All episodes Season 7 S07E08 1993-09-17 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Shredder's New Sword

TV Flash files “Shredder's New Sword” as hour 148 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 7, episode 8, aired 1993-09-17, 25 min.

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This leaf is S07E08: listed hour 148 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 8 of 27 in season 7. It aired 1993-09-17 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Irish Jig is Up” (S07E07). Next is “The Lost Queen of Atlantis” (S07E09).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Shredder's New Sword (S07E08)

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The Turtles and Splinter are visiting London's British Museum, and study a portrait of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere and the Knights of the Round Table. In Dimension X, Krang is using a long-range scanner and discovers a rare metal buried in a ruined castle in England.

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Where does Shredder's New Sword sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S07E08 is listed hour 148 of 191 — hour 8 of 27 in season 7, season 7 episode 8.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S07E08 air?

Shredder's New Sword aired 1993-09-17 and is listed at 25 minutes.

Comics first or the 1987 cartoon?

The cartoon sanded Eastman/Laird into kid-friendly slapstick and became the voice most later versions copy. 1987 is the theme, the pizza, and merchandising as plot — franchise religion, not the grim comic.

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Cowabunga as a business plan: four pizza-eating sewer mutants, a rat sensei, and a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The cartoon sanded the Eastman/Laird comics into kid-friendly martial-arts slapstick and accidentally minted a franchise religion. The 1987 series is the voice, the theme, and merchandising as plot.

Cowabunga used to be a business plan, not a meme kit. Syndication, 1987 through 1996: four mutant turtles trained by Splinter battle Shredder and the Foot Clan — pizza, a rat sensei, and a toy glut that owned late-decade Christmas lists. The 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, from David Wise and Fred Wolf, sanded Eastman/Laird comics into kid-friendly martial-arts slapstick: Cam Clarke's Leonardo, Townsend Coleman's Michelangelo, Barry Gordon's Donatello, Rob Paulsen's Raphael. One hundred ninety-three…

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