Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) season 10
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The tenth and final season of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 TV series. Shredder and Krang return for a three part episode, and the Technodrome is still in Dimension X.
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |
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| Season 10 | |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS (Kidz (Action Zone)) |
| Original release | September 14 – November 2, 1996 |
| Season chronology | |
When the season aired, the interest for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had almost faded out. At the time, CBS was phasing out its Saturday-morning cartoon block[1] and the 10th season is essentially a miniseries.[2]
Episodes
edit- All eight tenth-season episodes were directed by Tony Love and written by Jeffrey Scott.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | TV broadcast |
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| 186 | 1 | "The Return of Dregg" | September 14, 1996 | S10E01 |
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While the Turtles work on using fragments of the Vortex Crystal to stabilize their mutations, Lord Dregg plans to use the fragments to create another Vortex Crystal to power his Vortex Transporter. Meanwhile, Dregg's second-in-command, HiTech, is blasted into space, to be replaced by Dregg's top scientist, Mung, as his new second-in-command. | ||||
| 187 | 2 | "The Beginning of the End" | September 21, 1996 | S10E02 |
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While Raphael, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Carter work on restoring Leonardo to his regular self, Mung steals all the plutonium from a power plant in order for Dregg to build a Plutonium Ray to turn Leonardo into a radioactive killer. | ||||
| 188 | 3 | "The Power of Three" | September 28, 1996 | S10E03 |
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Learning about the Turtles' previous arch-enemies Shredder and Krang, Lord Dregg teleports them from Dimension X to the Dregnaught in hopes of joining forces to destroy the Turtles once and for all. Meanwhile, after permanently stabilizing his mutation, Carter finally leaves the Turtles & returns to college. | ||||
| 189 | 4 | "A Turtle in Time" | October 5, 1996 | S10E04 |
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After draining the Turtles' life energy & Krang's intelligence, Dregg becomes a super-being, and plans to fire the Vortex Transporter at the Sun, bringing a piece of the Sun down to Earth. If the people of Earth refuse to surrender, Dregg will cause the Earth to become a second Sun, and afterwards he will eventually do the same to every other planet in the universe. Meanwhile after learning of the situation, Carter returns, and knowing he can't handle it alone, Carter contacts the turtles' friends Landor and Merrick who brings the turtles' past selves to the present as well as Splinter mentioning to him that despite his mutation being stabilized, there is a chance that Carter can still mutate. | ||||
| 190 | 5 | "Turtles to the Second Power" | October 12, 1996 | S10E05 |
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After re-energizing the present-day Turtles, the Turtles of the past have only 3 hours to get back to their time, or they will all cease to exist. Meanwhile, during the 15 hours it took to re-energize the Turtles, the remainder of Dregg's invasion fleet has been completed and has been unleashed on the entire planet, and now the Turtles and Carter have to stop Dregg, Krang, and Shredder. In the end Shredder and Krang are sent back to Dimension X, and after sending the past turtles back to their time, Landor and Merrick give Carter an offer to come with them to their time in the future to receive medical treatment that will completely cure him of his mutation. Carter accepts and he and the turtles say their goodbyes before he teleports away. | ||||
| 191 | 6 | "Mobster from Dimension X" | October 19, 1996 | S10E06 |
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A slimy amoeba-like mobster from Dimension X, known as the GlobFather, steals the Protein Computer. The GlobFather is working for Dregg and Dregg plans to use the Protein Computer to hack into all of Earth's telecommunications systems & military computers, to control them via his own brain. | ||||
| 192 | 7 | "The Day the Earth Disappeared" | October 26, 1996 | S10E07 |
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Lord Dregg has managed to open a gigantic portal that is large enough to pull the entire Earth into Dimension X. While trying to figure out how to stop it, Leonardo, Donatello and Master Splinter are pulled through the portal, after Dregg turns the portal on them, sending each of them across dangerous alien dimensions. | ||||
| 193 | 8 | "Divide and Conquer" | November 2, 1996 | S10E08 |
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Lord Dregg, using a morphing suit capable of instantly draining life-force from others, absorbs the power of five super-beings, and multiplies their combined power a hundred fold, becoming a god. He comes after the Turtles, who must travel to Dimension X and get Krang's android body from the destroyed Technodrome if they are to defeat him.[3] | ||||
References
edit- ^ Mark Pellegrini (January 14, 2016). "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) Season 10 Review". Adventures in Poor Taste. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
- ^ Mark Pellegrini (January 14, 2016). "TMNT (1987) Season 10 Review: The Final Season!". TMNT Entity. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
- ^ Master Splinter (March 6, 2012). "1996 Original Fred Wolf Series – Episode 194 (Divide and Conquer)". Mutant Ooze. Retrieved December 14, 2015.
External links
edit- TV Com Archived January 12, 2015, at the Wayback Machine