Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series) (season 4)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (season 4)
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	26[1]
Release
Original network	Nickelodeon
Original release	October 25, 2015 – present

The fourth season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles began airing on Nickelodeon on October 25, 2015. On June 17, 2014, Nickelodeon ordered a fourth season of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.^[2]

Production

After last appearing in the season 2 episodes, The Manhattan Project and Wormquake!, the 1987 counterparts of the turtles had a crossover episode with the turtles from this series. In addition with Cam Clarke, Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman and Barry Gordon reprising their roles as the 1987 Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello, respectively, from the episodes, Pat Fraley also reprises his role as Krang from the 1987 series.^[3]

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date [4]	Prod. code [4]	U.S. viewers (millions)
79	1	"Beyond the Known Universe"	Alan Wan	Brandon Auman	October 25, 2015	401	1.62[5]
After the destruction of Earth and Splinter's murder (by Shredder at the last moment), the Turtles, April, and Casey Jones meet a new ally called the Fugitoid. They travel back in time six months earlier to stop the Triceratons from collecting all the parts to the black hole generator. The team also crosses paths with the villainous Lord Dregg while stopping at a spaceport for repairs.
80	2	"The Moons of Thalos 3"	Michael Chang	John Shirley	November 1, 2015	402	1.66[6]
Traveling inside their spacecraft, the Turtles, April, Casey, and the Fugitoid are shot down by the Triceratons and are stranded on an icy moon. As they try to escape, they come across two Salamandarians, one of which Raphael develops a crush on.
81	3	"The Weird World of Wyrm"	Sebastian Montes	Randolph Heard	November 8, 2015	403	1.60[7]
While investigating a wrecked ship, the Turtles, April, Casey, and the Fugitoid find a hypercube containing the creature Wyrm, who grants them three wishes.
82	4	"The Outlaw Armaggon!"	Alan Wan	Gavin Hignight	November 15, 2015	404	1.41[8]
When Lord Dregg hires a cyborg bounty hunter shark named Armaggon to destroy the Turtles, the team flees to an abandoned space station. However, they soon face another threat in the form of the station's autonomous artificial intelligence system, Overmind.
83	5	"Riddle of the Ancient Aeons"	Michael Chang	Brandon Auman	January 10, 2016	405	1.62[9]
The Turtles, the Fugitoid, April, and Casey must journey through an ancient alien temple to get a fragment of the black hole generator before the Triceratons do.
84	6	"Journey to the Center of Mikey's Mind"[10]	Sebastian Montes	Todd Casey	January 17, 2016	406	1.58[11]
When microscopic aliens invade Mikey's mind, the Turtles have to chase them through the strange world of Mikey's subconscious.
85	7	"The Arena of Carnage"[12]	Alan Wan	Peter Di Cicco	January 24, 2016	407	1.58[13]
The Turtles are captured and thrown into the Triceratons' battle arena. Their only chance of escaping is teaming up with a convicted traitor while April and Casey work with the Fugitoid to free them.
86	8	"The War for Dimension X"[14]	Michael Chang	Kevin Burke & Chris "Doc" Wyatt	January 31, 2016	408	1.35[15]
The Turtles must gain the trust of the Utrom Council (Queen, Rook, Bishop and Pawn) in order to find the next piece of the black hole generator, where they learn the Utroms past, as well as the Kraang.
87	9	"The Cosmic Ocean"	Sebastian Montes	Mark Henry	March 13, 2016	409	1.52[16]
The Turtles journey through the cosmic ocean of Varuna in outer space, which is gravitationally bound together, where they must prove themselves worthy to Hiidalra, an aquatic alien queen who holds the second piece of the black hole generator.
88	10	"Trans-Dimensional Turtles"	Alan Wan	Brandon Auman	March 27, 2016	410	1.53[17]
The Turtles are transported to a parallel universe, where they meet their counterparts and together they battle Krang and Kraang Subprime. Note: This episode had an early screening at WonderCon on March 26, 2016, a day before its broadcast date.
89	11	"Revenge of the Triceratons"	Michael Chang & Ben Jones	Randolph Heard	April 3, 2016	411	1.45[18]
Donatello is feeling inferior to the Fugitoid, but his intellect is put to the test when the Triceratons attack.
90	12	"The Evil of Dregg"	Sebastian Montes	Gavin Hignight	April 10, 2016	412	1.70[19]
When Raphael loses his fighting mojo after seemingly being betrayed by Mona Lisa on Sectoid 1, he must overcome his feelings to save his brothers from certain doom at the hands of Lord Dregg and Armaggon.
91	13	"The Ever-Burning Fire"	Alan Wan	John Shirley	April 17, 2016	413	TBD
The team must overcome impossible odds like the Triceratons, Lord Dregg, and the Cosmic Beast Tokka in order to obtain the final Black Hole Generator piece that is located on the lava planet of Magdomar.
92	14	"Earth's Last Stand"	Michael Chang & Ben Jones	Brandon Auman	April 24, 2016	414	TBD
As the team finally reaches Earth, the Fugitoid reveals a horrible secret about his past. He reveals that he was the creator of the Heart of Darkness. At the end of the episode, he flies himself and his ship into the Triceraton mothership along with the Heart of Darkness to destroy it. Fugitoid takes the Triceratons and himself down with it.

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