The UK TMNT Treatment

[ZariusTwo]

Thought I'd basicly give you guys a thread where I and others can throw in all the details on how exactly "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles" was handled on television and other mediums over here. Feel free to chime in with your stories and fil in a few gaps I may be missing on.

From my own personal experiance, here's how I viewed TMHT growing up

BBC

The home of Turtles on terrestrial television for much of the 90s. It aired on Saturday mornings as part of weekend magazine show "Going Live" before becoming a weekly attraction on your average schoolday on BBC ONE. Only seasons two and three aired on the channel.

SKY

Aired as part of "The DJ Kat Show" on SKY ONE. Sky's now defunct "The Movie Channel" once aired the notorious "movie version" of the first season "The Epic Begins". To date, this is the only time that film was availible in the UK. Here's a trailer for it



BRAVO

Aired all of seasons two and three, and some choice episodes of season four as well as a couple of eps from season ten, all out of chronological order.

FOX KIDS UK

Aired the first five episodes of season ten as a cobbled together feature length movie called "The Return of Dregg", which aired multiple times througout the remainder of 1999 and for a few months in 2000.

VHS

Tempo Video was in charge of the TMHT video releases. Many of the episodes were often out of chronological order (as was the case with a LOT of video releases for cartoons back then across the US and UK). I only owned about three video releases ("How It All Began" "Invasion of the Punk Frogs/New Yorks Shiniest",. and "Green With Jealousy/Sky Turtles/The Maltease Hamster") and rented the rest. Most of the later seasons (which the BBC werent showing) were availible here

"How It All Began" is actually notorious as being the worst put-together TMNT "movie" complination of all time. It basicly takes "Blast From The Past"' and inappropriatly lumbers it with "Return of the Shredder" and three chapters of The Eye of Zarnoth Saga (it cuts off after "The Mean Machines" for god's sake). The episodes on each tape were the heavily edited versions seen on television.

DVD

Most of you are aware of this release, it came out in 2009 as part of the anniversary celebrations. Pretty much the same as the Region One TMNT releases with the same extras