hi everybody! i have heared mentiones of the episodes which was never aired. is it possible to get a hold of the screeplay's so that it is possible to get a understanding of what was comming or is it lost? it would be even better to see them (since they were finished, but never aired)
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The unfinished episodes were never finished. But they can be finished, because all of the preproduction works are done.
Well, you have to contact Warner Bros Animation to get the screenplay, because they own the rights of most of Hanna Barbera Properties including SWAT Kats.
Here are the informations about the three episodes from Animato Magazine. All of these 3 unfinished episodes are written by Story Editor Glenn Leopold.
THE UNFINISHED EPISODES (All written by Glenn Leopold, provided by Lance Falk. Comments are assumed to be Falk's, although not specifically noted in the article.)
TURMOIL II: THE REVENGE
Turmoil busts out of jail. It opens up in a women's prison, and this big mole machine comes out of the ground and [the prisoners] all pile into it. Turmoil busts out the entire women's prison, and they all work for her. "She gets ahold of a massive laser satellite system, or a big death beam , I've forgotten exactly what it was. It's controlled from her fortress, which is a castle on top of a snowbound mountain. The SWAT Kats must scale the mountain and do all this snow fighting stuff. It's real James Bond-ish."
DOCTORS OF DOOM
Dr. Viper teams up with Dr. Harley Street, the alien- possessed scientist from "The Ci-Kat-A" (hence the title). "They create a lot of monsters that have to be blown up within 22 minutes. I hardly remember that one."
THE CURSE OF KATALUNA
"It was a succubus story, about a woman that Commander Feral really had a thing for, and she was really draining the life out of him. He was getting older and older through the show, until he was practically a mummy at the end. [Kataluna] drained his energy and became this big, huge harpy, and she had other harpy things that helped, her, and they were terrorizing the city." The SWAT Kats became involved when a justifiably concerned Felina Feral called on them to help save her uncle. Kataluna was voiced by Nancy Linari, who had played Morticia on H-B's 1992-94 Addams Family series. "'Kataluna' was a real strong episode with another terrific female villain," Falk says. "It used Commander Feral more than any of the other shows that used him , it was really Feral's episode." Not surprisingly, Dr. Sinian also appears; after helping the SWAT Kats defeat the Pastmaster and the Red Lynx, she's an old hand at handling supernatural villains by now. back
Turmoil busts out of jail. It opens up in a women's prison, and this big mole machine comes out of the ground and [the prisoners] all pile into it. Turmoil busts out the entire women's prison, and they all work for her. "She gets ahold of a massive laser satellite system, or a big death beam , I've forgotten exactly what it was. It's controlled from her fortress, which is a castle on top of a snowbound mountain. The SWAT Kats must scale the mountain and do all this snow fighting stuff. It's real James Bond-ish."
This episode looks interesting, especially since none of the completed episodes features snow-covered enviromvents.
There are also some "unused premises" from Lance Falk (one of the writers) available at the SWAT Kats Fan Fiction Archive, pretty damn close to screenplays! One includes the return of Rex Shard from "Chaos in Crystal," and the original version of "Katastrophe."
http://www.fyresight.com/skarchive/fanfic3.htm
PS, the unfinished episode "Curse of Kataluna" (also known as "Succubus") was used as a basis for Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Sorta counts for something.
Blowout!, Lance Falk's original version of what was eventually aired as Katastrophe, is hilariously over the top and unlike most of his other work for the show. Although I mostly prefer the final episode, I find Dark Kat's use of an amusement park for a hideout to be way more interesting than the abandoned tuna factory he was operating out of in the finished episode. Since it was, what, the third "warehouse hideout" we'd seen in the show by that point? Very visually uninteresting.
The abduction of Callie and Manx was also more interesting than "their driver turns out to be Mac in disguise." I always had a problem with them not recognizing him. The mask he's wearing is his real (old) face just without the scar, and he doesn't even make much of an attempt to change his voice.
In Blowout!, they attend what they think is a charity dinner that turns out to have been a trap arranged by Dark Kat. Of course, this version has its own problems, particularly the fact Falk wants us to believe that anyone, even Manx, would be fooled by "reporters" that are just Creeplings stacked on top of one another wearing hats and trenchcoats. Compared to that, Callie and Manx not recognizing the disguised Mac looks plausible.
PS, the unfinished episode "Curse of Kataluna" (also known as "Succubus") was used as a basis for Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Sorta counts for something.
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The script for Succubus! (or "The Curse of Kataluna," as it is referred to by Lance Falk) is currently available for reading as a PDF on the SWAT Kats Encyclopedia: http://swatkats.info/encyclopedia/fan-works/succubus-plot-summary/page-7
I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?