Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Tutrles {1st Series} was a animated cartoon series those pilot was December 28, 1987 and which ran from October 1, 1988 to November 2, 1996 for 193 epsiodes for 10 seasons and a sideseason as well.

A second series appeared from Feb 8, 2003 to nov 21, 2009 for 156 episodes {7 seasons} and 1 TV movie

A third series is scheduled to appear in 2012

Characthers

 * Michelangelo
 * Shredder aka Oroko Saki. Is the main enemy of the TMNT and ironically their "father"-when he tried to use mutagen to turn his former dojo master into a rat-it mutated his master into a rat/human and changed ordinary Turtles in TMNT! Besides destroying the Turtles, Shredder has two other ambitions-conquer the earth and become a great writer! In epsiode {Season 3 #43} "Shredderville" The TMNT finds themselves in a parraell earth-where they never existed and Shredder and Krang have conquered the world. Ironically Shredder finds the task of ruling so burdensome-he has a nervious breakdown!


 * Krang-a disembodied talking brain from Dimension X. Has an uneasy alliance with Shredder. Master of the tecnodrome-a space war machine. In the panultimate episode {Season 3 # 47} The_Big_Blow_Out Krang is about to conquer the earth with help from Dimension X-until Shredder obession of revenge against the TNMT results in Shredder, Krang, Beebop, Rocksteady and the tecnodrome being pushed back into Dimension X!
 * Beebop and Rockstedy members of a Street gang who were mutated by Shredder into a warthog/human and a rhino/human. Play the comic relief of idiot sidekicks. In one epsiode-which spoof the TV/News industry both are TV executives who are in charge of scheduling cartoon shows!
 * Baxter Stockman-a mad scientist who tries and fails to get revenge on Shredder for turning him into a fly/human. His only "friend" is a computer console
 * Barney Stockman-a mad scientist who is also a twin of Baxter Stockman-which makes him angry when he is confused with his brother!
 * Usagi Yojimbo a rabbit sumari who is the TNMT friend. Appeared twice in the first series and reappeared in the second series

Voices

 * Shredder voiced by James Avery