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#1 - Cowabunga Shredhead
Season 3 Episode 18
Aired 10/18/1989
The Shredder thinks he's Michaelangelo after a computer malfunction.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
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#2 - The Old Switcheroo
Season 3 Episode 6
Aired 10/2/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Edens, Mark Edward Edens
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#3 - Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero
Season 3 Episode 23
Aired 10/25/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly
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#4 - Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
Season 3 Episode 36
Aired 11/13/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
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#5 - The Big Blow Out
Season 3 Episode 47
Aired 11/28/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
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#6 - Beneath these Streets
Season 3 Episode 1
Aired 9/25/1989
The Turtles learn the cost of slacking off when Splinter is badly hurt during a confrontation with Shredder.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
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#7 - The Ninja Sword of Nowhere
Season 3 Episode 13
Aired 10/11/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Francis Moss
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#8 - Corporate Raiders from Dimension X
Season 3 Episode 25
Aired 10/27/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Edens, Mark Edward Edens
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#9 - Pizza by the Shred
Season 3 Episode 26
Aired 10/30/1989
Michaelangelo gets a job as a pizza delivery boy. But who's his new boss?
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
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#10 - Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady
Season 3 Episode 27
Aired 10/31/1989
Shredder and Krang produce hi-tech versions of Rocksteady and Bebop to keep the Turtles busy.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves, Brynne Stephens
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#11 - Shredderville
Season 3 Episode 43
Aired 11/22/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#12 - The Maltese Hamster
Season 3 Episode 4
Aired 9/28/1989
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?
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
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#13 - Enter: The Rat King
Season 3 Episode 9
Aired 10/5/1989
Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.
Director: N/A
Writer: Francis Moss
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#14 - Turtles at the Earth's Core
Season 3 Episode 10
Aired 10/6/1989
Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
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#15 - Take Me to Your Leader
Season 3 Episode 15
Aired 10/13/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Francis Moss
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#16 - Michaelangelo's Birthday
Season 3 Episode 31
Aired 11/6/1989
It's Michaelangelo's birthday, but none of his brothers seem to remember, and it frustrates him greatly.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
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#17 - Turtles On Trial
Season 3 Episode 2
Aired 9/26/1989
The intentions of the Ninja Turtles are put to the test when a controversial TV-figure portrays our heroes as menaces to society.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
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#18 - Sky Turtles
Season 3 Episode 5
Aired 9/29/1989
The Turtles go flying when the Shredder invents a gravity-altering device.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly
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#19 - 20.000 Leaks Under the City
Season 3 Episode 14
Aired 10/12/1989
Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.
Director: N/A
Writer: Bob Schooley, Mark McCorkle
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#20 - Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
Season 3 Episode 30
Aired 11/3/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
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#21 - Usagi Yojimbo
Season 3 Episode 32
Aired 11/7/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
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#22 - Bye Bye Fly
Season 3 Episode 44
Aired 11/23/1989
An interdimensional alien spacecraft leads Baxter Stockman to his latest vengeful plot to destroy the Turtles and Shredder.
Director: N/A
Writer: David Wise
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#23 - The Big Break In
Season 3 Episode 46
Aired 11/27/1989
The Technodrome is up and running again, and it is up to the Turtles to hinder Shredder and Krang from getting to the surface.
Director: N/A
Writer: Francis Moss
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#24 - Burne's Blues
Season 3 Episode 7
Aired 10/3/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Michael Reaves
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#25 - Return of the Fly
Season 3 Episode 22
Aired 10/24/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Cowabunga Shredhead" is the best rated episode of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 186 votes. Directed by N/A and written by Michael Reaves, it aired on 10/18/1989. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Old Switcheroo".