S.W.A.T. Kats

*drgon78* · 05-08-2022, 04:33 AM

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

Who else is a fan?

superstaff · 05-08-2022, 06:43 AM

Yep, I liked this show as well.

*Original TMNT Cartoon Fan* · 05-08-2022, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by drgon78

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

I think it was cancelled after being considered too violent.

*drgon78* · 05-08-2022, 06:43 PM

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

Needs a blu ray release.

*drgon78* · 09-18-2022, 10:28 AM

Any favorite episodes?

*drgon78* · 01-18-2023, 06:56 AM

This year is the show's 30th anniversary.

*ssjup81* · 01-18-2023, 01:56 PM

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.

*AquaParade* · 01-18-2023, 03:02 PM

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.

*Anarchistguy* · 01-18-2023, 03:51 PM

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

*CyberCubed* · 01-18-2023, 04:24 PM

yes he was.

*drgon78* · 01-19-2023, 04:29 AM

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

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

*TheBlueTurtle1* · 01-19-2023, 08:29 AM

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?

*drgon78* · 01-20-2023, 04:29 AM

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

*AquaParade* · 01-20-2023, 06:52 AM

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.

*drgon78* · 01-22-2023, 04:34 AM

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.

*AquaParade* · 01-23-2023, 05:30 AM

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.

*ZariusTwo* · 01-23-2023, 06:31 AM

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.

*Coola Yagami* · 01-23-2023, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

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.

*ZariusTwo* · 01-23-2023, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

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

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

*Coola Yagami* · 01-23-2023, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

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

Interesting. Were there differences in tone or character designs?

05-08-2022, 04:33 AM	#1
drgon78 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 2,047	S.W.A.T. Kats Another fun 90's action cartoon, deserved more then two seasons. Who else is a fan?

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05-08-2022, 06:43 AM	#2
superstaff Mad Scientist Join Date: Mar 2016 Location: NJ Posts: 1,109	Yep, I liked this show as well.

05-08-2022, 06:43 PM	#4
drgon78 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 2,047	Tame by modern standards but yeah it was violent for the time...loved it. Needs a blu ray release.

09-18-2022, 10:28 AM	#5
drgon78 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 2,047	Any favorite episodes?

01-18-2023, 06:56 AM	#6
drgon78 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 2,047	This year is the show's 30th anniversary.

01-18-2023, 01:56 PM	#7
ssjup81 Foot Elite Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Central Virginia (Back in the US) Posts: 4,643	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.

01-18-2023, 03:02 PM	#8
AquaParade Big Boss Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 8,373	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.

01-18-2023, 04:24 PM	#10
CyberCubed Overlord Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 39,732	yes he was.

01-19-2023, 04:29 AM	#11
drgon78 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 2,047	Razor(Barry Gordon) T-Bone(Charlie Adler) We also had Jim Cummings, Frank Welker, Tress MacNeille, Candi Milo, and Gary Owens.

01-20-2023, 04:29 AM	#13
drgon78 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 2,047	Not sure if it is cancelled but the creators wanted to do a new version called Swat Kats Revolution.

01-20-2023, 06:52 AM	#14
AquaParade Big Boss Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 8,373	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.

01-22-2023, 04:34 AM	#15
drgon78 Mad Scientist Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 2,047	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.

01-23-2023, 05:30 AM	#16
AquaParade Big Boss Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 8,373	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.