Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) (season 1)
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (season 1) | |
|---|---|
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndication |
| Original release | December 28, 1987 – January 1, 1988 |
| Season chronology | |
The first season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the first season of the series aired in syndication. At this point in the series, the Technodrome is located underneath New York City. Chronologically, this is the 5-part pilot episode, "Heroes in a Half Shell".
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 ninjas robots 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 (Purple Dragons).
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.
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