• 1989-09-25T04:00:00Z on Syndication
  • 22m
  • 4 hours, 24 mins (12 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.

12 episodes

1989-09-25T04:00:00Z

3x01 Beneath these Streets

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

2 (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

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

1989-09-29T04:00:00Z

3x05 Sky Turtles

5 (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

6 (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

7 (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

8 (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

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

11 (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

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.

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