7.4/1041 votes#1 - Future Imperfect
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/1990
Stardate: 44286.5. Riker awakens one morning to discover he is suddenly 16 years in the future as the captain of the Enterprise, and negotiating a peace treaty with the Romulans with no recollection of how he arrived at that point in time, or of any recent events.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
6.3/103 votes#2 - 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
6.0/101 votes#3 - The Sound Stones
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 9/23/1987
Bored and feeling that they are no longer needed, the Thunderkittens run away from home, but soon run into problems when they become ill from berries they had picked. A creature known as Cudi saves their lives. When the other Thundercats find them, the Thunderkittens invite Cudi to Cats Lair. But Mumm-Ra has been observing the situation and disguises himself as Cudi to gain entrance to the Lair. Many disasters occur and the blame is put on the false Cudi, who traps the Thundercats in the council chamber. The Thundercats realize it's Mumm-Ra and they manage to escape and defeat him.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
6.0/101 votes#4 - Hachiman's Honor
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 9/29/1987
Hatchiman rescues an old woman not knowing it's Luna. She "invites" him to her "cave" and there she and Chilla and Aluro attack him and take his sword, the Thundercutter. The Thunderkittens find Hatchiman and rescue him. The Lunataks plan to use the Thundercutter with their new samurai robot, Automaton, to fight Lion-O and the Sword of Omens. The Thundercutter can't tell who's good and who's evil in the fight but when Hatchiman touches the sword, the Thundercutter destroys the robot.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
6.0/101 votes#5 - Totem of Dera
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 9/12/1988
Mumm-ra finds the Totem of Dera (a part of the T-cat treasure) which has special healing powers and can bring inanimate objects to life. He gives it to Vulture-Man and the Mutants so they can make a device to destroy the T-cats. After making the device, the mutants decide to test it near a swamp. At Cat's Lair, Lion-O sees that there is some mutant activity near the swamp. He, Wilykit, and Snarfer decide to check it out. When going to the swamp, the Hovercat is brought down by a swamp monster made by the device. The Hovercat crashes in the swamp, and Lion-O gets intoxicated by the deadly swamp water. Jaga appears and tells Snarfer that he must get the Totem of Dera to heal Lion-O. Snarfer gets the Totem and succeeds in healing Lion-O. Lion-O calls on the T-cats to try to kill the swamp monster. When all their weapons prove ineffective against the monster, the T-Cats come up with the idea to dissolve the monster in water and they succeed in defeating it.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
6.0/101 votes#6 - Return of the ThunderCubs
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 9/20/1988
Panthro, Tygra, and Cheetara return to New Thundera in the Feliner to find more of the Treasure of Thundera, but Mumm-Ra shoots the Feliner down and, as the Fog of Despair, sends them to the Canyons of Youth, which changes them back into Thundercubs. Then Mumm-Ra disguises himself as Lion-O and tells the Thundercubs to find the treasure for him. Meanwhile, back on Third Earth, Lion-O and Snarf decide to go rescue the Thundercats on New Thundera, but they must ask the Mutants to take them to New Thundera in the Rat-Star. The Mutants agree, secretly planning to attack Lion-O once they're in space. They do attack and imprison him and Snarf on the way to Thundera, but they manage to break out. Cheetara meanwhile, using her sixth sense, locates part of the treasure, the Mirror of Truth. The real Lion-O shows up, and uses the Sword of Omens with the Mirror of Truth to restore the cubs to their proper age, and Mumm-Ra reveals himself and turns into Mumm-Ra the everliving. Cheetara uses the mi
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
6.0/101 votes#7 - The Last Day
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 9/30/1988
With the Mutants and Lunataks gone, the Ancient Spirits of Evil give Mumm-Ra until sunset to destroy all the Thundercats, and to prove they're not bluffing, they exile Ma-Mutt. Mumm-Ra spreads destruction all over Third Earth, sends Tygra, Cheetara, and Panthro to limbo, and buries Lion-O alive. Then he attacks and destroys the Tower of Omens, and the Thunderkittens barely escape, but Mumm-Ra sends them to limbo too. Snarf must go into the Book of Omens to find out how to defeat Mumm-Ra. Jaga and the Thundercats in limbo go into the Eye of Thundera to help Lion-O free himself from his rocky prison. Lion-O then battles Mumm-Ra at Cats Lair and finds out from Snarf that Mumm-Ra only has until sunset to defeat the Thundercats. Mumm-Ra fails and the Ancient Spirits of Evil banish and exile Mumm-Ra from Third Earth. With all their enemies gone, the Thundercats decide to permanently return to New Thundera
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
6.0/101 votes#8 - Leah
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 9/11/1989
The Ancient Spirits of Evil bring the Mirror Wraith to Mumm-Ra, and he disguises it as a child's toy. Mumm-Ra then intercepts a thunderian escape pod which carries in it a little girl. He gives the toy to the child (Leah), and leaves. She is rescued by the Thundercats, and goes into New Cat's Lair with the doll. The doll turns into the Mirror Wraith when left alone, and begins to destroy Cat's Lair, and the Thundercats have no clue where the evil Mirror Wraith came from.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
6.0/101 votes#9 - Orko's Return
Season 2 Episode 53 - Aired 11/22/1984
Beast Man and Trap Jaw go into business for themselves, having stolen the Amber Crystal of Milaka. They use the Crystal to capture Orko and hold him to ransom, for all the Photanium in Eternia. As He-Man and Man-At-Arms set about looking for a way to rescue Orko without meeting the ransom demand, the imprisoned Orko uses his magic to the effect that Beast Man and Trap Jaw wish they'd never captured him in the first place...
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
6.0/101 votes#10 - Swifty's Baby
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 12/5/1986
Swift Wind and his pegacorn girlfriend are going to have a baby pegacorn. Hordak captures the mother but She-Ra rescues her.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
5.7/103 votes#11 - Mutagen Monster
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 10/26/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
5.7/103 votes#12 - The Making of Metalhead
Season 3 Episode 35 - Aired 11/10/1989
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
5.3/103 votes#13 - Usagi Come Home
Season 3 Episode 34 - Aired 11/9/1989
Shredder tricks Usagi Yojimbo into battling the Turtles.
Director: N/A
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
5.0/101 votes#14 - A Date With Carmen (2)
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/17/1994
After recovering Ben's key, Zack and Ivy travel back to Boston and discover Carmen stole Paul Revere's horseshoe. They fail to recover it then and chase Carmen to England and prevent her from stealing the uncracked Liberty Bell. They manage to recover the horseshoe, but Carmen reminds them she can simply travel back through time and steal it again. Zack and Ivy follow her to Paul Revere's barn, but she gets away. Then the detectives return the horseshoe and history returns to normal. In the present day, Zack sets the Chronskimmer down for a moment and it disappears...
Director: Joe Barruso
Writer: J. Larry Carroll
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"Future Imperfect" is the best rated episode written by J. Larry Carroll. It scored 7.4/10 based on 41 votes. It was directed by Les Landau. It aired on 11/12/1990 and is rated 1.1 points higher than their second-best episode, "Turtles at the Earth's Core".