SWAT Kats: The Movie

SWAT Kats: The Movie was supposed to be a stop-motion animation short by Ted Phillips, involving characters from the animated series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. Multiple attempts were made, but the film was never completed.

The first attempt was originally recorded on VHS-C format media in 1996, but was not edited or released to the public until August 8, 2009.

T-Bone and Razor use a zip-line to reach a castle where Dr. Viper is constructing a weapon of mass destruction.

An avid fan of the animated series, Ted Phillips received T-Bone, Razor, and Dr. Viper SWAT Kats action figures for Christmas 1995. He engineered paper Turbokat airplanes, other vehicles, and several skyscrapers to use in a stop-motion short.

When shooting the first stunt using the zip-line, a horrific accident caused Razor to fall and destroyed the zip-line. John Phillips continued to record improvisational footage of a toddler Clare Phillips terrorizing the action figures.

Ted Phillips tried to film SWAT Kats: The Movie again in November 2000, but technical problems with the camera rendered the audio unusable. Ted Phillips recorded over this second attempt with All Cat later that month.

• SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron was an animated series that debuted on Cartoon Network from 1993 to 1995.[1]
• The theme song is the same as that of the 1940s animated series Superman.

1. ^Tremblay, Christian. SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron (1993). Hanna-Barbera Productions. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126173/.