Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
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| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |
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| Premiere | February 8, 2003 |
| Finale | |
| Airs | Saturdays at 9:30AM Saturdays at 10:30AM (FOX, reruns) |
| Creator | Peter A. Laird, Kevin B. Eastman |
| Network | FOX (seasons 1–6) The CW (seasons 7– ) |
| Style | 30-minute children's animated action |
| Company | 4 Kids Entertainment, Dong Woo Animation Co. Ltd., Mirage Studios |
| Episodes | 142 (through season 6) (1 unaired) |
| Seasons | 7 |
| Status | Currently airing season 7 |
| Origin | USA |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003– ) is the most recent TV show featuring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This incarnation is far closer to its MIRAGE comics roots. It also offers its own original twists and turns, leaving new possibilities, and drawing in new and original audiences.
It all started with four pet turtles and a canister of ooze. When the turtles are bathed in the ooze, they begin to grow, to change, to mutate! Raised in the New York City sewers by Master Splinter, who teaches them how to be experts at martial arts, now the Turtles have risen from their dwellings into the city itself, inhabiting it at night, they wage war against crime and evil in its many forms, be it ruthless gangs, lowlife crooks, mutated abominations, deranged cyborgs, or even the crime syndicate The Foot, led by their armoured nemesis, The Shredder.
For the most part, the series has been aired in production order, but one episode in season three was aired out of order (New Blood should have aired before The Lesson|) and many episodes were aired out of order in the fourth season. Also, the fourth season included one episode that was never aired, and wasn't seen until it was released on DVD.
Some confusion over the series has come as a result of seasons five and six. Season five was originally supposed to run after season four, and it takes place that way chronologically. But instead, the sixth season was ran as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward. The fifth season initially had only shown a few episodes via Comcast On-Demand in Summer 2006 and one episode, billed 'The Lost Episode' in March 2007 before finally airing the complete season on FOX as 'The Lost Season' from February through May in 2008.
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[edit] Cast
| Actor | Character | Duration | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Cast | ||||||||
| Michael Sinterniklaas | Leonardo | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Sam Regal | Donatello | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Frank Frankson | Raphael | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Wayne Grayson | Michaelangelo | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Darren Dunstan | Splinter | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Veronica Taylor | April O'Neil | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | ||
| Marc Thompson | Casey Jones | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | |
| Scott Williams | Dr. Baxter Stockman: The Naive | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Semi-Mad Scientist | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| Scottie Ray | The Shredder (Oroku Saki) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
[edit] Seasons
| Season | Premiere | Finale | # |
|---|---|---|---|
| FOX | |||
| Season One | February 8, 2003 | November 1, 2003 | 26 |
| Season Two | November 8, 2003 | October 2, 2004 | 26 |
| Season Three | October 9, 2004 | April 23, 2005 | 26 |
| Season Four | September 10, 2005 | April 15, 2006 | 26 (1 unaired) |
| Season Five The Lost Season / Ninja Tribunal | August 7, 2006 | May 3, 2008 | 12 |
| Season Six Fast Forward | July 29, 2006 | October 27, 2007 | 26 |
| The CW | |||
| Season Seven TMNT: Back to the Sewer | September 13, 2008 | — | 13 |
[edit] In-Depth
- At a Glance: Additional information about the series
- Characters: A listing of characters in the series
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): Related series, aired from 1987 to 1996
[edit] DVD Releases
[edit] Summary
TMNT started out as volume releases featuring 3-5 episodes in chronological order. This lasted for the first 10 volumes, which included the complete first season and about a third of the second season. The next four volumes, 11–14, included all of the remaining episodes from season 2, but in a seemingly random order, with each release having 4 or 5 episodes. Then, the volumes started being released as 3.x, which indicated the start of the third season episodes. There were seven of these releases (3.1–3.7) which each included 5 episodes, except for 3.7 which included 6, which were again in a seemingly random order. Together they included all of season three and first 11 episodes of season four.
After Volume 3.7, they started releasing season sets. They started with Season 4, which only included the season 4 episodes not already released in volumes (except one, which was later included on the Ninja Tribunal set). Afterwards, they flip-flopped between releasing later seasons, new to DVD (season 5 as Ninja Tribunal and season 6 as Fast Forward) and earlier seasons, previously released through the volumes, in sets.
[edit] External Sites
- Official website for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Official 4KidsTV website for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the Internet Movie Database
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Episodes, TV Listings, News, Photos and More at TVGuide.com
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