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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Original Series - Season 5

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

it's great to have the original cartoon of "TMNT" but r.smith is right, (planet of the turtleoids) is missing from this season because there are 20 episode's in season 5 so they must be planning to put it in the next volume seeing that there are 16 episode's in season 6 but i can not find any reference to (Once Upon a Time Machine) in any season unless it go's by another name but all in all i can say were about half way by now because there are 1-193 episode's across 10 SEASON'S in the original cartoon but from season 8-10 there are only 24 episode's in total (8 episode's in season 8, 8 episode's in season 9, and 8 in season 10) so they might be planning to put season's 8-10 on one dvd. so here is a list of the episode's to come-

Season 6 (1992)

127 "Rock Around the Block"
128 "Krangenstein Lives"
129 "Super Irma"
130 "Adventures in Turtle-Sitting"
131 "The Sword of Yurikawa"
132 "Return of the Turtleoid"
133 "Shreeka's Revenge "
134 "Too Hot to Handle"
135 "Nightmare in the Lair"
136 "Phantom of the Sewers"
137 "Donatello Trashes Slash"
138 "Leonardo is Missing"
139 "Snakes Alive!"
140 "Polly Wanna Pizza"
141 "Mr. Nice Guy"
142 "Sleuth on the Loose"


143 "Tower of Power"
144 "Rust Never Sleeps"
145 "A Real Snow Job"
146 "Venice on the Half-Shell"
147 "Artless"
148 "Ring of Fire"
149 "The Irish Jig Is Up"
150 "Shredder's New Sword"
151 "The Lost Queen of Atlantis"
152 "Turtles on the Orient Express"
153 "April Gets in Dutch"
154 "Northern Lights Out"
155 "Elementary, My Dear Turtle"

Season 7 (1993)

This season chronologically begins at where Episode 142 left off.

156 "Night of the Dark Turtle"
157 "The Starchild"
158 "The Legend of Koji"
159 "Convicts from Dimension X"
160 "White Belt, Black Heart"
161 "Night of the Rogues"
162 "Attack of the Neutrinos"
163 "Escape from the Planet of the Turtleloids"
164 "Revenge of the Fly"
165 "Atlantis Awakes"
166 "Dirk Savage: Mutant Hunter"
167 "Invasion of the Krangezoids"
168 "Combat Land"
169 "Shredder Triumphant"

Season 8 (1994)

170 "Get Shredder!"
171 "Wrath of the Rat King!"
172 "State of Shock!"
173 "Cry H.A.V.O.C.!!"
174 "H.A.V.O.C. in the Streets!"
175 "Enter: Krakus!"
176 "Cyber-Turtles!"
177 "Turtle Trek!"

Season 9 (1995)

178 "The Unknown Ninja"
179 "Dregg of the Earth"
180 "The Wrath of Medusa"
181 "The New Mutation"
182 "The Showdown"
183 "Split-Second"
184 "Carter, the Enforcer"
185 "Doomquest"

Season 10 (1996)

186 "Return of Dregg" Volume 1
187 "The Beginning of the End"
188 "The Power of Three"
189 "A Turtle in Time"
190 "Turtles to the Second Power"
191 "Mobster from Dimension X" Volume 1
192 "The Day the Earth Disappeared"
193 "Divide and Conquer"

"Once Upon a Time Machine" and "Planet of the Turtleoids parts 1 and 2" from seasons 4 and 5 were not released in this set or the previous set. Hopefully Season 6 will include these missing episodes. It really gets annoying when shows are not released in proper order, or grouped properly. The episodes are not in proper order on the DVD's, and there is no episode listing included so you have play each DVD to find the episode you are looking for. The background noise volume seems to be turned up louder than when originally aired (at least on the episodes I have watched so far), which sounded horrible on the Tranformers G1 DVD's (simulated explosions added in by Rhino). This is not as annoying as transformers was, but sometimes the background noise drowns out the voices which irritated me. Other than that this is a good set in a really cool Pizza box DVD case which was very clever, for one of the best Cartoons ever made! But the simple things that I posted ruined my experience a little. But I still recommend buying this set in order to get the entire series released. So packaging gets an A+, Series and shows get an A+, but the organization of this set gets an F-.

On October 5, 1991, the second season (and fifth overall) of the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" debuted on the CBS network. Riding a wave of almost unparalleled popularity at that time, the series had truly become a pop-cultural phenomenon.

This DVD set contains, to my understanding, 18 episodes of the fifth season of this series. However, for reasons that I don't understand, two episodes from the end of that season, a two-parter that aired in primetime -- "Planet of the Turtleoids" -- has not been included in this set. I am assuming that these episodes will be released in a later set (presumably the sixth season), but to not include them here is a shame. Why Lion's Gate would skimp out on these two episodes remains to be seen.

However, that minor quibble aside, there are some other assorted goodies to feed the senses. Continuing in the tradition that was set with the previous release, there are three bonus features included in this set:

"Heroes in a Half Shell" featurette on the Ninja Turtles phenomenon
"Inside the Turtle Shell" character portrait of Donatello
"Inside the Turtle Shell" character portrait of the Evil Splinter

On a sidenote, it will be interesting to see if the voice actor behind Donatello makes any references to the other voice actor who sometimes portrayed Donatello in the third season. I, in particular, have always been intrigued by this; to my memory, only Donatello and Raphael of the Fearsome Foursome ever had different voice actors at certain times in the series. Donatello and Raphael had notable voice changes in some episodes of the third season (in "The Turtle Terminator," both their voices are different...in the SAME EPISODE!), and a brand new voice actor gave voice to Raphael in the show's final season. But I digress.

Any fan of this classic series (and I am one of the legions!) will pick up this release come August 7, along with a side-order of peanut-butter and pickled-beets pizza, a dish Michaelangelo would have loved. There is much to savor in this three-disk set, "Planet of the Turtleoids" not withstanding.

By the way, I love the box-cover art and packaging for this release. Very clever!

Can some one please tell me when is season 9 an 10 is going too be out?

On the origanal series cartoon?

Where they had Lord Dregg(tony jay-voice), replace shredder?

I know tony jay did dreggs voice on 9th an 10th seasons and on season 8th an 3 episodes of season 10 was Will E Martin that replace James Avery from Fresh Prince of Bel Air show on shredders voice.

But I admit that back when I was a teen I hated dregg because he was a subsitute of shredder an krang but now I can see why the writers did it as of some site that used too exist in early 2000's.

one of the writers said that shredder was kind of old thats why they got rid of him an krang, rocksteady and bebop.


Thing about rats(1st episode of baxter season 1, an revenge of the fly(last baxter episode season 7)

Enter the shredder(1st episode of bebop an rocksteady season 1 an last one on season 8 turtles trek.

Actually rocksteady an bebop appeared on the very 1st tmnt episode as humans with the gang of punks, which rest of bebop, rocksteady gang returns at middle of season 3 on episode the gangs all here.



Anyway does the amazon people or anybody knows when season 9 an 10 on the original series of teenage mutant ninja turtles is going too be release?

I don't like the 2003 tmnt's cartoon, I tried watching it an it wasnt as good as old one an plus they had lots of little kids commercials which is wicked annoying.

I stopped watching tmnt's at age 17 when they took it off the air in 1997.

But I never told anybody that I watched it back then at 1990's because of the obvious reasons but that was the past now an I don't care if I'm 30 years old an still likes the ninja turtles cartoon.

I can remember back in the day I got excited when shredder came back at middle of season 10 because I thought they show was going too be back like it was, in the oldden days but I didnt even know back then that 10th season was it for ninja turtles.

I read on pc that most people didnt even liked dregg but anyway I didnt even liked the idea the turtles got rid of the technodrome at end of season 7 because I thought the show was going down hill at 8th season but now I saw some youtube season 9 an 10 an now I don't mind it like I except the show for way it is because it cant be all repetative, etc. Like just story of shredder.

ok anybody got any information about when will 9th/10th season will be out.

I dont even see any signs of it like preorder section. on this site?????

???

Season 5 is the shortest single outright season release for the Ninja Turtles thus far. The pizza box design is nice, but the content is flawed. None of the episodes here are of stand-out appeal, the most memorable in my mind being "Zac and the Alien Invaders" and "My Brother the Bad Guy".

However, the 1-hour special "Planet of the Turtleoids", the two final episodes of the season, have for some inexplicable reason been left out. It's not as though they couldn't have fit them into the ensemble. They still haven't been released even with seasons six, seven and eight out, and this is absolutely inexcusable of Lionsgate. "Plane of the Turtleoids" is a vital piece of the puzzle that effects storylines later on in the series - not to mention is it awesomely cool. Is it because it broke the 20-minute time lap for each episode? Such petty details shouldn't deter such a respectable supplier.

One star is detracted for the rather low quality of episodes on this set. Two stars are detracted for leaving out Season 5's magnum opus. Lionsgate, Fred Wolf Films, see to it that "Planet of the Turtleoids" is released this instant. In the meantime, this is a decent set with a creative packaging (like a pizza box), but surely it had space for the specials? Of course it did!

This set contains 18 episodes of season 5 over 3 DVDs. The over video and audio quality are good, retaining their original 1980s look and feel.
Despite this, the packaging this DVD set comes in is awful. First, there is a cheap clear plastic slip cover on the outside; once that is off there is a small pizza box that is made of even cheaper cardboard. Once inside the pizza box, you will find a digipack with the 3 DVDs in it. This is a heck of a lot of trouble just to get a DVD out. Lionsgate did a great job with TMNT Season 4, they had a 5 DVD "fatpack" in which the DVDs were easily accessible. They should have done the same for season 5, but they wanted to be creative and instead of something quality, they gave something lousy. Not your best work, Lionsgate. Minus one star for packaging.

I really LOVE the design of pizza box-set of season 5. It was super-ulator delicious idea. Different than what I am used to. The box-set design look like a pizza mix box inside the small pizza pen box filled with 3 pizza CD discs that has 3 different flavors of Pizza label on them. I have to tell you, You WILL LOVE the box design!!

Only two problems I do have with this design box-set.

Front cover of DVD shows Donatello holding the pizza pen. In my option, It should have been Michelangelo in Donatello's place. I think Michelangelo fits on the cover of box-set design best because of his personality. Hey, he is supposed to be the "party dude." And I also noticed that Leonardo isn't even on anywhere the box-set cover. It seems Raphael takes most of the light-spots on the box-set design, because he is there on the back of cover and inside a CD case, also, back of CD case as well. I feel that the box-set design should have include Leonardo not just three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle heroes.

On the Title DVD menu I think they went a bit... well, OVERBOARD with the layout design. I think the pizza design on the box-set and the CD discs is good enough. They don't HAVE TO design the pizza on the DVD menu. I feel it is way too much. Making it harder for me to browse around the menu. I'd get fat and turned into green from eating all those pizzas!!!

TMNT set is classic and enjoyable to watch. I found myself rolling off the bed and laughing. All other episodes; are just, hilarious!

If you are like me, the perfection maniac, and likes to watch things in chronological order. Well, then you may have problem with Season 5 and Season 7. Manually because the episodes from season 5 and 7 is not in the correct order.

Many of you may be confused by this, since most often Volumes usually feature 3-5 episodes each and usually later on they will be made into Season box-sets where will feature those very same episodes from Volume; only that it would features the more episodes. This what got me really confused with TMNT volumes and season DVDs. And soon after that, I realized I had to buy ALL of Volumes as well Season in order to get most of TMNT episodes.

List of each what episodes are in each Volume or Season DVD.

Volume 1
9 episodes (4 bonus from 10th season.)

Episode 1-5

In incorrect order of 4 bonus episode from season 10
(Notice how episode 187 should be put first instead of episode 188... Don't ask me why it is arranged this way.)

188. The Beginning of the End
187. The Return of Dregg
192. Mobster from Dimension X
193. The Day the Earth Disappeared

Volume 2
13 episodes

Episode 6-18

Volume 3
12 Episodes

Episode 19-30

Volume 4
12 Episodes

Episode 31-42

Volume 5
12 Episodes

Episode 43-54

Volume 6
12 Episodes

Episode 55-66

Season 4
40 Episodes

66-106 Episodes (Episode 76 is not available.)

Note: No, I didn't put 66 episode by mistake. It actually features Episode 66: Plan 6 from Outer Space TWICE in both Volume 6 and Season 4.

Season 5
18 episodes is in the incorrect order.

Warning! This may confuse you... I will put the episodes in the way the DVD arranged them in the order.)

Disc 1

111. Donatello's Bad Time
117. Donatello's Duplicate
108. My Brother, the Bad Guy
110. Enter Mutagen Man
114. Napoleon Bonafrog: Colossus of the Swamps

Disc 2

109. Michaelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko
112. Michaelangelo Meets Bugman Again
119. Leonardo Cuts Loose
113. Muckman Messes Up
118. The Ice Creature Cometh

Disc 3

123. Zach and the Alien Invaders
115. Raphael VS the Volcano
121. Turtle of a Thousand Faces
120. Pirate Radio
116. Landlord of the Flies
122. Leonardo, Renaissance Turtle
124. Welcome Back, Polarisoids
125. Michaelangelo, the Sacred Turtle

Missing Episodes:
107. Once Upon a Time Machine
126. Planet of the Turtleoids Part One
127. Planet of the Turtleoids Part Two

Season 6
16 Episodes

Episode 128-143

Season 7
27 episodes

144-170 episodes

Some episodes are in the WRONG order just like Season 5!

Disc 1

144. Tower of Power
145. Rust Never Sleeps
146. A Real Snow Job
147. Venice on the Half-Shell
148. Artless
152. The Lost Queen of Atlantis

Disc 2

150. The Irish Jig is Up
151. Shredder's New Sword
149. Ring of fire
153. Turtles on the Orient Express
154. April Gets in Dutch
155. Northern Lights Out
156. Elementary, My Dear Turtle

Disc 3

160. Convicts
158. The Starchild
159. The legend of Koji
157. Night of the Dark Turtle
161. White Belt, Black Heart
163. Attack of the Nuetrinos
164. Escape from the Planet of the Turtleoids

Disc 4

162. Night of the Rogues
165. Revenge of the Fly
167. Dirk Savage: Mutant Hunter
169. Combat Land
166. Atlantis Awakes
168. Invasion of the Krangezoids
170. Shredder Triumphant

Season 8
8 episodes

Episode 171-178

Season 9 & 10 Not yet released.

Final thoughts: I'd suggest you to wait to see if they will re-release these TMNT and maybe arrange the episodes and include the missing episodes.

As for the price of box-set or Volumes. I would say about 5-12 dollars is not too bad of deal because some of volume contents more than 8 episodes. Normally, you would pay a lot more when you get Volume that usually only have about 3-5 episodes each. which I think is a worth the deal. I have seen some of used one for under 6 dollars which I'd suggest you to get a used one if you can, just make sure, you watch out for feedback and seller's comment.

And I gotta hand it to Liongate for bringing most of the episodes that you can enjoy again. Unlike the retarded company Shout! Factory; Liongate includes the Closed Captioning that Deaf or Hard of Hearing can read words and able to enjoy this old TMNT show.

This is why I gave this season 5 a set 3.5 stars out of 5 stars. Because of two thing which hurts the rating, is the incorrect order of episode and 4 missing episodes.

And of course, 4-5 stars for volume 1-6, Season 6-8 No missing episodes from these each sets.)

Opps, I'd better take care of that pizza out of the oven before it become an burnt pizza!

This is a show I have many fond memories of. Cartoons have grown considerably more sophisticated since the turtles first aired in the mid 1980s, so it can be difficult to appreciate today just how ground-breaking this series really was. It's only when you compare it to the old Hanna Barbera horrors of the 70s, or to the almost equally banal early 80s cartoons that preceded the arrival of the turtles, that you get a sense of just how much this show achieved. By comparison with very nearly every single mainstream English language cartoon made in the 20, arguably even 30 years prior, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was an astonishingly smart, edgy, even streetwise piece of work.

But... With great sadness in my heart, even I have to admit that season five doesn't exactly catch the turtles at their best. The fundamental problem at this stage in the series was that our heroes could only defeat Krang and Shredder so many times before the old villains no longer represented a credible threat. The evil duo still make memorable appearances, but they no longer dominate the turtles' lives in the way they did in earlier seasons.

New blood was desperately needed on the supervillain front. Unfortunately, the new villains the writers were coming up with at this stage in the game were all entirely forgettable throwaway characters. As much as I hate to say it, they wouldn't have been out of place in those old 70s horrors I alluded to earlier. In fact, if there's one thing we can say about this season, it's that it gives us a new appreciation for just how much of the show's charisma came from Krang and Shredder (and yes, even Bebop and Rocksteady) rather than the turtles themselves.

I wish I could have been more positive, because this really is a show that has given me a great deal of enjoyment over the years. But... well, there you have it. The episodes you get on these disks are still all quite watchable. They just don't have that spark of something truly exceptional that fueled the ealier seasons.

Theo.

These are the episodes that I remember most from my childhood. There are some excellent character appearances in this season including: Muck man and Joe Eyeballs, Mutagen Man, Bug Man, Wingnutt and Screw Loose, Casey Jones and last but not least Mondo Geko. I remeber most of the epsidoes and most of the characters I remember from the playmate toy line. I remember Muck Man came equipped with green ooze and you could pour it in his back and it would ooze from his mouth. If you are a fan of the old school TMNT like I am, you should def get season 5. Not a bad price either.

Now we get another season set of the classic Ninja Turtles show, at least now they're keeping to the season sets that should've been in place in the first place. While I'm not a fan of the packaging of this season set of the turtles, although its original but at the same time makes it a little uneasy if you put your DVDs on a shelf. While we got 30 or more episodes from the previous two seasons, this season only had 20 episodes that make up Season 5, but there's only 18 of those episodes featured in this set. I'm wondering if the people behind in putting this show on DVD are being lazy or just not knowing all the episodes that make up season and properly putting all the episodes that make up each of the seasons that they have put on DVD thus far. Overall I give this set, 3 stars out of 5.