Episode 1: Beneath these Streets
1989-09-2522 min
The Turtles learn the cost of slacking off when Splinter is badly hurt during a confrontation with Shredder.
Season guide
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 — Episodes and Where to Watch
47 episodes · first aired 1989-09-25
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Episode guide
Episode 2: Turtles On Trial
1989-09-2622 min
The intentions of the Ninja Turtles are put to the test when a controversial TV-figure portrays our heroes as menaces to society.
Episode 3: Attack of the 50-Foot Irma
1989-09-2722 min
Irma accidentally becomes gigantic and her naturally clumsy nature makes her a danger to the city.
Episode 4: The Maltese Hamster
1989-09-2822 min
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?
Episode 5: Sky Turtles
1989-09-2922 min
The Turtles go flying when the Shredder invents a gravity-altering device.
Episode 6: The Old Switcheroo
1989-10-0222 min
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.
Episode 7: Burne's Blues
1989-10-0322 min
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.
Episode 8: The Fifth Turtle
1989-10-0422 min
A 14-year-old boy tries his best to help out the Turtles, but with some not so optimal results.
Episode 9: Enter: The Rat King
1989-10-0522 min
Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.
Episode 10: Turtles at the Earth's Core
1989-10-0622 min
Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.
Episode 11: April Fool
1989-10-0922 min
Emperor Aleister of Malicuria comes to New York City, bringing along a shard of Lydium 90 to the USA.
Episode 12: Attack of the Big MACC
1989-10-1022 min
A robot warrior arrives from 400 years in the future in 20th-Century New York.
Episode 13: The Ninja Sword of Nowhere
1989-10-1122 min
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.
Episode 14: 20,000 Leaks Under the City
1989-10-1222 min
Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.
Episode 15: Take Me to Your Leader
1989-10-1322 min
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.
Episode 16: Four Musketurtles
1989-10-1622 min
A bump on the head leaves Leonardo thinking that he is in 17th century France, and that he and his comrades are Musketeers.
Episode 17: Turtles, Turtles Everywhere
1989-10-1722 min
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.
Episode 18: Cowabunga Shredhead
1989-10-1822 min
The Shredder thinks he's Michaelangelo after a computer malfunction.
Episode 19: Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers
1989-10-1922 min
Aliens abduct Donatello and Rocksteady.
Episode 20: Camera Bugged
1989-10-2022 min
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.
Episode 21: Green with Jealousy
1989-10-2322 min
Krang sets his sights on a powerful Nuclear-Powered Submarine, believing it's fuel will be more than enough to power the technodrome.
Episode 22: Return of the Fly
1989-10-2422 min
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.
Episode 23: Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero
1989-10-2522 min
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.
Episode 24: Mutagen Monster
1989-10-2622 min
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.
Episode 25: Corporate Raiders from Dimension X
1989-10-2722 min
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.
Episode 26: Pizza by the Shred
1989-10-3022 min
Michaelangelo gets a job as a pizza delivery boy. But who's his new boss?
Episode 27: Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady
1989-10-3122 min
Shredder and Krang produce hi-tech versions of Rocksteady and Bebop to keep the Turtles busy.
Episode 28: Beware the Lotus
1989-11-0122 min
A skilled, and lovely, ninja warrior is hired by Krang to defeat the Turtles. Shredder's replaced, Leonardo's met his match.
Episode 29: Blast from the Past
1989-11-0222 min
Splinter suffers amnesia as the Turtles try to remind him that he is the true leader of the Foot Clan.
Episode 30: Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
1989-11-0322 min
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.
Episode 31: Michaelangelo's Birthday
1989-11-0622 min
It's Michaelangelo's birthday, but none of his brothers seem to remember, and it frustrates him greatly.
Episode 32: Usagi Yojimbo
1989-11-0722 min
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.
Episode 33: Case of the Hot Kimono
1989-11-0822 min
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.
Episode 34: Usagi Come Home
1989-11-0922 min
Shredder tricks Usagi Yojimbo into battling the Turtles.
Episode 35: The Making of Metalhead
1989-11-1022 min
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.
Episode 36: Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
1989-11-1322 min
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.
Episode 37: The Turtle Terminator
1989-11-1422 min
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.
Episode 38: The Great Boldini
1989-11-1522 min
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.
Episode 39: The Missing Map
1989-11-1622 min
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.
Episode 40: The Gang's All Here
1989-11-1722 min
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.
Episode 41: The Grybyx
1989-11-2022 min
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.
Episode 42: Mister Ogg Goes to Town
1989-11-2122 min
While searching for a device to transform crude oil into liquid hydrogen, Krang accidentally brings Mr. Ogg from Dimension Z to earth.
Episode 43: Shredderville
1989-11-2222 min
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.
Episode 44: Bye Bye Fly
1989-11-2322 min
An interdimensional alien spacecraft leads Baxter Stockman to his latest vengeful plot to destroy the Turtles and Shredder.
Episode 45: The Big Rip Off
1989-11-2422 min
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.
Episode 46: The Big Break In
1989-11-2722 min
The Technodrome is up and running again, and it is up to the Turtles to hinder Shredder and Krang from getting to the surface.
Episode 47: The Big Blow Out
1989-11-2822 min
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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