Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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The Turtles and the Hare
Sep 23, 1991
In Krang's latest scheme, Rocksteady and Bebop, dressed as Easter bunnies, are blasting people with a Docilizer Ray and turning them into timid, rabbit-like people.
Once Upon a Time Machine
Sep 24, 1991
Hokum Hare discovers that Shredder has a time train to travel to the future, where he can become crimelord of a crime-free era.
My Brother, the Bad Guy
Sep 14, 1991
Shredder breaks into the Ninja Hall of Fame and steals the diary of the famous Brothers Kojima. He leaves his fingerprints all over the place though, and one Lieutenant Saki, Shred
Michaelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko
Sep 14, 1991
Michaelangelo awakes in the middle of the night from a bad dream. Unable to remember what it was about, Splinter assists him through hypnotism. Mikey vividly recalls the day that h
Enter: Mutagen Man
Sep 21, 1991
In the frozen tundra of the Arctic Polar Cap, Krang rants and raves that Rocksteady and Bebop will not return in time with the Bindex 3 to load the mutagen into the rocket ship's f
Donatello's Badd Time
Sep 21, 1991
While road testing the Turtle Van with his latest inventions, Donatello encounters a family of criminal hillbillies known as the Badd Family.
Muckman Messes Up
Sep 28, 1991
Attempting to de-mutate the Turtles, Krang sends Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop to the Earth's surface to retrieve Compound X-7.
Michaelangelo Meets Bugman Again
Sep 28, 1991
Michaelangelo and the other Turtles go topside in an effort to find the latest issue of "The Adventures of Bugman", only to learn that the comic book has been canceled.
Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps
Oct 5, 1991
While Krang hires some local hoods to drill for anti-freeze Shredder, Rocksteady and Bebop visit the Louisiana Swamps in search of the Mutagen Pool.
Raphael VS The Volcano
Oct 5, 1991
Thanks to a malfunction in Donatello's Healthometer, an invention designed to diagnose one's health, Raphael is convinced that he is not long for this world. Raphael decides to mak
Landlord of the Flies
Oct 19, 1991
Baxter Fly is back, and this time he has assembled an army of flies to infest the city, endangering millions just so Stockman can get to Shredder.
Donatello's Duplicate
Oct 19, 1991
Donatello decides to create a clone of himself so that he can spend more time on his inventions while his clone spends more time fixing things around the Lair. Donny tests his late
The Ice Creature Cometh
Oct 26, 1991
While the Turtles do battle with a refrigerator that has not been defrosted lately, Rocksteady and Bebop decide that they want to be the top mutants at the Technodrome and throw ou
Leonardo Cuts Loose
Oct 26, 1991
A series of baffling crimes are being committed by "brawny burglars" with thick Austrian accents and the Turtles are on the case, but so is Casey Jones and that could mean nothing
Pirate Radio
Nov 2, 1991
Krang's attempt to split the Inter-Dimensional portal goes awry. By utilizing the pirate radio station WOOF Krang believes that he can use the station to lure the City's populace i
Raphael, Turtle of a Thousand Faces
Nov 2, 1991
Raphael's ego is bruised when the other Turtles laugh at him for taking a correspondence class in the art of disguise. Raphael challenges his brothers to go to Central Park and pic
Zach and the Alien Invaders
Nov 9, 1991
Zach, the Turtles' young friend, and honorary fifth Turtle, is infatuated with comic books, especially 'The Alien Invaders.' Zach retires his Turtle costume when his parents enroll
Leonardo, the Renaissance Turtle
Nov 9, 1991
The City Mayor announces an end to crime when he introduces Professor Mindbender and the professor's latest invention: LEX, a robotic police officer. LEX rids the streets of crime
Welcome Back, Polarisoids
Nov 16, 1991
Krang wants to get a hold of the Polarisoids' camera. Krang sends a fake invitation to the Polarisoids to visit Earth, only the Polarisoids think that the invitation is from the Tu
Michaelangelo, the Sacred Turtle
Nov 16, 1991
While the other Turtles go off to the local Planetarium to see O'Malley's comet, Michaelangelo visits the Natural History Museum with April O'Neil for the unveiling of the mummy of
Planet of the Turtleloids, Part 1
Aug 31, 1990
The turtles, Groundchuck and Dirtbag are taken to Shellri-La by an alien "Turtleoid" named Kerma. Kerma seeks help from the turtles to defend his planet from a two-headed dragon na
Planet of the Turtleloids, Part 2
Aug 31, 1990
The turtles unmask the dragon as they prove that the menacing creature is actually operated by two renegade Turtleoid delegates. Kerma return the turtles back to Earth, where they