Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) is an American animated children's television series that originally aired on CBS. The show is based off comic book characters created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are exactly what their title suggests, four turtles who accidentally fall into a contaminated sewer and mutate to great size as they develop into their teenage years. They are adopted by an equally mutated elderly sewer rat and ex ninja named Splinter and raised to be warrior heroes under his wise ninja guidance. Thus Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello secretly fight to protect the New York city streets from the evil gang lord, The Shredder! He controls the evil "Foot Clan", an underground martial art crime cult that also includes the diabolical brain Krang and other animal mutants Bebop and Rocksteady! The Turtles aren't in it alone, they'll have help from the ever-so-lovely news reporter, April O'Neill. This Saturday morning classic and unconventional superhero story became a nationwide hit and defined what it meant to have "Turtle Power!". So grab a pizza, sit back and Cowabunga! (whatever that means. MORE