Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 1

1987 · 5 episodes · ★ 6.9

What Season 1 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The sewers of New York are home to Splinter, a rat who was once Hamato Yoshi, a master ninja expelled from the Foot Clan after the betrayal of Oroku Saki. A boy flushes four turtles down a pet store drain, and a glowing substance transforms them into humanoid beings. Splinter, exposed to the same ooze, also changes. He raises and trains them in ninja combat, and they give him his name. Now they must learn to navigate the city and take on crime. Their arch-enemy, the Shredder, kidnaps Splinter to lure the turtles to his cause, while April O'Neil, a TV reporter, investigates a series of robberies blamed on ninjas.

5episodes

Dec 14, 1987Released

Dec 18, 1987final episode

1.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Turtle Tracks
Dec 14, 1987 · 22 min · ★ 7.7
April O'Neil, ace reporter for Channel 6, investigates recent break-ins, allegedly by Ninjas, which have resulted in the thefts of numerous technologies. A chance encounter with a gang of thieves soon leads her to a bigger story when she is saved from the criminals by four Ninja trained, mutated Turtles.
Directing: Yoshikatsu Kasai · Writing: Patti Howeth, David Wise · Starring: Jennifer Darling
1x02 Enter: The Shredder
Dec 15, 1987 · 22 min · ★ 7.1
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 and brave it's dangerous weaponry.
Directing: Yoshikatsu Kasai · Writing: Patti Howeth, David Wise
1x03 A Thing about Rats
Dec 16, 1987 · 22 min · ★ 6.7
Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist, is showing an exterminator his new invention: a rat catching robot called Mousers.
Directing: Yoshikatsu Kasai · Writing: Patti Howeth, David Wise
1x04 Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X
Dec 17, 1987 · 22 min · ★ 6.1
Shredder experiments with the Inter-Dimensional Portal, hoping to contact Krangs' Rock Soldiers and prepare an invasion of Earth, but 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.
Directing: Yoshikatsu Kasai · Writing: Patti Howeth, David Wise
1x05 Shredder & Splintered Season Finale
Dec 18, 1987 · 22 min · ★ 7.0
As Shredder lures Splinter into he Technodrome, this time with the promise that a weapon in his possession can restore the sensei to human form, the Turtles confront a giant-sized Krang, now in a new body, in the heart of New York City.
Directing: Yoshikatsu Kasai · Writing: Patti Howeth, David Wise