The Great Boldini

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989 Season List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes: Beneath the Sewers (aka "Beneath These Streets") Turtles on Trial Attack of the 50-Foot Irma The Maltese Hamster Sky Turtles The Old Switcheroo Burne's Blues The Fifth Turtle Enter the Rat King Turtles at the Earth's Core April Fool Attack of Big MACC The Ninja Sword of Nowhere 20,000 Leaks Under the City Take Me to Your Leader Four Musketurtles Turtles, Turtles Everywhere Cowabunga Shredhead Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers Camera Bugged Green With Jealousy Return of the Fly Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero Mutagen Monster Corporate Raiders from Dimension X Pizza by the Shred Super Bebop and Mighty Rocksteady Beware the Lotus Blast from the Past Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp Michaelangelo's Birthday Usagi Yojimbo Case of the Hot Kimono Usagi Come Home The Making of Metalhead Leatherhead Meets the Rat King The Turtle Terminator The Great Boldini The Missing Map The Gang's All Here The Grybyx Mr. Ogg Goes to Town Shredderville Bye Bye Fly The Big Rip-Off The Big Break-In The Big Blow Out 1987 Season – 1988 Season – 1989 Season – 1990 Season – 1991 Season – 1992 Season – 1992-1993 Vacation in Europe sideseason – 1993 Season – 1994 Season – 1995 Season – 1996 Season

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. It is available on DVD on the box set released on December 5, 2006.

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.