All episodes Season 7 S07E10 1993-09-20 25 min 1980s Syndication

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Turtles on the Orient Express

TV Flash files “Turtles on the Orient Express” as hour 150 of 191 in the TV Flash guide — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987–1996) on Syndication, season 7, episode 10, aired 1993-09-20, 25 min.

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This leaf is S07E10: listed hour 150 of 191 in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide, hour 10 of 27 in season 7. It aired 1993-09-20 (25 min). The listed hour before it is “The Lost Queen of Atlantis” (S07E09). Next is “April Gets in Dutch” (S07E11).

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles — Turtles on the Orient Express (S07E10)

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April is covering the revival of the luxury train the Orient Express. Shredder is on the train with Rocksteady and Bebop carrying the Supercharger, a device to accelerate the train to superspeed, sending it out over the Bosphorus and crashing into the Middle East oil fields, destroying them. The Turtles board the train and send the Supercharger flying with Shredder aboard.

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Where does Turtles on the Orient Express sit in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guide?

S07E10 is listed hour 150 of 191 — hour 10 of 27 in season 7, season 7 episode 10.

When did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles S07E10 air?

Turtles on the Orient Express aired 1993-09-20 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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