Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1996)
Seasons: 10,
episodes: 193
Episode runtime: 22 min
Average rating:
7.9/10
92 663
Status
Ended
Country
Network
CBS, USA Network, Syndication
Production
Genre
Actors
Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Townsend Coleman, Rob Paulsen, Michael Gough, James Avery, Peter Renaday, Renae Jacobs, Pat Fraley, Bill Martin
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Kara Vallow
Camera operator
Composer
Editing
Short description
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.
Seasons
| Season | Episodes | Release date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 1987-12-14 | 6.9 | |
| 13 | 1988-10-01 | 6.5 | |
| 47 | 1989-09-25 | 6.4 | |
| 39 | 1990-09-10 | 5.8 | |
| 22 | 1991-09-23 | 5.8 | |
| 16 | 1992-09-14 | 5.8 | |
| 27 | 1993-09-18 | 6 | |
| 8 | 1994-09-17 | 6.1 | |
Season 9 Lord Dregg rises to villainy to battles the Turtles.
|
8 | 1995-09-16 | 6.1 |
| 8 | 1996-09-14 | 6.1 |
What's left behind the scenes
- The Season 3 episode 'Curse from the Past' features repeated footage from Season 1 episodes.
- In the original comic, all four turtles wore bandanas of the same red color. In the television project, the colors are different. Screenwriter Peter Laird made Leonardo's bandana blue, Raphael's red, Donatello's purple, and Michelangelo's orange. They remained this way thereafter.
- Before work on the series began, it was decided to make April O'Neil a journalist rather than a lab assistant. Screenwriter David Wise decided that this would make it easier for the main characters to obtain information (the project was created before the emergence of the World Wide Web).
- In the original Marvel comics, the soldiers were humans rather than robots, and therefore the Ninja Turtles killed them. For moral reasons, the soldiers were replaced with robots, and it is no longer shown that the Ninja Turtles kill anyone, even when using offensive weapons.
- All the voice actors worked in the same room. Producer Fred Wolf informed them that if anyone was unable to make it to a recording session, a replacement would be found immediately, and this happened in several instances—occasionally, some characters speak with different voices.
- Starting from the fourth season, Michelangelo's nunchucks gradually began to be replaced by a turtle-shell-shaped hook (which all the others also used). In the 5th season, the nunchucks disappeared from Michelangelo's belt without any explanation. This was because, by that time, nunchucks had been banned in many countries, and changes had to be made to all previously filmed footage of Michelangelo with nunchucks.
- The producers really wanted the voice actors to take the work more seriously, as the comics the series was based on were serious. However, the voice actors enjoyed it so much that they emphasized the comedic aspects of their characters; furthermore, many of them had children of their own and wanted the result of their work to appeal primarily to children.
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