Season 3
Episodes
S3 · E1 · 25 Sept 1989 · 22 min
Beneath these Streets
The Turtles learn the cost of slacking off when Splinter is badly hurt during a confrontation with Shredder.
S3 · E2 · 26 Sept 1989 · 22 min
Turtles On Trial
The intentions of the Ninja Turtles are put to the test when a controversial TV-figure portrays our heroes as menaces to society.
S3 · E3 · 27 Sept 1989 · 22 min
Attack of the 50-Foot Irma
Irma accidentally becomes gigantic and her naturally clumsy nature makes her a danger to the city.
S3 · E4 · 28 Sept 1989 · 22 min
The Maltese Hamster
Gangsters are swiping all the antiques in town. And when they swipe most of our heroes, it's up to Donatello and April to find out why. Could Shredder be behind this?
S3 · E5 · 29 Sept 1989 · 22 min
Sky Turtles
The Turtles go flying when the Shredder invents a gravity-altering device.
S3 · E6 · 2 Oct 1989 · 22 min
The Old Switcheroo
The personalities of Shredder and Splinter are switched when a device is accidentally activated during a battle between the Turtles and their enemies. As Shredder plans the Turtles' demise and Splinter plans on how to get back to his body, everyone else is clueless.
S3 · E7 · 3 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Burne's Blues
In the middle of a summer heat wave, someone is destroying all the air conditioners and taking all the city's freon. In the meantime, Vernon and Burne go looking for the Turtles, but find something else.
S3 · E8 · 4 Oct 1989 · 22 min
The Fifth Turtle
A 14-year-old boy tries his best to help out the Turtles, but with some not so optimal results.
S3 · E9 · 5 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Enter: The Rat King
Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.
S3 · E10 · 6 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Turtles at the Earth's Core
Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.
S3 · E11 · 9 Oct 1989 · 22 min
April Fool
Emperor Aleister of Malicuria comes to New York City, bringing along a shard of Lydium 90 to the USA.
S3 · E12 · 10 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Attack of the Big MACC
A robot warrior arrives from 400 years in the future in 20th-Century New York.
S3 · E13 · 11 Oct 1989 · 22 min
The Ninja Sword of Nowhere
Krang's computers detect an alien metal on the surface of the Earth. Krang sends Shredder, along with an Alien Metal Detector, to the surface to find it.
S3 · E14 · 12 Oct 1989 · 22 min
20,000 Leaks Under the City
Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.
S3 · E15 · 13 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Take Me to Your Leader
Full of self doubt, Leonardo leaves the team. Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello all take turns being leader as they try to figure out why the sun is getting smaller.
S3 · E16 · 16 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Four Musketurtles
A bump on the head leaves Leonardo thinking that he is in 17th century France, and that he and his comrades are Musketeers.
S3 · E17 · 17 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Turtles, Turtles Everywhere
Shredder programs the city's new garbage collecting super-computer to collect the Turtles. But when Shredder doesn't specify 'Ninja' Turtles, the super-computer collects them all! Turtles of the city of every shape and size are not safe.
S3 · E18 · 18 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Cowabunga Shredhead
The Shredder thinks he's Michaelangelo after a computer malfunction.
S3 · E19 · 19 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers
Aliens abduct Donatello and Rocksteady.
S3 · E20 · 20 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Camera Bugged
A visit to Earth from a Polarisoid results in havoc when Shredder comes into possession of the alien's camera, because it does more than just take pictures.
S3 · E21 · 23 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Green with Jealousy
Krang sets his sights on a powerful Nuclear-Powered Submarine, believing it's fuel will be more than enough to power the technodrome.
S3 · E22 · 24 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Return of the Fly
Baxter Stockman returns for revenge against the Turtles and Shredder, while our heroes attempt to stop Shredder's plan to siphon water from an underground reservoir.
S3 · E23 · 25 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero
An eager vigilante is causing a stir in the city, while Krang and Shredder take control of all the machines in the city. Maybe this new 'hero' can help the Turtles.
S3 · E24 · 26 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Mutagen Monster
In an attempt to hijack two separate trains carrying the ingredients needed to make mutagen, Rocksteady and Bebop cause their head-on collision, resulting in the spillage of both chemicals in the city's train yard.
S3 · E25 · 27 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Corporate Raiders from Dimension X
High ranking corporate executives are kidnapped by men in business suits. The Turtles don't get involved until they learn that one of these corporations is the world's largest suppliers of pizza.
S3 · E26 · 30 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Pizza by the Shred
Michaelangelo gets a job as a pizza delivery boy. But who's his new boss?
S3 · E27 · 31 Oct 1989 · 22 min
Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady
Shredder and Krang produce hi-tech versions of Rocksteady and Bebop to keep the Turtles busy.
S3 · E28 · 1 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Beware the Lotus
A skilled, and lovely, ninja warrior is hired by Krang to defeat the Turtles. Shredder's replaced, Leonardo's met his match.
S3 · E29 · 2 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Blast from the Past
Splinter suffers amnesia as the Turtles try to remind him that he is the true leader of the Foot Clan.
S3 · E30 · 3 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
While Raphael is reliving the past, via the Turtles' photo album, their frog friends in the Florida Swamps are being terrorized by a mutant alligator known as Leatherhead.
S3 · E31 · 6 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Michaelangelo's Birthday
It's Michaelangelo's birthday, but none of his brothers seem to remember, and it frustrates him greatly.
S3 · E32 · 7 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Usagi Yojimbo
A rabbit ronin warrior from an alternate dimension is lost in our world. While the Turtles help him adjust, Shredder steals a dragon egg to unleash it on the city.
S3 · E33 · 8 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Case of the Hot Kimono
Someone is stealing all the kimonos in the city. After Master Splinter's favorite kimono is stolen, April's famous detective aunt helps the Turtles retrieve it.
S3 · E34 · 9 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Usagi Come Home
Shredder tricks Usagi Yojimbo into battling the Turtles.
S3 · E35 · 10 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Making of Metalhead
While the Turtles are suffering from turtle pox, a disease that affects only mutant Turtles, Krang has developed a robotic turtle that he calls Metalhead.
S3 · E36 · 13 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
Leatherhead has come to the city searching for the Turtles. While crawling through the sewers he encounters the Rat King who charges him with trespassing.
S3 · E37 · 14 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Turtle Terminator
Irma is kidnapped by Bebop and Rocksteady and is replaced by a robot that looks just like her that is programmed to eliminate the turtles.
S3 · E38 · 15 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Great Boldini
The Turtles must clear their names when they are believed to be jewel thieves who stole a priceless emerald during a magic act run by a wizard named Boldini.
S3 · E39 · 16 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Missing Map
Zach and his brother Walt visit the Turtles. As they leave, Walt takes a map that could guide Shredder to the lair if it happens to fall into the wrong hands.
S3 · E40 · 17 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Gang's All Here
Shredder tries to trick the Turtles into eating cookies made with anti-mutagen. Michaelangelo, wanting to be a human, tries one of the cookies and it mutates him into a teenager.
S3 · E41 · 20 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Grybyx
Kala's pet Grybyx, which has a really bad temper whenever it gets hungry, escapes from Dimension X through a portal to Earth, causing trouble for the Turtles.
S3 · E42 · 21 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Mister Ogg Goes to Town
While searching for a device to transform crude oil into liquid hydrogen, Krang accidentally brings Mr. Ogg from Dimension Z to earth.
S3 · E43 · 22 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Shredderville
The Turtles are frustrated that they let Shredder slip away from them again. They feel like giving up, and wish they had never been born.
S3 · E44 · 23 Nov 1989 · 22 min
Bye Bye Fly
An interdimensional alien spacecraft leads Baxter Stockman to his latest vengeful plot to destroy the Turtles and Shredder.
S3 · E45 · 24 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Big Rip Off
After several failed attempts to get the Technodrome re-energized, Shredder and Krang run one last-ditch distraction for the Turtles at Fort Charles while Bebop and Rocksteady steal energy fuel cells from the neighboring space research center.
S3 · E46 · 27 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Big Break In
The Technodrome is up and running again, and it is up to the Turtles to hinder Shredder and Krang from getting to the surface.
S3 · E47 · 28 Nov 1989 · 22 min
The Big Blow Out
After several setbacks, Shredder and Krang steal all of New York's electricity and charge it into a giant transdimensional gateway, designed to send Earth into Dimension X. The Turtles must defeat their enemies once and for all before Earth is destroyed by Krang's Rock Soldier army.
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