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47 episodes

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Season 3

First aired Sep 25, 1989Season 3

Browse all 47 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Beneath these Streets

6.8
Sep 25, 198922 min6 votes

The Turtles learn the cost of slacking off when Splinter is badly hurt during a confrontation with Shredder.

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Episode 2

Turtles On Trial

6.8
Sep 26, 198922 min6 votes

The intentions of the Ninja Turtles are put to the test when a controversial TV-figure portrays our heroes as menaces to society.

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Episode 3

Attack of the 50-Foot Irma

6.1
Sep 27, 198922 min7 votes

Irma accidentally becomes gigantic and her naturally clumsy nature makes her a danger to the city.

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Episode 4

The Maltese Hamster

6.5
Sep 28, 198922 min6 votes

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?

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Episode 5

Sky Turtles

6.8
Sep 29, 198922 min6 votes

The Turtles go flying when the Shredder invents a gravity-altering device.

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Episode 6

The Old Switcheroo

6.8
Oct 2, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 7

Burne's Blues

6.3
Oct 3, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 8

The Fifth Turtle

6.7
Oct 4, 198922 min6 votes

A 14-year-old boy tries his best to help out the Turtles, but with some not so optimal results.

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Episode 9

Enter: The Rat King

6.2
Oct 5, 198922 min5 votes

Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.

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Episode 10

Turtles at the Earth's Core

6.7
Oct 6, 198922 min6 votes

Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.

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Episode 11

April Fool

6.5
Oct 9, 198922 min6 votes

Emperor Aleister of Malicuria comes to New York City, bringing along a shard of Lydium 90 to the USA.

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Episode 12

Attack of the Big MACC

6.2
Oct 10, 198922 min6 votes

A robot warrior arrives from 400 years in the future in 20th-Century New York.

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Episode 13

The Ninja Sword of Nowhere

6.7
Oct 11, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 14

20,000 Leaks Under the City

6.8
Oct 12, 198922 min6 votes

Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.

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Episode 15

Take Me to Your Leader

6.7
Oct 13, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 16

Four Musketurtles

6.3
Oct 16, 198922 min6 votes

A bump on the head leaves Leonardo thinking that he is in 17th century France, and that he and his comrades are Musketeers.

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Episode 17

Turtles, Turtles Everywhere

6.5
Oct 17, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 18

Cowabunga Shredhead

6.7
Oct 18, 198922 min6 votes

The Shredder thinks he's Michaelangelo after a computer malfunction.

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Episode 19

Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers

6.0
Oct 19, 198922 min6 votes

Aliens abduct Donatello and Rocksteady.

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Episode 20

Camera Bugged

6.2
Oct 20, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 21

Green with Jealousy

6.2
Oct 23, 198922 min6 votes

Krang sets his sights on a powerful Nuclear-Powered Submarine, believing it's fuel will be more than enough to power the technodrome.

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Episode 22

Return of the Fly

6.2
Oct 24, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 23

Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero

6.3
Oct 25, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 24

Mutagen Monster

6.2
Oct 26, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 25

Corporate Raiders from Dimension X

6.3
Oct 27, 198922 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 26

Pizza by the Shred

6.5
Oct 30, 198922 min6 votes

Michaelangelo gets a job as a pizza delivery boy. But who's his new boss?

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Episode 27

Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady

6.7
Oct 31, 198922 min6 votes

Shredder and Krang produce hi-tech versions of Rocksteady and Bebop to keep the Turtles busy.

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Episode 28

Beware the Lotus

6.3
Nov 1, 198922 min6 votes

A skilled, and lovely, ninja warrior is hired by Krang to defeat the Turtles. Shredder's replaced, Leonardo's met his match.

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Episode 29

Blast from the Past

6.0
Nov 2, 198922 min6 votes

Splinter suffers amnesia as the Turtles try to remind him that he is the true leader of the Foot Clan.

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Episode 30

Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp

6.4
Nov 3, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 31

Michaelangelo's Birthday

6.6
Nov 6, 198922 min5 votes

It's Michaelangelo's birthday, but none of his brothers seem to remember, and it frustrates him greatly.

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Episode 32

Usagi Yojimbo

6.2
Nov 7, 198922 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 33

Case of the Hot Kimono

6.0
Nov 8, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 34

Usagi Come Home

5.8
Nov 9, 198922 min5 votes

Shredder tricks Usagi Yojimbo into battling the Turtles.

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Episode 35

The Making of Metalhead

6.0
Nov 10, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 36

Leatherhead Meets the Rat King

6.4
Nov 13, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 37

The Turtle Terminator

6.4
Nov 14, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 38

The Great Boldini

6.4
Nov 15, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 39

The Missing Map

6.0
Nov 16, 198922 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 40

The Gang's All Here

6.4
Nov 17, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 41

The Grybyx

6.0
Nov 20, 198922 min4 votes

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.

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Episode 42

Mister Ogg Goes to Town

6.4
Nov 21, 198922 min5 votes

While searching for a device to transform crude oil into liquid hydrogen, Krang accidentally brings Mr. Ogg from Dimension Z to earth.

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Episode 43

Shredderville

6.8
Nov 22, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 44

Bye Bye Fly

6.6
Nov 23, 198922 min5 votes

An interdimensional alien spacecraft leads Baxter Stockman to his latest vengeful plot to destroy the Turtles and Shredder.

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Episode 45

The Big Rip Off

6.2
Nov 24, 198922 min5 votes

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.

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Episode 46

The Big Break In

6.2
Nov 27, 198922 min4 votes

The Technodrome is up and running again, and it is up to the Turtles to hinder Shredder and Krang from getting to the surface.

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Episode 47

The Big Blow Out

7.0
Nov 28, 198922 min5 votes

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.