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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in Europe due to controversy at the time) is an American animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. The pilot was shown during the week of December 28, 1987 in syndication as a five part miniseries and began its official run on October 1, 1988. The series featured the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters created in comic book form by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. The property was changed considerably from the darker-toned comic, to make it more suitable for children and the family.
The initial motivation behind the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series was that, upon being approached to create a toy line, Playmates Toys was uneasy with the comic book characters' small cult following. They requested that a television deal be acquired first, and after the initial five-episode series debuted, the California toy company released their first series of Ninja Turtles action figures in the summer of 1988. The two media would correspond in marketing style and popularity for many years to come.
Actors: Bob Geldof (actor), Rowan Atkinson (actor), Alan Cumming (actor), Melvyn Bragg (actor), Gary Lineker (actor), Trevor McDonald (actor), Richard Curtis (writer), Lenny Henry (actor), Howard Goodall (composer), John Gabriel (actor), Janet Henfrey (actress), Denis Lill (actor), Andrée Bernard (actress), Peter Fincham (producer), Gary Whelan (actor),
Plot: An art dealer befriends a genie whom he frees from a lamp which he has been imprisoned with by an evil wizard for 2000 years for the accidental death of the evil wizard's daughter when the art dealer is fired by his greedy and corrupt boss.
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