This is a list of episodes of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series. The series debuted on February 8, 2003 on the Fox Network as part of Fox's 4Kids TV Saturday morning lineup and ended on February 28, 2009. The series was produced by Mirage Studios, which owned one third of the rights to the show.
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First aired | Last aired | Network | ||||
| 1 | 26 | Fox (FoxBox/4Kids TV) | ||||
| 2 | 26 | |||||
| 3 | 26 | |||||
| 4 | 26 | |||||
| 5 | Ninja Tribunal | 12 | ||||
| 6 | Fast Forward | 26 | ||||
| 7 | Back to the Sewer | 13 | The CW (The CW4Kids) | |||
| Shorts | Mayhem from Mutant Island | 13 | ||||
| Turtles Forever | ||||||
See main article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) season 1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' first season originally aired between February 8, 2003 and November 1, 2003, beginning with the "Things Change" episode.[1] The episodes were released in two separate volumes, the first on May 22, 2007 with twelve episodes, and the second on September 18, 2007 with fourteen episodes.[2] [3]
See main article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) season 2. The Shredder returns in season 2 and is revealed to be an Utrom named Ch'rell. Karai, the daughter of the Shredder makes her first appearance in this season.
See main article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) season 3. Many of the Ninja Turtles' enemies return in season 3. This is the final season that includes Utrom Shredder.
See main article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) season 4. For the entire season Karai is the leader of the Foot Clan. Hun controls the Purple Dragons. New enemies are seen in this season.
See main article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Ninja Tribunal.
To try and increase interest in the series, Fox aired the "Fast Forward" season on commercial TV in 2006. 4Kids Entertainment later signed a deal with Comcast and the season began airing on Comcast-On-Demand on August 7, 2006; however, after airing five episodes, the airings were canceled. Fox later aired the "Membership Drive" episode on March 24, 2007, which was the first episode of the season to air on regular television. 4Kids TV started showing "The Ninja Tribunal" and the 12 completed episodes of this season weekly beginning on February 16, 2008. The season was promoted as the "Lost Episodes."[4]
See main article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) season 6. The sixth season, subtitled Fast Forward, originally aired between July 29, 2006 and October 27, 2007, beginning with the episode "Future Shellshock."[5] It includes new designs for all returning characters.
See main article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) season 7. For most of the final season of the series, subtitled Back to the Sewer, the Shredder of the virtual world of Cyberspace is the main villain, and Master Splinter is trapped deep within virtual limbo with a desperate Donatello resolved to restore his real world form.
Starting on March 7, 2009, a series of 13 shorts, called "chapters", ranging from 90 seconds to two minutes in length, began airing on The CW4Kids during episodes of TMNT: Back to the Sewer and Chaotic: M'arrillian Invasion. They were streamed on the 4Kids website a week in advance of airing them on television. The episodes comprise a single story called "Mayhem from Mutant Island."[6] On March 27, 2010, the 13 shorts were re-aired and compiled as the single episode "Mayhem from Mutant Island," serving as an extra, fourteenth installment to the season.
A TV movie based on the series was produced by 4Kids Entertainment. It premiered November 21, 2009 on The CW4Kids.
See main article: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) home video releases.