Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtle Tracks

"Turtle Tracks"
Series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 1, Episode 1
Air date	December 14th, 1987
Writers	David Wise; Patti Howeth
Director	Vincent Davis
Producers	Rudy Zamora, Jr.; Osamu Yoshioka; Fred Wolf
Starring	Cam Clarke; Townsend Coleman; Barry Gordon; Rob Paulsen; Peter Renaday; Renae Jacobs
Episode guide
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"Turtle Tracks" is the first episode of season one of the animated superhero action series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The episode was directed by Vincent Davis with a script written by David Wise and Patti Howeth. It first aired in syndication on December 14th, 1987.

Cast

Starring

Actor	Role
Cam Clarke	Leonardo
Townsend Coleman	Michelangelo
Barry Gordon	Donatello
Rob Paulsen	Raphael
Peter Renaday	Splinter
Renae Jacobs	April O'Neil

Guest Starring

Actor	Role
James Avery	Shredder
Pat Fraley	Burne Thompson
Tress Mac Neille	Secretary
Peter Renaday	Old Sensei

Notes & Trivia

• The Ninja Turtles was created by writer and artists Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. They first appeared in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ongoing comic book series published by Mirage Studios.

• Osamu Yoshioka is a producer for Toei Animation.

• Rudy Zamora, Jr. is credited as Rudy J. Zamora in this episode.

• Voice actress Tress MacNeille is credited as Tress Mac Neille in this episode.

• This is the first episode of the series. First appearance of all characters.

Allusions

• Raphael says the line "Hey, who's lookin' at you, kid?" while wearing a trench coat and hat. This is paraphrased from the famous movie quote "Here's lookin' at you, kid." spoken by Humphrey Bogart in the 1942 romance drama Casablanca.

Quotes

• Leonardo: We turtles do not know the meaning of the word defeat.
• Michelangelo: That's right. We don't bother to look it up in a dictionary.

See also

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles programs

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles images Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cast & crew Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles miscellaneous

External Links

• "Turtle Tracks" at IMDB
• "Turtle Tracks" at the TV IV
• "Turtle Tracks" at ShareTV.com
• "Turtle Tracks" at Themoviedb.org

Keywords

Acrobatics; Bo staff; Donatello; Japan; Katana; Leonardo; Michelangelo; New York; New York City; Ninjas; Ninjitsu; Nunchaku; Pizza; Raphael; Rats; Reporter; Sai; Shredder; Splinter; Transformation; Turtles