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★ 1987 SERIES · S10 · E07 · FINAL SEASON

THE DAY THE EARTH DISAPPEARED

Episode 192 of 193 in the original Fred Wolf cartoon. First aired October 26, 1996.

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01PLOT

The Turtles surface just as a massive earthquake rocks the entire city, tearing streets apart and raising volcanoes. The Dreggnaught appears overhead and the Turtles battle the Bat-Men, before Dregg appears and defeats both Leonardo and Raphael, and then seemingly kills all four of them. It turns out that what he killed were extremely realistic holograms, allowing the real Turtles to get the drop on him.

After being forced into retreat, Dregg reveals that he's planning to use his transporter to teleport Earth into a Dimension X solar system. In this way, he's hoping that he'll be able to finally defeat the Turtles. A space warp starts appearing near the Earth, growing large enough to swallow the planet in just a few hours.

Donatello attempts to trace the origin of the warp, but Dregg uses a black hole's gravity to pull Leonardo, Donatello and Splinter inside. Following a "warp storm", Donatello and Leonardo end up on a planetoid, while Splinter ends up on Dregg's ship.

Raphael and Michelangelo fall through the black hole several minutes later, finding themselves separated from their brothers, and all four Turtles are confronted by various monsters. Meanwhile, Splinter fights a few Bat-Men and sabotages the ship, before accidentally encountering Dregg and Mung.

Splinter uses the transporter to beam Leonardo and Donatello out of the black hole, Leonardo destroys the controls, which means that the ship will be sucked into the black hole. Michelangelo and Raphael arrive via a portal into the Dreggnaught and then they all manage to escape through the portal to the lair, where April greets them, just before the Dreggnaught is sucked into the black hole and destroyed for good.

Donatello repairs the portal, only for a giant blue hand to reach through. Leonardo destroys the controls and shuts it off, and Donatello promises not to turn it on again.

02CAST & APPEARANCES

Renae Jacobs
Barry Gordon
Cam Clarke
Tony Jay
Townsend Coleman
Cam Clarke
Michael Gough
Peter Renaday
ALSO APPEARING

03OBJECTS, VEHICLES & PLACES

OBJECTS & VEHICLESDreggnaughtKatanaPortable Portal GeneratorSaiTurtle LineTurtle VanVortex Transporter
LOCATIONSDreggnaughtNew York CityApril O'Neil's second apartmentTurtle LairParisUnnamed planetoidUnnamed rocky world
SPECIESAlienHumanMutant ratMutant turtles

05NOTES & GOOFS

  • When Dregg starts planning the space warp, a small black artifact appears next to his face.
  • When Leonardo and Donatello arrive on the planetoid, the sky is a yellowish or greenish color, but when they fight the ground vines, the sky is dark blue.
  • When Leonardo and Donatello arrive on the planetoid, Donatello asks where Splinter is in Leonardo's voice.
  • When Leonardo reaches out his arm to Donatello, he momentarily becomes Raphael. Later, when Leonardo and Donatello fight the ground vines, he becomes Raphael again.
  • When Michelangelo and Raphael arrive on the planetoid, both of their belt letters are drawn thinner than usual.
  • When Leonardo and Donatello are walking before the vines attack them, Leonardo's belt letter keeps disappearing and reappearing.
  • After Leonardo destroys Dregg's transporter, the control panel he smashes changes color and gains a screen and keyboard between shots.
  • When April O'Neil let's go to land near the lair's portal control interface, she should have been sucked towards the portal opening instead of across the room counter to the black hole's suction. As well, she should not have been able to manipulate the control interface without holding onto something to counter the suction from the black hole through the portal.

06HOME MEDIA

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Volume 1Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Final SeasonTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection

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