The Best Episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 1
Every episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 1!
Four turtles fall 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 news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.
Season 1 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" season 1 is "Turtle Tracks", rated 8/10 from 601 user votes. It was directed by Yoshikatsu Kasai and written by David Wise, Patti Howeth. "Turtle Tracks" aired on 12/14/1987 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Enter: The Shredder".
8.0/10 601 votes#1 - Turtle Tracks
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/14/1987
April O'Neil, ace reporter for Channel 6, investigates recent break-ins, allegedly by Ninjas, which have resulted in the thefts of numerous technologies. A chance encounter with a gang of thieves soon leads her to a bigger story when she is saved from the criminals by four Ninja trained, mutated Turtles.
Director: Yoshikatsu Kasai
Writer: David Wise, Patti Howeth
7.9/10 454 votes#2 - Enter: The Shredder
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/15/1987
The Shredder kidnaps Splinter in an attempt to lure the Turtles to his own cause. In order to rescue Splinter the Turtles must enter the Shredder's mobile fortress and brave it's dangerous weaponry.
Director: Yoshikatsu Kasai
Writer: David Wise, Patti Howeth
7.6/10 389 votes#3 - A Thing about Rats
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/1987
Baxter Stockman, a mad scientist, is showing an exterminator his new invention: a rat catching robot called Mousers.
Director: Yoshikatsu Kasai
Writer: David Wise, Patti Howeth
7.4/10 374 votes#4 - Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension X
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/17/1987
Shredder experiments with the Inter-Dimensional Portal, hoping to contact Krangs' Rock Soldiers and prepare an invasion of Earth, but a group of fun-loving aliens called the Neutrionos, renegades in Krang's dimension, take advantage of the Portal's opening and use it to arrive on Earth.
Director: Yoshikatsu Kasai
Writer: David Wise, Patti Howeth
8.1/10 379 votes#5 - Shredder & Splintered
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/18/1987
As Shredder lures Splinter into he Technodrome, this time with the promise that a weapon in his possession can restore the sensei to human form, the Turtles confront a giant-sized Krang, now in a new body, in the heart of New York City.
Director: Yoshikatsu Kasai
Writer: David Wise, Patti Howeth