The Great Boldini

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Season

List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes:

  1. Beneath the Sewers (aka "Beneath These Streets")
  2. Turtles on Trial
  3. Attack of the 50-Foot Irma
  4. The Maltese Hamster
  5. Sky Turtles
  6. The Old Switcheroo
  7. Burne's Blues
  8. The Fifth Turtle
  9. Enter the Rat King
  10. Turtles at the Earth's Core
  11. April Fool
  12. Attack of Big MACC
  13. The Ninja Sword of Nowhere
  14. 20,000 Leaks Under the City
  15. Take Me to Your Leader
  16. Four Musketurtles
  17. Turtles, Turtles Everywhere
  18. Cowabunga Shredhead
  19. Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers
  20. Camera Bugged
  21. Green With Jealousy
  22. Return of the Fly
  23. Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero
  24. Mutagen Monster
  25. Corporate Raiders from Dimension X
  26. Pizza by the Shred
  27. Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady
  28. Beware the Lotus
  29. Blast from the Past
  30. Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp
  31. Michaelangelo's Birthday
  32. Usagi Yojimbo
  33. Case of the Hot Kimono
  34. Usagi Come Home
  35. The Making of Metalhead
  36. Leatherhead Meets the Rat King
  37. The Turtle Terminator
  38. The Great Boldini
  39. The Missing Map
  40. The Gang's All Here
  41. The Grybyx
  42. Mr. Ogg Goes to Town
  43. Shredderville
  44. Bye Bye Fly
  45. The Big Rip-Off
  46. The Big Break-In
  47. The Big Blow Out

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The Great Boldini is an episode from season 3 (1989) of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series. It originally aired on November 20, 1989, in Syndication.

April O'Neil is seen reporting at a place where a magician named the Great Boldini is expected to perform. While there, she meets Zach, the young teenage boy who befriended the turtles in the episode The Fifth Turtle, and his new friend Caitlin. As the Great Boldini is about to perform one of his tricks, the lights suddenly go out, and once they come back on, he is seen bound and gagged, and his diamond is stolen.

Zach and Caitlin are suspicious of this and begin to investigate. Meanwhile, the turtles show up to investigate as well.

Several villains get involved, including The Rat King, and Don Turtelli. Zach and Caitlin are captured and tied up by Don Turtelli, and subjected to foot tickle torture to try to get them to reveal all they know about the diamond.

It is later revealed that the Great Boldini was attempting to steal the diamond in the show, and faked its robbery.

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One odd note is that this episode seems to contradict the information on Zach's age given earlier. While Zach is said to be going on 14 in the episode in which he first appears, here he acts more like a younger child. When one of the villains captures Caitlin and threatens Zach with harm to his "girlfriend", Zach acts disgusted and says "yuck, she's not my girlfriend" - behavior one might expect from a pre-adolescent, but not an adolescent.

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