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The Best Episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3

Every episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3!

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Four turtles fall into the sewers and are befriended by Hamato Yoshi a Japanese man sent to New York who was forced to live in the sewers. One day he sees a strange green glow

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 18 - Cowabunga Shredhead
    7.9/10(236 votes)

    S3:E18

    The Shredder thinks he's Michaelangelo after a computer malfunction.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 23 - Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero
    7.6/10(234 votes)

    S3:E23

    An eager vigilante is causing a stir in the city, while Krang and Shredder take control of all the machines in the city. Maybe this new 'hero' can help the Turtles.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly

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  3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 47 - The Big Blow Out
    7.6/10(182 votes)

    S3:E47

    After several setbacks, Shredder and Krang steal all of New York's electricity and charge it into a giant transdimensional gateway, designed to send Earth into Dimension X. The Turtles must defeat their enemies once and for all before Earth is destroyed by Krang's Rock Soldier army.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Wise

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  4. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 6 - The Old Switcheroo
    7.5/10(229 votes)

    S3:E6

    The personalities of Shredder and Splinter are switched when a device is accidentally activated during a battle between the Turtles and their enemies. As Shredder plans the Turtles' demise and Splinter plans on how to get back to his body, everyone else is clueless.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Mark Edward Edens, Michael Edens

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  5. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 36 - Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
    7.5/10(191 votes)

    S3:E36

    Leatherhead has come to the city searching for the Turtles. While crawling through the sewers he encounters the Rat King who charges him with trespassing.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Wise

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  6. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 1 - Beneath these Streets
    7.4/10(244 votes)

    S3:E1

    The Turtles learn the cost of slacking off when Splinter is badly hurt during a confrontation with Shredder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 13 - The Ninja Sword of Nowhere
    7.4/10(221 votes)

    S3:E13

    Krang's computers detect an alien metal on the surface of the Earth. Krang sends Shredder, along with an Alien Metal Detector, to the surface to find it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Francis Moss

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  8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 15 - Take Me to Your Leader
    7.4/10(214 votes)

    S3:E15

    Full of self doubt, Leonardo leaves the team. Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello all take turns being leader as they try to figure out why the sun is getting smaller.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Francis Moss

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  9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 25 - Corporate Raiders from Dimension X
    7.4/10(203 votes)

    S3:E25

    High ranking corporate executives are kidnapped by men in business suits. The Turtles don't get involved until they learn that one of these corporations is the world's largest suppliers of pizza.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Mark Edward Edens, Michael Edens

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  10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 26 - Pizza by the Shred
    7.4/10(201 votes)

    S3:E26

    Michaelangelo gets a job as a pizza delivery boy. But who's his new boss?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 43 - Shredderville
    7.4/10(185 votes)

    S3:E43

    The Turtles are frustrated that they let Shredder slip away from them again. They feel like giving up, and wish they had never been born.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 10 - Turtles at the Earth's Core
    7.3/10(221 votes)

    S3:E10

    Dinosaurs invade the Big Apple. Befriending a young diplodocus the Turtles trace the invading dinosaurs to their source finding a lost world.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:J. Larry Carroll

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  13. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 27 - Super Bebop & Mighty Rocksteady
    7.3/10(200 votes)

    S3:E27

    Shredder and Krang produce hi-tech versions of Rocksteady and Bebop to keep the Turtles busy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:J. Larry Carroll, David Bennett Carren

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  14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 2 - Turtles On Trial
    7.2/10(236 votes)

    S3:E2

    The intentions of the Ninja Turtles are put to the test when a controversial TV-figure portrays our heroes as menaces to society.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 4 - The Maltese Hamster
    7.2/10(224 votes)

    S3:E4

    Gangsters are swiping all the antiques in town. And when they swipe most of our heroes, it's up to Donatello and April to find out why. Could Shredder be behind this?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Wise

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  16. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 5 - Sky Turtles
    7.2/10(230 votes)

    S3:E5

    The Turtles go flying when the Shredder invents a gravity-altering device.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly

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  17. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 9 - Enter: The Rat King
    7.2/10(235 votes)

    S3:E9

    Thompson assigns April to research the growing rat infestation. She is pursued by an army of rats and escapes on a passing city bus.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Francis Moss

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  18. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 14 - 20,000 Leaks Under the City
    7.2/10(214 votes)

    S3:E14

    Still searching for a way to destroy the Turtles, Krang develops a super pump that he intends to use to flood the sewers.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Mark McCorkle, Bob Schooley

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  19. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 31 - Michaelangelo's Birthday
    7.2/10(184 votes)

    S3:E31

    It's Michaelangelo's birthday, but none of his brothers seem to remember, and it frustrates him greatly.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Wise

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  20. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 32 - Usagi Yojimbo
    7.2/10(197 votes)

    S3:E32

    A rabbit ronin warrior from an alternate dimension is lost in our world. While the Turtles help him adjust, Shredder steals a dragon egg to unleash it on the city.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Wise

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  21. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 44 - Bye Bye Fly
    7.2/10(170 votes)

    S3:E44

    An interdimensional alien spacecraft leads Baxter Stockman to his latest vengeful plot to destroy the Turtles and Shredder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Wise

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  22. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 46 - The Big Break In
    7.2/10(170 votes)

    S3:E46

    The Technodrome is up and running again, and it is up to the Turtles to hinder Shredder and Krang from getting to the surface.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Francis Moss

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  23. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 12 - Attack of the Big MACC
    7.1/10(220 votes)

    S3:E12

    A robot warrior arrives from 400 years in the future in 20th-Century New York.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Francis Moss

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  24. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 22 - Return of the Fly
    7.1/10(199 votes)

    S3:E22

    Baxter Stockman returns for revenge against the Turtles and Shredder, while our heroes attempt to stop Shredder's plan to siphon water from an underground reservoir.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael Reaves

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  25. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3 Episode 30 - Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
    7.1/10(197 votes)

    S3:E30

    While Raphael is reliving the past, via the Turtles' photo album, their frog friends in the Florida Swamps are being terrorized by a mutant alligator known as Leatherhead.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Wise

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Cowabunga Shredhead" is the best rated episode of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" season 3. It scored 7.9/10 based on 236 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Michael Reaves, it aired on 10/18/1989. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero".