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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a animated children's program. It started in syndication before being picked up by CBS. The show was based on the Mirage comic, although the show was much less grim, violent and dark then it's source material.

The origin of the title characters started when four turtles fell 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 Channel 6 news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.

In the U.K, TMNT was broadcast under the name Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles due to fears that the "ninja" part of the logo was too extreme a word to use on British television at the time.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Seasons 3 In-Depth 4 DVD Releases 4.1 Summary 5 External Sites

[edit] Cast

Actor	Character	Duration
Main Cast
Cam Clarke	Leonardo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Barry Gordon	Donatello	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Greg Berg				3
Rob Paulsen	Raphael	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Michael Gough											10
Townsend Coleman	Michealangelo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
	Shredder							7
Peter Renaday	Master Splinter	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Renae Jacobs	April O'Neil	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
James Avery	Shredder	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Dorian Harewood				3
Jim Cummings						5
William Martin									8	9	10

[edit] Seasons

Season	Premiere	Finale	#
syndication
Season One	December 10, 1987	December 14, 1987	5
Season Two	September 8, 1988	December 1, 1988	13
Season Three	September 5, 1989	November 9, 1989	47
CBS
Season Four	September 10, 1990	November 1, 1990	39
Season Five	September 16, 1991	October 22, 1991	22
Season Six	September 14, 1992	December 28, 1992	16
Season Seven	September 11, 1993	March 12, 1994	27
Season Eight	September 10, 1994	October 29, 1994	8
Season Nine	September 16, 1995	November 4, 1995	8
Season Ten	September 14, 1996	November 2, 1996	8

[edit] In-Depth

• At a Glance: Additional information about the series

[edit] DVD Releases

[edit] Summary

TMNT was initially released in volumes featuring episodes in chronological order, with the exception of bonus episodes from season 10 on volume 1. The first two volumes each included the respective complete first and second seasons, but volumes 3–6 each included 12 episodes from season three. Volumes were then stopped in favor of season sets starting with season four. There have been a couple oddities in the way of the first episode of season 4 being included in both the Volume 6 and Season 4 sets, and three season five episodes have not been released.

Title	Release Date	#
Episode Collections
Volume 1 Season 1	April 20, 2004	1	purchase
Volume 2 Season 2	April 26, 2005	1	purchase
Volume 3 Season 3, Part 1	December 6, 2005	1	purchase
Volume 4 Season 3, Part 2	April 4, 2006	1	purchase
Volume 5 Season 3, Part 3	August 29, 2006	1	purchase
Volume 6 Season 3, Part 4	December 5, 2006	1	purchase
Season Sets
Season 4	March 13, 2007	5	purchase
Season 5	August 7, 2007	3	purchase
Season 6	April 8, 2008	2	purchase

[edit] External Sites

• Official website for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the Internet Movie Database