in the scuffle with the would-be attackers.
#9 - Enter: Krakus
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1994
Still after the Flux Transformer, Titanus & his mutants track its unique electronic signals, in order to locate it & get it back. Meanwhile, the Turtles have their hands full, when an enforcer named Krakus shows up. The Turtles must find out who Krakus is & whether he is friend or foe.
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#10 - Leonardo is Missing
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1992
Leonardo gets lost following a distress signal while Krang invents a 'Hyper-Thruster'. Krang tries to blow the Earth off its axis and melt the ice. The Technodrome is not at the bottom of the sea, but is at the North Pole.
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#11 - Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
Season 3 - Episode 30 - Aired 11/3/1989
While Raphael is reliving the past, via the Turtles' photo album, their Frog friends in the Florida Swamps (Napolean Bonafrog, Genghis Frog, and Rasputin) are being terrorized by a mutant alligator known as Leatherhead, who makes them his slaves. They decide to call the Turtles for help. Meanwhile, Krang's scanner picks up Leatherhead's activities and he sends Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop to the same Florida Swamp to retrieve the mutant alligator and use him to help defeat the Turtles. But no sooner do the Turtles and April arrive when they are captured by Leatherhead. The Frogs turn the tables and help the Turtles capture Leatherhead. Shredder and company arrive in the Florida Swamp and stumble upon the Turtles and April, the Frogs and Leatherhead. They decide to track them for awhile before charging in and attacking. Sure enough he finds his golden opportunity when he rescues Leatherhead from the quicksand that the Turtles, the Frogs, and Leatherhead have fallen into.
#12 - The Case of the Killer Pizzas
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1988
Shredder and Baxter Stockman switch meatballs on some pizzas, used as prizes in a contest, with some weird alien eggs from Dimension X. The Turtles must battle the creatures that hatch from the eggs in order to save the city.
#13 - Beware the Lotus
Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 11/1/1989
Krang hires a female Ninja, Lotus, to replace Shredder. It seems that Lotus has agreed to help Krang locate the Turtles in exchange for 100 pounds of gold. To prove her worthiness, and Shredder's unworthiness, Lotus defeats him with her Ninja skills. Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop leave the Technodrome with their tails between their legs vowing that Krang will someday beg to have them back. Meanwhile, Burne assigns April and Vernon to do a special story on romance. At the Olaf Perfume Factory, April interviews a Monsieur Olaf, who reveals that he has a 'Scent Analyzer' that can 'sniff out' any fragrance. But, while protected by three armed guards, is suddenly stolen by Lotus and in its place, she leaves a lotus flower. A short time later, Lotus visits Aqua Land and steals from Dr Gilman, a marine biologist, his complete file on his study of genetic codes of turtles. Once again she leaves a lotus flower in its place.
#14 - Donatello Makes Time
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 10/6/1990
Donatello invents a machine that can freeze time, which a deranged professor steals as part of a plan to conquer the world.
#15 - Bye, Bye, Fly
Season 3 - Episode 44 - Aired 11/23/1989
An interdimensional alien spacecraft leads Baxter Stockman to his latest vengeful plot to destroy the Turtles and Shredder.
#16 - Slash: The Evil Turtle from Dimension X
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/22/1990
Bebop and Rocksteady use Krang's new Mutagen on Bebop's pet turtle Slash so he can do their housework for them. Slash runs away and is conned by an irritated entrepreneur into framing the TMNT.
#17 - Dirk Savage: Mutant Hunter!
Season 7 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/27/1993
Professional mutant hunter Dirk Savage is conned into to rounding up New York's mutants. Tokka, Rahzer, two of the Punk Frogs, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Mondo Gecko all fall prey and become part of a mutant slug's army.
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#18 - The Maltese Hamster
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1989
It was a dark and rainy night. The Turtles, wearing their trench coats and fedoras investigate a reign of mob terror. Donatello, in his worst 'Sam Spade' impersonation, narrates this pulp/film nor story of banks all over the city being "taken down by the mob". But, as Donatello tells the viewer, the mob is using sophisticated weaponry -- the kind that could be only supplied by Shredder. And what mobster would be 'gutsy' enough to deal with Shredder?
#19 - Combat Land
Season 7 - Episode 26 - Aired 12/11/1993
A new amusement theme park has opened with Shogun, Medieval & Future themed attractions. The Turtles are invited to try out the attractions, but when the robots in the park start to play too rough, the Turtles are in big trouble.
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#20 - The Mean Machines
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1988
After the batteries died in the alien crystal converger, Donatello, using spared circuits from the space ship, builds a tracking device to help locate the second fragment of the Eye of Zarnov. On the streets, the tracking device picks up the signal and leads the Turtles to a branch of a bank where a hold-up has just occurred.
#21 - Michaelangelo's Birthday
Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 11/6/1989
It's Michaelangelo's birthday, but none of his brothers seem to remember, and it frustrates him greatly. Meanwhile, Shredder and Krang discover what is possibly an 'anti-mutagen' that, after testing it on three rock soldiers, can undo mutations. Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady are sent to use it on the Turtles, and our heroes have a few close calls.
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#22 - Enter the Shredder
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/15/1987
The Shredder kidnaps Splinter in an attempt to lure the Turtles to his own cause. In order to rescue Splinter, the Turtles must enter the Shredder's mobile fortress, The Technodrome and brave it's dangerous weaponry. Even if they can, they must still confront The Shredder himself, who is armed not only with the nature of their origin, but also with his own mutated henchmen, Bebop, and Rocksteady.
#23 - Hot-Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/17/1987
Shredder experiments with the Inter-Dimensional Portal, hoping to contact Krangs' Rock Soldiers and prepare an invasion of Earth. A group of fun-loving aliens called the Neutrionos, renegades in Krang's dimension, take advantage of the Portal's opening and use it to arrive on Earth.
#24 - Return of the Technodrome
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/1988
Krang, sick of Shredder's constant failings, makes a shocking resolve to return the Technodrome to Earth. Krang sends Shredder an energy-converter from Dimension X and instructs the villain to take over the hydroelectric station at Niagara Falls.
