The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice
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The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice is the first episode of the animated television series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. First aired Saturday, September 11, 1993. Written by Glenn Leopold. Directed by Robert Alvarez. Produced by Davis Doi. The overseas animation was done by Studio Mook, the first of four episodes in the first season to be animated by Mook (the other three were Night of the Dark Kat, Metal Urgency and Katastrophe).
[edit] Plot Summary
The Pastmaster is accidentally released from his eight-hundred-year imprisonment by a pair of grave robbers. Disgusted with the modern era, he steals his spell book, the Tome of Time, from the Megakat City Museum of History and attempts to magically transform the metropolis back to the medieval state he prefers. He summons dinosaurs through a magical time vortex to act as his bodyguards, one of whom knocks the SWAT Kats through the portal and into the prehistoric era. Low on time and fuel, the SWAT Kats must figure out a way to get back to the present-day Megakat City to stop the Pastmaster.
[edit] Cast
Charlie Adler as T-Bone / Tom
Tress MacNeille as Callie Briggs
Keene Curtis as The Pastmaster
Ed Gilbert as Enforcer Sergeant / Enforcer Commando
Earl Boen as Jack / Enforcer Pilot #1
Frank Birney as Enforcer Pilot #2
Frank Welker as Security Guard
[edit] Trivia
Most episodes of the series were originally preceded by a short prologue in which Razor would say, "Today on SWAT Kats..." with a brief action scene from the episode. Since The Pastmaster Always Rings Twice was the first episode aired, it ran with a different prologue in which Razor narrated a brief overview of the show's format over an assortment of clips, all from The Giant Bacteria except for one close-up of the Pastmaster from this episode.
The title of the episode comes from that of James M. Cain's novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Some airings of this episode do not include the title card.
