The Ghost Warrior
- Studio
- Rankin-Bass Productions, Pacific Animation Corporation
- Distributor
- Telepictures Corporation
Synopsis
Two very curious Wollows mistakenly broke the magical seal that imprisoned the ghost of an ancient warrior. Grune the Destroyer. The ThunderCats cannot figure out how to destroy Grune, who begins to spread his terror throughout the villages of third Earth. They find out through Cheetara's sixth sense that Grune was once a ThunderCat, and close friend of Jagas. But Grune got greedy and turned bad. Lion-O summons the spirit of Jaga to defeat Grune.
Characters
Lion-O, JackalMan, Cheetara, Wilykit, Luna, Queen Luna, Tygra, Wilykat, Monkian, Panthro, Red-Eye, Hammer-Hand, Captain Cracker, Grune The Destroyer, Mongor, Mumm-Ra, Tug-mug, Amok, Snarf, Slythe
Credits
Producing
- Producer
- Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr (Executive Producers)
- Supervising Producers
- Peter Bakalian, Lee Dannacher
Writing
- Writer
- Leonard Starr
- Head Writer
- Leonard Starr
- Script Supervisor
- Peter Lawrence
Animation
- Animator
- Tsugu Kubo, Minoru Nishida, Katsuhito Akiyama, Akihiko Takahashi, Yukimatsu Ito, Yuji Yatabe, Kazafumi Nomura (Pacific Animation Corporation)
Voices
- Voice
- Larry Kenney (Lion-O, JackalMan), Lynne Lipton (Cheetara, Wilykit, Luna, Queen Luna), Peter Newman (Tygra, Wilykat, Monkian), Earl Hyman (Panthro, Red-Eye, Hammer-Hand, Captain Cracker, Grune The Destroyer, Mongor), Bob McFadden (Snarf, Slythe), Earl Hammond (Mumm-Ra, Tug-mug, Amok)
Music
- Music
- Bernard Hoffer
Crew
- In Charge of Production
- Masaki Iizuka
- Based on Characters Created By
- Ted Wolf
- Project Development
- Leisure Concepts
- Psychological Consultant
- Robert Kuisis
- Recording Staff
- John Curcio (Dialogue), Michael Farrow (Music), Tom Perkins (Editorial), Larry Franke (Editorial)
- Effects
- Peter Cannarozzi
- Secondary Character Design
- Jim Meskimen
- Production Staff
- Tony Giovanniello, Matthew Malach, Connie Long, Heather Winters
Companies and other credits
- Project Development: Inc
Production notes
ThunderCats was first marketed in 1983, but the series was not released until two years later.
The services of psychologist Robert Kuisis, Ph.D. were retained to ensure that ThunderCats offered children moral guidance. Dr. Kuisis reviewed each episode throughout production; as well, he offered comments on each show in a "Synopses and Morals" booklet given to TV stations.
"The anime style was introduced into the design to allow our Japanese animators to inject some of their creativity," recalled executive producer Arthur Rankin, Jr.
The services of psychologist Robert Kuisis, Ph.D. were retained to ensure that ThunderCats offered children moral guidance. Dr. Kuisis reviewed each episode throughout production; as well, he offered comments on each show in a "Synopses and Morals" booklet given to TV stations.
"The anime style was introduced into the design to allow our Japanese animators to inject some of their creativity," recalled executive producer Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Reviews
The Ghost Warrior
There has been many Thundercats episodes that i have enjoyed but i believe that The Ghost Warrior is by far the best episode. The thundercats have always inspired me and driven me to become an animator in hopes to one day join the Pacific Animation Corporation team, and the episode that ensures me and brings me back to that 5 year old state of mind of what i want to be when i grow up is The Ghost Warrior. The way Grune the distroyer came back was impressive to me when i was child and still till this day entreges me. The tomb could have been a bit more thundercat oriented but it gave an eliment of surprise to this catlike thundercat being with his single saber tooth appearing. The one question that i always had and still have is how did he loose his other tooth. When Cheetara used her pyshic abilities to find out about Grune he was showcased with both saberteeth while fighting next to Jaga...So what ever happened to his other tooth? Was it bad hiegine? Did Jaga break it off and keep it as a reminder of the great battle? The number one reason why i believe that The Ghost Warrior is the best episode of all time of the Thundercats is the battle of Ghost Jaga and Ghost Grune. My heart still races with adrenialine and all hairs on the back of neck go up when Lion-o becons for the "mightest Thundercat of all" Jaga to fight his "ancient enemy". The battle in the night sky was always the thought in my mind when there was a thunderstorm outside my window, even though now a days i wish the battle had lasted a bit longer being as how the fist battle lasted days. But over all i believe this is the best episode ever. And can anybody tell me why the dialoge was so corny and how i never noticed untill i was older!