Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation
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| Genre |
Action/Adventure Comedy-drama Science fantasy Superhero fiction |
| Based on |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman Peter Laird |
| Starring |
Michael Dobson Kirby Morrow Jason Gray-Stanford Matt Hill Stephen Mendel Lalainia Lindbjerg Saffron Henderson |
| Theme music composer | Jeremy Sweet |
| Composer(s) | Jeremy Sweet Shuki Levy Kussa Mahchi |
| Country of origin | United States Canada |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Haim Saban Lance H. Robbins |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
Saban Entertainment Mirage Studios |
| Distributor |
Saban Brands MarVista Entertainment |
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| Original network | FOX (Fox Kids) |
| Original release | September 12, 1997 – March 20, 1998 |
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation is an American live-action television series produced by Saban Entertainment, which ran on the Fox Kids network from 1997 to 1998 based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles published by Mirage Studios. As of September 16, 2011, the series is currently distributed by Saban Brands, as Saban has recently regained the rights to the show from Disney.
The series introduced many new elements to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, including a female mutant turtle called Venus (named after the famous statue) and new central antagonists, an army of humanoid dragons known as "The Rank" led by the vicious Dragonlord.
The series was touted (in some of the promotional material) as a continuation of the 1987 TV series, but the series instead loosely followed the continuity of the 1990s live-action film trilogy. The Turtles lived in the same abandoned train station featured in the second and third films, Shredder's face is clawed as it was in the original film, and Splinter's ear is slashed as it was in the original film. However, the films and the series display differing styles, Shredder is alive (and no longer Super Shredder), and April O'Neil and Casey Jones are absent. In a departure from other TMNT continuities, Leonardo states in the second episode that the Turtles are not blood-related, while other media explicitly present the Turtles as biological siblings.
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