Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) season 7
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | |
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| Season 7 | |
| No. of episodes | 27 |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS and USA Network (Cartoon Express) |
| Original release | September 18 – October 30, 1993 |
| Season chronology | |
The seventh season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles chronologically begins where Episode 142 left off. The Technodrome is still located at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean[1] until the last episode, when it is sent back to Dimension X for the third and final time. However the sideseason takes place during season 4, while the Technodrome is on the Volcanic Asteroid in Dimension X.[2] These episodes were produced before Season 4 and aired in 1993 on the USA Cartoon Express.[3] In Ireland, they aired in 1990 placed between seasons 4 and 5.[4]
The more educational-based nature of the "Vacation in Europe" episodes allowed the use of Christian references. For example, Leonardo da Vinci's painting The Last Supper is seen in "Artless", set in Italy, while "Ring of Fire", set in Portugal, shows a Roman Catholic cathedral, complete with crosses, while crosses in general are avoided in the codes of US children's cartoons otherwise.[2]
Episodes
[edit]| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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| 143 | 1 | "Tower of Power" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Michael Malach | 1993 | 9059-051 |
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After winning a free European vacation, the Turtles journey to Paris, France. Meanwhile, Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop are planning to steal metal from the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day in order to power up the Technodrome. | ||||||
| 144 | 2 | "Rust Never Sleeps" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Lee Schneider and Matthew Malach | 1993 | 9059-052 |
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Still in Paris, the Turtles and Master Splinter visit the Louvre. Meanwhile, due to Shredder's incompetence, Krang's new Hyper Rocket Thruster becomes a Rust Encruster, with which he plans to oxidize the world's most famous landmarks and monuments, unless world leaders use their power reserves to bring the Technodrome back to Earth. | ||||||
| 145 | 3 | "A Real Snow Job" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Misty Taggart | 1993 | 9059-053 |
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In the Austrian Alps, Krang plans to use his new invention to melt the Alpine glaciers, flooding the low-lying villages. | ||||||
| 146 | 4 | "Venice on the Half Shell" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Misty Taggart | 1993 | 9059-054 |
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The Turtles take a tour of Venice, Italy, just in time for the annual Mardi Gras festival, which April O'Neil is covering for Channel 6. Meanwhile, Shredder and Krang plan to hold the priceless treasures of Venice to ransom by using Krang's HydroFluxor to flood the city. | ||||||
| 147 | 5 | "Artless" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Doug Molitor | 1993 | 9059-055 |
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Two intergalactic art collectors are stealing the priceless artworks from the museums of Florence, Italy. The aliens are taking only artworks designed by the Renaissance masters that the Turtles are named after. | ||||||
| 148 | 6 | "Night of the Dark Turtle" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | September 18, 1993[5] | 9062-9304 |
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After a fight with Shredder causes Donatello to be struck by a laser beam, his personality changes to become a costumed superhero known as the Dark Turtle. His mission: Seek out and destroy Shredder. Meanwhile, a dinosaur-like alien race called Triceratons, invades Earth. | ||||||
| 149 | 7 | "Ring of Fire" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Michael Edens | 1993 | 9059-059[6] |
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The Turtles and Splinter arrive in Lisbon, Portugal, just in time for the annual Running of the Bulls. Meanwhile, Shredder and the mutants will use Krang's new heat ray magnifier to burn the city to ashes using the power of the Sun unless the Turtles can stop them.
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| 150 | 8 | "The Irish Jig Is Up" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Story by : Carole Mendelsohn Teleplay by : John Fox | 1993 | 9059-057 |
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The Turtles and Splinter journey to Dublin, capital of the Republic of Ireland, land of myth and legend. Meanwhile, Shredder, Rocksteady, and Bebop use Krang's Rainbow TransCharmer to transform all of the cute, furry animals in Dublin into vicious beasts. | ||||||
| 151 | 9 | "Shredder's New Sword" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Francis Moss and Ted Pedersen | 1993 | 9059-058 |
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Shredder takes possession of the mythic sword, Excalibur, and proclaims himself "King Shredder". The Turtles, along with Merlin, must take it from him or else the Medieval period will merge with the modern world. | ||||||
| 152 | 10 | "The Lost Queen of Atlantis" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Michael Edens | 1993 | 9059-056 |
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The Turtles and Master Splinter travel to Athens, Greece, while April and Irma buy a mysterious amulet from a flea market vendor. Unfortunately, Krang and Shredder have tracked enormous power readings straight to April's necklace, which is slowly transforming her into the Queen of the mythical underwater city of Atlantis. | ||||||
| 153 | 11 | "Turtles on the Orient Express" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Doug Molitor | 1993 | 9059-060 |
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The Turtles take a trip on the famous Orient Express that runs from Gare de Lyon in Paris, France to Istanbul, Turkey. But Shredder is also on board and is planning to use Krang's new Super Charger to launch the Orient Express into the world's largest oil field. | ||||||
| 154 | 12 | "The Starchild" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | September 18, 1993 | 9062-9302 |
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A small alien being, named Quirx, crash-lands on Earth, with intergalactic stormtroopers in hot pursuit. The Turtles must figure out how to get Quirx back to his home planet, before Earth is destroyed. | ||||||
| 155 | 13 | "April Gets in Dutch" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Misty Taggart | 1993 | 9059-061 |
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In Amsterdam, Netherlands, the Turtles must stop Shredder from stealing the Duchess Diamond, that Krang needs to power his Laser Dimension Blade. Shredder has some competition though, as two bumbling thieves also want the diamond for themselves. | ||||||
| 156 | 14 | "Northern Lights Out" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Ted Pedersen and Francis Moss | 1993 | 9059-062 |
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While April is covering the Alternative Energy Convention in Oslo, Norway, the Turtles must track down Erik the Red Eye, a modern-day Viking and his crew, after they steal Professor Sven Svenson's scientific notes. | ||||||
| 157 | 15 | "Elementary, My Dear Turtle" | Bruno-Rene Huchez | Dennis O'Flaherty | 1993 | 9059-063 |
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After experiencing a time-slip with an atomic clock, the Turtles find themselves in 1890, where they meet the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, hot on the trail of Professor Moriarty, who has stolen the atomic clock with intentions to rule the future. The Turtles must retrieve the atomic clock before Moriarty uses it to change history and proclaim himself Emperor of the World. | ||||||
| 158 | 16 | "The Legend of Koji" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | September 25, 1993 | 9062-9303 |
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Shredder uses a time machine to travel back to Ancient Japan in the year 1583. He plans to defeat Hamato Koji, the man who founded the Foot Clan, and Splinter's great ancestor, for if Hamato Koji is defeated, then Master Splinter would never have been born and the Turtles would forever remain ordinary turtles. | ||||||
| 159 | 17 | "Convicts from Dimension X" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | Jack Mendelsohn | September 25, 1993 | 9062-9301 |
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Two convicts from Dimension X are brought to Earth when Donatello's Portable Portal Generator malfunctions. Unfortunately, Vernon and Irma are transported to the Dimension X Penitentiary in their place. The Turtles must defeat these convicts and somehow save Irma and Vernon. | ||||||
| 160 | 18 | "White Belt, Black Heart" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | Jack Mendelsohn and Carole Mendelsohn | October 2, 1993 | 9062-9305 |
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While Splinter's sensei, Mogo-san, is visiting New York, a criminal gang of ninja, known as the Black Heart Gang, are terrorizing the city with a crime spree, and Mogo-san's grandson, Yoku, is their leader. The Turtles and Splinter must stop Shredder and the Black Heart Gang from stealing secret maps of nuclear missile sites.
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| 161 | 19 | "Night of the Rogues" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 2, 1993 | 9062-9308 |
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In an attempt to finally defeat the Turtles once and for all, Shredder assembles Leatherhead, Tempestra, Scumbug, Chrome Dome, Antrax, the Rat King and Slash to form a team that proves too much for the Turtles to handle on their own.
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| 162 | 20 | "Attack of the Neutrinos" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 9, 1993 | 9062-9306 |
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The Neutrinos are captured by the Stone Soldiers and Krang has them brainwashed to use against the Turtles, to which the Turtles must work together to undo the brainwashing to stop Krang's latest scheme | ||||||
| 163 | 21 | "Escape from the Planet of the Turtleoids" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 9, 1993 | 9062-9307 |
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Kerma the space turtle returns once again for the Turtles help in programming his city's new defence robots but Groundchuck and Dirtbag have also returned to the city to cause trouble. | ||||||
| 164 | 22 | "Revenge of the Fly" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 16, 1993 | 9062-9309 |
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Baxter Stockman and his alien computer return to Earth from the Dimensional Limbo and take possession of Shredder's Retro-Mutagen Ray Gun. After stealing the essences of various insects and arachnids, he uses them to turn people into mutant insects and arachnids. The Turtles must battle the creatures and turn the people back to normal. | ||||||
| 165 | 23 | "Atlantis Awakes" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 16, 1993 | 9062-9313 |
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The Turtles discover an Atlantean city, not in ancient Greece, but in modern times. After meeting Merdude, who in reality is the true King of Atlantis, the Turtles must defeat Shredder and dethrone Bebop, who been set up as a puppet king. | ||||||
| 166 | 24 | "Dirk Savage: Mutant Hunter!" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 23, 1993 | 9062-9310 |
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When the evil mutants Tokka and Rahzar wreak havoc on the local mall, the city hires professional mutant hunter Dirk Savage to arrest the mutant population, including the Turtles, the Punk Frogs and Mondo Gecko. But genetics billionaire turned mutant slug A.J. Howard takes advantage of Savage's inability to trust mutants for his own plans. | ||||||
| 167 | 25 | "Invasion of the Krangazoids" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 23, 1993 | 9062-9314 |
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In order to defeat the Turtles, Krang creates 6 clones of himself to deal with them. But, when the clones start to think for themselves and Krang loses control, the Turtles must save the city. | ||||||
| 168 | 26 | "Combat Land" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 30, 1993 | 9062-9311 |
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A new amusement theme park has opened with shogun-, medieval- and future-themed attractions. The Turtles are invited to try out the attractions, but when the robots in the park start to play too rough, the Turtles are in big trouble. | ||||||
| 169 | 27 | "Shredder Triumphant!" | Bill Hutten and Tony Love | David Wise | October 30, 1993 | 9062-9312 |
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After bringing the Technodrome back to the surface, Shredder and Krang trap the Turtles and send them to Dimension X where they become slaves. In the meantime, Shredder and Krang are back on Earth once again as they try to take over the world.
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DVD release
[edit]For the 23 disc DVD set of all 10 seasons these episodes are listed as Episodes 14 - 20 on discs 19 and 20 of the 2012 collector's edition after the Vacation In Europe side season. Vacation in Europe was released on discs 17 and 18 of the 2012 DVD collection edition. Discs 17 - 20 are Season 7 in the collector's set.
References
[edit]- ^ Mark Pellegrini (November 27, 2015). "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) Season 7, Part 3 Review". Adventures in Poor Taste. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ^ a b Mark Pellegrini (August 21, 2015). "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) Season 7, Part 1 Review". Adventures in Poor Taste. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
- ^ "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) Episodes - TV.com". Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
- ^ RTÉ Guide, 8–14 December 1990 edition and subsequent dates
- ^ "Registration No. PA0000688059 / 1994-01-07". US Copyright Office.
- ^ "Registration No. PA0000610663 / 1993-06-01". US Copyright Office.
