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Season 4 - Episode Guide

Episodes

Plan Six from Outer Space

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Sep 10, 1990

Plan Six from Outer Space

With the Technodrome in serious need for new equipment, Bebop and Rocksteady are sent to Earth, disguised in human form, to capture the Channel 6 building and return it to Dimension X.

Turtles of the Jungle

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Sep 11, 1990

Turtles of the Jungle

A professor's new ray-gun causes plants to go wild and his pet ape Jocko to become a giant rampaging monkey. By using the same ray-gun, Donatello is increased to Jocko's size so he can fight the giant ape and save April from him

Michaelangelo Toys Around

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Sep 12, 1990

Michaelangelo Toys Around

While trying to see the new toys at the Toy Fair, Michelangelo stumbles upon a plot to take over a noted toy company.

Peking Turtle

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Sep 13, 1990

Peking Turtle

The Turtles must battle a reanimated Terracotta Army after Shredder steals an energy device shaped like a giant pearl, which is held and guarded by a Jade Dragon.

Shredder's Mom

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Sep 14, 1990

Shredder's Mom

New York is in the middle of an induced heat wave caused by Shredder, who must battle the Turtles and deal with his mother, Miyoko Saki, at the same time.

Four Turtles and a Baby

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Sep 17, 1990

Four Turtles and a Baby

When General Tragg and his troops attack the Neutrino capital, the Neutrino leaders, Zenter and Gizzla, send their infant daughter Tribble through a portal to Earth, asking the Turtles to look after her, but Tribble causes big trouble for our heroes.

Turtlemaniac

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Sep 18, 1990

Turtlemaniac

An eccentric billionaire, Monroe Q. Flem, who is also a collector, wishes to collect every piece of TMNT memorabilia that he can get his evil hands on, including April and the Turtles themselves.

Rondo in New York

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1990

Rondo in New York

J. Gordon Hungerdunger, a Texas millionaire, is holding a "best super-hero" contest. The winner of the contest will receive the humongous Malaprop Diamond. No one is aware of it, but Hungerdunger is using the contest as a diversion so that he can put a zombie-making chemical into the city's water supply. The malevolent millionaire figures that if he can get the citizens under his control, he can easily take over the city.

Planet of the Turtles

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Sep 20, 1990

Planet of the Turtles

The Turtles must save the Earth from a massive energy drain and its Apocalyptic result by traveling to another dimension where turtles are the dominant species.

Name That Toon

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: Sep 21, 1990

Name That Toon

A Technodrome computer disguised as an electronic keyboard ends up on Earth, and in the most unlikely of hands.

Menace, Maestro Please

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1990

Menace, Maestro Please

When a power surge causes an arcade machine to release Tempestra, It's up to Leonardo to stop her digital wrath before she becomes dangerously powerful.

Super Hero for a Day

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1990

Super Hero for a Day

Gadget Man comes out of retirement after 50 years, but is tricked by Shredder into fighting against the Turtles.

Back to the Egg

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1990

Back to the Egg

Krang hires a multi-dimensional ring-master who intends on making the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles part of his circus by using an anti-aging serum.

Son of Return of the Fly II

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1990

Son of Return of the Fly II

Vengeful Baxter Stockman and an A.I. computer return to Earth from a dimensional limbo and capture the Turtles while luring Shredder into their trap as well.

Raphael Knocks 'em Dead

Episode: 4x15 | Airdate: Sep 25, 1990

Raphael Knocks 'em Dead

Raphael must contend with a mobster named Pinky McFingers when he is kidnapped from a local comedy club.

Raphael Meets His Match

Episode: 4x17 | Airdate: Oct 2, 1990

Raphael Meets His Match

Raphael wins a place at the owner of a fast food chain's party. When the yacht is taken hostage by Hi-Tech pirates he and the mysterious lizard-woman Mona Lisa work together to stop them.

Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X

Episode: 4x18 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1990

Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X

Bebop and Rocksteady use Krang's new Mutagen on Bebop's pet turtle Slash so he can do their housework for them. Slash runs away and is conned by an irritated entrepreneur into framing the TMNT.

Leonardo Lightens Up

Episode: 4x19 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1990

Leonardo Lightens Up

A ray-gun makes Leonardo carefree and ignore his responsibilities. This leaves the Turtles defenseless and the city at the mercy of Maestro G Clef, a villain who destroys the city with music.

Were-Rats from Channel 6

Episode: 4x20 | Airdate: Oct 5, 1990

Were-Rats from Channel 6

After many failed attempts from his rodent subjects to find food, the Rat King learns of an abandoned canister of mutagen lost in the sewers and claims it for himself. Then, he kidnaps Irma and Vernon and uses the mutagen to transform them into his mutant slaves, for the sole purpose of raiding food warehouses. It is later discovered that the mutations are unstable and can only be active if the Rat King plays his hypnotic flute.

Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo

Episode: 4x21 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1990

Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo

When Michelangelo decides to put one of Donatello's inventions on max power for his own entertainment, he ends in a--quite literally--little problem. April and Vernon get caught in the shrinking ray while getting footage of a military ship and join Michelangelo on his wild adventure.

The Big Zipp Attack

Episode: 4x22 | Airdate: Oct 9, 1990

The Big Zipp Attack

An alien called a "Zipp" is sent to Earth, but this little alien soon becomes a big problem.

Donatello Makes Time

Episode: 4x23 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1990

Donatello Makes Time

Donatello invents a machine that can freeze time, which a deranged professor steals as part of a plan to conquer the world.

Farewell, Lotus Blossom

Episode: 4x24 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1990

Farewell, Lotus Blossom

Ninja Lotus Blossom's nightmares draw her to a strange artifact in the Turtles' possession. The artifact contains an angry spirit, whose wife's soul is within Lotus.

Rebel Without a Fin

Episode: 4x25 | Airdate: Oct 12, 1990

Rebel Without a Fin

Dr. Polidorius, a mad scientist plotting to mutate all humanity into aquatic-beings, creates Ray (not the similarly-named Mighty Mutanimals character), who possesses several abilities of different marine species. Ray kidnaps April O'Neil, and Polidorius mutates her into a fish-woman to be Ray's mate.

Rhino-Man

Episode: 4x26 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1990

Rhino-Man

The world's richest man announces a contest for the greatest superhero. The winner will receive an enormous diamond. Shredder and Krang enroll Bebop and Rocksteady for the contest to win the diamond. The turtles are incredibly surprised when they meet superhero contestants like Cheeseburger Man, Newsman (aka Vernon) and Rhino-man (aka Rocksteady) with his sidekick Mighty Hawk (aka Bebop).

Michaelangelo Meets Bugman

Episode: 4x27 | Airdate: Oct 27, 1990

Michaelangelo Meets Bugman

Michelangelo meets his favourite comic book hero after he saves a weakened Brick Bradley in the sewers, and then he and Bugman take on the evil Electrozapper together.

Poor Little Rich Turtle

Episode: 4x28 | Airdate: Nov 3, 1990

Poor Little Rich Turtle

Michelangelo must babysit and protect a young rich girl named Buffy, who knows the formula for a super fuel that Krang needs for the Technodrome.

What's Michelangelo Good For?

Episode: 4x29 | Airdate: Oct 16, 1990

What's Michelangelo Good For?

Michelangelo must rescue the other Turtles when they are captured by an evil scientist.

The Dimension X Story

Episode: 4x30 | Airdate: Sep 1, 1990

The Dimension X Story

Shredder has a plan to destroy the Turtles, but with the Technodrome's portal out of commission, he is unable to challenge them on Earth, so he uses the Dimensional Teleporter to bring his enemies to Dimension X.

Donatello's Degree

Episode: 4x31 | Airdate: Sep 1, 1990

Donatello's Degree

Donatello earns his degree from Sopho University, but discovers that he has been mistaken for a girl, so he asks Irma to masquerade as him. Meanwhile, the real Donatello discovers a plot by Professor Philo Sopho to destroy the Earth.

The Big Cufflink Caper!

Episode: 4x32 | Airdate: Oct 19, 1990

The Big Cufflink Caper!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are looking for some excitment. They soon find it when hoods start robbing fancy stores but only steal cufflinks! The turtles decide to investigate this and the only way to do so is to go as undercover crooks. After putting a competing gang "on ice", the turtles get the scoop on the cufflinks and learn which cufflink they really want which is a high explosive and so the turtles must keep the hoods, and Shredder, Rocksteady, and Bebop away from it.

Leonardo vs. Tempestra

Episode: 4x33 | Airdate: Nov 17, 1990

Leonardo vs. Tempestra

One night the turtles crash the video arcade to play video games all night. Leonardo's eye is caught by a video game called Tempestra's revenge. No matter how good of player, Leonardo is, he always loses to Tempestra. But things get much worse after the video game comes to life and Tempestra breaks free. She needs an awful lot of energy source in order to continue to exist.

Splinter Vanishes

Episode: 4x34 | Airdate: Dec 24, 1990

Splinter Vanishes

Splinter has suddenly disappeared, and a note left behind from him forces the Turtles to go their separate ways, but one by one, they are captured by Leatherhead and the Rat King.

Raphael Drives 'em Wild

Episode: 4x35 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1990

Raphael Drives 'em Wild

On his way home from getting pizza, Raphael and a cab driver accidentally get exposed to rays from a Personality Transmogrifier.

Beyond the Donatello Nebula

Episode: 4x36 | Airdate: Nov 24, 1990

Beyond the Donatello Nebula

While trying to contact the Turtle Nebula, Donatello meets an intelligent lizard alien named Algernon ("Algae" for short), who must help him and the other Turtles rescue April from a greedy man named Hostile Hiram Grelch.

Big Bug Blunder

Episode: 4x37 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1990

Big Bug Blunder

A failed mutagen experiment results in an invasion of giant insects and arachnids in New York City.

The Foot Soldiers are Revolting

Episode: 4x38 | Airdate: Dec 1, 1990

The Foot Soldiers are Revolting

A Foot Soldier named Alpha-1 has his intelligence increased, but it results in a Foot Soldier rebellion against Shredder and Krang and the duo's exile from the Technodrome.

Unidentified Flying Leonardo

Episode: 4x39 | Airdate: Oct 26, 1990

Unidentified Flying Leonardo

While helping April investigate a report of giant monsters attacking a superstitious farming village, Leonardo is mistaken for an alien from another planet. The lone Turtle must avoid being hunted down into extinction while also trying to rescue April from a mad scientist.

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