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The official show pitch and description for SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. It was recently revealed that Lance Falk wrote the content for this package. The text of the packet has been transcribed below for easier reading. A full gallery is available on the second page.

Program Introduction

Your stomach tightens with excitement as you feel the building vibration of an experimental triple-turbine engine beneath you.

A quick pre-flight check of the Turbokat: the most advanced fighter jet the world has ever known-then, suddenly, your body is slammed deep into the pilot’s seat as you take off, building toward a six-G climb toward the beautiful and dangerous skies of Megakat City. Your mission: capture the most bizarre and deadly criminals known to Kat kind! It’s the SWAT Kats: the Radical Squadron! Hanna-Barbera’s new action-packed series!

Set in the imaginative location of Megakat City, a vast and varied metropolis, rivaling Planet Earth in size. The SWAT Kats are two ready-for-anything daredevil jet pilots, eager to do whatever it takes to keep their city safe, no matter how risky or insane! “SWAT Kats: the Radical Squadron” sports a bold, eye-catching and colorful graphic style to complement its exciting, energetic rock & roll sound. The series is produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., the company that invented animated adventure in television with Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, Super Friends, and a pantheon of others.

Synopsis

Welcome to Megakat City, a sprawling metropolis inhabited solely by kats.

To enter Megakat City is to enter a world of high-tech laser gadgetry, heart-stopping danger, bizarre villains, and daring rescues by two ex-fighter pilot kats: the SWAT Kats. The SWAT Kats’ mission: to capture the vile villains who plague Megakat City and to restore law and order.

Known as T-Bone and Razor, these masked daredevil pilots take to the skies in their Turbokat jet, risking everything, against enormous odds, to defeat the villains; whether it’s Dark Kat, the overlord of crime; the Pastmaster, an evil time-traveling clock maker from the Dark Ages; or the Metallikats, the Bonnie and Clyde of bionic felines.

By day, T-Bone and Razor are Chance and Jake, mechanics adept as using scraps from their nearby junkyard to make the most powerful gadgets known to “Kat kind” such as the Cyclotron, the Octopus Missile and the Dead-Head Missile. But when Callie Briggs, the deputy mayor, summons them through a special “hot-line” transmitter, they transform into the SWAT Kats. They flirt with danger and disaster, yet always manage to snatch a victory.

On Target Marketing

Now Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. is taxying for take-off with a wide-appeal program capturing this radical fun in merchandise, packaging, and a hangtag[sic] program that will wow the broad spectrum of its target audience. Kids and adults will love the non-stop video game-like action, the energetic rock & roll music, the bright, cutting edge comic book-like graphics, and the appealing yet tough animal characters.

Action oriented situational line art
Appealing fighter pilot/comic book themed patterns & designs
An eye-catching and flexible color palette that gives products for kids and adults a unique look, yet keeps them in attack formation for on-target impact in return

So secure your flight helmet and oxygen mask-and get ready to reap the wild jetstream with “SWAT Kats” the Radical Squadron”!

Chance Furlong

Easy going and confident, Chance is a magician when it comes to vehicle repair.

There’s no kat you’d rather have work on your car. Secure and cocky, Chance fancies himself a ladies’ man, but generally has more success as a mechanic in the pilot seat or the Turbokat as T-Bone!

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