He escapes and meets the half kat, half snake mad scientist Dr. As the Pastmaster ravages Megakat City with the Megasaurus Rex, the SWAT Kats try to get back to the present and prevent the Pastmaster from casting a spell to bring the Dark Ages to the present.Īn evil pilot named Morbulus who literally has an extra set of eyes on the back of his head is shot down into the bay by the SWAT Kats when he tries to destroy Megakat City's oil refineries. The SWAT Kats are sucked into the portal and are sent back to the time of the dinosaurs. After locating his spell book, the Pastmaster wants to bring back the Dark Ages and opens a time vortex that brings a "Megasaurus Rex" to the present time. Callie Briggs is at the museum preparing for the opening and summons the SWAT Kats to help defeat the Pastmaster. The Pastmaster heads to the Megakat City Museum of History to search for his spell book, the Tome of Time. Inside they find the Pastmaster, an ancient evil wizard who was imprisoned within the chest 800 years ago. In an old graveyard outside Megakat City, grave robbers are digging around for valuable artifacts when they find a large chest.
#SWAT KATS TURMOIL SERIES#
At the time, Hanna-Barbera was busy on Cartoon Network's ambitious cartoon anthology series What a Cartoon! which may also have contributed to the cancelation. The reason why is not exactly known, but the show's violence, declining viewership and its inability to move merchandise have been cited as the most likely causes. The cancellation of the series occurred near the end of season two's production.
Lance Falk's ideas were usually very ambitious and very inventive and this usually met with the studio executives telling him to change his ideas to something more simple, such as making the Aquians "kat" aliens instead of humans in "When Strikes Mutilor" or to cut out entire characters and subplots, such as making Commander Feral the one Turmoil successfully corrupts in "Cry Turmoil". Jim Stenstrum contributed two episodes, while David Ehrman, Von Williams, Eric Clark (with Lance Falk), Mark Saraceni and Jim Katz all contributed one episode. The bulk of the series was written by either Glenn Leopold ( 13 episodes) or Lance Falk ( 6 episodes).
Also, the show's distinctive opening and closing theme music changed during production of the second season to a heavier, more metal-influenced theme, as well as the character design became more angular.Įvery episode of the series was directed by Robert Alvarez.
The first season consists of thirteen episodes the second season consists of twelve episodes. There were also three episodes in production at the time of the series' cancellation as well as two that never made it past the concept stage. This brings the total number of broadcast episodes to 26.
A "documentary" episode featuring clips from previous episodes aired after the final episode "Unlikely Alloys" as a sort of closer once the series was cancelled. Viper" – running around 15 minutes in length) aired during the second season. The series consists of a total of 25 original episodes over two seasons, including four "half" episodes ("SWAT Kats Unplugged", "Cry Turmoil", "Volcanus Erupts!" and "The Origin of Dr. SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron premiered on TBS Superstation's The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera block in the United States on Septemand ended on January 6, 1995. The following is a complete list of episodes for SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, a television cartoon series created by Christian and Yvon Tremblay.