Consequently, I really couldn’t care about any of it, and I was left unenthused about watching more. Characters show up without proper introductions, and it all feels more like an episode from later in the season. No explanation was given in the initial episode regarding who the SWAT Kats are, or why they do what they do. While it’s an interesting story premise, with a long-buried wizard being released in the modern day, I was left fairly confused as to the premise of the series. The first episode, The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice, dropped viewers right into the world of SWAT Kats. Though I’m a big H-B fan, my first exposure to the show has been the recently released DVD set. The show looks nothing like Secret Squirrel, that’s for sure. Overseas animation was handled by Seoul-based Hanho Heung-Up Co., Ltd., and it certainly shows in the visuals. It ran as part of the weekend syndicated block of programming known as The Funtastic World Of Hanna-Barbera, and was seen on such stations as TBS (you remember- THE SUPERSTATION!). SWAT Kats was created by brothers Christian and Yvon Tremblay, who designed much of the show, while Robert Alvarez did the directing for all the episodes. In 1993, the company also produced a syndicated series that bore little resemblance to anything else in the H-B filmography.
The company did find new life on cable, with a number of creator-driven shows appearing there over the next few years, but it certainly wasn’t the same Hanna-Barbera anymore.
(Of course, they could have retired then, too, but both Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera worked into their old age.) Their studio was sold from Great American (formerly Taft) Broadcasting to Turner Productions in 1991, where it became a vital component of Cartoon Network when Turner launched it a year later, and both Bill and Joe worked on directing new shorts for the cable network. The founders were ready to move onto their own projects after the disappointing process of producing The Jetsons Movie for Universal.
Two disgraced police officers are assigned dump duty, but continue serving the city as vigilante aviators.īy 1990, the glory days of classic Hanna-Barbera productions were largely over. Hanna-Barbera (1993), Warner Archive (December 14, 2010), 5 discs, 528 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Rated G, Retail: $34.95
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