Intro | SWAT Kats: Radical Squadron | Warner Archive

[@AnimeFreak10000]

Raise your hand if you were so excited to come home from school to watch this as a kid 🤘

[@archvile1313]

Yep, always did that then Scooby Doo, Tom & Jerry and many more.

[@SepiaChild]

How do you know I did this

[@derrickhaggard]

Me.

[@benjaminmack9912]

✋This, Tom and Jerry, Justice League, and Scooby-Doo was the Shit back in the day *sigh* what I would do anything to live that life one more time

[@loooleo4856]

i'm first one 🖐 it was so Epic😘

[@will4127]

25 years later and this intro theme still shreds.

[@c4feg4r44]

27 years later it still shreds!

[@joshbechaistron791]

Fucking...A...right! Growing up in the 90's kicked ass...I can't stop shredding tears 😭

[@ChillAssTurtle]

!,,!,(-_-),!,,! Always will bro

[@RuralTowner]

@@c4feg4r44 I remember looking forward to this intro every time. The next great didn't happen until JUSTICE LEAGUE TAS started airing & how the song switched about 20sec in when Batman would show up.

[@c4feg4r44]

@@RuralTowner bro i still have scar on my head when i head banged into the tv table from this very tune. its tiny and almost gone XD worth

[@rohitdharap1866]

4:30 pm IST and we used to be glued to this masterpiece

[@alizaidi6565]

Bro same Me abhi yahi soch raha tha 4:30 per carton network per aata tha Mene fhuoran apky comment padha

[@audethyaa]

Exactly... The best shows started with captain planet at 2pm and ended with swat kats at 5 pm...... Ohh those dayssss.

[@ravinderbachhal4544]

Power zone

[@VideoGamificationAC]

Yes, I used to watch it after coming back from school but also it used to air on 10pm and after that 10.30pm The Mask

[@SeventhMarch]

Yeahhhhh! & Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad at 5pm 💚

[@DougSConfederateHammer]

Of the two intros, this version is absolutely the best, screaming guitar always makes my arm hair stand up.

[@LordSpleach]

It's all about that build up and pay off.

[@ZeeshanJamal-dm9jy]

My eyes get watery too for the nostalgia

[@jefft7705]

Yup...both intros were pretty badass. When that logo with t-bone popped up and the guitar hit, I'd get super hyped as a kid. Still gives me chills hearing it even now.

[@shaan7]

The jet engine sound does it for me. OMG.

[@HinduSpartan]

The nostalgia was straight cocaine

[@voltron983]

Loved this show as a kid and even now at 38, this intro still give me goosebumps.

[@MeKaustubh17]

We almost same age man......

[@MeKaustubh17]

Do you remember there was a crocodile cartoon it was only for few days then went off..any idea it's name..

[@Wildwood56]

​@@MeKaustubh17not all 23 now but I loved this way before star trek

[@AceMaheswaran]

35 and still came back to see this.

[@HassanMasood-nr7jh]

how were you a kid dumbass ;p u r now 41

[@xamhehehe7888]

So underrated. I heard the creators of the show want to make a remake or sequel and I'm saying go for it! This series needs a revival.

[@popcornchicken5552]

That jet was the coolest shit ever when I was a kid. I mean three after burners!?

[@gcHK47]

Hatori Hanzo Five. The two intakes were on hinges and could go in reverse so that the TurboKat can hover.

[@yashsam3566]

@@gcHK47 Actually there were 7 afterburners at the back. 4 were hidden and were only use if they needed to cover extra altitude. For reference watch the episode where aliens steal earth's water.

[@gcHK47]

Killer Cat Not at this point. That didn’t happen until season 2, which was newer model of the aircraft.

[@gambitxmenknight8148]

I'll tell ya one thing i just turned 31 in December of 2018 N i first discovered T-bone and Razor just about exactly 10 years ago. N all i havta say is holy hell is this cartoon AWESOME!!!

[@matthewstreets9662]

Hatori Hanzo: Hear hear. A shame that Swat Kats only lasted 2 seasons.

[@travelsonic]

Radical show. I watched it RELIGIOUSLY on Cartoon Network during the time periods when they aired it. :D

[@ash18001]

travelsonic got all the shows on dvd

[@davidsmalldridge514]

@@ash18001 How Come They Took It Off The Air?

[@actisac]

@@davidsmalldridge514 Fall on Ratings, No Budget for Further Episodes & Considered "TOO VIOLENT" in its Content Portrayal (At its Time).

[@ikeranselmi7039]

Fucking good intro song

[@Ebani]

@@actisac If it was considered too violent in a time violence was the norm in tv shows (specially cartoons) it just might actually have been. 🤔 I just remember watching them on CN and thinking they were great tho, although they really were quite violent, i mean the attack of the tomatoes cartoon (from the same decade) was practically all violence from begining to end.

[@swordinthehanger]

I was born in 96 but I remember this was a rerun on boomerang back in 2009-2012 never gotten tired of watching this show! This was my childhood! 😎 I even named my 2 tabbies after them 🐈 🐈 T-bone and Razor

[@jasonclawson104]

0:32 TurboKats ignition sequence still gives major goosebumps even after all these years. 👍🏻

[@Snazy30]

I became a pilot because of this show

[@lonew0lfclaw859]

And you are a legend sir!

[@digitally_ascended_conscio6304]

Dude that's awesome 😎

[@Random-ko8vn]

Really!?? /😮

[@MaxSharma1989]

Loved this show. I used to rush home from school to catch this in the evenings. Back then there was no internet, no Netflix & no concept of binge watching. You either watched the show or waited like a week or so for the rerun. T-Bone was my favourite character. Believe it or not, this show is one of the reasons why I love action films of the 80s & 90s so much.

[@memmlespotatoes8884]

This show started me on my path of comic books and cartoons and now I’m training to be an animator!

[@kane00000]

@@memmlespotatoes8884 Awesome! I would love to see some of your work.

[@memmlespotatoes8884]

@@kane00000 maybe someday I’ll get there but for now I’m still in training

[@AA-cy9ib]

Bahadur Bille. Bade Miyan Chote Miyan 😊

[@themainman2827]

The guitar solo is simply unforgetable

[@javiernarvaez5297]

I’m 29 years old and this is still one of my favorite cartoons.

[@420sakura1]

Same. Cartoons of that era were just different. Even the orginal Power puff giris had class

[@emmanuelmcdonald9748]

Best show to brighten up part of the day as a kid time flys do fast miss 90's so much

[@aniketb3513]

Same

[@Rin_Chawngthu]

Same

[@matthewstreets9662]

Classic. Believe or not it used to be shown on Cartoon Network in the UK during the 90's & I watched all the episodes as a kid.

[@Johnlindsey289]

Nice avatar

[@MayurPatil]

Dude its not just UK but all over the world ! Same here for India.

[@Matsuna13]

I remember this show! It’s one of the shows I grew up with and it’s a really good show

[@thomaskapun363]

@@MayurPatil not quite, the series was never shown in Germany!

[@Saptarshi_Sarkar_VMSian]

@@thomaskapun363 Sad 😞

[@pritamsri]

Even now the music and the show raises hair on my arms.. Such a wicked cartoon this was.. Has no match at all..

[@Mr.Tin_88]

I'm 34 and when that guitar starts... 🤘🤘🤘 ¡ ¡ ¡ It still makes me bang my head ! ! ! 🤘 🤘 🤘

[@theawesomedas]

Alright ...... Yeaahhhh🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘😎😎😎😎

[@SaebaRyo21]

I think it was early 90's when such great shows had aired on CN back then. Swat Kats, GI Joe, Centurians in Power Zone (4pm IST, Mon-Fri), and Ninja Robots Anime (90's), then in 2000's He Man and The Masters of The Universe; Dragon Ball Z, BeyBlade, Pokemon, Max Steel, Cardcaptor Sakura etc. Man those days were Platinum days... I'm very happy that my childhood witness such awesome timeline. Now, after 2 decades, when I watch openings of these shows, tears appear in my eyes... #Nostalgia 💖

[@amanKumar-fh4dp]

Golden era

[@gtarules4]

29 years later and I would still watch the hell out of this show. This intro gives me goosebumps and takes me back to 8 years old..... my childhood was awesome!!

[@DJDizzyStorms]

When this show came on you know things were about to get radical!

[@NSUScooter]

This show and Rocket Power I think are the two most radical cartoons ever existed.

[@dunnono00]

Man, what a banger of an intro. I don't remember too much about the show itself as it simply wasn't around very long, but I'm sure I liked it. Heck what's not to like, a pair of anthropomorphic cat mechanics defending their city with a souped up f-14...

[@vascodegama5829]

This is the best fucking intro version!

[@gambitxmenknight8148]

Yeah sweet guitar tune isn't it. I give it a 👍👍👍👍👍 rating.

[@priyankaavale4531]

One of my favourites.. as kids we all developed a taste for the badass nature of the characters. Sad to say kids of today won't get to experience it. Ps: The theme song still holds up strong even after so many years !

[@ameykanitkar9536]

I am glad that our generation (born in 80s) grew up watching this and The Centurions. They are still badass!

[@Johnlindsey289]

I’m 41 and I remember those days

[@MeKaustubh17]

This is my mobile ringtone...thanks Baba for giving me memories..🙏😓

[@darkecofreak23]

Much as I love the other opening, this is the most triumphant one.

[@chubbyninja89]

Totally agree with you. I just watched the other version, and while cool and all, it's nowhere near as hype inducing as this one is.

[@mattlang9911]

The part where they yell 'AIGHT' and 'YEAH' gets me fired up all these years later.

[@NostalgiaforInfinity]

This intro was what got me into rock and metal music.

[@ghjhghjhjghg]

This Combat Design, holding three jet burners, the next generation fighter...Still a challenge to compete into.💙🙏

[@TheBanishedWind]

The better intro for the second half alone

[@Climax_Games]

30 years later and the theme still hits hard!

[@DrSurfNSno]

This was the Top Gun I grew up with.

[@nipunps7410]

In school times ran back to my home for watching this cartoon on time, good olden memories which never comes back again

[@yuvihail]

This intro is an absolute nostalgia for the 90s kids❤️

[@liveletlive3348]

_I still remember my childhood days & even watching SWAT KATS gave adreline rush_ ✈️ _The dogfights , bad ass villians the Kats used to bring down_ *NOSTALGIC*

[@jptruth2372]

Best intro to a cartoon EVER!!!!!!! Kids these days just dont know the power of cartoons we had back in the day! This cartoon from Hanna Barbera KICKED MAJOR ASS!!!!! Great premise, great characters, great storylines, great everything!!!!

[@Leadblast]

Everybody was an edgy antihero in the '90s. I'm way older than this show, I was born in the early '80s but still watched this for fun. Good times

[@Johnlindsey289]

Born 1982 and love this show since i was 11

[@ComputingCode]

For me, nothing EVER came close to Swat Kats intros....the mere Hype that engine firing up generates is astronomic!

[@darkverse6100]

That guitar tune....man the swag.....this brought back some serious memories for me.

[@vigneshwarana1334]

When I was kid I ran from school to home for this show.. It's is a sweetest mememory.........

[@chocalatesunny9866]

We had the best childhood Proud to be a 90s kid 😎🤏

[@mad54art]

This is Feral! Bring me chopper back up

[@VaiSakH112]

"Felina...NNNooo"

[@MattBrain9336]

God damn, I read that in his voice hahahaha

[@justinlapid2163]

Bring me more...chopper backuuup..ugh..hehe feral was a dope. But was a badass in the episode where the baddies teamed up and the swat kats were trapped in the force field.

[@kurikaktus]

0:00 to 0:01 sounds like the ps1 intro...which is kinda relevant too at the time this show was airing

[@ks-ie6eb]

😔😔😔 missing those days badely...

[@thewhitewolf8502]

00:39 Epic Goosebumps!!!

[@miltontavares9506]

I´d sell my soul only to get a live action film out of this.

[@RomelioSanz]

Please don't give ideas to Disney to destroy it.

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

I can just imagine the meeting where they were designing the Turbo Kat. "So what kind of fighter should it be?" ... "Screw it, let's take a F-14 Tomcat (because kats and all), paint it black, and put a third engine in the middle." "BRILLIANT!!!"

[@chubbyninja89]

Nice comment dude.

[@johnpaulsoberano4728]

How the F-22 Raptor & F-35 Lightning II heavily modified & customized into Turbokat's next generation multirole fighter jets?

[@warwick802]

90s and 2000s babies had the same childhood and you can't tell me otherwise. That rock theme hits even today

[@mishaelaldhalaan4613]

Played this to my cat now he's a badass pilot superhero flying a fighter jet🐈✈️

[@lonew0lfclaw859]

That Turbo-Kat was the highlight of this show and of course the ingenuity of T bone and Razor in building cool cat themed gadgets weapons and vehicles! Loved this show. Shame it lasted only 2 seasons.

[@SONDASH20]

SWAT KATS deserves to have a reboot with this exact opening.

[@lonewolf_punk]

Nostalgia hitting.. how fun it was to be a kid in the 90s. The cartoons, music, anime, video games lol

[@jollyrobert1961]

My all time favourites, I remember rushing home after school only to listen to this powerful intro...

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

0:26 when you heard those opening guitar chords, you knew business picked up in a big way

[@observantmonkey4055]

wont have it this good for a looong time. truly blessed to have been a kid in the 90s

[@kazi-thossain5353]

one of the BEST intro of all time.... ❤️ today's kids will never realise how this intro pumped us in 90's when we were kids.... Scooby Doo, Johnny Bravo, Dexter's Laboratory, The Flinestones, Tom & Jerry (not today's baseless episodes), Courage the Cowardly Dog Show, Ed n Eddy specially the intro and lots more.... oohh God.... i miss those days.... those time will never come back.... 😔

[@edwindeva007]

Absolute badass 🔥🔥 that guitar pop out sound and jet engine burst out sound 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@denishuber7758]

one of the best cartoons ever made.... i watched it on cartoon network back then..like 25 years ago.... still remember their names razor and t-bone..when fighting.... in private they are two scrapyard workers called Chance and Jake and and the jet was called the Turbokat...... their city was the megakat city....awesome show

[@1Soniccool]

Well they are coming back

[@rm2kking]

Dude this was such a cool show. Kids these days don’t even know the awesome stuff they could have.

[@Matsuna13]

This is the show I didn’t watch much when this was shown in the UK, but both intros make this show so memorable. A lot of people prefer the second intro, but in my opinion, both this one and the second intro are fantastic.

[@lloydmaliakal6256]

Oh my childhood days :( tears in my eyes. Original SWAT KATS at its best. Just not the same anymore.

[@chumplinz4920]

I remember being home late at night watching boomerang while my parents were asleep, saw this come on for the first time... Needless to say, my parents weren't sleeping long after the episode ended. Still one of my favorite cartoons I wish I could watch again.

[@shawinder007]

Childhood nostalgia Kick in as soon as they put on gloves

[@alphenhousplaysgames4565]

idk what hanna barbara was smoking when making this, but this is probably the best anime to come out of america still. these guys made me think any problem can be solved with a pair of cats, some missiles and and an overengineered f15.

[@sancholazar2782]

Aaaa the good old days ❤️

[@ilh8312]

I don't think we'll ever get a Swat Kats movie. But I would love to see a tribute to this in some other film, say some movie like the 2008 Iron Man or the 2012 Avengers. A scene where an F22 has to take on a monster in the middle of New York City. At which point, the pilot flips a switch and this theme music starts blaring in the background while the 22 does a sonic boom and dives towards the threat.

[@Dosage666]

Anthropomorphic animal cartoons was my entire childhood

[@not_nile]

Glad I grew up to this 🎸🔥

[@Mrvwcc11]

Before I actually saw this cartoon and got into it the first time I ever saw it was on WB if you can believe that now I watched it on Cartoon Network with my brother later on it took me a while, but I got used to it is a great cartoon, great memories. In fact, I’m thinking about getting this on DVD to add to my collection of Hanna-Barbera cartoons.

[@artmarju416]

This intro burn all the nasty cartoons of the last 10 years. Nice work!

[@manuvithayathil5488]

Me and my brother used to rush home from school and sit in front of a large music system full of buttons and switches imagining it to be the cockpit of this jet and play Swat Kats. 90s

[@jimmytheechidna]

Swat kats for multiverses

[@VBaskin2010]

R.I.P. Gary Owens.

[@biggeek2256]

Vaughn Baskin and also R.I.P. Linda Gary

[@Darkman9478]

And let's not forget Brock Peters (Dark Kat). He did a real good job as the villain.

[@jessicamcneill2463]

He also voiced Bloth from The Pirates of Dark Water, as well as Keen Curtis

[@Crowe0920]

And this show is what started my obsession with aircraft and made me want to be a fighter pilot as a kid

[@labub]

No matter what sort of entertainment the current and future generations of kids get, we'd always be the one to have best cartoon shows.

[@alexis_ian]

I remember watching this show CN would broadcast SWAT KATS at around 10:30-11:00pm in the evening (Aka: Way pass my bed time ;-) ), was lucky to watched a few episodes back in the early 2000's! The guitar solo kind of gives Topgun vibes same with the fighter which kind of resembles the Tomcat in someway!

[@dpkpraba]

Best theme song. Still goosebumps when u hear it everytime.

[@carobsessions4707]

So true

[@Asce_D_Portgaz]

Man I miss this epic show... Kids these days will never appreciate this 90's gem...

[@thawkade]

I do! I found it when I was 17 about 2 years ago

[@adriancocis5749]

Isn't it about time that you guys release a Blu-ray for this amazing masterpiece?! Thanks

[@thecinematicmind]

Absolutely agree

[@PadreJoseFoundation]

Watched the intro multiple times to get that nostalgia

[@steverogers7601]

1.) the animation on these 80s/90s cartoon show was always on point and you’d wish they would have used it more often in the episodes 2.) the is the better of the two intro music 3.) it’s funny to think that they’re the heroes of the show simply because they have a jet and motorcycle that comes out of the jet. Lol

[@akshayoval9624]

Turbo kat the most astonishing piece of tech in my childhood that I had gazed my eyes upon ...🤤🤤

[@ameliawarfield5637]

I love this intro theme song of the SWAT Kats! It makes me want to fly! I used to watch the show when Cartoon Network was new!

[@Mech610]

Ya know, looking back on this show I don't think you could justifiably call them 'The Radical Squadron'. They're certainly radical, but there's only one plane!

[@DragonmanX90]

Man; I would crank my TV's volume as loud as it would go the second the guitars kicked in; and then again when the credits started to roll. This was the era where kids were just as hype just seeing the show was starting as they were when shit actually happened!

[@kartikeysharma7673]

Best cartoon of my childhood 😊

[@jonathanzisner1012]

Yo. This intro and thunder cats rocked my childhood forealz!!

[@dormiovibes]

When that guitar hits when they hit the air, it was life changing

[@vinaykumar-sl2ix]

Watching After 20yrs still getting goosebumps.

[@dangobelins942]

Raised in 90 and proud ! !!! This was my fav !

[@davidbolha]

At times I really miss YT having a repeat button. 😄😎 I'd just repeat this video (with music) into infinity.

[@kidf22]

Always loved this show growing up. Grew up with Top Gun as one of my favorite movies and always saw T-Bone as my favorite character since I had the dream of becoming one. A weird thought I always had in my head though was that a big pilot like T-Bone was unrealistic. I imagined myself short and skinny like Razor. A huge growth spurt and a decade and a half later I became a pilot and found yes there are big pilots like T-Bone...and I was one of them haha. You just learn how to deal with it and after a while you don't notice it much....most of the time. Now watching this show I get a kick out of that thought I had as a kid.

[@MaskedRiderChris]

Just shy of one minute of sheer AWESOME! Those guitar harmonies are so incredibly cool--how Top Gun can you get?! Love this theme song to this day!

[@kamuymamushi5877]

the most radical 90's TV Cartoon Opening Theme Song!!!

[@wolfu597]

It's a true crime and shame that it only lasted two seasons. Given how popular the series was back then. It had the most of what they dont have nowadays, the music, the fun, the main character sarcasm and pretty girls.

[@Vsm426]

Calli was quite attractive yo!

[@SY-tm7ln]

The definitive/flagship action oriented animated series on Cartoon Network for kids who grew up in the 1990s. Swat Kats are truly radical till today.😍😍

[@Telesmana]

Swat kats is the reason i like so much guitar riffs 😍

[@satyakichakrabarti5720]

I am from India. Watched this amazing show on cartoon network in early 2000. Those were the beautiful days.❤ And for me......... they are the real Bade Miya Chote Miya.

[@GOD999MODE]

I turn 31 this year. I miss my 90’s childhood. Time flies.

[@davidmoore535]

I wish I had the DVDs and the figures!!

[@mysterion3182]

The complete series is on DVD on Amazon for $35. I think it's MOD though.

[@nathancruz9172]

Me too.