S.W.A.T. Kats
 

Another fun 90's action cartoon, deserved more then two seasons.

Who else is a fan?

Yep, I liked this show as well.

I think it was cancelled after being considered too violent.

Tame by modern standards but yeah it was violent for the time...loved it.

Needs a blu ray release.

Any favorite episodes?

This year is the show's 30th anniversary.

I used to love watching this show. Too bad it was so short lived. I guess it hit that 65-ep-run mark, hence why it didn’t get more eps.

Yeah, this is one of those properties I probably would have really been into, had it stuck around. Always had a good impression on me as a kid.

Wasn't one of the two main characters voiced by Barry Gordon (1987 Donatello/Bebop)?

yes he was.

Razor(Barry Gordon)
T-Bone(Charlie Adler)

We also had Jim Cummings, Frank Welker, Tress MacNeille, Candi Milo, and Gary Owens.

Did this show get a kickstater a couple years ago? I think they were going to make a new series or more episodes, what happened to that?:ohwell:

Not sure if it is cancelled but the creators wanted to do a new version called Swat Kats Revolution.

I'm not sure it made much of an impression on people.
I remember the fact that I barely ever saw the show. It was like a rare treat, especially given that it was in the - say it with me - pre-internet days.

I'm a broken record about this, but it still blows my mind to think that I saw an episode of TMNT's "Red Sky" season back in the day, and just had no clue what I had watched for like a decade after. The new art style, the intro featuring segments from the movie, and the fact that it was a "Cyber Turtles" episode, roughly based on an Archie TMNT comic I had...it all had my head spinning for the longest time. Even as a hardcore fan of TMNT, without the internet, I had no way of knowing what awesome thing I had just stumbled upon.

Same thing happened with shows like Swat Kats all the time, I guess.

The show had good ratings, it was cancelled because it was considered too violent for kids. Though there is a rumor that it was really cancelled by Ted Turner because it was doing better then his precious Captain Planet.

Idk why but I like Captain Planet. It’s the corniest thing ever but I like it. Maybe it’s the metallic-looking skin. Dying to see how that Leonardo Dicraprio-produced movie turns out. Can’t imagine it actually happening.

Captain Planet would get savaged if it came out today. It was everything the grifters hate about woke culture even back then.

Awesome show, though the first three seasons are the best.

First 3 seasons??? How many seasons did it have?

I admit Captain Planet was pretty much woke before woke became a thing. Like if it was more subtle with it's message maybe one could argue against the preachiness, but it was as subtle as a mack truck. Like they tried too hard to make 'picking up litter' or 'recycling' KEWL!!!!! Like only an after school drug special was preachier, and those are just single episodes, not full seasons lol

Like even as a kid I was thinking it was dumb that the bad guys wanted to pollute for the sake of polluting. Like they weren't doing something else that just so happened to pollute but were too stubborn to listen, they just wanted to **** up their own planet just because.

At least with Shredder and Krang, the times they wanted to wreck the planet made sense cause they'd be safe in Dimension X. With Toxic Crusaders the bad guys were aliens that needed Earth to be all smogged up for them to live there. But these ****ers were messing up their home just for evil sake lol.

Six overall. Three by Dic entertainment, the other three by Hannah-Barbera.

Interesting. Were there differences in tone or character designs?

The tone for the HB series was a little darker, they got away with more, and sometimes the villains won their episodes, I didn't watch a great deal of them so I can't list many off the top of my head, it's been ages since I've watched the show (I went back to it for a fan-editing project in 2021, but focused on the early seasons)

The theme song was changed to a cringey 'eco-rap' and Planet got even goofier as a character. The Planeteers wore different outfits and I don't think they had a 'set' wardrobe.

BEst episode is when Anti-Gaia (some evil gaia entity) crashed to earth in a meteor and gave the planeteers EVIL POWER GAUNTLES that were 100x more power then what they had before.

The most messed-up power (in the wrong hands), has got to be the Heart one. Anyone less noble than Ma-Ti could have used his ring to make Linka and Gi love him enough to do certain things with him, in the same way anyone lesser than Wheeler would just running around burning people alive.

It's weird but as kids we don't see how ****ed up things like love spells or love potions are until we're older. Most of the time they target the wrong person, or it's a problem for the hero who is, of course, against taking advantage of it. It just sounds so wrong and creepy when you see it from the adult perspective, especially when you consider how common those things were in fiction.

And don't get me started on that one character from Chicken Little who had her personality rearranged and everyone decided to just leave her like that.

I love how the famous end credits theme is basically New Kids On The Block




Zarn!

Yeah "The Conqueror" and it's follow-up "Summit to Save Earth" are probably the best the show ever got. That guy ripped s*it up in those stories.

I feel like the only person on the planet who actually liked watching Captain Planet. I didn't like his character, but I liked the Planeteers. Ma-Ti and Gi were my favorites. I also admit that it got me into recycling and my family started doing it too. lol Oh, and that Rocko's Modern Life episode kinda did that too. lol

I'm pretty sure I watched the entire series and I liked the character redesigns in the last couple of seasons, mostly Gi's. Didn't like that new intro it got, though...a bit...um...I dunno. lol Just wasn't for me. The rap was too cheesy even for me who likes cheese. :lol:

Thinking back, I guess that would be considered "woke"...be more mindful of the outside world around you and nature and all that jazz, but I dunno. It was informative and we really should be taking care of the habitats of animals. I mean, I view it like this...I wouldn't want anyone coming into my home and tossing their garbage and junk all over it or coming in my home and smoking and stuff, so shouldn't the same apply to animals in their habitats?I don't think the ring would've worked in that way anyway. You have to be pure of heart to actually use it, I thought, which was why Gaia chose him. I do recall an episode vaguely where Ma-Ti tried to use his ring, but couldn't. I forgot why, but his is very specific to emotion and stuff unlike the others.

I hope this one gets a blu ray release one day.

Is it Warner Bros who owns the rights to this show?

As far as I know they still own it.

Such a shame so many good shows didn't get a proper ending.

I remember bootlegging this show some years back. Burned it on blank DVDs using Windows Movie Maker and made menus with chapter selections and what-not. I think I still have the discs somewhere.

It was pretty fun, but I didn't get into it much. Theme song kicks ass, though.

thought this got a kickstarter funded new series?

I have heard of the new version but not for a while now, must have fell through or at least hit a major snag.

With Warner Brothers releasing so much more Hanna-Barbara stuff in recent years I really hope this gets a blu ray release.

The original theme song and the credits music were very catchy, I didn't like that newer theme song either.



There was an episode called Trouble on the Half Shell (Season 2 Episode 13) which had TMNT references in it. Capatin Planet says to a turtle "In cartoons toxic waste turns you into a super hero". He even says "Turtle power" when getting the turtle to help him when he's weakened by toxins. Wheeler even grabs a box of pizza out of their jet and feeds these big rats in the same episode :lol: When the turtle gets Captain Planet to water to help him charge up again he thanks the turtle and says "You're a real hero on the half shell" :lol:

I remember hearing a rumor that the real reason SWAT Kats was cancelled was because Ted Turner was mad it was getting better ratings then his precious Captain Planet. He just used the complaints about it "being too violent" as an excuse.

I really wish we could have gotten an animated movie.