Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV Series) (Season 1)
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| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (season 1) | ||
| Country of origin | United States | |
| No. of episodes | 5 | |
| Release | ||
| Original channel | Syndication | |
| Original run | December 28, 1987 – January 1, 1988 | |
| Season chronology | ||
| Next → Season 2 | ||
| List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) episodes | ||
The first season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aired in syndication in December 1987. At this point in the series, the Technodrome is located underneath New York City. Chronologically, this is the 5-part pilot movie episode, "Heroes in a Half Shell".
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Episodes
| No. in series | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | TV broadcast | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Turtle Tracks" | Fred Wolf and Vincent Davis | David Wise and Patti Howeth | December 28, 1987 | S01E01 | ||
| New York City is experiencing a crime wave. Reporter April O'Neil discovers the thieves are ninja. As a street gang attacks April, she escapes into the sewers, where four big talking turtles defeat the thugs, and take April to their lair. There April meets their mentor, a rat Splinter, who tells her his backstory as the Japanese ninja Hamato Yoshi. As the Turtles and April investigate the streets for the thieves' origins, they discover a group of robot ninjas, whose uniform Splinter recognizes as belonging to the Foot Clan. Before April can expose them, she's kidnapped by the Shredder. The Turtles race to free her.
Note: First Appearances of The Turtles (Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael & Michelangelo), April O'Neil, Master Splinter, Shredder, Bebop and Rocksteady, Burne Thompson and Vernon Fenwick. Villains: Shredder and unnamed street gang. | ||||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Enter The Shredder" | Fred Wolf and Vincent Davis | David Wise and Patti Howeth | December 29, 1987 | S01E02 | ||
| Foot Clan leader Oroku Saki, the Shredder decides, along with his partner Krang from Dimension X to turn two thugs into mutant henchmen using the mutagen that created Splinter and the TMNT. Thus Bebop turns into a warthog and Rocksteady turns into a rhino. The Foot Soldiers kidnap Splinter, and the Turtles go rescue him at the Technodrome.
Note: First Appearances of Krang and The Technodrome. Note: The frame during the end credits for seasons 1-3 is taken from this episode. Villains: Shredder, Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang. | ||||||||
| 3 | 3 | "A Thing About Rats" | Fred Wolf and Vincent Davis | David Wise and Patti Howeth | December 30, 1987 | S01E03 | ||
| The Shredder hires the scientist Baxter Stockman, because his invention, rat-seeking robots named Mousers, can help him find Splinter. After an initial Mouser attack, the Turtles and Splinter go hide in April's apartment.
Note: First Appearance of Baxter Stockman. Note: Krang frees Michelangelo and helps him to destroy the Mouser Control device. Villains Shredder, Krang, Bebop, Rocksteady, and Baxter Stockman. | ||||||||
Notes
In late 1989 the first five episodes from series 1 were adapted in a 50 minute video special called The Epic Begins (aka How It All Began) released by Family Home Entertainment in the USA and Tempo Video/Abbey Home Entertainment in the UK (with the British tile called Teenage Mutant HERO Turtles). The footage from this season was actually taken from a third-season clip show called Blast From The Past, and this was amalgamated with various series 2 episodes.
