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The Best Episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3

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Every episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3!

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...
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  • Cowabunga Shredhead
    7.9/10(186)
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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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  • The Old Switcheroo
    7.7/10(183)
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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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  • Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero
    7.6/10(183)
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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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  • Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
    7.6/10(152)
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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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  • The Big Blow Out
    7.6/10(146)
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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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  • Beneath these Streets
    7.5/10(192)
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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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  • The Ninja Sword of Nowhere
    7.5/10(172)
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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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  • Corporate Raiders from Dimension X
    7.5/10(158)
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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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  • Pizza by the Shred
    7.5/10(160)
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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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  • Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady
    7.5/10(160)
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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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  • Shredderville
    7.5/10(148)
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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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  • The Maltese Hamster
    7.4/10(175)
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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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  • Enter: The Rat King
    7.4/10(184)
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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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  • Turtles at the Earth's Core
    7.4/10(175)
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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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  • Take Me to Your Leader
    7.4/10(167)
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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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  • Michaelangelo's Birthday
    7.4/10(149)
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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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  • Turtles On Trial
    7.3/10(186)
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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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  • Sky Turtles
    7.3/10(184)
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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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  • 20.000 Leaks Under the City
    7.3/10(166)
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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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  • Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
    7.3/10(156)
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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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  • Usagi Yojimbo
    7.3/10(158)
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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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  • Bye Bye Fly
    7.3/10(134)
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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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  • The Big Break In
    7.3/10(134)
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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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  • Burne's Blues
    7.2/10(171)
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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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  • Return of the Fly
    7.2/10(151)
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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".