Swat Kats: The Radical Squadron

SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron is an American animated television series created by Christian Tremblay and Yvon Tremblay and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.[1] The series takes place in the fictional metropolis of Megakat City, which is populated entirely by anthropomorphic felines, known as "kats". The titular SWAT Kats are two vigilante pilots who possess a state-of-the-art fighter jet with an array of weaponry. Throughout the series, they face various villains as well as competition from Megakat City's militarized police force called the Enforcers.

Main

 * Charlie Adler as Chance Furlong/T-Bone
 * Barry Gordon as Jake Clawson/Razor
 * Gary Owens as Captain Ulysses Feral/Matches Malone
 * Jim Cummings as Mayor Manx

Recurring

 * Brock Peters as Dark Kat
 * Jimmy Akingbola as Commander O'Brien
 * Candy Milo as Ann Gora
 * Mark Hamil as Johnny K
 * Frank Welker as Dr. Elrod Purvis/Dr. Viper
 * Jim Cummings as Katscratch
 * Brian Markinson as Simon Hunt
 * Jessica Walter as Fiona Clawson
 * Kevin McKidd as Thomas Wayne/Bat Kat
 * Alistair Duncan as Alfred Pennyworth
 * Andrew Daly as Damian Kyle

Season 1: 1993

 * 1) "The Radical Beginning"-Chance "T-Bone" Furlong and Jake "Razor" Clawson were members of Megakat City's paramilitary law enforcement agency, known as the Enforcers. They were discharged from the Enforcers after disobeying the orders of Lieutenant Ulysses Feral, which resulted in the destruction of the newly built Enforcer Headquarters. While in pursuit of Dark Kat the two rebelled against Enforcer Captain Feral's orders to fall back and leave Dark Kat to him. When they objected, citing their already-acquired target lock, Captain Feral crowded out their jet, clipping their wing and sending Chance and Jake's jet crashing into Enforcer headquarters. The resultant explosion distracted Captain Feral, allowing Dark Kat's escape. Commander O'Brien refused to blame Feral for the incident and discharges Chance and Jake from the Enforcers and reassigns them to work at the city's military salvage yard to pay for the damage to the Enforcer Headquarters. Using discarded military parts and weapons from the salvage yard, Chance and Jake built themselves technology and decided to call themselves the SWAT Kats. The Swat Kats first go after robots sent by Mac and Molly Mange to trash a factory full of workers for not paying their boss any protection money. Feral vows to arrest the vigilantes while arresting Mac and Molly for their crimes.
 * 2) "Love Amerikat Style"-Outraged at what Steele has done, PumaDyne CEO Fiona Clawson gets her son Jake a job in the IT department where Jake befriends Michael Holt. Unfortunately, Michael is depressed since his lover, who was illegally immigrating from Cuba, went missing which is why he asked Lieutenant Feral to look into it. Jake, showing sympathy for Michael, convinces Chance to help investigate by being a step ahead of Feral. T-Bone and Razor investigate salvage yard owners named Burke and Murray to discover that they're murdering smuggled immigrants who cannot pay for their freedom. Razor frees the immigrants while T-Bone subdues Burke and Murray, thus, leaving them for the Enforcers.
 * 3) "The Scientist"-An engineering professor  is killed by a swarm of bees at a university. While the team searches for a metahuman that can control bees, CSI Bart Allen arrives from Central City to do his own investigation since he was sent by his captain. T-Bone and Razor track down another bee attack, however, Razor is attacked by the swarm. T-Bone takes Razor to Bart for help while being able to capture one of the bees. Bart is revealed to be a descendant of Barry Allen, who was secretly a crime fighter known as the Flash.
 * 4) "The Origin of Dr. Viper"-Bart saves Razor's life, however Razor is angry that T-Bone told Bart his secret as he regains consciousness. T-Bone, Razor, and Bart decide to focus all of their attention on Purvis, who is a scientist employed at MegaKat Biochemical Labs who is responsible for controlling the bees. Dr. N. Zyme and Dr. Elrod Purvis engineer Viper Mutagen 368, a regenerative growth formula. Zyme imagines the benefits of the mutagen to mankind and tells Purvis he could not have done it without him. Purvis is uncaring, and only wants to sell the mutagen to finance his terrorist activities, only to be discovered by Zyme and pursued into the building's stairwell. Purvis trips down the stairs and becomes covered in the growth formula. He then collapses, supposedly dead and is taken to the morgue. Dr. Zyme discovers that the mutagen is ineffective and mutates its host into an evil monstrosity. Purvis is mutated by the formula and becomes Dr. Viper, taking his name from the mutagen itself. He then proceeds to apply the mutagen to mosquitos and honey bees to attack those responsible for his mutation.
 * 5) "Black Out"-Chance and Jake both decide to go after power plant owner Martin Jinx after Jake discovers that Jinx has been causing blackouts in Central City while wasting their power in that location. T-Bone and Razor force Jinx to turn over the wattage logs he has over to the Enforcers. However, Jinx attempts to double cross the SWAT Kats by hiring an assassin to deal with them when retrieving the logs from the company. Everyone is assumed to have been killed only for T-Bone and Razor to turn over the wattage logs over to Feral. As Jinx tells his story to Fiona and Dark Kat, Dark Kat shoots him dead which horrifies Fiona.
 * 6) "Dead To Rights"-T-Bone and Razor take out a hired assassin and discover that the latter's target is not safe yet. Fiona Clawson hires Turmoil and the Koshka Bratva to takeout Commander O'Brien, who is getting an award from Mayor Manx for reducing MegaKat City's crime rate. At the last moment, Chance discovers that O'Brien is the target which is why he and Razor race to the event to save him. Although they are almost caught by the Enforcers, T-Bone and Razor manage to get O'Brien away from Turmoil'screw. O'Brien is shot by one of Morbulus' deadly pullets, and the SWAT Kats are forced to reveal their identities to Feral so they can save O'Brien's life.
 * 7) "The Wrath of Dark Kat"-Dark Kat steals the material for a homemade nuclear bomb to destroy MegaKat City, neither the SWAT Kats nor the Enforcers can break through his defensive forcefield. Feral tries to sneak aboard Dark Kat's ship to defeat Dark Kat and retrieve the stolen parts, but is quickly subdued. The ambitious Lt. Steel (Hal Rayle), Feral's slimy partner, would rather advance in his career than rescue his boss, so it is up to the SWAT Kats to save both Feral and Megakat City. Feral decides to keep the SWAT Kats' identities secret in the end and Dark Kat is revealed to be O'Brien, who has been using a magic totem to transform his physical appearance.
 * 8) "Cold War"-Feral is stunned when he is visited by Mia Shard to rescue her brother Rex, whom she believes have been kidnapped. T-Bone and Razor track down Shard, who is revealed not to be kidnapped but working with his father, Pedro. Mia states that Shard would never work with Pedro willingly, because the latter was abusive towards her when she was a kitten. Eventually, Dr. Konway discovers that Pedro placed a bomb inside of Mia and threatened to kill her if Shard did not help him with his theft. Jake infiltrates Pedro's crew with assistance from Shard. Konway removes the bomb from Mia, so Shard uses his cold gun to kill his father in retaliation. Shard is sent to MegaKat Maximum Prison and Mia leaves MegaKat City.
 * 9) "Chaos In Crystal"-Convict Rex Shard is serving a life sentence at Megakat Maximum Security Prison and is forced to mine diamonds for Warden Cyrus Meece. While using a new type of diamondmining machine, the Gemkat 6000 – created by Dr. Lieter Greenbox (voiced by Robert Patrick), Shard tries to steal some of the diamonds collected in the machine. The machine explodes and crystals fuse to the left half of Shard's body. Exiting the mine, Shard touches the prison guards watching over him and turns them into solid crystals. Shard realizes his new power and, after converting his entire body to crystal form, he goes on a rampage, seeking revenge against Warden Meece, Dr. Greenbox and anyone else who gets in his way by turning them in crystals. While doing a test run of new missiles in the desert, the SWAT Kats pick up a strange signal from the prison and go to investigate. It is up to them to put a stop the crystal menace and save Megakat City.
 * 10) "Katnapped!"-Mac and Molly Mange reveal to Dark Kat a secret about Simon Hunt having an illegitimate son named Henry who comes from a family of immigrants. Feral becomes curious when Hunt begins to pressure Manx to have the Enforcers locate the kitten which is why he alerts T-Bone and Razor to do something about it. Hunt confides in Manx and O'Brien revealing the truth about Henry being his son. Tension starts to rise between T-Bone and Razor since Razor wants to find the boy while Razor doesn't due to him being Simon Hunt's son.
 * 11) "Cut Kat"-After failing to rescue Henry, Razor is found in a dumpster by Dr. Marcus Calvi, the son of Simon Hunt. Marcus takes Razor to his apartment, tends to his injuries, and removes his mask, discovering his face. He refuses to reveal his name, however, Razor does anticipate that Dark Kat's associates are searching the apartment building, giving Michael time to hide Jake and convince General Whiskas that he knows nothing. Razor realizes that Whiskas doesn't trust Marcus due to him being Hunt's son. T-Bone arrives to overpower Whiskas after having a change of heart, takes him to the roof, and tortures him with help from Marcus into revealing Henry's whereabouts. T-Bone and Razor enter the building where the Dark Troopers are keeping Henry, take out the guards, and rescue him.
 * 12) "Succubus!"-O'Brien begins to suspect that Feral is associated with the SWAT Kats and orders him to be dismissed in favor of Steele which disappoints Detective Felina Feral, who is investigating a string of murders of strong male kats who are having their life force drained. Feral falls in love with a wealthy heiress named Katrina Moorkroft, which is why Manx forces O'Brien to reinstate Feral. Unknown to everyone however, Moorkroft is secretly a succubus who is slowly draining the life force away from Feral. Hunt begins attacking the Dark Troopers in retaliation for what they did to his son, and O'Brien calls all Enforcers to remain on duty during the upcoming mob war.
 * 13) "All Happy Families Are Alike"- The mob war between Dark Kat and Simon Hunt escalates. Mac and Molly Mange attempt to kill Hunt so they can take his place, however, the SWAT Kats intervene. As Fiona Clawson and the Dark Troopers approach, T-Bone, Razor, and Feral bring Hunt, Mac, and Molly to a safehouse, however, they are captured by Turmoil and the Koshka Bratva. Molly manipulates Dark Kat and Turmoil into fighting over the mob leadership with Turmoil shooting Dark Kat dead.  T-Bone, Razor, and Hunt escape from the chaos with help from Feral, who was posing as a gangster named Matches Malone. Mac and Molly fight Turmoil only for Turmoil to throw them off the roof into the water, becoming MegaKat City's new crime lord. Hunt decides to retire from the mob and Razor vows to bring down his mother.

Season 2: 1994

 * 1) "The Metallikats"-Mac and Molly escape from the maximum security prison of  "Alkatraz" by boat, but while in the middle of the bay, they are hit by a passing ship and drown. They wash ashore near the laboratory of Leiter Greenbox, a weapons designer who decided to turn to crime to finance his experiments.They are discovered by two of Greenbox's robots. He scans Mac and Molly's minds onto hard drives and puts them into the robots. They nickname themselves "The Metallikats" since they are now made out of metal. Fiona gets the Metallikats decide to continue their villainous exploits and use their new robot bodies to their advantage. After nearly killing Mayor Manx, they set their sights on Turmoil's top associate Katscratch. T-Bone and Razor must race to save Katscratch from being terminated by the Metallikats.
 * 2) "Razor's Edge"- Dark Kat is up to his usual evil antics, this time stealing super conductive cable from an electrical lab. The SWAT Kats intervene and while in pursuit of Dark Kat's spider-like craft, they fire two non-explosive Octopus missiles at him. Dark Kat evades the missiles, which blow up an abandoned warehouse. Apparently, the warehouse wasn't so abandoned and two elderly passers-by are injured in the explosion. After realizing what he has done, Razor loses his nerve and refuses to fight anymore for fear of hurting more innocent people. To make matters even worse, Dark Kat has done some serious modifications on his spider craft, turning it into a walking, energy-consuming behemoth so he can level Megakat City. T-Bone realizes he must combat Dark Kat by himself without the help of Razor. Meanwhile, after disowning his mother, Razor goes to visit the two people he injured in the warehouse explosion, who berate him for being so careless and willing to hurt innocent bystanders. However, one of them accidentally reveals they are working for Dark Kat and Razor realizes the entire incident was staged. After defeating them, Razor gets his "edge" back and must help T-Bone stop Dark Kat before he destroys the city.
 * 3) "Going Rouge"- T-Bone and Razor learn a group of vigilantes, dressed like the "Swat Kats" are killing criminals all over MegaKat City  which is why he decides to go after them. Meanwhile, District Attorney Callie Briggs informs Feral that Raymond Earle, a suspect in two murders, is likely to kill again. However, Feral doesn't believe her. The vigilantes target Jake twice before kidnapping Fiona. T-Bone and Razor save her and turn the vigilantes over to the Enforcers. Jake begins to realize that he misses his mother, however, he still decides to have nothing to do with her because of everything she has done. Callie follows Earle, but is forced to get involved when Earle traps his latest victim in a Minotauran labyrinth. Feral manages to save Callie, but Earle escapes.
 * 4) "Death Trap"-Earle is arrested by the Enforcers and admits to the murders, but the case is dismissed on a technicality and he is set free. While T-Bone pursues Earle, he is captured and trapped in Earle's labyrinth, but manages to escape. Turmoil and the Koshka Bratva are pleased by Fiona eliminating Katscratch, however, the Koshka Bratva members are gunned down by an apparent "army", which is why Fiona decides to go into hiding. Fiona asks Jake to come with her, however, Jake still refuses. Loosing faith in the system, Feral and T-Bone both kidnap Earle and kill him. Unknown to Turmoil, the vigilante known as Bat Kat is behind all of this.
 * 5) "Cry Turmoil"- A commercial airliner is sabotaged by an unseen attacker but safely landed with the help of the SWAT Kats. The attacker reveals herself as Turmoil, who wants to flee the city because of the attacks made on the Koshka Bratva. She is the captain of an enormous airship containing the most advanced and powerful technology on the planet. Her greatest accomplishment is the "VertigoBeam," a device that renders any aircraft unflyable by severely disorienting the pilot and passengers. Turmoil wants Megakat City to pay her two million dollars in gold every week to use what she now deems "her airspace." The Enforcers will not stand for this and try a head-on attack, where Turmoil is amazed by Feral's flying skills. The Enforcers are eventually hit with the Vertigo Beam and drawn into the airship with a tractor beam, but not before Feral ejects an unconscious Steele. Turmoil explains that Feral is one of the greatest pilots she has ever seen and does not want such skill to go to waste. She offers Feral a position as "flight commander," second only to her. Feral accepts and begins helping her. However, after having a change of perception, he decides to help T-Bone and Razor capture Turmoil, citing that this was part of his plan the whole time.
 * 6) "Night of The Bat Kat"-With Turmoil gone, the Koshka Bratva begins to debate to  who their new leader should be. Unfortunately, the Koshka Bratva members are gunned down by an apparent "army". Katscratch  Katpulet, an arms dealer working for the organization, visits Callie for protection. Callie visits the wounded Katscratch  at the hospital, while Chance learns from his father that his street gang members were murdered by the same "army" as the Koshka Bratva. T-Bone and Razor investigate the cartels with help from Callie and learn that the cartel had all of their high-power weapons stolen by a single man. At the hospital, Callie and Katscratch  are attacked by Bat Kat and barely escape alive. T-Bone and Razor the new vigilante in the rooftops near the hospital, however, Razor is shot in the head at point blank range.
 * 7) "MegaKat City's Finest"-T-Bone rushes Razor to the hospital where he gets treated for his condition. Callie wakes up as Bat Kat's captive and discovers that he is actually Gotham City billionaire Thomas Wayne, who decided to take up the mantle after his parents Patrick and Laura Wayne were killed by a mugger. Callie pleads with him to stop killing, feeling that there is goodness within anyone, and that no criminal is beyond redemption. Bat Kat insists that what he does is necessary, that by murdering criminals he stops them from doing wrong ever again, while T-Bone and Razor merely delays the inevitable by injuring them. Their debate culminates in Bat Kat going after Katscratch, whom he caught stealing a car in an attempt to flee the city, and strapping a gun with a single bullet to Callie's hand, offering her the choice of killing Katscratch , killing him before he kills Katscratch , or doing nothing and living with the fact that his actions caused someone's death anyway. T-Bone  manage to track Callie down and save her, however, Bat Kat still kills Katscratch . As the dying Katscratch  asks why Callie allowed him to die, Bat Kat attacks a nearby street gang. T-Bone manages to knock Bat Kat unconscious, and then fights his way through the angry gang members to safety.
 * 8) "Moving Targets"-With Katscratch unable to take over the Ukraine mafia, Mario Katpulet decides to takeover. Mario plans to kill Mayor Manx which is why T-Bone and Razor convince Feral to assign Roger Manx to impersonate his father at City Hall and fake his death when Ishmael's mercenary attacks. T-Bone and Razor learn from Chance's father that Mario plans to consolidate the drug traffic of five cities through MegaKat City, needing Manx eliminated for his plan to succeed. The SWAT Kats and the Enforcers raid Mario's meeting and capture the other crime lords.
 * 9) "Penny & Dime"-Upset at what happened to Mario, an assassin named Ishmael Valeska goes after Feral to get revenge on him. Feral lures Ishmael into a night club owned by the Irish mafia causing there to be a shootout so Feral can tip off the Enforcers. Meanwhile, T-Bone and Razor try to stop Bat Kat from killing anyone else again while Ishmael tries to get revenge on Bat Kat for murdering all of his clients. The Koshka Bratva manages to capture Bat Kat and unmask him to be Thomas Wayne. Ishmael violently tortures him, until Thomas escapes and brutally murders all of them. T-Bone and Razor find them and prevent Bat Kat from murdering anyone else, helping him escape. T-Bone orders Bat Kat to leave MegaKat City, however, Bat Kat refuses until he can locate Fiona Clawson, who has been supplying illegal weapons to all the gangs in Gotham which is why he came to MegaKat City in the first place.
 * 10) "Hit-Or-Miss"- After Ishmael tries to gun down Feral at Big Belly Burger, the Koshka Bratva hires two hit men to find and kill Ishmael since they believe that the Enforcers coming after him is bad for business. In a desperate move, Ishmael kidnaps Callie in order to enlist Feral's help to protect him which is why Feral contacts the SWAT Kats for help. T-Bone, Razor, and Feral all work together to kidnap all the thugs sent to kill Ishmael, however, Felina is furious feeling that these thugs have a right to a trial while trying to rescue Callie. Ishmael is shot and killed by Fango. Michael Holt manages to find Callie causing Felina to save save her life.
 * 11) "Trust Issues"- After an armored truck is robbed, Jake believes that one of the thieves is former Enforcers member Arnold Thompson. Chance dismisses Jake's assumption, as Thompson was Chance's colleague and saved him one time during a raid. Razor finds Thompson and steals encrypted data, as Chance prevents the former from getting any information directly from Thompson. The data is revealed to be plans for robbing armored trucks, which Razor uses to track the thieves. Chance learns that Thompson was the mastermind behind the robberies, and is force to join Thompson's crew when Thompson has his mother hostage, but backs out of helping them at last. Razor arrives in time to take out the thugs.
 * 12) "Blowout"- While trying to infiltrate Megakat Biochemical Labs, Dr. Viper encounters Dark Kat's Creeplings stealing the very thing he came for, Katalyst 100. The SWAT Kats arrive to stop Dark Kat and Viper, but a miscalculation by Razor allows them both to escape into the sewers and blows up the building. Dark Kat suggests to Viper that they join forces to destroy the SWAT Kats once and for all. Dark Kat agrees and decides to gain another ally in the Metallikats. The reactivated Metallikats initially refuse to help Dark Kat and Viper, but Dark Kat anticipated this and places the duo in "neuroscrambler" collars, which force them to do his bidding. The SWAT Kats face their greatest challenge yet in defeating the power quartet, especially when they kidnap Mayor Manx and Callie to take them over to a fun house.
 * 13) "The Dark At The End of The Pit"-Dark Kat, revealed to be alive, has Enforcer Headquarters raided for information on people that the SWAT Kats have helped. He takes hostages, including Feral and Fango. Because Fango is on house arrest, the Enforcers tracking him report the situation before they are killed by Mother. T-Bone and Razor use this call to find the hostages and free them. They are then confronted by a horde of ninjas. T-Bone and Razor defeat the ninjas with help from Thomas, who seeks to move on from his past and accept the Bat Kat mantle. Jake feels guilty when his mother Fiona sacrifices herself to save him upon realizing that her son is Razor.

Season 3: 1995

 * 1) "Bride of The Past Master"- The episode begins with the SWAT Kats battling an enormous oil-sucking eel that has been attacking oil tankers heading for Megakat City. Using all but one missile, the duo defeat the creature and prepare to fly home. However, the Pastmaster opens a time vortex near Megakat City which (unbeknownst to the Pastmaster) sucks the SWAT Kats into it. The SWAT Kats emerge in the Dark Ages where they are thought to be sorcerers (due to their "flying machine") and are attacked by Queen Callista (a medieval version of Callie Briggs) and her medieval knights. Upon yanking a sword from a nearby stone, Razor is believed to be the foretold warrior that will protect them from the Pastmaster. The duo learn that the Pastmaster has threatened to destroy "Megalith City" unless Queen Callista marries him. The Pastmaster summons two cyclopes and two dragons to aid him with his plan. With the Turbokat damaged and almost no modern weaponry, the SWAT Kats must protect Megalith City, destroy the rampaging monsters, vanquish the Pastmaster and get back to the present with the help of Queen Callista.
 * 2) "Unlikely Alloys"- The Metallikats are up to their usual evil antics and try to rob the Megakat Dollar, but they encounter Commander Feral and the SWAT Kats. While fighting to escape, Mac loses his left arm and Molly is electrocuted and nearly terminated. After escaping, they see a news story on Dr. Lieter Greenbox (now voiced by Nick Chinlund) who has created a new piece of technology dubbed the "micro-brain repair unit" which analyzes the components and functions of any mechanical or electronic device and fixes them almost instantaneously. Mac goes to steal the device, which repairs himself and Molly flawlessly. However, the device becomes self aware after its programming is contaminated with the Metallikat's criminal personalities, and begins to assimilate anything mechanical and uses it to make itself larger and more powerful, dubbing itself "Zed". After assimilating several Enforcer tanks and Mac, the device goes on a rampage through Megakat City, assimilating everything in sight. Teaming up with Molly and Dr. Greenbox, the SWAT Kats must stop Zed before it assimilates the high-tech weapons at Kord Industries and becomes unstoppable. Meanwhile, Jake meets with Ted Kord in an attempt to reclaim his mother's company, however, he decides to let Kord keep his company in the end.