Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 3
Season 3 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 2.
- 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
Season 3 Progress Shield
Space Invaders (1)
Oct 9, 2004 · 21 min
The Triceratons have invaded looking for the Fugitoid. Unfortunately, no one on Earth knows what the heck the big horn heads are talking about.
Space Invaders (2)
Oct 16, 2004 · 21 min
Having managed to rescue Casey and April from becoming slaves, the turtles have lost Donatello to the Triceratons. Donatello tries desperately to convince Prime Leader Zanramon tha
Space Invaders (3)
Oct 23, 2004 · 21 min
Searching for the captive Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo sneak their way into Republic Central, the hub of the Triceraton Homeworld.
Worlds Collide (1)
Oct 30, 2004 · 21 min
Just when the turtles think everything's under control with the Triceratons leaving fully convinced the Fugitoid is not on planet Earth, the Fugitoid shows up!
Worlds Collide (2)
Nov 6, 2004 · 21 min
Just when our four turtles thought they had fooled the Triceratons and disguised the Fugitoid, they find themselves captives of the Military.
Worlds Collide (3)
Nov 13, 2004 · 21 min
At the secret Federation/military base, the turtles are about to be dissected by Agent Bishop, a very bad resident of planet Earth. Luckily, our odd trio of commandos (Splinter, Ap
Touch and Go
Nov 20, 2004 · 21 min
Welcome to the New World...same as the Old World. While the Turtles attempt to assess the damage around their lair, they find that adjusting to their post alien invasion lives migh
Hunted
Nov 27, 2004 · 21 min
For a two ton reptile, Leatherhead actually makes the ideal houseguest; neat, tidy, always pays his rent on time... except for the fact that his temper is really out of control.
H.A.T.E
Dec 4, 2004 · 21 min
Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael come across a band of crazed, heavily armed, alien-hating Survivalists, bent upon delivering and detonating a thermo nuclear device in New York
Nobody's Fool
Dec 11, 2004 · 21 min
When Michelangelo and Leonardo are out getting a little night air, they cross paths with a caped crusader who ends up saving their lives. The Turtles soon learn that he's really a
The Lesson
Dec 18, 2004 · 21 min
April asks the Turtles to help perfect her ninjitsu skills. But the Turtles are reluctant to do so and recount a story about how they once tried to take a "student" under their win
The Christmas Aliens
Dec 25, 2004 · 21 min
Christmas is supposed to be a time of giving, not taking! But when a dangerous gang of thieves hijack a truck full of holiday toys on it's way to an orphanage, it's time for Michel
New Blood
Jan 22, 2005 · 21 min
The "savior" of New York City, Oroku Saki, has another face: the Shredder. The turtles stumble upon the Shredder's real reason for "helping" New York.
The Darkness Within
Jan 29, 2005 · 21 min
When Angel's brother disappears in the Wall Street area, the turtles jump to help her. Turns out that, as a result of all the destruction from the invasion, an ancient horror has b
Mission of Gravity
Feb 5, 2005 · 21 min
The Shredder sends Stockman and Hun on a quest to retrieve an Antigravity Generator from the city of Beijing, which is still floating in the upper atmosphere, thanks to the Tricera
The Entity Below
Feb 6, 2005 · 21 min
The Entity and his kind are awakened through a rare planetary alignment, and, harnessing great power, they proceed to start shifting the tectonic plates in order to bring back thei
Time Travails
Feb 7, 2005 · 21 min
The turtles get sucked into a time traveling adventure by the somewhat vapid but totally cute Renet, Apprentice Timestress.
Hun on the Run
Feb 8, 2005 · 21 min
Hun's always been loyal, but too many failures have tarnished his relationship with his master. But when Karai is captured by Bishop, the Shredder gives Hun a mission in which he c
Reality Check
Mar 5, 2005 · 21 min
Ultimate Drako is back and he's causing all sorts of chaos with the Time Scepter. He's sent the four turtles spinning through time into alternate realities.
Across the Universe
Mar 12, 2005 · 21 min
Because of Ultimate Drako's machinations, Raphael finds himself in an alternate reality... of the Planet Racers. This is right down Raphael's alley... until that alley turns into a
Same as It Never Was
Mar 17, 2005 · 21 min
Ultimate Drako's time manipulations have sent Donatello to an alternate reality... and it's not pretty. It's one possible future, a horrible nightmare. The Shredder is all powerful
The Real World (1)
Mar 26, 2005 · 21 min
Ultimate Drako is causing trouble with the Time Scepter. He blasts Leonardo into another dimension... Usagi Yojimbo's dimension.
The Real World (2)
Apr 2, 2005 · 21 min
Leonardo and Usagi arrive in the Battle Nexus hoping for a way to reunite the four turtles and their master. But they find the Battle Nexus under the control of the evil Ultimate D
Bishop's Gambit
Apr 9, 2005 · 21 min
Bishop is back and making his move. His research demands a mutated specimen closer to human... a rat: Master Splinter. Bishop kidnaps Splinter and moves to finish the creation of h
Exodus (1)
Apr 16, 2005 · 21 min
Splinter receives a vision of his Master Yoshi...and a mission. He must stop the Shredder. Time is running out. He doesn't know how to explain it to his sons, but they need no expl
Exodus (2)
Apr 23, 2005 · 21 min
The Shredder is leaving Earth in a spaceship of his own construction intent upon wreaking havoc on the Utroms and the galaxy. But he's taken on some unwanted passengers and they're