David Wise

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David Wise is an American televison animation writer. He is perhaps best known as the head writer for the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, where he wrote over one hundred episodes. He was also the single most prolific writer for the The Transformers cartoon, penning fifteen episodes.

He tended to recycle many of his script concepts for other shows. Ninja Turtles and The Real Ghostbusters, for example, both received their own version of "Kremzeek!"; the Ninja Turtles episode "Corporate Raiders from Dimension X" directly parallels "Auto-Bop".

A little less forgivably Wise also recycled the basic structure and story from the Donald Glut episode War of the Dinobots for his TMNT episode Usagi Come Home, even down to the main villain watching a video recap of a previous episode, and lamenting how a third party ruined his plans.

Generation 1 cartoon

• Attack of the Autobots
• Day of the Machines
• Microbots
• Make Tracks
• The Secret of Omega Supreme
• Kremzeek!
• Auto-Bop
• The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
• The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1
• The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2
• War Dawn
• Trans-Europe Express
• The Rebirth, Part 1
• The Rebirth, Part 2
• The Rebirth, Part 3

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2009

Recycle-o-matic

Which Transformers stories did David recycle for other TV series?

• Attack of the Autobots — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X.
• Microbots — Parts of TMNT episode Shreddered and Splintered.
• Kremzeek! — TMNT episode The Big ZIPP attack, Mighty Ducks episode Zap Attack.
• Auto-Bop — TMNT episode Corporate Raiders from Dimension X.
• The Girl Who Loved Powerglide — TMNT Episode Poor Little Rich Turtle.
• War of the Dinobots — A Donald Glut episode recycled by Wise for TMNT episode Usagi Come Home.

External links

• David Wise on the Internet Movie Database
• A Spy in the House of Tomorrow - David Wise's blog