Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

Action · Adventure · Animation

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are back in an all-new animated series on Nickelodeon! Surfacing topside for the first time on their fifteenth birthday, the titular turtles, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Donatello, find that life out of the sewers isn't exactly what they thought it would be. Now the turtles must work together as a team to take on new enemies that arise to take over New York City.

IMDb rating: 7.9 (18,795 votes)
Episode average: 8.1 ↑ +0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 5
Streaming (US): Netflix · Paramount+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 5 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2012)

8.12 avg 26 episodes 8.1 → 9.2 24 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Rise of the Turtles: Part 1	8.1	735
2	Rise of the Turtles: Part 2	8.2	634
3	Turtle Temper	7.8	545
4	New Friend, Old Enemy	8.0	525
5	I Think His Name Is Baxter Stockman	7.5	505
6	Metalhead	7.8	486
7	Monkey Brains	7.6	463
8	Never Say Xever	8.1	457
9	The Gauntlet	8.8	504
10	Panic in the Sewers	8.2	440
11	Mousers Attack!	7.8	433
12	It Came from the Depths	8.3	453
13	I, Monster	8.4	430
14	New Girl in Town	8.4	440
15	The Alien Agenda	8.1	411
16	The Pulverizer	7.3	404
17	TCRI	8.2	399
18	Cockroach Terminator	7.6	394
19	Baxter's Gambit	8.1	395
20	Enemy of My Enemy	8.5	404
21	Karai's Vendetta	8.1	390
22	Pulverizer Returns!	7.5	392
23	Parasitica	8.1	396
24	Operation: Break Out	8.3	386
25	Showdown: Part 1	9.0	441
26	Showdown: Part 2	9.2	473

Season 2 (2013)

8.21 avg 26 episodes 7.8 → 9.5 25 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Mutation Situation	7.8	366
2	Invasion of the Squirrelanoids	7.6	351
3	Follow the Leader	8.2	348
4	Mutagen Man Unleashed	7.5	332
5	Mikey Gets Shellacne	7.2	344
6	Target: April O'Neil	8.0	341
7	Slash and Destroy	8.3	361
8	The Good, the Bad and Casey Jones	8.4	336
9	The Kraang Conspiracy	8.1	317
10	Fungus Humungous	8.1	320
11	Metalhead Rewired	8.2	319
12	Of Rats and Men	8.3	318
13	The Manhattan Project, Part 1	9.2	401
14	The Manhattan Project, Part 2	9.2	405
15	Mazes & Mutants	7.7	328
16	The Lonely Mutation of Baxter Stockman	8.2	307
17	Newtralized!	8.0	302
18	Pizza Face	7.2	325
19	The Wrath of Tiger Claw	8.9	353
20	The Legend of the Kuro Kabuto	8.6	320
21	Plan 10	7.6	298
22	Vengeance is Mine	9.0	367
23	A Chinatown Ghost Story	7.1	319
24	Into Dimension X!	8.6	326
25	The Invasion: Part 1	9.0	389
26	The Invasion: Part 2	9.5	519

Season 3 (2014)

8.00 avg 26 episodes 8.2 → 9.5 24 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Within the Woods	8.2	379
2	A Foot Too Big	5.7	383
3	Buried Secrets	7.6	308
4	The Croaking	6.9	312
5	In Dreams	7.7	320
6	Race with the Demon	7.1	317
7	Eyes of the Chimera	7.2	287
8	Vision Quest	8.8	357
9	Return to New York	8.4	291
10	Serpent Hunt	8.6	299
11	The Pig and the Rhino	8.3	290
12	Battle for New York: Part 1	8.4	282
13	Battle for New York: Part 2	8.5	282
14	Casey Jones vs. The Underworld	7.6	278
15	The Noxious Avenger	7.2	270
16	Clash of the Mutanimals	8.2	271
17	Meet Mondo Gecko	7.6	275
18	The Deadly Venom	8.6	287
19	Turtles in Time	7.7	270
20	Tale of the Yokai	9.3	410
21	Attack of the Mega Shredder!	7.4	271
22	The Creeping Doom	7.5	260
23	The Fourfold Trap	8.5	272
24	Dinosaur Seen in Sewers!	8.3	278
25	Annihilation: Earth! Part 1	9.3	386
26	Annihilation: Earth! Part 2	9.5	489

Season 4 (2015)

7.97 avg 26 episodes 7.6 → 9.6 22 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Beyond the Known Universe	7.6	285
2	The Moons of Thalos 3	7.4	264
3	The Weird World of Wyrm	7.0	253
4	The Outlaw Armaggon	7.1	243
5	Riddle of the Ancient Aeons	7.3	245
6	Journey to the Center of Mikey's Mind	7.4	254
7	The Arena of Carnage	8.1	243
8	The War for Dimension X	8.0	249
9	The Cosmic Ocean	7.4	239
10	Trans-Dimensional Turtles	9.1	381
11	Revenge of the Triceratons	7.3	230
12	The Evil of Dregg	7.5	237
13	The Ever-Burning Fire	7.6	235
14	Earth's Last Stand	9.0	310
15	City at War	8.2	253
16	Broken Foot	8.2	244
17	The Insecta Trifecta	7.3	235
18	Mutant Gangland	7.3	234
19	Bat in the Belfry	7.3	236
20	The Super Shredder	9.3	354
21	Darkest Plight	8.8	279
22	The Power Inside Her	8.0	255
23	Tokka vs. The World	7.7	239
24	The Tale of Tiger Claw	8.1	253
25	Requiem	9.5	440
26	Owari	9.6	562

Season 5 (2017)

7.96 avg 20 episodes 7.9 → 8.3 25 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Scroll of the Demodragon	7.9	237
2	The Forgotten Swordsman	7.9	220
3	Heart of Evil	8.0	223
4	End Times	8.4	233
5	When Worlds Collide: Part 1	7.7	213
6	When Worlds Collide: Part 2	7.6	208
7	Yojimbo	8.1	223
8	Osoroshi No Tabi - Scary Journey	7.9	218
9	Kagayakei Kintaro	8.3	222
10	Lone Rat and Cubs	9.2	288
11	The Wasteland Warrior	8.0	230
12	The Impossible Desert	7.9	220
13	Carmaggedon	8.1	240
14	The Curse of Savanti Romero	7.5	206
15	The Crypt of Dracula	7.3	200
16	The Frankenstein Experiment	7.4	201
17	Monsters Among Us!	7.5	200
18	Wanted: Bebop and Rocksteady	8.1	218
19	The Foot Walks Again!	8.0	197
20	The Big Blow Out	8.3	234