



Meanwhile, Saki was given command of the Foot Clan, which he corrupted and transformed into a criminal organization. Disgraced, Yoshi was forced to leave his native Japan and relocate to New York City, where he began living in the sewers with the rats as his only friends. He was banished from the Foot Clan (a Japanese dynasty of ninjas founded by one of his distant ancestors ) after one of his students, the power-hungry and seditious Oroku Saki (who resented Yoshi's leadership within the clan and aspired to usurp him), set him up for an offense against a visiting master sensei. In this version, Splinter was formerly human, an honorable ninja master named Hamato Yoshi who studied art history as a hobby. The origins story in the 1987 television series deviates significantly from the original Mirage Studios comics.

The series ran until November 2, 1996, when it aired its final episode. The pilot was shown during the week of Decemin syndication as a five-part miniseries, and the show began its official run on October 1, 1988. It was the first television adaptation of the superhero team of the same name created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (initially known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in some European countries) is an American animated television series produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson and the French company IDDH Groupe. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series)
