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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes in a half-shell Turtle power!! They're the world's most fearsome fighting team (We're really hip!) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles They're heroes in the half-shell and they're green (Hey, get a grip!) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles When the evil Shredder attacks These Turtle boys don't cut him no slack! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Splinter taught them to be ninja teens (He's a radical rat!) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Leonardo leads, Donatello does machines (That's a fact, Jack!) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Raphael is cool but rude (Gimme a break!) Michelangelo is a party dude (Party!) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Heroes in a half shell Turtle power!! 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Theme' (1987 TV Series) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (initially known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the UK and some European countries, and retroactively also known as TMNT 1987) is an American animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and the French company IDDH. Based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic books created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, the series was the first animated adaptation of the property. The pilot was shown during the week of December 14, 1987 in syndication as a five-part miniseries, and the show began its official run on October 1, 1988. The series ran until November 2, 1996, when it aired its final episode. Set in New York City, the series follows the adventures of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and their allies as they battle the Shredder, Krang, and numerous other villains and criminals. The property was changed considerably from the darker-toned comic, to make it more suitable for children and the family. The show helped launch the characters into mainstream popularity and became one of the most popular animated series in television history. Action figures, breakfast cereals, plush toys, and other merchandise featuring the characters appeared on the market during the late-1980s and early-1990s, and became top-sellers worldwide. A successful Archie Comics comic book based on the animated show instead of the original black-and-white comics was published throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. By 1990, the series was being shown daily on more than 125 television stations, and the comic books sold 125,000 copies a month. Characters from the show have been included in crossovers with later entries of the franchise, including the 2009 film Turtles Forever and cameos in the 2012 TV series. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often shortened to the TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are a fictional superhero quartet of teenage anthropomorphic turtle ninja that appear in a self-titled franchise consisting of comic books, animated children's cartoons, feature films, and other tie-in products. The characters were created in 1984 by comic book writer-artist team Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman, who named the four turtles after Italian Renaissance artists, and published the characters' adventures in comic books published by Mirage Studios. Within their stories, the turtles were trained in the Japanese martial art of ninjutsu by their adoptive father, Splinter, an anthropomorphic rat sensei. From their home in the sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords, mutated creatures, and alien invaders while attempting to remain hidden from society. During the peak of the franchise's popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it gained worldwide success and fame. Source: Wikipedia