
Scripted series · FOX
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Cast
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TV DNA
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Signature profile
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reads strongest on Spectacle, Bingeability and Character Depth.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
When four pet turtles were bathed in alien ooze, they began to mutate and became the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Raised in New York City sewers by their foster father and wise sensei, Master Splinter, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael wage war against crime. Led by Master Splinter, the four turtles learn the ancient martial art of Ninjitsu, mastering skills of stealth, weapons, and fighting. They stop evildoers in all forms, whether barbaric gangs, lowlife crooks, deranged cyborgs, or even the crime syndicate The Foot, led by their archrival, The Shredder.
The run
Seasons
7 seasons · 154 episodes.

Season 0 · Complete
Specials
200623 episodes

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
200326 episodes
7.0IMDbThe Turtles slowly come into conflict with the Foot Clan. After their lair is destroyed by Baxter Stockman's mousers, they find a new home elsewhere in the sewers and also gain new allies in the form of April O'Neil and Casey Jones. The Turtles foil the plans of the Shredder, Hun, and Stockman on numerous occasions before Shredder offers Leonardo a peace offering in exchange for their service, citing an unknown evil they must face together. Splinter reveals the Shredder and Hun's hand in murdering his master Hamato Yoshi, and the two sides come to blows in a battle that seemingly ends in the Shredder's defeat. However, unknown to the Turtles, the Shredder survives, and after his ninjas savagely ambush and wound Leonardo, destroys April's home and believes them dead, though the Turtles, Splinter, Casey and April survive and depart for Casey's family's farm house in rural New York. After Leonardo's wounds heal and their resolve is restored, the group returns to New York to face the Foot Clan. However, after their triumph against the Shredder, Splinter vanishes, and after following a lead from a mysterious group known as the "Guardians", the Turtles discover the Utroms, an alien race hiding amongst humanity, and are unable to save Splinter from them before being teleported into space.
Best episode · S01E05 Nano

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
200326 episodes
6.2IMDbThe Turtles find themselves teleported to the alien world of D'Hoonibb, where they immediately are caught up in a war between the Triceraton Republic and the Galactic Federation. The Turtles end up on the Triceraton home world, and after saving Honeycutt, are teleported back to Earth by the Utroms. The aliens reveal themselves to be benevolent and reunite the Turtles with Splinter. In the wake of the Shredder's defeat, a gang war erupts over control of his lost territory by the remainder of the Foot Clan, Hun and the Purple Dragons, and the New York mafia, aided by Baxter Stockman. Shredder is revealed to have survived yet again, and Karai's loyalty to her father conflicting with her honor becomes a critical dilemma for her.
Best episode · S02E16 City at War (3)

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
200426 episodes
5.7IMDb
Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
200525 episodes
1.0IMDb
Season 5 · Complete
Ninja Tribunal
200812 episodes
1.0IMDb
Season 6 · Complete
Fast Forward
200626 episodes
9.8IMDb
Season 7 · Complete
Back to the Sewer
200813 episodes
10.0IMDb
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

S01E05
Nano
When a scientist accidentally unleashes a super-powered Nanotech monster with a childlike mind, it adopts a small-time thief as its father figure, and the mayhem begins!

S01E26
Search for Splinter (2)
The Turtles successfully infiltrate the mysterious TCRI Building, where they manage to sneak into its inner sanctum, and locate the unconscious Splinter inside a stasis tank.

S01E14
Notes from the Underground (2)
After discovering an abandoned underground Foot Genetics Lab, and being attacked by once-human Digging Creatures, the Turtles assist those very creatures in trying to repair a Force Field.
- Written by Greg Johnson

S01E15
Notes from the Underground (3)
After befriending the once-human creatures in an abandoned underground Foot Genetics Lab, the Turtles join them on a journey deeper into the earth, where they come upon the ruins of a once-great subterranean city.
- Written by Greg Johnson

S01E01
Things Change
In their underground lair deep beneath the city streets, the Turtles and Master Splinter are suddenly attacked by a horde of Mouser robots!
- Directed by Chuck Patton
- Written by Michael Ryan

S01E13
Notes from the Underground (1)
When Don's examination of some mysterious crystals attracts the attention of a subterranean monster, the Turtles underground exploration unearths a Foot Genetics Lab!
- Written by Eric Luke
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E03
Mayhem from Mutant Island
S00E02
Turtles Forever
S07E13
Wedding Bells and Bytes
S07E12
Super Power Struggle
S07E11
City Under Siege
S07E10
Virtual Reality Check
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
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Lloyd Goldfine
Showrunner
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Dean Stefan
Writer
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Benjamin Townsend
Writer
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Rich Fogel
Writer

Eric Luke
Writer
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Marty Isenberg
Writer

Christopher L. Yost
Writer

Michael Ryan
Writer
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Steve Murphy
Writer
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Greg Johnson
Writer
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Adam Beechen
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Dean StefanWriter
- Benjamin TownsendWriter
- Rich FogelWriter
- Eric LukeWriter
- Marty IsenbergWriter
- Christopher L. YostWriter
Direction
- Chuck PattonDirector
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